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EVENING SUN. Mr. JAMES'S NEW WORK. This day, in 3 vols. ceown Bvo. , THE ANCIENT REGIME A Tale. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq. London: Longman and Co. ; and may be had at all Libraries, Also, just published, MUSIC and MANNERS in I•RANCE and GERMANY, By H. L. CHORLEY, Esq. 3 viols., 31s. 6d. On Sept. 1, will be published, Part 1, price ss. (to be com pleted in Ten Monthly Parts, making One Bvo. Volume, illustrated by a Series of Wood Engravings of the best and most improved Agricultural Implements), of THE FARMER'S ENCYCLOFiEDIA, and DICTIONARY of RURAL AFFAIRS. By CUTHBERT W. JOHNSON, Esq. Although chiefly devoted to the details of Practical Agricul fbre, this work will, it is hoped, be a useful Book of Reference, to which the Farmer and Country Gentleman may readily have recourse for information under all ordinary circumstances. London : Longman, Bros n, and Co. •' Communications and Suggestions for this work can be :I,ldres.ed either directly to the Author or to the Puhlishers. [IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) o :er many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG?! and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTItIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions inav re-eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH DUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEIN►'. BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,0049 100 90 800 159 The largest Dividend of the Distribution of Ist March last, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, was remitted to London and vicinity by HEINE BROTHERS, who remitted, during a few years, 22 large Money Dividends, from 6001. and upwards unto 25,0001., besides many Dividends of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. ROYAL SURREY THE&TRE. TINDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DATIDGE . AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Glorious success, and nightly overfinws—lmmense attraction! THIS EVENINII, AUGUST I , Will be noted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called IFIE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. introducing Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfrers, Fairy Peter, the Equestrians, and Companies of both Theatres. After which. THE SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. In which Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Amer-- cin Rider, tho British Horseman, Signor Felix Cade, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE REIVER'S RANSOM; OR, GILDEROY, THE BONNIE BOY. Gilderey, Mr. Henry Hughes. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. Grand and triumphant success of " Mary Cliferd !" Miss Via rent in a New Drama, entitled " Madeline !" and first week of " The Pilet !" THIS EVENING, AUGUST 1 . . _ The performances will commence with thelsl ew Domestic Drama ix Three Acts, called MARY CLIFFORD ; THE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL ! William Clipsea, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Bowling, Mr. Paul ; Bobby Benham, Mr. Gardner; Sarah, Mrs. W. West ; and Mary Clifford, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Dementia Drama. After which, the New Musical Romance of ALIDELINE ; OR, THE POOL OF THE DROWNED ! Charles de Guie, Mr. Seaman; Dr. Reecharde, Mr. Howard; Peter Manel, Mr. Gardner; Madeline, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, THE WOOD DEMON. _ _ Hardyknute, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Willikind, Mr. Gardner ; Una, Mrs. W. West. _ . _ BOxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, ad. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. :Toe morrow, Mary Clifford, Madelne, aid The Pilot. On THURSDAY NEXT, the 19nt, ♦ND FRIDAY, the 20TH of AUGUST, WILL BB PUBLISHED, THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN : CONTAINING, AT ONE VIEW, THE NEW PARLIAMENT, Embracing all Particulars of Interest, together with th• ELECTION OF SPEAKER, IN TIME FOR POST ON THURSDA EVENING. And on TUESDAY, the 24Tn, THE NEW PARLIAMENT Will be REPEATED, with a imirimi ,„, 3 bPEE. C R nu OPENING THE SESSION. Early Orders are requested to enable us to SATE P OST. PRICE SIXPINCE. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W Morning-- 41 minutia after 2 I Evening 2 minutes after 3. qtt SAltt. LONDON: TUESDPT, AUGUST 17, 1841. The Tories are frantijwith rage because it is .now understood, that, in meeting the new Par liament, the Ministry will bring on the question of the Budget. After all the windings and doublings of Sir R. PEEL and his supporters,— after all the tricks and devices by which he con trived to evade an exposition of his trade and financial policy, Lord JOHN RUSSELL determines to seize the first hour of his triumph to wring from him the details of his projects, or a confes sion of his incapacity. This is dreadfully morti fying to the Tories. They have misgivings as to PEEL having any plan, and they are fright ened out of their wits at the idea of his being obliged to acknowledge in the face of the House of Commons that he sees no safety for the country save in a partial adoption of every mea sure proposed by the Whigs. They fear that, disgusted at the outset, many of the new Mem bers, returned as Tories, Would refuse to follow such a leader; and that to be as Conservative as his Sovereign, and as tenacious of aristocratic institutions as one of the most distinguished mem bers of the House of RUSSELL, might satisfy, to his heart's content, any country gentleman called to occupy a seat in. the House of Commons. But from w;tatever source springs the terrors of the Tori:cs, the Ministers owe it to themselves, to the Country, and to their principles, to afford the new Parliament a fair opportunity of adopting or rejecting that Budget upon which an appeal ; has been made to the nation. This is a question so direct and so momentous that nothing should be assumed respecting it which has not been sub mitted to the strongest proof of which it incapa ble. Defeated in the late House of Commons the Ministers have appealed to the country. Now, whatever may be surmised respecting the political complexion of the new House, it has as yet expressed no opinion, either upon the Budget or anything. else. The proposed Corn_ law and the Sugar duties must be submitted to the House of Commons before it can be assumed to have rejected them; and the Government would indeed act with culpable precipitancy were Ministers to regulate their official conduct in an affair of such gravity, not by the votes of the House of Commons, but by hustings' ad dresses, Tamworth quack speeches, and the ad vices of Tory newspapers. The Tories want the Ministers to desert the QUEEN without waiting for the Opinion of Par liament upon their policy. They want to have an opportunity of representing her MAJESTY as shamefully abandoned by her advisers, that Sir ROBERT PEEL may claim the merit of covering her with the shield of Conservative protection, and thus est a bli s h a claim to the gratitude ofhis Sovereign. Ministers will not so disgrace themselves. They • will not lend them to selves he worthy of e Tory trick, so entirely genius of th e T amworth quack doctor. They 'will not anticipate , defeat by a shameful flight. The battle is yet to be fought, and it is of the last importance that the country shall ascertain the precise number of its enemies. The Tories affect to feel indignant that the QUEEN should have language put into her mouth which the future Premier may feel it his duty to advise her to contradict. This considera tion was of as much moment when her MAJESTY summoned her first Parliament as it is now. The QUEEN'S Speech is always constitutionally regarded as the speech of her Cabinet, and nobody but some hair-brained Tory could suppose for an instant that a speech com posed by Lords MELBOURNE and JOHN RUSSELL WOtild be so framed as to receive no contradiction in a speech written by Sir ROBERT PEEL and Mr. GOULBURN. The Tories have, however, hit upon a method for preserving the consistency of Royal speeches, and a very droll one it is. The Speech is to be dictated by the chief of the Opposition, and thus a change of Ministers can effect no change in the language of Royalty. When the Whigs are in office Sir ROBERT PEEL is to compose QUEEN'S speeches, and when the Tories gain power, Lord JOHN RUSSELL iS to dictate the terms in which it will be proper for her MAJESTY to address her Parliament. But here the cloven foot peeps out. The dis guise of an overweening tenderness for the feel ings of the Sovereign is so scanty, and so ludi crously put on, that it only serves to draw atten tion to the deformity which it is intended to hide. From the eagerness of Sir R. PEEL to keep Lord J. RUSSELL'S mouth shut, we suspect the Tamworth Doctor proposes to drug her MA JESTY with Whig medicine. It is not be cause he has quite a different speech from them to put into the mouth of the QUEEN that he wants the Whigs to allow her to say nothing, but because he has pilfered the ideas of the speech which her MAJESTY'S present advisers are bound to submit to her. Sir ROBERT PEEL knows that he would cut hut a sorry figure in the Cabinet of the Sovereign tendering to Tier a second edition of a speech, which, as leader of the Opposition, he had caused to be rejected by the House of Commons. Even he would blush to be thus compelled to admit that his opposition to her late Government was fac tious, and that his were struggles, not for the triumph of great principles, but for the :sordid emoluments of office. He wants the present Cabinet to rid him of this annoyance— to save him this humiliation. He wants, by their silence, to be allowed to say much of what they will tell, and what he feels convinced that he must tell the country. The Ministry, we are confi dent, will do nothing of the sort. It is no part of their business to clear the road to Downing street of those obstructions over which the Tories are stumbling. Accounts of commercial distress reach us from all parts of the country. Trade is in a de plorably depressed state, and failures in manu facturing districts, to ruinous amounts, are af fairs of daily occurrence. From Manchester, Leeds, Bolton, Bradford, Glasgow, and Paisley, we receive, by every post, harrowing details of the sufferings of the poor thrown out of employ ment, and obliged to subsist on an allowance of the coarsest food, falling far short of what is allotted for the maintenance of convicted felons in our gaols and penitentiaries. The tri umph of the bread-taxers during the late election has greatly increased the general dis tress. Many of the manufacturers now despair of realizing for themselves, and their workmen, those advantages which they know would follow from a more extensive commercial intercourse with foreign countries, attendant upon a comparatively free trade in corn. Their care now is to keep what they have got, and to risk as little as possible. The workmen are gloomy and desponding, and in some places desperate. They have lost all confidence in public men, seeing that the rich care nothing for their misery, when weighed in the balance against high rents and dear bread. Every day widens more and more the br each which sena .. Luc viraituy irom the proauctive classes. The workman sees himself thrown out ofemploy ment, his labour rendered valueless, and his wife and children starving upon a dry crust and a few potatoes, to increase the rent-roll of some idle aristocrat, or force a higher market for the surplus produce of the wealthiest class of agriculturists, and he regards both as his ene mies. This utter separation of the poor from the rich is one of the very worst signs of the times. Society must tumble to pieces if two of the main bodies that compose it come to regard each other with fear and aversion. No State can stand after the extinction of those sympathies which recognise in wealth a claim to respect, and in poverty a right to support and protec tion. In this country the poor trusted everything to the rich, and the depth of their wretchedness shows the extent to which they have been betrayed. It is in this stage of the State malady that Doctor PEEL presents himself with quack nostrums, which he refuses to show unless we guarantee to swallow them whether we like them or not. This mode of treat ment will not do. The case is too urgent. Something must be done, and that right speedily, or the worst symptoms will exhi bit themselves. To drop metaphor, the state of the country is so alarming,,—the misery is so wide-spread, the disruption between the idle and the productive classes is so great,—that if a radical remedy be not provided, we fear a state of things will shortly prevail in England, to which we would rather not give a name. The Tories called their late election a triumph, the triumph of the Monopolists and the Church. That would be bad enough, but it is something still worse. It is the triumph of popular infidelity in the pledges of public men. The Tories triumphed because the mass of the people, distrusting them and the Whigs alike, left both to fight the battle of monopoly in any way they liked. In the J u di c i a l P r i v y C ounc il yesterday, judgment w and others aagais ig n s v t T v in oo thed an n case d e t h e o r f s , G w i o i o i e d h l a w k e e published at length in a Second Edition, in time for tioos o n f o not e t Post- We are gratified at the re sult,O. approve of the testator,disposi 11twe but the imputations cast on Sir MATTHEW W and that other persons included Mr. . 111LPOTTS, and an atrocious character the will, were of such that an inquiry l3 was abso lutelynecessary;superintendence of the first law ood o r tile inquiry having taken place authorities of the country w , e are therefore bound to conclude that there wer e no grounds for the accusation. The decision, no doubt, will surprise many of our readers, because a general opi nion prevailed that some unfair means had been employed to convey the vast property from the rightful heirs. The deliberate opini • • on ' h ow ever, of such men as Lords LYNDHURS T an d BROUGHAM, Mr. Justice PARKE, the VICE CHANCELLOR, and Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, 'Will remove the unjust impression, and set at nought the derision of the Ecclesiastical Court. We confi dently trust that the judgment of yesterday w ill put an end to the suits at Gloucester and Bristol, and that the rightful legatees will be more dis posed to give a portion of the vast wealth left to them to the heirs-at-law, than to spend it in paying lawyers for making long-winded speeches only for their own advantage. The conclusion of the Manifesto of the Spanish Regency, in, answer to the allocution of the POPE, of which some notice was taken in The Sun of yesterday, will be found in another column. Whatever consolation the Holy See may derive from the establishment of the Papal jurisdiction in Portugal, and the continued as surances of Gallican sympathy and support, this manifesto cannot fail to fill the breast of GREGORY XVI. with well-founded alarm. The rambling diffusiveness of ESPARTERO'S style, which so amuses the French Legitimists, will ' • - 4 , r 4 t - '1,4 , " Y,•". , THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1841. provoke no mirth among the members of the Sacred College. It is no light affair to find the Government of the most Catholic country in Christendom charging the apostolic head of the Roniisli Church with aiding and abetting rebellion in the people, and insubordination and crime in the clergy—with promoting anarchy and schism, by withholding pastoral appoint ments rather than forego unjust pretensions to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, incompatible with the dignity and independence of the State—and with an attempt to re-kindle the flames of civil war among a Christian people. ESPARTERO veils his charges under no diplomatic disguises capable of being explained away by subsequent communi cations. He sees in the POPE an enemy to Spa nish liberty, civil and religious, and with all the power with which the nation has invested him, he hurls at him open defiance. He treats the pre tensions of the POPE, as a temporal Prince, with perfect scorn, not admitting hid equality with himself as Regent of Spain. This decided course must bring the question at issue between the two Courts to a speedy determina tion. To give effect to this manifesto, ESPAR TERO has, by a Royal Decree, suspended the Papal power in Spain, and forbidden, under se vere penalties, the promulgation of any bull, brief, or allocution addressed by the POPE to any ecclesiastic within the dominions of her Ma jesty Queen ISABELLA. It is this quarrel with the POPE which encourages the friends of CHRISTINA in their attempts to re-invest her with the Regency. By a confederacy of Priests, Mo derados, and Carlists, acting under the auspices of the Holy See, they are preparing to try their hands at a counter revolution. France en courages them as much as she can, without abso lutely breaking with the Government at Madrid, while Portugal seeks, by covert intrigues, which she dare not avow, to convince the POPE of the depth of her penitence for having so long grieved the venerable heart of the triple-crowned " Ser vant of the servants of GOD." ESPARTERO has a great and arduous part to perform, and he has entered upon it with praiseworthy intrepidity. We quote here, in justification of our character of his able manifesto, the paragraph with which it concludes : " As it was the Sovereign Pontiff who refused, as a Prince, to recognize her Majesty as the legitimate heiress of the throne of her ancestors, and also refused, in his quality of spiritual father of the faithful, to supply the wants of the Church in Spain, and, not content with this prolonged resistance, raised his voice in the Consistory to attack the supreme authority of the State, annul its acts, and assert his superiority over one who does not even acknowledge him as an equal, it is himself who has set up a wall of separation between the two Courts, and closed the door to all friendly relations and every species of compromise. The violent allocution of the Holy Father can only be regarded as a declaration of war against (teen Isabella 11., against the safety of the State, and against the Constitution. It is truly a manifesto in favour of the conquered and expelled Pre tender ; it is a scandalous excitement to schism, discord, disorder, and revolt. The Government of her Majesty cannot, without a breach of loyalty and honour, be silent under this enormous attempt. It cannot refrain from employing for its repression all the just means placed in its hands by reason, propriety, the discipline of the Church, and the power of a great and noble nation so shamefully insulted." This is as energetic as it is decided. If ESPAR TERO contrive to maintain his present ground, the battle of religious liberty is won in the Penin sula. The Christian world, and more especially that portion of it which professes the Reformed religion, has a deep interest in this qu it is on this account that we wish to direct the attention of the British Government particularly to it. ESPARTERO is in danger of foul play. Now, it is the interest of England to prevent this as far as she can. Spain, under the guidance of the REGENT, is engaged in a struggle for reli gious, as well as civil freedom, and, under the plea of protecting and enforcing certain pre tended rights, or rather some usurpations of the Papacy, a confederacy of Foreign Powers, with the POPE at their head, are endeavouring to un dermine her Government and Constitution. -Un fortunately various causes, arising chiefly from - their own bad custom-house laws and ill-defined fiscal regulations, have led to an estrangement of the popular feeling in Spain from that depen ..____ L.. a- mg 1110 CIVII war, upon the amicable disposition of the Government of this country. That the Spanish Government, so far from participating in the popular delusion, does all in its power to counteract it, there can be no doubt ; but it is not the less a source of national weakness in the contest in which the Spanish liberals are now engaged. Whatever may be their impression of the Spanish people, with the exception of a handful of ultra- Tory bigots, who in their hearts regard the POPE as the pillar of orthodoxy, the sympathies of the people of England are all ranged on the side of ESPARTERO. The Paris Journals of Sunday have been duly received. The Municipal Council of Bourdeaux has published a declaration, stating that they will not oppose the census, as an equalization of duties will lower the taxes now collected in the department of the Gironde. The average personal and moveable contribution for each in dividual throughout France is one franc, thirty centimes; but in Bourdeaux the tax individually is three francs, four centimes. The house and window tax is likewise more than five times higher in Bourdeaux than the average rate for the rest of France. But this declaration did not quell the popular excitement, which was very great. Disturbances were apprehended, and measures for quelling them were adopted by the Prefect and the other local authorities. The following intelligence from the East, which is significant from the quarter whence it comes, appears in the columns of the Presse:- -We have received importantintelligence from the Le vant. The Porte has officially charged Mehemet Ali to reconquer the Holy Cities, which have fallen into the hands of the Arabs since their evacuation by the Egyp tian troops. The Sultan had furnished him with sup plies to defray the expenses of the expedition, and has, moreover, consented to reduce considerably the amount of the tribute at first required of him. When Mehemet evacuated Syria he left Ibn-al-Ain, Sherif of Mecca, governor. He had long been prisoner at Cairo. Though of the family of the Sherifs, he is not lineally descended from the last. The Sultan named Osman Pacha, a native of Medina, to govern the 11.1djaz. But Osman could not fill the post. The Porte sent him no troops, and he merely hired some Arnauts, allied with the Anti-Egyptian party, and remained at Yambo, negotiating with the Sherif, who kept at Mecca. In consequence the Porte has asked Mehemet to reduce the Sherif. and take charge of the Holy Cities. "It appears even that his Highness intends to intrust to the Pacha a similar mission in Syria, which province has been a prey to the most complete anarchy ever since the Anglo-Turkish campaign. The Porte now perceives the impossibility of enforcing obedience to its authority in those two distant provinces, and regards the Pasha of Egypt as the only man capable of maintaining any thing like order and tranquillity in those countries." This result is of the highest importance. It completely defeats the ambitious plans of England, and shows in the most forcible manner the truth of what we always said—namely " that the interests of France in the East would not be served by war, but by the influence of skilful diplomacy. Had we adopted the noisy policy of M. Thiers, we should have compromised the pros perity and perhaps the independence of our country, without preserving Turkey, and still less Egypt. By following the course so much calumniated by the into. rested organs of M. Thiers, wo have saved Egypt, and strengthened the Porte, which will no longer have to bear the burdens of an exclusive protectorate, without exposing the independence and prosperity of France to any risk." A letter from Bona, dated the 28th July, addressed to the Toulonnais, says :—" Notwithstanding the false reports spread at Bona by some speculators, who wished to have it believed that the King would not sign the ordinance relative to the colony to be founded by . M. Stockmar, the agreements between private indi viduals continue to be made for important leases ; and many promises of sale have - been given. Let us hope that the arrival of the Swiss will stimulate our monied men, and that they will send with confidence to Africa funds which they sent without success to Texas, and othveilistant countries." Thus we see that the in habitants of Bona had taken thC promises of the Govern ment in earnest. We may easily imagine the effect produced by the failure of Mr. Stockmar on his plan, which is now but too certain. 'We have received this morning the Toulouse journals of the 12th. The Journal de Toulouse says that almost all the arms of the National Guard have been given up. The 3d battalion of the 10th regiment of the line, stationed at Castelnan and St. Jory, has received orders to proceed to Agan. The 2d battalion of the 2d regi ment of the line, stationed at Grisolles, set out yesterday for Agan. Mons. Albert Julian, who was arrested after the deli very of the arms of the quarter of St. Michael, was re leased after having been detained 24 hours. This morning M. Debarralle, the Central Commis sary, and two Commissioners of Police, accompanied by some gen-d'annes and inspectors, arrested at their re spective residences several individuals implicated in the troubles at Toulouse.—Le Constitutionnel. THE REGISTRATION.-It should not be for gotten that Wednesday, August 25, will be the last day for leaving with the overseers objections to county electors. The Tories bestow much attention on those matters ; and the friends of Reform should not suffer themselves to be surpassed by their political adversaries. EXTENSION OF POST-OFFICE DISTRIBUTION.—We understand that measures are now in progress for effect ing a very considerable and beneficial extension of Post office distribution in the rural districts. The principle which has been adopted is, we are informed, to establish a Post-office in every Registrar's district which is at pre sent without one, an arrangement under which it is said about 400 places, many of which are now ten, and some even twenty miles from any Post-office, will for the first time enjoy all the conveniences of communication by post. MAMMOTH NEWSPAPER.—Mr. Clayton, the newspaper agent, in the Strand, has sent us a Boston newspaper, which may be safely pronounced the largest ever made. It is entitled the Boston Quadruple Notion, and measures eight feet by five, consisting therefore of nearly 80 square feet, or 11,520 square inchs of letter-press. It is nearly five times as large as The Sun (no pigmy), contains 96 columns about four feet long each, 34,560 words, and 1,460,000 letters, all sold in America for 25 cents (one shilling). The Boston people, therefore, have some rea son to boast of their Notion. EX PRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAT.—At Bordeaux serious disturbances have takes place in consequence of 31. Ilumann's census; but have been put down. The excitement still continues more or less throughout the south. The French, it is said, are compelled to evacuate the Isla del Rey at Port Mahon. PARIS BOURSE, HALF-PAST ONR.—Five per Cents., 116 f. 50c. ; Three per Cents. 77f. 70c. SPAIN. MADRID, AUG. 9.—A1l quiet. Five per Cents., 24+ a 60 days. TURKEY. LEVANT MAIL. CONSTANTINOPLE, ALEXANDRIA, AND SMYRNA, JULY 2 The Sultan's health is better, and his energies are reviving. The Candian insurrection is nearly at an end. French agents arc said. to be sowing discontent in Syria. A dreadful fire broke out at Smyrna on the 25th, which consumed several houses, mosques, and syna gogues. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITT, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 16.—Bather a better business has been done in the Cotton Market to day the sales amounting to 5,000 bales, of which 600 bales have been taken on export, and 300 American and 200 Surat are on speculation at Friday's prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 16.—The follow ing are the transactions at the close of the Stock Ex change :—Grand Junction, 201 ; Great Western, Fifth Shares, 81 ; London and South Western, 514. In prices there has been no alteration—market flat. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 16.—The market is somewhat firmer, and prices a shade higher:— Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 554 ; London and South Western, Tenths, 29 ; North Rlidland, Thirds, 94 ; London and Birmingham, 160 ; Bank of Manchester, 5. The new London line of packet ship, Hendrick Hud son, Captain Morgan, arrived at Portsmouth, yesterday, from New York, but she does not bring any later advices than those previously received. TUE TUNDB. The English Stock Market continues firm. Consols opened at 891 -a for Money, and 89i 4 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 90 ; Three-and•a-Half per Cents., 99 ; India Bonds , 5 7 prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16. Spanish Activo Stock, 19 4 20 ; Passive, 4 ; De ferred, 94 10 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 294 30/ ; Ditto Three per Cents., 17' 4 1 18/. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. ILAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New London and Brighton London and South Western 3B& 523..... to 52 Ditto Tenths ... . ....... ...,.... 13 13..... • to ...- Midland Counties . North Midland Ditto New HALF-PAST ONE. An extraordinary express has arrived from Paris, stating that a letter bad been received there from China, dated Macao, April 27, being a month later ; but little credit is attached to it in the City, on account of the cu rious manner in whida it has been received. It is stated that the letter was put ou board the steamer on the 19th June, at Bombay, after the mail and despatches had been embarked. The letters and papers from Bombay, dated June 19, brought by the same steamer, were received in London on the 2d of this month, and this important letter has been 16 days find ing its way from Marseilles to P a ris. .1.5, , ...iv ssiss.isig - to out it for Money, and 89 for the Account ; Three per Cent. Reduced are 89:1 ; ditto Three-and-a-Half, 98 ; Ex chequer Bills, 14 16, and India ditto 4 premium. Scarcer any business doing in the Foreign Securities, the following are the only transactions :—Spanish, 19i ; Belgian, 102 f ; Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. 52. Rather more doing in Shares, but no material altera tion has occurred. Great Western New, are 56- ; Lon don and Brighton, 43* ; South Western, 52 ; Midland Counties, 82 ; North Midland New, 32. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l6Bl India Stock ...... .........247i 3 per Cent Red. 894 Ditto Bonds 7pm 3 per Cent Cons 89,4 Ditto Old Annuities ... 87i 3i per Cent Red 99 Ditto New Annuities... 87i New 3i per Cent 9Bj Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 14 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ lpm Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small l6 pm Jan. 1860. l2 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct 168 i Oct 1859 — India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct B9l FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent—. Belgian, 5 per cent lo2i Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824. Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 194. Ditto, Deferred ... IFrench, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. —c Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 511 !Ditto, 5 per cent 104 SHARES Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 44 Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 60 Great Western Railway (65 paid) B2 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 561 Hull and Selby (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid)... 43i London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 14 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ('2 paid) London and South Western Ditto Tenths (1i paid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... •• 19,1 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... 82 DAto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ... 19 Northern and Eastern (30 paid) ...... • 201 North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .. 32 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (10 paid) THE MARKETS-THIS DAY. COLONIAL MARKET. The prices of most articles were firmly supported, and a steady business was done. Raw Sugar went off in limited quantities, but supported the rates of Friday last. Refined Sugar was dull of sale, and rather cheaper. Coffee for con sumption in good demand, and prices look up, with large de liveries. Good clean sorts, which are getting scarce, are the most sought after. Rice in firm request and prices very firm. Goad white Bengal 10s. 6d. per cwt. Pepper in moderate demand, and prices look up. Saltpetre rather higher and much sought after on account of the small stock. TEA MARKET. There was considerable excitement in this Market, and ex tensive parcels of free trade changed hands at prices full id. to 2d. per lb. higher. Company's Congou at '2s. 9d. per lb. cash, and free trade Congou st 2s. Sid. per lb. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices firm at 495. 9d. on the spot, and 495. 6d. to arrive, but the transactions were unimportant. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. The supply of Meadow Hay and Clover was plentiful, the demand very dull, except f or t h e fi ne qualities, which met K ith retdy buyers. Straw sparingly supplied, and prices continue very high. Clover, 31. to 61. ; Meadow Hay, 21. to 4/. 15s. ; New Hay, 21. to 4/. ; Straw, 2/, 23. to 21. Bs. LLO YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Auc. 17.--Wind this day at noon, pleasant breeze from the Southward and westward, with fine weather. DEAL, AUG. 16.—Wind N.W. to S.W.—Sailed the Mary Hay, fur Launceston ; 11Iandarine, New Zealand, with the rest of the outward bourn]. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 16.—Wind variable.—Arrived the SuffOlk, Crosbie, from New Orleans ; Zior, Alexandria. Sailed the Wilsons, Campbell, for Demerara ; Elizabeth Wood, Crosby, Barbadoes ; Slaen, Prance, Quebec ; Navarino, Matthews, Africa. Off Port Albion, the 'Quebec. EASTBOURNE, AUG. 15.—Arrived off the Frederick, Bahia ; Bato, Keyser, Batavia, Antelope, Havannah. PORTSMOUTH, AU G . 16. Wind W.—Arrived . the Hendrick Hudson, M organ , N e w York. Sailed the Quebec, Hebard, for New York ; Pengard Park, Mid dleton, Mauritius ;Calder, Campbell, Montreal ; Wel lington, Kendrick, Madras ; her Majesty's ship Athol, Jamaica. The Vernon, Gimlet, for Calcutta, got in con tact with the Alsen, Matthiesen, from Nantes to Chris tiansand,. off Dungeness 13th instant ; the latter sunk, but crew saved. The former has put in here with cut water damaged, &c. COWES, AUG. 1 6.—Arrived the Agenoria, Sutton, from Bahia ; Emma and Louise, Halsloop, Rio Janeiro. Sailed the Washington, Walker, fur Calcutta. OFF THE STARK, AUG. 15.—Nimrod, Nov Orleans. THE WEATHER.—NooN; AUGUST 17. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE -STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 68 ( Highest 7O f Lowest ... 47 Wind W.,....Freezing Point 32 Peg. SUMMARY CF mugs AND tittbitt Opinion, " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. We have news from China to the 27th of April. An entire stop was put to the' trade with the " outside Barbarians." The Emperot had ordered all teas, rhubarb, and other articles usually purchased by the English, to be destroyed. This order the natives were cheerfully obeying, as the Imperial decree grants them ample compensation. Attempts were made by rafts to destroy the British shipping in the Canton river. The opium traffic was making no progress south of Formosa. Letters fecrin Constantinople, of the 27th ult., state that the health of the Sultan is improving. On the 25th ult. a fire broke out at Smyrna, which destroyed several mosques, houses, and shops. The de tails have not reached us. -- An express from Paris, of Monday's date, states that disturbances broke out atßourdeaux, in consequence of the census. They were, however, put down by tho authorities. The Bill for the relief of the Spanish clergy was adopted by the Committee of the Senate on the 7th inst. The state of destitution to which the unfortunate friars, monks, and nuns, whose property was seized by the State, are reduced, is truly pitiable. PITZZIC OPXNXON. The Morning Post observes that the first French revolution, set the fashion of sneering at all Church Establishments, and goes on to say :—" Even at this day there are many persons of hardened hearts and contracted mental visions, who look upon the clergy as rather to be tolerated for the sake of the prejudicies of society, than to be upheld as the most useful body of edu cated men in this country." If the clergy arc so regarded it is only because as acorporate body, they have too often shown themselves inimical to the best interest of society; because they have always been slow to admit the necessity of sound reforms in their own establishment ; have gene. rally sided with theoppressors against the oppressed ; and have opposed every system of national education but that over which they themselves couli have the supreme controul. These are some, among numerous other reasons, why the Clergy are not so respected as they should be. Religion has nothing to do with a question of this sort, for people may be sincerely religious, and yet entertain but an indifferent opinion of its salaried professors. The Times, still harping on the Church question, says :—"W We see no reason to qualify our assertion that the State does not now give, and has never given to the Church of England any considerable advantage in respect of property over any tolerated Dissenting sect." One " considerable advantage " at least the State has given the Church—and that is, the privilege of putting her pious fingers into the pockets of all Dissenters who from conscientious motives may demur to her discipline. Our Contemporary adds, " The State has frequently interfered to restrain the acquisition of property by the Church, but never yet, on any considerable scale, to promote it. If Sir R. Inglis would introduce a Bill to remove some of these restraints, and to give more scope to the beneficence of private Churchmen, it might be a boon wdrth accepting." No doubt the parsons would think so ; but does the Times really consider Mother Church so poor, that it is necessary to bring in a Bill removing all restraints on her acquisition of fresh property ? The late Church Commission did not discover that the old lady was so singularly lean in point of purse. The Chronicle, resuming the question of free-trade, and the presumed policy of the Tories, remarks as fol lows:—" Either the free-trade principles espoused by the Liberal party are good, or they are bad. If they are bad, the more solemn and distinct pledges they can get from the Whigs of their adhesion to free-trade, the better for the Tories. But if they are good, and if the very men who turn out the Ministry for proposing them know that they are good, then we say, the Queen and the nation hare a right to know, explicitly and without dis guise, why they oppose them, and what they mean to do themselves." —The Herald bewails the exceeding poverty of Mother Church in these terms :—"The utter inadequacy of the staff and the revenues of the Church on their ,present footing to supply the demands for spiritual instruction of a po pulation whose rapid and gigantic increase has so far outgrown the fixed limits assigned to the Clergy and their endowments—these evils have been powerfully de monstrated. They are, among candid, well-informed, and reasonable men, universally acknowledged." This lament for the poverty of the richest Church Establishment in the world—which boasts an Archbishop. - ..trit+s- fifty to the tune of fifteen thousand a year ; and who, in some shape or other, affects the pockets of every class in the com munity, is infinitely ridiculous. But the Church and her organs are constantly crying out about their poverty. It was but a few months since that an appeal to public sympathy was attempted to be got up on behalf of the Bishop of London, who was said to be all but in a state of insolvency, notwithstanding his income is full twenty thousand per annum ! We suppose we shall shortly see the Church suing for public charity in forma pauperis. The Advertiser says—" The anticipated character of the Queen's Speech is beginning to excite the fears of the Tories. This is a circumstance of happy augury. Most heartily do we hope that these Tory fears will be proved by the event to be well grounded. It will be a heavy blow, indeed, to a nation's fondest hopes if the Royal oration of this day week do not more than justify the most serious apprehensions of the factious monopo lists." , MONMY-TRADE-COMMERCE. Late acc6unts from Paisley represent trade there as being in a dreadful state of depression. " We understand," says the Bolton Free Press, " that a firm in Manchester which employs some hun dreds of hands, have it in contemplation to shorten their time of work ; and are even doubtful whether they will not close their mills altogether." AGRICULTURAL. A letter received at Lloyd's, from their agent at the Cove of Cork, dated the 13th :instant, states, " We have had a tremendous fall of rain all night, and which still continues to post hour. The damage to the crops will be very considerable." A Glasgow Correspondent, writing on Saturday last, says, " The state of the weather is becoming most alarming. The week, on the whole, has been most un favourable for the growing crops ; but yesterday and to day have been among the worst this season. Last night it rained incessantly, and since four o'clock this after noon it has been a continued pour. This unfavourable state of weather is much the same all over the West of Scotland. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The Fourth Dragoon Guards marched on Wednes day and Thursday last for Glasgow, where they are to embark for Belfast. A beautiful ten-gun brig, christened "The Heroine," and built in Woolwich dockyard, was launched there yesterday. She is the last that will be launched there this season. The laying of the keel of a large war-steamer, of upwards 1,000 tons burden, to be named the Infernal, has begun at Woolwich. LAW AND POLICE. At the Croydon Sessions yesterday the libel case of Bogle v. Lawson, the publisher of the Times news paper, occupied the Court for thirteen hours, and did not close till ten o'clock at night. It arose out of certain publications which appeared in the Times, respecting the extensive forgeries committed on the Continent by a gang of English and French swindlers, and in which it was insinuated the plaintiff was implicated. Verdict for the plaintiff—damages one farthing. The Judicial Privy Council gave judgment yester day in the long-contested suit respecting the will of James Wood. Lord Lyndhurst read the decision which reversed the judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner in the Ecclesiastical Court, and admitted the validity of the will. Sir Matthew Wood's share of the property will be between 300,000/. and 400,0001. At the Mansion-house, yesterday, a tailor of the name f I)iggles w•as committed to take his trial for ‘. cabbag ig" from his master, Abraham Moses. Mr. Duff, now a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, with Lord Waldegrave, for assaulting a policeman, has transmitted a petition to the Queen, in which he asserts, and proves, by the affidavit of one of the party, that he is entirely innocent of the charge. The brother of the prisoner gives, in a letter to the newspapers, the names of the really guilty parties. THEATRICAL. Mr. Ducrow is at Norwood under the care of Dr. Sutherland, and is now much better. ,• SPORTING. The long-expected match between the Earl of Uxbridge's eleven against the Foresters of Ascot, was played on Friday last on Ascot Heath. His Lordship's party won by two runs. The grouse on the Brecon and Cardigan hills are represented as being very numerous. Partridges, too, are said to he particularly strong on the wing. The Herefordshire bowmen pitched their six tar. gets on the lawn of Stoke Edith Park, the seat of Mr. and Lady Emily Foley, on Thursday last. Lady Kyrle M;Jley gained the first prize. counT—rIisIIXOYX2I3LES. . _ The Prince de Montfurt, Jerome Bonaparte, ar rived on the Bth inst., at Frankfort, from Stuttgardt. The Queen Dowager arrived at Marlborough House yesterday, from Bushy Park. A Morning Paper states that when the last ac counts were received in town from Fleur Castle, the Duchess of Roxburgh and her infant daughter " were going on charmingly." Lord Stanley will leave Knowsley to-morrow morning for London. -- Sir R. Peel leaves Drayton Manor to-morrow for Whitehall Gardens. • MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. O'Connell has addressed a long letter to Mr . Smythe, M.P. for Canterbury, wherein he recapitulates the wrongs that Ireland has sustained at the hands of England, and sums up by saying— " The idle wind that listeth not where it blows, is not half so idle as the ex pectation that Peel can easily govern Ireland without altering his policy, which it is impossible for him to do, and giving Ireland that justice which he prevented the Whigs from approaching to." A Tory morning paper, after stating that " the favourable change in the weather has. been hailed with joy by the farmers round London," adds, in the very next paragraph, that " prayers for fine weather are being read in most of the churches in the Metropolis and suburbs," thus making one statement completely neutra lize the effect of the other! At a Tory dinner which took place on Monday last at West Bromwich, the Chairman congratulated the com pany on the excessive loyalty which " was known to ac tuate the bosom of every true Conservative." Tory loy alty is regulated solely by the barometer of self-interest. When they are in office, then they discover that the Queen is all that a constitutional Queen ought to be ; when they are out, then they discover that they have been somewhat precipitate in their estimate of her ! A Belfast paper states that the near approach of the Tories to power has been marked by a return of those annual displays of Orange insult and outrage which were so common throughout Ulster till Government par tially put them down. The line of telegraph from London to Dover is to be re-established, and the preparations for opening it are in rapid progress. It was a miserable piece of economy to interrupt it at all. It is the most important line in the country, and owing to the want of it the newspapers had generally more early intelligence from the Continent than the Government. On Thursday last a trial took place at the Cork Assizes for a breach of promise of marriage, in which Miss Campion was the plaintiff; and a Mr. Barry Drew, a gentleman of independent fortune, the defendant. After a lengthened trial the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and 1,5001. damages. The gardens at Windsor, which have heretofore small and wide detached plots, for the supply of the Queen's table and household; are to be entirely aban doned, and one large garden made instead,.on fitting soil, in the neighbourhood of Windsor. The garden at Kensington, containing nearly thirty acres, is to be entirely relinquished, and the ground let out as sites for villas. BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.) William Lee, John Faversham, and William Lewis wei,e brought up for further examination, having been remanded on Tuesday last, on a charge of embezzling money, the property of Mr. Eliason, the lessee of Drury lane Theatre. [An error appeared in our report of the case on its first hearing, as we stated that the two prisoners, Faver sham and Lee, were committed for trial.] Mr. Bodkin, the barrister, appeared for Lewis. Mr Burgess said he had no further evidence to offer against Lewis. The only evidence he had to offer fur ther against the other prisoners was that of Mr. Jones, the Treasurer ; a point of objection had been raised by the prisoner Lewis, as tp being in the employment of Mr. Eliason ; and he (Mr. Burges) was prepared to prove by the evidence, of Mr. Jones, that an engagement existed between Lewis and Mr. Eliason • and he was also prepared to prove that it had not been correctly stated at the last examination that any arrear of salary was due to the prisoner. These facts were admitted by the Counsel for the pri soners, and the proof was not gone into. Mr. JARDINE said that Lewmmust be discharged, as there was not sufficient evidence against him to consti tute a felony. There was great suspicion, but he might be able satisfactorily to answer it. Mr. Burgess said he should apply to the bench for an order that Lewis should find bail to answer any charge. Mr. Bodkin said he would rather his client entered with the required bail, although he (Mr. Bodkin) was in a condition to ask the Magistrate to discharge Lewis forthwith. The required sureties were entered into, and the prisoner w.' discharged. The evidence taken OH the former occasion was then read over, and Mr. Flower applied, on the part of Faversham, that bail might be taken for his appearance at the Sessions. Mr. JARDINE said, as the Sessions were so near, being on Monday next, he did not feel disposed to grant the application. The prisoners were then fully committed for trial. The Court was crowded by a great number of the members of the theatrical profession. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRISFONDRNT. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA. FIRST DAY FOR THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON CUP, VALUE 1004 The day was remarkably fine, and at eleven, A.M., the following splendid yachts :—Nymph, 31 tons, John Bailey, Esq. ; Midge, 35 tons, John Petre, Esq. ; Will o'-the-Wisp, Captain Williams, R.N. ; Gem, 125 tons, Marquis Ormond ; Naiad, 70 tons, W. Delafield, Esq. ; Talisman, 87 tons, R. Meiklam, Esq. ; Brilliant, 393 tons, G. A. Ackers, Esq. ; Aurora, 40 tons, W. Beach, Esq. ; Cynthia, 40 tons, R. Frankland ; lc, 68 tons, A. W. Corbett, Esq. ; Phcebe, 33 tons, Captain Corry, R.N., were started from off Cowes Castle. They made to the Westward, with a fine breeze from the S.W. After rounding the vessel off Yarmouth, they proceeded to the Eastward, passing the starting vessel as follows : h. m. h. m. Talisman ....... 35 6 Phoebe Cynthia 36 40 Gem Aurora Babe Naiad 4l Midge Will-o'-the-Wisp met with an accident and gave in. They passed the starting vessel on their coming in from the Nab as follow : h. m. s. h. m. s Talisman Naiad 5 30 30 Phoebe Hebe Aurora Being a handicap the Phoebe wins. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY. — The Queen and Prince Albert had their usual walk this forenoon, and her Royal High ness the Princess Royal was taken her usual walk and ride. Lord Alfred Pagct has left for Beaudesert, to enjoy the sport of grouse shooting. Colonel Buckley has suc ceeded his Lordship as an Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty. The Earl and Countess of Errol, and the Lady Ida Hay, have taken their departure from the Castle to-day, and Viscount Melbourne has arrived on a visit. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back, attended by Colonel Buckley, and on his return to the Castle the Prince drove her Majesty out in a pony phaeton. The Royal pair were attended by the Duchess of Bedford, Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, and Colcnel Buckley in another phaeton, and by the Marquis of Headfort, Colonel Wylde, and the Hon. Major Keppel on horseback. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Frances Lady Clinton, the Earl Howe, and the Earl of Denbigh, arrived at Marlborough House at eleven o'clock yester day morning, from her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. His Serene Hi g h ness P r i nce Ernest, of Hesse Philippsthal, left Bushy Park yesterday morning for Kew, and paid a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. His Serene Highness afterwards proceeded to Marlborough House. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by Prince Ernest of Hesse-Philippsthal, and attended by Frances Lady Clinton, left Marlborough House a quarter before five o'clock on her return to Bushy Park. Viscount Melbourne left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Sir John Harvey and Captain Woolcombe, u.N., bad interviews with Lord John .Russell yesterday at the u lonial-office. Earl Howe left town yesterday afternoon for GoPsa ll Hall, Leicestershire. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ha d a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Counc i l Chamber to give judgment in the appeal relative to th The Lords James Wood, the Banker of Gloucester . + the present were Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancc. . 11 of Mr. Baron Mr. Parke, and Sir J. Littledale. NEW LINE OF TEL FROM LONDON To DovEn.—A new line of telegraph from Dover to Lon ' don is now in rapid progress. telegraph is erecting for the purpose on the top of the s hot-manufactory, at Topping's Wharf, in Tooley-street, Southwark, which will be the London termius. Ano ther station on Fore s t Hill, Pe c kham Rve, is nearly completed ; others on de vated spots throughout the line, at Knockholt Beeches, Wrotham, Blue Bell -hill, Chatham, Isle of Sheppy, Whitstabe, Herne Bay in Broadstairs, Deal, and Dover, will be finished in a short time, and in about two months the whole line from Dover to London will be in active operation. The code of signals to be used are those of Lieutenant Barnard Watson, R.N., and this te legraph will be similar to that established between Holy head and London , which has been workin g upwards of fourteen years. The establishment of such a line of com munication will be of the greatest advantage to the mer cantile world. EVENING - SUE. NEWS FROM CHINA An express from Pails, bringing news of yes terday's date, has likewise brought a letter from Macao, dated the 27th of April, containing very important intelligence from China. This letter was put on board the steamer at Bombay, on the 19th of June, after the mail and other despatches had been embarked, and from some cause or other, which we are left to conjecture, was not forwarded on landing the mail at Suez. The latest previous intelligence was to the 27th of March, so that the news now brought is a month in advance. This communication states that the Chinese authorities had violated the engagement entered into with Captain Elliot for the renewal of the trade. No intercourse with British sub jects was permitted, and such was the extraor dinary vigilance of the Mandarins and soldiers guarding the coast," that during the month pre ceding the date of this letter, the smugglers had not been able to obtain one thousand chests of tea. On the 17th of March, an imperial man date, signed by the Emperor, was received at Canton, filled with the most violent invectives against the English red-bristled barbarians, and commanding all the authorities, civil and mai' tary, to destroy every ounce of tea, rhubarb, and other commodities usually pnrch7snd by the English throughout the province of Canton' In this mandate compensation is guaranteed to the owners of the destroyed goods, and reivar ds offered to such as manifest the greatest readines.s promptly to execute the Imperial will. Conceal ment of the interdicted article is threate ned with the severest punishments, and every encourage' ss f meat held,out to informers. u I The opium smugglers were not more succe 11e than the smugglers of tea. The vigilan ce of Chinese authorities alon g th e co ast south of ot",tot. mosa nearly prevented all dealings in tha t g uar Though the Chinese had not cotuttle aced ae tive hostilities, they had made several attolll)t3, by means of fire ships and rafts laden With flamable combustibles, to destroy the, fbrelc ui shipping in the river. These rafts ha d run ft ) ed of several vessels, and had seriously daning. s' , the cargoes of some of them. The Britih; Commander was therefore deliberating 00 expediency of moving the ships below the seconu bar, where the river is wider, and where co.n quently, more facility would exist fo r avoldol the destructive contrivances of the Chinese. !- report likewise prevailed that some British sub'th of jects were kidnapped on the night of the pe April by the Celestials, but it was not crediteu• Such is the intelligence brought by this let ter from China. The violence of the the extreme measures to which he has recou rse , with wincn to destroy the trade—and the alacrity he is obeyed by the authorities and people, iin t - o part a deeper interest than has yet been felt the Chinese question. The Imperial despot ca v u e not be charged with being influenced by anYl ° , o of money. It was supposed by the writer of to letter cited above, that half of the tea and rhg barb found in the province of Canton was de stroyed in the course of a few days after the r7 e Empero r ceipt of the chop from Pekin, and for this blame!, sacrifice of property, payment is to be made °, 11 : of the Imperial Treasury. Our war then low the Chinese is likely to be a war in earnest. ' [Since the above was written, we learn that the authenticity of the letter from Macao .1_ doubted in the City, chiefly b ecaus e the del a i l o l ' its delivery cannot be accounted for. Til l) is 11 sufficient ground for rejecting it.] BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, AUG. 17.—The Independent tino°,lienets.. that Government has agreed to sanction the „,''hens; Stock Bank which it is proposed to estab lish At LT bl i s hed and that its bye-laws will be very shortly 11 1 l . n t his under official sanction. The capitalists eitgage u t i s , the Bank are, we believe, chiefly English, and Pn r 2,4-_,',glo same who would some years ago have founded no t , o o btain Belgian Bank at Brussels, had they been ab le "- the consent of the Ministry of that day. •regiment of On Wednesday evening a private in the work Guides, and a girl whose business was that of woman, slept at a house of ill-fame in the Rue des Cin a l Rtoiles ; and early next morning they were found de in their bed-room. The girl was lying on the bed, liar lace downwards and hidden in the bolster. The soldier was kneeling on the body of the woman, himself strangled by means of a handkerchief. No external injury was visible on the girl. The rumour is, that the so ldier , in a fit of jealousy, suffocated the woman, and the n hung himself. _ The steamer Soho landed at Antwerp on Friday morning 112 passengers from London, including 3,_ ; „ 111 * Colonel O'Meara and family, Major Howard, CAP' Grindley, Captain Sterling, &c. The price of corn has risen very rapidly within s fe w days, the last official average being 32f. 34c. the bee tolitre of wheat. Thus in six weeks the rise has ' be, nearly 6f. the hectolitre or 35 per cent. and the pn e : is as high as it was in. August, 1840. According to ti l l; " sliding scale" of the Belgian Corn-law, wheat can no vi, __ imported free of duty. It is expected, howerer, that te; present prices will not be maintained, as they appear . eh result more from apprehension, and from sympathy the rising markets in England, than from any positive.n_s I certained deficiency in the crops. The recent snatere of fine weather have been of important service to t. ll O. corn, and a large portion of rye has already been Tot tery 1 The stocks of last year's corn are said to be still , e ample. The accounts are very favourable from t '', o Campine (province of Antwerp). A richer crop of 11 e than the present has not been made tbr years. All the crops, indeed, promise extremely well, except the hay, , of which a large portion has he e _ e spoiled. Butter is very plentiful this year , b ut its pric is kept up by considerable exportations. • The Societie de la Grande Harmonic is receivinfi solid testimony of public favour in the liberal Atibscriel; tions in course of receipt towards the building of its alit 'concert-room. The King has given 10,000 francs, u°."l/0 Meeus, Governor of the Bank, 10,0 00 francs , the D' d'Aremberg 2,500 francs, &c. It is stated that the portion between Cologne and A . i t; la-Chapelle of the Rhenish Railway will be open traffic in a very few days. The line from Aix-I , -4 -',", e d pelle to the Belgian frontier will not be comp.4lel'ine for some time, owing to the numerous hills. The ;_ on . remark applies to the Belgian Railway from the a lt _ it tier to Liege; but it seems that the works on the ground between Liege and Ans are so far advance:, that the trains will be able, before the end of year to run into Liege itself. This ivill be a gr:at to travellers ; for the present change f carriage at -11:c and the hour's jolting in omnibus to Liege , are at le ns as fatiguing as the whole journey from D russ els to in the railway carriages. The journey tram Ostend ".. d' Cologne will then offer a singular example of the lletrit ence between railroad and common road spr,cd• A bo ; 140 miles of railway will be performed in s even while the break of only thirty miles will take hetwe five and six hours to traverse in dilige nce. bouresn cide l4 FATAL ACCIDENT.—A melancholy aced. ; ._. happened yesterday at Richmond, Surrey, to il s gM e :t e _ . . man named Lewis, aged nineteen, whose fath_ , e , r rn. ~ rf a tary to the Union Fire and Life-office, ~C l i, s h ii ii, i _i'L Baker-street. It appears that Mr. Lefirvoism . b :l sw i o n i of Cie Thames, near the bridge, when, d ' h e was thrown into the water. Vie steam-boats, his boat capsized, several persons, they made off t 1 the r were procured, with my said but all attempts to T h e accident his.Jrlll: ~..,oetninobbsoe:rayse,daribi when the body was ashore,brouig,tess. restore animation wrlrelis-101 w ON in a few minutes afterwards thec ra TIIE FORTIFICA• NAPOLEON'Sy my left on the Napoleon, " and right on the Military School, acor e TION OF Pa s u e is s . , Champs Ely a n Zof the river, an open space b e tween - reserve at St. Cloud behind me ; Inl u m le an a d o i d li i g r t a h r e is p 3. be moved from Vincennes to Men' l t i e l r 'a e r f ia or i t l ifi se ed i,i artillery depot can . will . , Plrisians no longer be able to stir. don, and the : .. capital 7sms against its own inhabitants, ne t , .4 Here," exc laimed one of those present, " you talk et . — I and fortifyi..% the .f 1 44 F • against t e enem3. ~ I ortify Paris against nn enemy! exclaimed Napoleon, never thought of suci , a thing: A capital with a population of a million cannot be fort' fl e d ; first, because it could not be fed; secondly, heeillisg all rich turbulentand behind. sobercl a sse A s w si o e u ge ld i q n u s i u t, o a h n a d o l to eti e ve ir n o e ul l btit t cre ate a permanent sedition." THE HOPS.--WA TERINGEURY, .M o r tt WORTH, AND NETTLESTEAD.—The hops are coming 1 maturity slowly, in consequence of the cold nights ne damp days. They are damaged by the rough winds at sue_ places, and in some of the strong grounds the strig of . tn e fj burr is rotting by the wet. Most persons express a deo () at opinion against a full crop. At the annual hop . dinne i _ r, „ re the King's Head, Wateringbury, on the I,lth inst., the were between 40 and 50 present, and on betting foro_tei. sweepstakes the average was between 143/. and 144,_ those for the year 1841. The corn is looking well i n of tl; t s as parts, and appears to want cutting ; some•spealk„est is being rather light. Beans are very strong. I a rogres s slightly begun, but the weather prevents any e p e;o o being made. The rise in flour causes great appr n ' h d the o' . and complaints amongst the labouring class, an „ ng , servation is very common amongst them that ever rises but their wages. weather , Otif GAME.—Notwithstanding the wet t.a_ th e own personal observation leads us to believe 21:iit, game will be abundant here. ,The grouse °nal arts e Mountain, the Breconshire bills , and in sere.r affor d fi n Cardiganshire, will ire, are very num erous, and I deters sport, as the birds are not over-shy, and are breed e v Cooky J • to ascertain whether their purst era be of ~.... w og. , or not. Partridges are partictfarly strong oil 1 09 —Welshman.