The Sun. — London, England, 1841-07-31 00:00:00

CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NAVAL STORY. Now ready at all the Librari es , i n 3 vols. post Bvo., P OM B O W L I N G, A TALE OF THE SEA. By Captain FREDERICK CHABIIER, R.N., Author of " Ben Brace," " The Life of a Sailor," Sz.c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. lIIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDEND:, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtaining__ LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DIST lIIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH 3UT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE. BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 100 90 50 800 150 The largest Dividend of the Distribution of Ist March last, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, was remitted to London and vicinity by HEINE BROTHERS, Rho remitted, during a few years, 22 large Money Dividend:, /ram 6001. and upwards :into 25,0001., besides many Dividends of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. :LOYAL SURREY THEA.TRE. UINDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MK. WILLIS TONES. Continued overflows, never yet exceeded in the annals of thea tricals, imperatively deraand a repetition of Shakspere's " 3lacbeth, ' in conjunction with the Grand Operas, every Evening. Mr. Graham as Macbeth, and the splendid sing ing of Miss Romer, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Leffler, &c., are un rivalled attractions. THIS EVENING, JULY 31, Will be acted Beßini's Grand Opera, LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, Miss Romer ; Li±a, Mrs. Serle ; Rodolpho, Mr. leffler; Elvino, Mr. Wilson. After which Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Graham ; Hecate, Mr.Leftlev ; • _ _ _ . Singing Witches, Miss Romur, Mrs. Serle, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Stoker, Mr. Roberts, and a powerful Choi us, conducted by Mr. G. Stansbury. ... .. . After THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Macheatli, Mr. Wilson ; Polly Peachum, Miss Romer ; Lucy LOckit, illrs. Serie, ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. Brilli:.nt and splendid continuation of success in the unparalleled combination and attraction of " Swan Hopley !" " Richard the Third !" " Hamlet !" an " Pizarro !" supported by Mr. Osbaldiston, Mr. E. F. Saville, Mrs. W. West, anti Miss Vincent! THIS EVENING, JULY 31, The splenslidly successful Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, o SUSAN HOPLEY ! OR, THE TRIALS AND VICISSI. TIJDES OF A SERVANT GIRL ! William Dean, Mr. E. F. Saville ; and Susan Hopley y Miss Vincent, th e accepted Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, Sheridan's Play of PIZARRO. Rolla, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Orizembo, Mr. E. F. Saville Pizarro, Mr. Dale ; Alonzo, Mr. Seaman ; Elvira, Mrs. W West; Cora, Miss Vincent. To conclude with the Laughable Farce of THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. Dr. Vincolo, Mr. James; Rinaldo, Mr. Seaman; Popolino, Mr. Gardner; Gabriotto, Mr. Paul ; Francisca, Mrs. G Lee; Norma, Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, la.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW PUBLISHING, PRICE ONLY SIXPENCE. rilGl-1 WATER AT LONDON IsHII)GE PO.NIORRO Horning.. 14 Eninutvs atZ.i 1 1 Everong :6 •ronutes after 1. LONDON: SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1841. The great cry of Sir ROBERT PEEL at Tam worth, was turn out the Whigs, turn out the Whigs, and all will go well. They have lost the confidence of the country, therefore turn out the Whigs. That, and that alone, has been the object of the Right Hon. Baronet's policy during the whole time he has been in opposition. For this, and this alone, he has built up, as he says, the Conservative party; for this he sum moned his followers to do battle in the Registra tion Courts, and for this he has patiently strug gled through eleven years of wearying defeat to a temporary triumph. Other politicians may have had nobler motives. Some may have struggled to serve the people, others to gain a victory for the Crown; some have been enthusi astic for a theory, others have formed a broad and comprehensive scheme of policy. Sir Ro- BERT PEEL has laboured and fought exclusively for office. The - assertion that he was contending to preserve our institutions and uphold the Church is a mere pretext, for neither he, nor any one of his followers, has ever really believed that the Monarchy and the Church, with all our institutions, were not as safe in the keeping of the Whigs, as in the keeping of the Tories. He has more than once, indeed, re proached the Ministers with being obliged to make concessions to the Radicals and to Mr. O'CONNELL, because they were weak; but they were weak only through the factious opposition of the Tories; and if the idea of serving the State, according to his own principles, had ever predominated over obtaining office, if he had wished to prevent injurious concessions, he would have offered his services to the Government, and strengthened it by his support. He rarely or never did so, though he was frequently found vot ing on its side, where it adopted Tory principles, or resisted attacks on the Constitution. The opinion that Sir ROBERT PEEL—Who, rather than give up office, consented to be the instru ment for passing the Catholic Emancipation Bill, which he had all his life opposed—is the en emy of the Whigs fro m any enthusiastic at tachment to the Monarchy, being disposed of there remains no other clue to his conduct bill that we have already given into the hands of the reader; he has laboured for nothing else mself in office. than to place hi With that clue to his conduct, he having no broad and comprehensive scheme of policy l a id down, but being a mere waiter upon Provi dence, and ready to adopt any measure which time and circumstances demand, consistently with his sole and grovelling object of remaining in place, the demand to turn o ut the Whigs, so vociferously echoed by his followers, which means turn in PEEL, becomes power fully expressive. A wise and a thou g htful roan, preferring his country's welfare to his indivi dual aggrandisement, would never have adopted such a course, or used the same language as Sir ROBERT PEEL. Whatever t., his followers may bawl, he must b e sens ibl e th a t the difficulties into which the country is plunged, deficient revenue and deranged trade, are not the result of mal administration, but of unjust and improper legis lation'. The additional expense which the con duct of the Government brought on the country j —even if we were to admit that they were to blame for the Canada troubles, which were a Tory legacy; for the Chinese dispute, which was the consequence of barbarian folly, and the unwise legislation which placed a Government repre sentative on the waters of Canton to watch over our trade ; and for the Afikhanistan and Syrian expeditions,—the additional expense, we say, caused by the conduct of the Government, ad mitting it to have been blameable, was met in 1840 by additional taxation ; but the resources of the country have ceased to expand under the pressure of short-sighted legislation, and the ad ditional taxation, resulted in a positive loss to the revenue. For that no change of Ministers can be a remedy, and that man must be blinded by a desire for office who could teach the multitude that to turn out the Whigs and turn in the Tories would be to restore our damaged finances and bring back prosperity to our unemployed and slatkr.rinurtisans. T: - It will restore confidence for a time, we admit, in the Goir'ernment, because at jority th,t el e ct ors Tori • • have confidence in the Tomes bu t Executive Government, as such, can do uQtbing, and, in the hands of the Tories certainly will do nothing to restore the national prosperity. The cure must come from the Le gislature. The plain fact is that the resources of our industrious and ingenious people, vast as they are, are inadequate to feed themselves comfortably, which is their first duty, and comply with all the demands which the Le gislature makes on them. Their skilful toil, however productive, is inadequate to pay all the expenses of the State, and all the still heavier expenses imposed on it by legislation, establish ing and maintaining a great number of mono polies. It is physically impossible for the peo ple to comply with all the demands made on them by the Legislature. They are required to run with their legs tied, to swim with a load they cannot carry. The Legislature, by its laws, not the Executive Government by executing those laws, imposes these burdens on the people, and the Legislature only can give relief. The Tories, however, and the monopolists, are one and the same; and their subservient tool, the Tamworth quack, takes office to fix more securely, if he can, all those burdens on the people, while he teaches them that a change in the Executive Government will give relief. The people will be deceived if they expect that having confidence in the Government will pro duce any such effect; and Sir a. PEEL, though he takes on himself the responsibility, knows that the Executive Government, however much it may be confided in, cannot restore the prospe rity of the country, unless the Legislature abolish the monopolies. So far, however, does Sir ROBERT PEEL share, or inculcate without sharing, a vulgar prejudice, that he refers to the repeal of the - Union, and the Lichfield House compact. as affording an explanation of the state of the country. That the justice done to the Catholics by the Ministers has raised against them the bigotry of the ultra- Protestants is not doubtful ; and Sir R. PEEL'S allusion to that subject must carry conviction to every man that bigotry, though little publicly and openly appealed to during the late elections, has had considerable influence in deciding them. The No-Popery feeling was active, if the No- Popery cry was not heard. Whatever might have been the effect of the Lichfield House com pact, in a party point of view, it had no more tendency to increase the expenses of the State than disbanding a few regiments. It diminished the expenses, and by producing tranquillity it augmented the resources and revenue of Ire land. By acting on contrary principles Sir Ro- BERT PEEL may increase the public expenses, but he will grossly delude the people if he tell them that the Tory Government he is to form, with the help of the whole army of monopolists, will augment the revenue, increase trade; and add to employment, profit, or wages. We repeat, as we have ,before more than once stated, that the country has not been brought into its present condition by the maladministra tion of the laws, but by the laws being unjust. Sir ROBERT PEEL has no plan to amend them ; he has no settled and comprehensive scheme of policy, except that he will as long as possible maintain the unjust laws; and he has no higher motive for supplanting the Whigs than the de sire of possessing place and power. The demand which is generally made on Sir R. PEEL by his opponents to state what he will do when he is in office, would seem to imply, on their part, an opinion that he must succeed Lord MELBOURNE. Certainly the assumption of the Tories that he must be Prime Minister, makes very light of her MAJESTY, and implies that she must do as the temporary majority of the Tories dictates, however attained. There is, in truth, less admission in the demands of his op ponents, than arrogance in the assumption of his friends. Sir ROBERT PEEL has been the forward and active man in breaking up the present Government, and therefore the public have a right to demand of him what he suggests in place of that budget which he would not allow to pass into a law. At the same time it does not follow that her MAJESTY must make the leader of the mischief her chief counsellor. Really the Tories, who boast so much of their loyalty, do not show any great respect for her MAJESTY, since they speak of her as the humble tool of their ma jority. They do not leave the grand-daughter of GEORGE 111. any will of her own. They exer cise her prerogative for her; they fill up all the public offices; they make this man First Lord of the Treasury, and that man Viceroy of Ire land, without ever consulting her MAJESTY, any more than they consult her waiting-wom'an. Her MAJESTY, we apprehend, is not deficient in that spirit which her father and grandfather possessed, and she will scarcely allow Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends to treat her as if her highest duty was to obey their directions, and lend her signature, when they bid her, to carry their will nto effect. The French journals of Thursday have reached us, but the news they bring was anticipated in the express from Paris published in yesterday's Sun. Pan's, JULY 28.—The audience granted by the King yesterday to M. Mahul has been the general subject of conversation to-day. It was asked whether M. Mahul is restored to favour, and whether his letter to the Journal des Debuts is considered as a sufficient expiation, in which letter he declares with such ferocious naivete that he did not hesitate at the shedding of the blood of the factious ; that it was his right and his duty. A letter from Toulon of the 24th informs us that the Marengo and Triton of the line are appointed to go to Vendres, to take troops on board and convey them to Africa. It is believed that the troops which received this destination are those that were at Toulouse at the time of the troubles, and which it is thought proper to remove from it.—Le Commerce, July 29. PARIS, JULY 28.—Joussouf Bey, who commands the regular Spahis of Oran, has arrived at Paris. He had an audience of Marshal Soult yesterday. The 33d re giment of the line,- which is shortly to proceed to Africa, continues its preparations at Toulon. In a few days the battalions and the baggage will be embarked. The Toulonaise repeats on this occasion what it has said se veral times that it is very imprudent to send fresh troops to Africa in the middle of the summer, and that their departure might very well be deferred till the autumn.— Le Temps, July 29. A miliary fever has been raging at Coutances, in the Manche, for a month past. Between the 18th and 24th inst. there have been upwards of 140 cases and 15 deaths. Among the last is a surgeon of the hospital and one of the first physicians of the town. As there were only four medical men left, application has been made to b e ana . Paris f or assistance, and two euinent men of the faculty are gone down. Thmlisease rai ely attacks children, but actstv‘i•tnt with the g rea t es t sever ity on p ersons b etween - a five l a ea n i l ing fifty ypelaaerse. Hitherto, of To it i Tae principal said, iitnhhaas not attacked the barracks or the college. A servant girl, returning home alone on Sunday evening from a dance at apublic place of entertainment, outside th e Barriere du at the Rhond re 1.!. Trone, was seized, on her arrival (Ant, within the Barriere, by some brutal men, gagged, carried into an obscure corner, and there sub jected to treatment to deprived of her too infamo u s t o d escr ib e . Sh e was senses,when she remained on the g roun d till the next morning, h and carried home. Informations she was discovered, restored, of Police have letilnattoions laid before the Com missaryha the arrest of several jour neymen paper-stainers, as hay this disgusting outrage. ing been participators in this disgusting outrage. —ln pulling down the old buildings on the ground of the Boule-Rouge, on Monday afternoon a number of masons were employed on the stone facing of one of them, _ when it suddenly fell in a mass, carrying rr several of them. On mustering their force after theymg with . it accident, one man was missing. His comrades immediately set to work to remove th e ruins, and at length found him dreadfully crushed, but still living. He was carried to the hospital, where he lies with small hopes of recovery, A few hours afterward s, another man f ell from the sc a t *: fold in front of a house in the rue Montmartre, and was seriously injured. A few days ago, in the village of Merle G u „ , in Brittany, a white flag, bearing the inscription, " Bre thren, remain faithful to Henry V.. and never forget your legitimate Prince I" being displayed from the top of a beech-tree, a brigade of gendarmes proceeded to cut it down. This was accomplished with resolution, al- though they were violently assailed with stones and other missiles from the people. Some of the most re fractory persons were arrested. • The Algiers correspondent of the Toulonnais states that, on the 16th inst., a party of six soldiers and thirty Inisbandmen were surprised in the neighbourhood of Boufraricic by 100 Arabs, disguised as Moorish gen darmes, who carried them all off. Next day the Mctidja was on fire in many places, the Arabs destroying all the forage wherever they could find any standing. The Sentinelle states that eight soldiers had been carried off the day before near Douera. This journal adds, that several despatches have been recently exchanged be tween the Bishop of Algiers and Abdel Kader ; that the French Priests go about in perfect security, even beyond the advanced posts, with Arab passes ; and that there was an improbable rumour afloat of the Bishop being in ne gotiation with the Emir for a peace, by the terms of which the latter would quit Africa, and come to France. The Hanover Gazette of the 22d instant contains the following notice from the Minister of the Interior "His Majesty has ordained, with reference to the pro clamation of the 14th instant, that all illicit resistance to the Constitution shall be combated with energy, par ticularly all influence in the elections ; every attempt of this kind will be punished according to the existing laws. A prosecution will be immediately commenced, and the parties be arrested. The administrative autho rities of the police are invited to exercise the strictest surveillance in this matter, and they are to act with energy without waiting for superior orders. They are to put into form the dispositions of the electoral:law of September 9, 1840, and in case of need those of June 27, 1838, relative to imprisonment. All offences are to be immediately brought before the competent criminal tribunal." Captain-General Alvares addressed the following proclamation to the people of Malaga on the 16th in stant :—" The revolted company of Alhucemas has ceased to exist. The guilty survivors had their uni forms torn, as unworthy of forming part of the glorious Spanish army. Of the 19 leaders in the revolt, 12 are to be shot at Alhucemas, Melilla, and Penon, where they have been transported for execution on board the brig of war Heros. The seven others, and three more chosen by lots out of the 25 who were to be decimated, have been shot, and the remainder are to be conducted to the prisons of the arsenal of la Carraque, where they will await thu fate reserved to them by the Government." A few days ago. at an auction sale of household fur niture at Etreval (Meurthe), the flooring of the room on the first floor, in which the sale was held, gave way, anal all who were in it fell through to the ground floor. More than fifty persons were severely injured, and several were killed, but the number is not stated in the letter from v hich we take this account. Amongst the persons severely injured was M. Saulnier, avocat of the Cour Royale of Nancy. One female had both legs broken, and they have since been amputated. - Her daughter, a girl of fourteen, had also a leg broken. The Augsburgh Gazette says—" The advantages of fered by the Austrian Government to the contractors are stated to be as follow :-Ist. The contractors are to be at liberty to transform their bonds into Italian rentes. 2d. The Government engages not to pay off or convert into other stock the total amount of the 5 per cent. debt. 3d. In the event of the 5 per cent. bonds falling below par, the Government engages to assist to the utmo s t o f its power in raising it, by having recourse to the sink ing fund. 4th. If from unforeseen events the new bonds should be so depreciated as to be for 15 days together under 92 on the Exchange of Vienna, the Government engages to come to a new arrangement for relieving the contractors from the monthly instalments which might still remain to be effected. sth. The Government en gages to contract no other loan based upon the system of public credit, before the 31st January, 1843. The Augsburgh Gazette adds, that the new loan is solely in tended for the consolidation of the old debt, and is not to be used to cover any deficit of the budget or to meet any extraordinary expenditure. It is stated in a letter from Hanover, of the 17th inst., that the Prince Royal had for some days been much in disposed, and that he would, as soon as he should be well enough to undertake the journey, go to Norderney for sea-bathing. The rumour of an intended marriage between the Prince and a Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, his cousin, which was current some time ago, is again revived. The King's physicians are said to have urged his going to Ems for his health, but he objects so much to leaving, that the proposed journey is more than ever doubtful. OPERATIVE REFORM ASSOCIATION.—A Society with this title has been formed at Preston, so well known for the Liberal opinions of its inhabitants, and we trust many other towns will folio* the good example. The object of the institution is thus stated in a circular which we have received :—" Formed, and intended, for the purpose of cementing and perpetuating that bond of unity which has been so eminently successful in the late contest, for confirming the strong and establishing the wavering, the Committee propose accomplishing this ob ject by supplying good political information at a trifling charge, by placing the perusal of the best London daily and weekly papers, and a selection of the most popular provincial ones, at such a small amount of subscription as to come within the reach of all classes. Although the Association will be decidedly of a Liberal character, no specific declaration of principles will be required from its members, the Committee being convinced that the adoption of any such restrictive measures would frustrate the intention of the society, and prevent many persons becoming enrolled as members. The subscription has been fixed at the low sum of one penny per week, for which the Committee will endeavour to place the Opera tive Reform News-room on an equality with any in the town." EXPRESS FROM PARIS PARIS, FRIDAY, JULY 30.—The despatch of yester day brought up the news to one o'clock, P.M. From that hour to midnight the Champs Elysees were crowded. The illuminations of the avenue, like a Moorish gallery, were superb. The fireworks were brilliant. At the concert, in the Tuileries gardens, some seditious cries were heard ; and the " Marsellaise " and " Parisienne " were played on the demand of the people. All paseed off quietly except this little incident. The opposi tion papers persist in the statement that the Paris Municipality has declared, by a stoag majority, that the fiscal measure of M. Humana was illegal,intolerable, and an attack on municipal privileges. Some disturb ances had taken place at Strasburg, owing to the foot Chasmurs taking offence at some squibs, in the shape of advertising placards, which they tore down with their bayonets. The King this morning, at half-past seven o'clock, went to Corbeil by the railroad, en route for Fon , tainb'teau, and will return this evening. Baron de Bu low a rrived on the 22d at his seat near Berlin, and will shortly go to Frankfort as Envoy to the Germanic Diet. TI to provincial journals state that the fetes concluded on the preceding night in the best possible spirit. Re sistai ice to the new fiscal measures of Government had been manifested atNismes, at Strasburgh, and elsewhere, but nothing serious had occured in any part. The weather in Paris continued to be magnificent. PARIS BOURSE.—Five per Cents., 115 f. 45c. ; Three per Cents., 76f. 85c. ; Spanish, 20 if. . , f-: . 41 • . 4 1. A 4. 4 ,- 0 • ..". '. . rt Out ~ ttke " v rl z. A .... 4.. f* , -1 a .7-7 ...-• ...,'" , , 1" , :, ,- - ~ ,i atL- tk , ki, .Ak . . 1, ' , ,,,,, r13 -- übjeeLtL SPAIN. MADRID, JINX 23.—The Minister of Finance's pro ject for raising three millions of dollars, at 6 per cent. interest per annum, has partly passed through Congress this day, after a most obstinate opposition, by 63 against 31 yolks ; but various amendments have been submitted to the remaining clauses, which will only be disposed of to-morrow, but it is thought that they will pass by an equally large majority. Despatches have just been received from Senhor Aguelar, the Spanish Minister at Lisbon. They confirm the suspicion that Donna Maria's Govern ment was to re-establish the absolute form of go vernment, as well as that it is intended to offer every hostility to the consolidation of Espartero's Re gency. The Progressists are agitating to compel Great Britain to give satisfaction for what they call the re peated outrages at Algesiras and the one at Carthegena, as well as for drawing Mr. Turnbull from the Consulate at the Hayannah. Senor Arguelles takes the oaths as Guardian next Monday. On Change, nineteen bargains in the Fives for twelve millions of reals, at. 24* for cash, 25i 9-32 i for sixty days, 24i 251 9-16 i at va rious days. GERMANY. It would appear.that the commercial crisis in Germany was not yet over. The shares of the National Bank of Vienna had fallen 20 florins in consequence of the failure of five more houses at Trieste. A letter from Bc.rne, in the HeMetie, says that the failures of the houses of Steiner and Geymuller, at Vienna, have caused many victims in Berne, Geneva, and Basle. The shares of the Vienna Bank had fallen 20 florins, owing to the news of five houses having failed in Trieste. EASTERN NEWS. A copy of the Augsburg Gazette, received by extraor dinary courier yesterday evening, contains, in a letter dated Paris, the 23d instant, the text of the protocol signed by Prince Esterhazy, Baron Neumann, Lord Pal merston, Baron Bulow, and Baron Brunow, at a Confer ence held in London, on the 10th inst. in the following terms:— " In consequence of the difficulties in which his High ness the Sultan found himself, he determined to claim the aid and assistance of the Austrian, British, French, and Russian Goverments, and the difference which existed between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan, for the arrangement of which the treaty of the 15th of July was concluded, having been settled, the repre sentations of the Powers who signed that Convention an nounced in a formal manner that the ancient rule of the Ottoman Empire, which declares that no ships of •war belonging to Foreign Powers, should be admitted into the Straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles should be observed, and invited the French Government to join in such a declaration according to the wish of the Sultan. The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs there fore invited the French Government to join the Plenipo tentiaries of the other Four Powers, in declaring thatthe Sultan should in future close the entrance of the Straits in conformity with the aforesaid principle ; and the Five Powers on their part agreed to respect and support such determination." THE WEATHER.—NOON, JULY 31. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 59 Highest 6O 1 Lowest ...... 48 Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—The weather still continues showery, and colder than is usual at this season. Yesterday was dry and sunny; but the wind was keen and chill. The crops, however, present a splendid appearance, and give every prospect of an abundant har vest. Throughout the greater part of East Lothian, in particular, the greatest benefit has been experienced from the late rains; many fields of barley, which were be - 2ore all but despaired ot; having since advanced with extraordinary rapidity, and promise a fully average crop. In the course of a pretty extensive circuit the other day, we did not observe a single field where the corn was laid by the rain ; while the yellow hue which a great propor tion of the fields have begun to assume, indicates the near approach of harvest. Appearances are equally pro mising with the green crops; potatoes and turnips look healthy and vigorous; and sanguine expectations are en tertained in every quarter of a successful termination to the labours of the husbandman; all that is wanted being a continuance of sunshine to ripen the fruits of the field. —Edinburgh Courant. FlRE.—Yesterday evening a fire broke out in the workshops of Mr. Jefferys, printer and bookseller, No. 14, Sun-street, Bis homate-street. Within a few mi nutes three engines arrived, and a supply of water being immediately obtained, th e fl ames were speedily got under. r.r,lic loss will fall on the Sun , _Fire-office.' - S Nlllllol' OF NEWS AND Vubitt Opttiton. " Who runs may read." PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle returns to the subject of Sir Robert Peel's last Tamworth speech, and alluding to the Right lion. Gentleman's rexultation at his party's election triumphs, says :—" His majority, as all the world knows, is exclusively a county majority. In English cities and boroughs the majority is with Ministers. The Scotch majority is with Ministers. The Irish majority is with Ministers. All are overborne by the county majority, returned by constituencies under the Chandos clause." When this fatal clause was first proposed in Parliament, the Reform Ministry was warned, in the most emphatic terms, of the consequences that would accrue from it. They were told distinctly that it was leaving a door on the jar for the admission of the enemy ; and so the fact has turned out. Shut out at every other avenue, the Tories will shortly enter Downing-street by means of the Chandos clause. This is not the first time that the Whigs have furnished the Tories with weapons for their own destruction. We hope it will be the last. The Post is of opinion that the people will not be at all " dissatisfied with the caution and reserve of Sir Robert Peel." How characteristic is this opinion ! Hav ing themselves an innate horror of anything like frank ness or manly straightforwardness of conduct, the Tories take for granted that the people are influenced by the same spirit. They imagine, as a matter of course, that cunning and mystery are dear to the heart of John Bull, and that the sly reserve of Sir Robert Peel is the very thing to suit his taste. This is another convincing p roo f that the Tories, notwithstanding their long practical ex perience, are wholly ignorant of the national character. The Tories, if we may judge from a hypocritical article that appears in the Times, are resolved hence-- forth—that is to say, as long as they hold power—to distinguish themselves by an ultra display of loyalty. They now profess to be shocked at the " essenthd dis loyalty " of the Whigs. Their sensitive nerves are agonised at the idea that the whole practice of Ministers " for the last four years has exhibited an entire disre gard of loyalty." If this be the case how happens it that Lord Melbourne, the very head and front of the offimding party, has so long been ho noured by the especial confidence of her Majesty? And who are they that thus presume to accuse the Whigs of disloyalty ? The very party who themselves have, for years past, been foremost to throw contempt and odium on the Throne; who have openly talked of " that woman, Jezebel;" and at times have been so carried away by their feelings, as to be obliged publicly to apologise for their disrespectful conduct! The Herald states, with much emphasis, that Mr. O'Connell is fast advancing to his second childhood ; but from the logic with which he supports this assertion, we suspect that our Contemporary is himself in the predica ment which he so feelingly laments in Dan. "Had Sir Robert Peel been untrammelled," says the Derbyshire Chronicle," it is plain from his speeches that he would have cast the West Indies and their sugar overboard, and tampered not a little with the sliding scale." Our Contemporary however, adds, that the Buckinghams and Gladstones will not let him; and says that "to make bricks without straw from the mud of the Nile, was not a more hopeless attempt than it will be for Peel to find statesmen among renegades, and econo mists among spendthrifts." The Western Times, in reverting to the question of the Corn-laws, says that a bad harvest threatens to follow the late ungenial weather, and asks how long protection would last, should privation and destitution come upon the manufacturing districts ? The Cambridge Independent, speculating on the prospects of the Tories, observes :—" Her Majesty will not be taught principle by Sir Robert Peel, no more than she will morality by such a keeper of the Royal con science as Lord Lyndhurst ; moderation by Lord Stan ley ; or the philosophy of Christianity by the Bishop of Exeter." The North Devon Journal expresses its conviction that the seeds of disunion are thickly strewn among the Tory ranks, and that " we shall soon have as pretty a quarrel as could be desired." rOFLEXGN. The fetes of July have passed over peaceably this year. Our advices from Paris, dated yesterday, convey the gratifying intelligence that, save a few idle shouts from some drunken workmen, not the smallest attempt was made to disturb the peace of the French capital. Since the King had the good sense to disap point the miserable vanity of the maniacs who attempted his life, by allowing their silly heads to re main upon their miserable shoulders, regicidal plots— infernal machines—and the exercise of pistol-practice at Royal carriages, have gone out of fashion. How often when the guillotine reeked with blood, did we not pre dict that such a result would follow the exercise of Royal clemency. We find the following in the Chronicle of this morning :—" The Hanoverian Deputies who refused to vote the Budget, and who protested against the King's conduct, have been warmly received by their constitu ents ; but the police force them to pay a fine of twelve groschen for every vivat. The fines are willingly paid. Thus his Majesty of Hanover makes money of his un popularity." Our Contemporary is mistaken. King Ernest makes no money by his unpopularity ; for every groschen he receives as a mulct for a shout in praise of a patriot Deputy, it costs him at least ten to obtain the slightest sympton of popular applause for himself. The most loyal people in the world no longer shout " God save the King" without being well p a id f or i t ; and the better class of Hanoverians will not s e ll t h e i r vo i ces to swell the regal-blessing-ery at any p r i ce . King Ernest proceeds on a very bUsinßsg principle. He is a King, and as such he insists that his subjects shall not give that to others for nothing which he can only obtain, and of an inferior quality too, by purchase. The Hanoverian Minister of the Interior, by com mand of the King, has authorised the functionaries of the State to prosecute and imprison all persons whatso ever that attempt to obstruct the exercise of the new Constitution by an observance of their oaths to maintain the Constitution granted them by King William the Fourth. The King is angry that the Hanoverians con tinue so stupid as not to know that he can grant as plenary a dispensation from oaths as was ever claimed by the proudest pontiff claiming to sit in the chair of St. Peter. But the Hanoverians have good rea sons for exhibiting such obtuseness of intellect. They rightly appreciate the value of the liberties of which King Ernest would rob them, and are resolved to maintain them inviolate. The war preparations in the arsenals of France are not discontinued, although the Eastern question is allowed on all hands to be settled. The fact, except as regards the navy, gives us no uneasiness. The evil will cure itself. The more taxes are spent in prepara tion fur wars the less there remains to carry them on. Guns and ammunition are never wanting where there is plenty of money. Ships and sailors to man them a re the only defences of a country which an overflowing Treasury cannot command in any emergency. MONEY-TRADE-CONLRIERCE. Yesterday, the steam-ship Perth arrived from Dundee with 100 fat cattle, 120 sheep, and 300 boxes of salmon, fur the London market. The importation of sal mon from Dundee, during the last month, has amounted e 700 boxes per week. The Manchester steamer, for Berwick, arrived on the evening of the same day, with 53 fat cattle, °260 sheep, and 150 boxes of salmon. The supply of salmon from the rivers in Scotland has not been so great for the last five years. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ena. .11 , 0.11•0 MOM. •M• ••• The erection of a new Royal Naval School will be begun in the spring. Its site will consist of seven acres, situated at New Cross, near the Dartford Rath, ay Station. The Salamander steam frigate (Commander Henry) was paid off yesterday at Woolwich, and the Castor, 36, was ordered to be paid off to-day. On the Ist of May her Majesty's ship Fantoine captured the Josephine, the fastest brigantine out of Havannah, with 299 slaves on board, after a chase of 24 hours, and going over 257 miles. The prize had been chased by her Majesty's ships Wolverine, Bonotta Cygnet, and Lyra, but outstripped them all. LAW AND POLICE. Mr. Day, whose name appeared at the Mansion house as having practised the cruel hoax of sending to a literary gentleman in great necessity a fictitious check for 201., addressed a letter to the Lord Mayor, enclosing a Post-office order for two guineas, to counteract the notion which he feared might get abroad, that he was actually the hoaxer. He considered it part of a syste matic attempt to ruin him. Information was given at Hatton Police-office yes terday that a girl of the name of Stanley, who had lately made five attempts to drown herself in the New River had at last succeeded. She threw herself from Camden bridge into the New River yesterday, and in less than ten minutes she was taken out dead. -- At the Norwich Assizes n action was brought to recover the sum of 1,5001. upon a policy of insurance on the life of one Thomas Howes. The case occupied the Court for two days, and towards the close of the second day, it being clearly ascertained from the evi dence of the surgeon, that deceased had made a false representation of the state of his health, the Judge directed to find a verdict for the defendant. SCIENCE AND ART. The proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science opened on Thursday last,' at Plymouth. The expenses of the last meeting were en tered into, and resolutions passed that their proceedings thereafter should be cheapened. The officers of the dif:- ferent sections were filen elected, the sections from A to G appointed, and the official programme read for the order of the week's meetings. COMILT-pasuioNanxims. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were expected to arrive at Windsor Castle from Panshanger this after noon at two, and the Queen of the Belgians, with her son, was to leave for Brussels at four. Lord Brougham is in treaty for a villa at Richmond for two months, where Lady B. will reside with his Lordship until the month of October, when they intend going to Brougham Hall, R. D. Giacomo Traversi, canon and parish priest of St. Angelo, in Peschcria, was appointed Bishop of Segni some time 'ago. Previously to his appointment, he waited on his Holiness, to tell him that sd. was all be possessed ; but this was rather a recommendation with his Holiness, who must have been long acquainted with his extensive charities. A Bishop with only sd. in his pocket indeed recalls the clays of the Apostles. In Eng land such a phenomenon would be followed like a wild beast. Signor Puzzi has been playing with great success at Woburn Abbey, and received high tributes of eulogium MISCELLANEOUS. On Friday last, the Reform electors of Bury gave splendid entertainment to Lord Charles Fitzroy in cele bration of his triumph at the election. An instance of true magnanimity lately occurred off Ramsgate. A boat's crew of four had upset, about four miles front land, and were spied from shore, clinging to oars. Boats immediately pushed Off to the rescue, but one of the men sank before the boat reached him. The first man to whom the boat came near called out, "Never mind me, my brave fellows, I am well enough; pull away and save the others." Friday week a deputation from the parishes of Newtownards and Comber, including the Ministers and members of eleven congregations, waited on the Mar quis of Londonderry to present him with an Address of Condolence on the loss by fire of his magnificent man sion at Wynyard . -park. His Lordship's answer included topics both on religion and politics. The Irish Judges, in their addresses to the Grand Juries, continue to give the most favourable accounts of the state of the country. RUMOURS OP THE DAY. - It is reported that Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt, the eminent silversmiths, are manufacturing the magnificent piece of plate intended to be presented by the Jews to Sir Moses Montefiore, in return for his exertions on be half of his brethren in the East. Mr. Hayter, R.A., has furnished a beautiful design. On Thursday two Mormonites arrived at South Lincolnshire, from the banks of the Missouri, to solicit subscriptions towards building a city and temple of Jerusalem in the Far _West. Another temple of the same name is in progress in the land of Judea, and when both are completed all the Mormons will be caught up to Heaven, whence they will descend with the New Jerusalem to the earth, which will become one extended plain, all the waters being pushed up to the far north. We hope the Lincolnites are too far north for the Mor monites. MONEY MARKET and CITY ATE--WS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 30.—The Cot ton Market has been very dull throughout the week, but prices have undergone very little change, ordinary and middling qualities of American may be quoted id. per lb. lower ; other qualities stationary. Brazils are heavy of sale, but much the same in price as last week. Egyp tians are id. lower. Surat without change, Sea Islands also. There has been taken for exportation, 2,250 American, and 200 I'ernam, and on speculation, 600 American, and 200 Surat, forwarded into the country unsold during thr month, 3,450 American, 80 Brazil, and 100 Surat. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JULY 30.—The fol lowing are the transactions as reported at the Stock Exchange :—Grand Junction Half Shares, 100 f Great Western New, 59+ ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 22i; North Midland, 641 ; Half Shares, 31 i ; Third ditto, 4f. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 30.—The depression in our Market is not in anywise mitigated : Manchester and Leeds, 50 ; London and South Western, 53:1 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 21f 22 ; York and North Midland, 74f ; Rochdale Canals, 86. A Mexican Mail has arrived, brought by her Majesty's packet Ranger, sailed from Vera Cruz 12th June, Tam pico 17th June, and Havannah 29th following, with a freight of about 180,000 dollars. Halifax papers have been received to July 16 ; they are void of interest. We have received Quebec papers to the 15th July. Office of the Chief for Emigrants, Quebec, July 10. Number of emigrants arrived during the week ending July 10, 1841 : From England Ireland Scotland Lower Ports 505 1,337 35 1,886 18,707 Previously reported 20,593 To corresponding period last year Increase in favour of 1841 The Exchange Bank of British America are drawing on London at 10 per cent. ; Montreal Bank on Scotland, 91 per cent. - Money continues plentiful in the market, about 31 per cent. in the Stock Exchange, and out of the House from 4 to 4:1-. The British funds remain at the leaving off prices of yesterday inactive. Consols for the Account, 89i 4 ; Money, 891 •, Three per Cents. Reduced, 89 to 90 ; Three-and-a-Half Reduced, 99 ; New Three-and-a- Half, 98 sellers ; Exchequer Bills, 16 18 premium ; Bank Stock, 170 1 prem. ; India Stock, 247 9 prem. ; India Bonds, 6 9 prem. _ _ In the Foreign Market the prices are nomial as yet, Spanish Active, 19/ ; Deferred, 9 ; Passive, 4 a ; Portuguese, 29 /30 I ; Three per Cents. 181 ; 67 8 ; Colombian, 19 20; Mexican rather higher, 25 26+; Dutch"Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51/ 2; Five per Cents., 101: 4 - 4 2+. Share Market :—Great Western, 181 191 premium ; New, 8+ / premium ; London and Brighton, 7/ 1 dis count ; Blackwall, 10 91 discount ; Birmingham, 70 72 premium ; Southampton, 53 4 per Share ; Croydon, 12+ / per share ; Greenwich, 7+ per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAYDAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. —. Great Western Ditto New London andBrighton London and South Western 3Bi 53 ... .. to York and North Midland 5O - JOINT STOCK BANKS. London Joint Stock COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar . ..„, Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7 'Genoa Antwerp l2 6i Milan Hamburgh M.8.13 12 IVenice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 Palermo, per oz 1181 Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 15194 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Buenos Ayres 8er1in..... ... ............ 7 New York, '2l days sight 44 Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 956 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto 9 58 PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Madrid Cadiz 34 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 Bilboa 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 29. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 96i Grand Canal 5t0ck......... Ditto Reduced Ditto New 1830......... 98 Ditto 4 per cent 3h per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE. Scarcely any business has been transacted in the Stock Exchange to-day, and there is but little disposition to speculate. Consols are flat at 891 for Money, and 89i • for the Account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 89i ; Three-and a-Half per Cent., 99 ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 premium ; India Bonds, 7. Spanish Active Stock, 19- ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 30 ; Danish Bonds, 79i- ; Mexican, 26 ; Dutch Fives, 102+. Very little doing in Shares, and prices are lower. Great Western are 84 ; ditto New, 581 ; London and Brighton, 42 1 1- ; ditto South Western, 53 ; York anu North Midland, 74. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols, Account, 89k, sellers ; Colombian, 19i 20k; Mexican, 26 a ; Spanish, 19 ,1 20. Very littl e doing. 4 RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the receipts of the leading railways in operation for the past week, that is to say, up to the date to which the respec tive returns are made :—London and Birmingham, 19,1701. ; Northern and Eastern, 8421. ; Great Western, 14,196/. ; London and Greenwich, 9311. ; Birmingham and Derby, 1,295/. ; South Western, 6,8021. ; Midland Counties, 2,8261. ; York and North Midland, 2,0211. ; North Midland, 4,5331. ; Hull and Selby, 887/. ; Great North of England, 1,425/. ; Eastern Counties, 1,007/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 339/. ; Blackwall, 9811. ; and Brighton, 1,348/. FURTHER DEATHS AT WOOLWICH.—At the Salutation Tavern, near the Arsenal, Woolwich, an in quest was held yesterday, before Mr. C. J. Carttar, on view of the bodies of James Johnson, aged 67, who was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, July 8, 1839, for the term of seven years ; and Robert Powley, aged 36, convicted at Great Yarmouth, June 23, 1841, for the term of seven years. The jury returned a verdict— " Died of bronehites." THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. We had large arrivals of Beef from Scotland and other parts, which caused the trade to be very shy in buying, although the salesmen reduced their prices 2d. per stone. Of other kinds only a small quantity were at market. Mutton, Veal, and Pork sold well at our quotations, but Lamb was dull of sale and diffi cult of disposal. Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. ; Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d.; Veal, 4s. to ss. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. ; and Lamb, 4s. 6d. to ss. per stone of 81b. All descriptions of Poultry were in good supply ; the salesmen asked an advance upon most kinds, which in some measure was acceded to. Tame Rabbits, Is. to Is. 64. ; Chickens, Is. dd. to 2s. 6d. ; Large Surrey Fowls, 3s. 6d. to ss. ; Fowls, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. Turkey Poults, 4s. to 6s. ; Leverets, 3s. to 6s. ; Goslings, 4s. to 6s. 6d. ; Ducks, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Pigeons, sd. to 9d. each. Eggs in good demand at 4s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per 120. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. There was an improved demand for Meat, and prices were firmer. The supply was short of all kinds of meat. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. '2d. ; Lamb, 4s. to ss. per stone. Clover, 31. to 61. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. 101. to 5/. ; New flay, 21. 10s. to 4/. ; Straw, 21. to 21. 4s. TEA MARKET. The market presented a firm appearance, a fair demand existed for Free Trade Tea, and 2s 4d. paid for common Con gou, cash. In Company's several sales were made at 2s. 4id., cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices were firm, and P. Y. Candle at 475. 6d. on the spot, and 4es. for delivery, in last three months, but not much busi. ness done. FRUIT MARKET. A fair demand prevailed for most articles, and prices were firm, especially for Currants. SPIRIT MARKET, A large demand existed for Rum, and prices were on the advance; Proof Leewards sold at 2s. 2d. per gallon. Brandy was held firmly, but the marketwasTtiet. OIL MARKET, Prices of Fish Oils were firm, and the demand good. Pale Seal, 3:21. per ton. Linseed oil quiet at 295. 9d. per cwt. Rape in better request, at stiffer rates. CHANCERY CO RT.-(THIS DAY.) TULLOCK U. HARTLEY. The further arguments in this part-heard ease, the facts of which we stated yesterday, were resumed this morning, and occupied the whole day. ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.) SHEPPARD V. MORRIS, AND MORRIS' V. SHEPPARD. The MAs'rEl of the ROLLS was occupied the who7e morning in hearing the arguments in the above cases, which have now been before him for two days. The case was not finished when we went to press. VICE CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took petitions and short causes this morning, but nothing of public in terest occurred up to the time of our going to press. BANKRUPTCY—(TB IS DAY.) (Before Sir F. WILLIAMS.) IN THE lIIATTER OF RICHARD slum. The bankrupt in this case, who carried on business as a butcher in New Staftbrd-street, appeared in Court to pass his final examination. Mr. Weir, the solicitor to the fiat, said that although the accounts were not quite satisfactory on some points connected with the estate, yet he vas instructed to in form the Court there would be no further opposition offered by the creditors to the bankrupt passing his final examination. Sir F. WILLLtUS said that perhaps by pursuing such a course, the estate could be made profitably available to the creditors. The bankrupt accordingly passed his final examination. LLO YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON JULY 31.—Wind this day at noon N.W. DEAL, JULY 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Funchal, Fowrase, from Hayti ; Nesbit, Marlaw Jamaica ; Con quest, westward. Arrived f rom th e River, and sailed, Wellington, New York. Arrived from the River, Der went, for Hobart Town ; Maidstone, Calcutta ; New Phoenix, Jamaica; Cercrops, James Harris, Asia ; Eliza teth, Quebec ; Harriet, Cadiz. Sailed, Maidstone, Cal cutta ; Ida, Jamaica, and several others. OFF DOVER, JULY 30.—Malcolm, Pound, for London. OFF MARGATE, JULY 30.—Arrived the British Em pire ; Lord Brougham, Gilmore, and Everthorpe, Que bec ; Promise, Pinkford, Saguenay. RAMSGATE, JULY 30.—Arrived off, the Aid, from Newport, for London, rather leaky and with sails split. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 30.—Wind N.W. to W., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Diadem, Harland, from Louebock, sailed 23d March ; Chevalier, Shields, for Boston. FALMOUTH, • JULY 29.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W., strong breezes.—Arrived the Ranger packet, from Vera Cruz, sailed 12th ult., Tampico 17th, Havannah 29th, with $190,000 ; Duke of Cambridge steamer, Dublin, for London, and received on freight $lOO,OOO. LIVERPOOL, JULY 30.—Wind W.N.W., very fresh.— Arrived the Middlesex, from New Orleans ; Columbus, Quebec ; Orizembo, Davis Sierra Leone, sailed o n th e 11th ult. Arrived off th e Dennison, from Antigua ; Isaac Newton and Columbus, New Orleans ; Ayrshire and Nerva. KINGSTON, JULY 29.—Arrived the Navarino, White, from Quebec ; Quebec packet, Wheeler, St. John's. New Brunswick. YOUGHAL, JULY 24.—Arrived Britannia, Quebec. CORK, JULY 28.—Sailed the Eby a, and Ann, and Alexander Edmond, ditto ; Lascar, Mackie Australia. PETERHEAD, JULY 28.—Arrived the Sylvanus, from Restigouche. The Eagle, from Liverpool to this port, is on shore at Scots' Town Reef, but is expected to be got off ; part of the cargo has been landed, and part thrown overboard. SHIELDS, JULY 29.—Arrived the John and Anne, Gibson and Spring, from Lyons, Miramichi ; Robert, Forrester and Neptune, Quebec ; Allison, Dalhousie ; Jane, Rouen. HULL, JULY 30.—Arrived the Elizabeth Holderness, from Miramichi. YARMOUTH, JULY 29.—The Othello was lost on the Longsand yesterday morning ; crew saved. OFF ROMNEY, JULY 30.—Arrived the.Aberdeenshire, from Gaspe. SANATORY STATE OF THEISLE OF WIGHT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia—As a very old and steady subscriber to The Sun newspaper, permit me through its widely-circulated co lumns to otter a few observations on the injurious report that has been propagated regarding the health of this most favoured summer island. The malicious person who first spread the report that a dangerous epidemic was raging throughout the Isle of Wight was . . . (The rest of the sentence is libellous.) I have just returned with my son from the Isle of Wight, having made a complete tour of the island. To speak of the natural beauties of the place would be super fluous ; its salubrity and health-invigorating breezes are proverbial. This I can say, that my own health is recruited, and in the wholesome and hearty-looking faces of the men, and the merry laughing eyes of the women, I see very little proofs of malaria. By advertisement in the papers of yesterday, I perceive that the clergy and other authorities have come forward and denied the statement made by the man to whom I have alluded. Unfortunately, it is as difficult to track the footsteps of a knave as to divine his motives. This, however, I know, that every effort is being made to identify the author of this mean and malicious report. I have little doubt that Ryde will eventually altoge ther eclipse Brighton and other places along shore. As a watering place it is unrivalled, society is select, and it is nut yet infested with the quackeries and tinseled knaveries that beset the larger fashionable locations. From St. Helen's to the Needles the whole is redundant with the brightest historical associations, and for beauty of scenery unrivalled throughout the British empire. Trusting that the knave who circulated so injurious a falsehood may meet with his reward—l am Sir, your obedient servant, HENRY BREDING. Royal Albert Saloon. DEATH FROM THE KICK OF A HORSE.— Yesterday evening an inquest was held by Mr. Higgs, at the Ormond's Head, Princes -street, Storey's-gate, West minster, on the body of Mary Hatch, aged 73, a patient in the Westminster Hospital, who died on Tuesday last. It appeared from the evidence, that last; Monday fort night deceased was crossing the road opposite the Horse Guards, and had just reached the kerbstone, when a horse in a cab that come up at that moment took fright at a troop of soldiers and plunged furiously, and struck deceased on her heel with his forefeet. A few days af terwards she was attacked with erysipelas, and died on Tuesday last. Verdict, " Died by the visitation of God." The sum mentioned on Thursday in the Common Council by Mr. Jones, as considered sufficient to defray the expenses of carrying into effect two of the great City improvements, was 200,0001. and not 20,000/. The hop grounds at Orchard Portman, near Taunton, are in the most luxuriant state, and should the great hop-growing counties be equally prosperous in their growth, an abundant supply may be expected.— Western Times. Self, the murderer of Jemima Stempson, near Norwich, on being revisited by the Chaplain of the Castle immediately after his condemnation, did not hesitate at once to confess to that Rev. Gentleman his guilt, and to acknowledge the justice of his sentence. INCREASE OF TRAFFIC.—The London and Birmingham traffic has risen to 19,169/. We now begin to think that it will soon reach the 23,000/. per week, as estimated. The Preston and Wyre traffic also exhibits a great increase.—Railway Magazine. The Grand Caledonian Curling Club held their annual general meeting on Tuesday last in the Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, when the Earl of Eglinton was elected President ; James Wright, Esq. of Lawton, and John W. Williamson, Esq., Kinross, Vice-Presidents for next year. Twenty-eight clubs claimed admission into the Association ; of these one is at Belfast, in Ireland, and another at Montreal, in Canada. Fifteen district and thirty local medals were given, so that no fewer than sixty clubs will be engaged in contesting the Grand Club medals during the ensuing winter. After the con clusion of the business, a large party dined together, Mr. Wright in the chair and Mr. Williamson, croupier, and spent the evening with great hilarity. We understand that the adjourned meeting is to be held in November at Kil marnock, when it is hoped that the Noble President will himself preside. HOPI INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JULY 30.—Some of the plantations where the bine is of the best growth, the plants have made a little improvement during the last week, and the blow is beginning to show itself rather healthy, but weak. We find a great quan tity of yards quite short of bine, being scarcely half up the poles, and without any side shoot ; these of course cannot do any cropping this season, consequently the produce will be partial. We have a little demand for fine hops for present consumption. BURDENS BORNE BY_THE LAND- Some of our Contemporaries are engaging 111 an elaborate discussion concerning the peculiar burdens borne by the land, and as they make them out to be ls. per quarter on wheat or 6s. per quarter, they conclude that the protecting duty on corn imported ought to be ls. or 6s. per quarter. We will not engage in such a discus sion, because there is an immense confusion of terms, great difficulty in ascertaining the truth, and, supposing it ascertained, no reason whatever why laud should not be relieved from any sup posed peculiar burdens inflicted on it. We O'ust' however, endeavour to justify our views, an d, if we can, clear away some of the confusio n in which the subject has been involved. What is meant by land bearing burdens ? It bears, and a noble foundation it is, our ho uses and our bridges and our railroads; it bears,_ when we cultivate it, fruits and flowers both non- . .' risking and gladdening to man's life ; but it is a mystification to say the land bears fiscal burdens. They fall on the people ; they all fall on indus try ; they are all abstractions from the produce of industry ; they are all paid by labour, the one source at all time of every shilling of the national revenue; and it is a piece of sheer mystification on both sides to write and talk about laud bear ing fiscal burdens. The real question is, whether the industry engaged in agriculture bears more of the State burdens than the industry engaged in manufac tures. At once, the answer is plain and positive —it does not. It is subjected to no peculiar burdens by the State. The industry o f the agriculturist, and all the instruments he em ploys, even to horses, as far as the State is con cerned, are as free as air. He can send his produce to any and every market. It is not sub ject, except in the case of hops, to any E% eise or restrictive laws. He needs no permit to in ev ' p it about. No prying exciseman visits his Pre mises to see what he is doing. He can b:..eak up his land, or neglect it, or use it, so far Is th w e State interferes, just as he pleases. It is (111 ,,,'" when agricultural produce goes into the of the manufacturer that it is subject to restric' tions. The maltster, the brewer, the distil/et; the tallow-welter, cannot work without tilt° presence of the exciseman, or in subjection Excise regulations ; and the fanner must berme' a manufacturer, a maker of cyder or malt' brewer, or a tallow-melter, before he is sollje 9 " 05: 4 to any of the restrictions which the State imP os on industry. It is, therefore, a fact—an urine. of niable fact—that the industry of theagricultiltr7,:i is subjected by the State to no peculiar burdens' The only burdens or restrictions that it is subs jected to are laid on by the landowners, nt b f. the customs of some districts, not by - the Suit e i . ;19" but with them, as they are matters geirerally °f private -bargain and. contract, the Public ra pe • nothing to do. Land, the great instrument litt: which the agriculturist labours, is let su l u e ject to a great variety of restrictions, which t 1 landowners suppose are for their benefit. TheY lay down rules for its cultivation and cropPiLlgii and fbr manuring it, and disposing of the haY straw, for breaking up meadows, and reta ill a l er a certain proportion of land in grass anctli e ur the plough. These are onerous, and , irr'°e., judgment—though we are not intirnatelY 311_ quainted with the art of agriculture--rO st ri jurious restrictions on the indhstry of the I to • culturists—restrictions, too, imposed fc` r se rer purposes, by the idle and ignorant la rtdow it i v itte on the industrious and skilful men who erli—into the earth. It is not our business to inqu ire leav e those restrictions, or their effects ; we rail-510,0_ that matter in abler hands; but we assert; 1 t he out fear of contradiction, that nearly c h pre restrictions on 'agricultural industry wul , nier 3 vail in England are imposed by the latind‘ e t th and land-Occupiers themselves, and the" stric- State, while it imposes a vast number a re t h e for' tions on manufacturing industry — part l y _A purposes of revenue and partly for the resu preservation of morality and health — lea ties th industry of the agriculturist, except, p,mia'l3Sl in the article of hops, entirely free. en This is, however, not what the landowlandownermean. They mean that their just receipts fro ' ll rr the land, and the just profits of the farmer,• -ar c more taxed by the State than the just receipts the manufacturer and of professional men • The national wealth is divided into rent, pro fi t, and wages; and the real subject of complai nt : i : not that the wages of the agricultural la b l r by or the profit of the farmer, are unduly ta%e the State, but that the rent, of which the lan' t i m e owners are the recipients, has to.pay mor e of public charges than the profits of the manufac turer or the wages of the labourer. If th e ns'er tion that the land bears more of the fiscal bur .; dens than manufactures, means any thing) 1 means that and nothing but that. There is another aspect, indeed, under which the burdens on our land are considered, narnelYi in relation to the burdens borne by the land ° other countries. But there is no country of 11.. rope in which there are not more restrictions °II cultivation than in our country, and in which 0 .5 small a portion of the revenue of the State I raised from the land. Whether we look, there; fore, at the burdens borne by other branches 01 industry, or in relation to the burdens borne I/ the agricultural industry of other countries, there does not exist the shadow of a reason for to 5i05 the bread of the people. The wages of labour, to consider only the bil l : dens borne by the land in relation to other sources of wealth, are settled between the farmer and the labourer, and are temporarily lated by the demand and the supply, under the natural law that the farmer must, in order to have the services of labourers, pay each one e nough to feed himself and rear up the number of is: bourers required. Again, the rent of land ' determined by a bargain between the tenan t an d the landowner, the latter getting all he can, all the former giving no more than what rema ins °f the produce after he has paid all his expen ses ' includipg the repairs of all his wear and tear, and replacing all his sold or used stock, and li r s eluding- his own wages and the profit of 111, o capital. None of the produce of the farmer, wit' the exception of hops, is subject to a direct t s : in his hands, and, with the exception of malt a li „ cyder, to a direct tax shortly after it has left M . 73 hands. But all those taxes ultimately are paw by the consumer, and it is only as they °Pe ril° to diminish the consumption of the arti cles grown by the farmer, that they diminish his re ; ceipts a farthing, or impose on him the smalle burden whatever. The payment of wages, the expense of cultivation, the profits of the farnler'. are all necessary charges arising out of th e nattlro h. of things, not imposed by the State; and/ ` vit the trifling exception of hops and malt, tile Sta te , does not impose a single burden on a grictat nts : produce, which can in the smallest degree' di °ll ; nish the profit of the farmer or the rent o f landowner. We make this assertion absorotelf and not relatively to the burdens borne by n rtln ce facturers, which, as our readers may at ` A /1 ,,. infer from what we have said of malting/ tilling, and brewing, are enormous, and i ll 6°lll cases unbearable. These statements may be confirmed bY erlance at public taxation. The Custom s and se duties, in 1837, amounted to 36,335,6711" of which the tax on malt and hop: , 5,596,7741. These taxes, however, as we bal' said, are paid by the consumer, and on lY rectly affect the aviculturist by dimin.,shing, the demand for his produce. The amount °L stamps, in 1837, was 7,265,123/., of which the' legacy duties, not paid by the owners of rent/, was 2,185,890/. The Assessed T axes togethef amounted only to 3,890,1461., and of that sum th c land taxes amounted only to 1,19'2,638/., or ver )r d a ttest , little more than one half of the legacy from which the landowners are exempted. 1 : 11 , e ' 3' whole amount of the revenu e was 50,592,6 d From the fact, that of this whole sum on °ll ly 1,192,638/. falls exlusively on rent, w hile it tributes no part of '2,185,890/. paid by the leg,,, c ac) , duties; and from the act, that the grea t bulk of. EVENING SUN. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDA V, JULY 31, 1841. EVENING SUN.