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LAC KWA LL RAILWAY. The RAILWAY TRAINS run from t h e NEW TER „, Fenchurch-street, and also from the Minories, s,'"Yell, Stepney, Limehouse, West In dia Docks, and Poilikr :ions, end f ro m the Blackwell Terminus, every quatef L„ hour, from Half-past Eight in the Morning till a Q uarter Z sre T en a t Ni g ht (except Sundays during Divine Service), torn Half-past Ten to One. Fares, First Class 6d. ; Second Class 4d. N .B.—On Sundays the Trains will start from the Minories station instead of Fenchurch-street. Fenchurch-street, Aug. 2, 1841. LONDON A'SD StACIOI NUL VAIL * A Y COMPANY. —Notice is hereb y given, that tae TRANSFER BOOKS of this Company wilt be CLOSED 4Glionensr., the 9th inst. until MO NDAY, the 16th inst., armory to the allotment of the new shares. , ~ii7 i, important that al l out-standing Transfers should be glit in on er before te 9th inst.. for Tegistration, in orde 1 7__ the a ll o t me nt of the new shares may be made to the par r 7.properly entitled to them. By order of the Board, J. WARRINGTON, Sea. Go r , enehurch-strcet, August 2, 1841. IVACKWALL NEW FAST MI Th t " RAILS AY," sa j.ke " BRUNSWICK,' " SONS OF THE 'I TIMES ELACKWAI.L. Morning, at 9 • past 9 1 •• 0 •. past lo 1 Afternoon, past 1 •.. past 2 past 4 . 4 past 5 •• past 6 pas 8 AND GRAVESEND. DN STEAM BOATS. 1 The " BLACKWALL," " FATHER TH AMES. ° 'HAMES," STEAM BOATS. )11 , STARTING. FROM GRAVESEND, Morning, at 7 Town Pier ..• past 7 Terrace Pier ...- past 8 do. ... 4 past 11 also. Afternoon, 4 past 12 de. 2 Town Pier ... 4 past 2 Terrace Pier ••• 4 past S do. ... 4 past 4 de. •..4 past 5 Town Pier ...4 past 6 Terrace Pier ...4 past 7 do. FARES. Veek Days—Chief Cabin, Is. ; Fore Cabin, " Sundays—Chief Cabin, Is. ; Fors Cabin, 15. THE RAILWAY TRAINS u l t. : l in:ft the NEW TERMINUS, Fenchurch-street, and Indi r *.rd the Minories, Shadvrell, Stepney, Limehouse, West 1 ;4 ,1. Docks, and Poplar Stations, and from the Blackwell the Zus, every quarer of an hour , from half-past eight in SunC%ruing, till a quarter before ten at night (exce p t on N . ;iY 3 during Divine Service , viz. f rom half - p ast ten till one). 1 4 fOR T „' On SUNDAYS the Tra ins will start from the Ml go ',,c•S Station instead of F enchurch-street. ' renckurch-street, Aug. 2, 1841. N A DY.—For Preserved Fruits, for British gilt Wines, or for a Summer Beverag e . as a substitute for er other fermentable liquors, BETTS'S PATENT RANDY stands, as ever, unequalled and without a rival; Itone other having the slightest pretension to approlch it, in ether purity of quality or wholesome properties. Price, pale coloured, 18s. per gallon. May be had at the Distillery, 7. Smithfield-bars, leading to 'John-street; or from the appo'nted Agents throughou 14 Kingdom. 21, FLEET-STREET, NEARLY OPPOSITE CHANCERY -LANE. TEN to TWENTY POUNDS SAVED. . Messrs TIROWNE and CARTWRIG HT, Surgeon ;em utists, 21, Fleet-street, 'peg to call public attenti o n to their ,1 1 and beautiful, EVERLASTING TEETH, the most clean t wholesome that can be worn. They are so e xactl y formed tm ill ture, both in shape and colour, that the closest observer 0... ri0t detect the difference, with this advantage—they never ;Z i le colour, decay, or wear out ; and a comp lete set, on fine k r eta . which they will only charge I S to 18 iguineas, will last t c_ 4 .o years or upwards, and are far supe rior to those usually d i r t ged 30 or 40 guineas ; a single tooth, one guinea ; three P er ° . two guineas and a ha lf. Natural teeth supplied from M. kuu tet. or los. per tooth. Messrs. Brown and Cartwright's th,'" 4 d of fitting neither requires the extraction of stomps nor e x ,"" the slightest pain ; and having had upwards of 20 years' mastication in tho profession, can guarantee to restore perfect eases, and articulation, having succeeded in thousands of Th e. , in hundreds of which other dentists had entirely failed. The above are totally different from the brittle glossy French Cos usually supplied by dentists as newly-discovered mineral, _ e * A visit will convince the most sceptical of the fact. FACTS ARE STUBBO RN THINGS. .1T is an undeniable fact, that MECHI, of No. 4, Leadenhall-street, London , is sellin g famous TOOTH BRUSHES,c at Sixpence each , the be st Penknives:at one Shil -4,,c lti e ach and all other things in p roportion, proving that tn . Ist he has the most elegant shop in England he is deter to stick to his old principle of good articles, and small h p ,ats for ready-money. Here may be suited the economic or s .'.lir . isus with a Dressing case at 100 Guineas, or one at 25 the roost complete. Mechi's stock of Papier Mache goods is b I roost complete in the country. His general stock corn- IZes everything for the dressing and work-table, all , - 4 a of table and and small cutlery, Sheffield plate, e ith an immense variety of art i c les suited for presents 10 ea — for L a dies or Gentlemen. Com p rehensive Ca tßuesmay be had gratis. A very larg e assortment of di t t ather Writing-desks, and Rosewood and Mahogany 11 , t ' ) ; Mechi's Magic Strops , Pas te, and Razors, are sold by lu i9 all respectable Perfumers throu g hout the Kingdom. Mme qilendid specimens of Ladies' Cabinets in Pat ier Mache trul. each. Ivory Chessmen and Boards, Cribbage-boards, ..... 4 !ttelle•tabies, &e., &e. -------- C( - 1 Wil RA AND CURERS ENTIRELY SUPERSEDED. itAy's BALSAMIC FA MILY PILLS, ti o . n . the most certain re med y ever di sco vered for affec e- or the kidneys, lumbago, wanness irritation, and all is. tu T: i arizing from local debility, frequedly performing a perfect I ,Stio n , 4 few days. These Pills having been employed in upwards of th `"es in private practice prior to being advertised, in many r,,,nd cases since, aisd in no one instance known to fail, are Of a l , recommended as a far more efficacious remedy than Balsam p r I)4ib a, Cubebs, or any medicine in present use. li ni , e Pareci only by M. 0. Wray. Sold Wholesale and Retail, I IS, St ra nl ; S, Dark.house-lane, Lower Thames.street : 3 , 14, j oh ,'_'_' l , one door from Catherine-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford.sireet ; stz" te n , IN, Cornhill ; Alessi s Barclay and Sons, 95, Faringdon. ;meet;. I' I - idler, 4, Cheapside • and by all Medicine Venders in Town Country • at ns 9d., 4s lid and lls each bin,. 1 , 4 ,, 1 2V 1 CF '• ." • ' , . given to persons calling between the hours of Eleven- 4-- One in the Morning, and Seven and Nine in 2.:•.'fl___llT. pRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. Th e diff ere nt Ingredients contained in F RANKS'S SPECIFIC "OLUTION OF COPAIBA, are those advised by the most practi tkland acientific in the profession, but, by a peculiar chemical pro. !Ins so compounded that each drug greatly increases tho efficacy of the ether. This invaluable Medicine is recommended in the public and pri tate practice of SIR ASTLEY P. COOPER, Bart. F.R.S. SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE, Bart., F. R.S. JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, Esq. F.R.S. BRANSBY B. COOPER, Esq. F.R.S. ' kemben of the Council ef the Royal Colic e ot Surgeons, London, Ltd Many other highly 'distinguished members ot the medical profvs. ,/, -- ' 4l b whom it is deemed the only Spccihc tor the cure a those --llea ' se Y s te which it is more immediately applicable. ip.lhe testimony ot these ite,tlemen cannat fail to convince every e-Aect.' g • d that FRANKS.S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF fi''PA i l n liA 'n is 'n not only in every essential what it professes to be, but ji - psi_dered a most valuable addition to those legitimate and adopted mettles daily prescribed by the faculty. s.... I? RANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA is proved to -es th ' ' - `, n , • , ly remedy for the cure of ru „.,. e nue4 effectual, ir,..PIORIII-I(EA, GLEEsalfeg,a'alil TeRe(ETHRAL DISCHARGES, .vOlt MAUS, SPASMODIC SFRICCURE, IRRITATION of rMONEYS, BLADDER, URETHRA, and PROSTATE BLAND ; its purifying effects upon the general health renders Wtatticulrly applicable in al cases of relaxed fibre and nervous ility. ' The ,most delicate persons may take it with perfect safety. Pre Blacktriars.road. Pared only by George Franks, l 'urrion, and may bc liad • f all wholesasleuargnedorng'T and 4 ill* United Kingdom, in Bottles at 25. 9d., 4s. pd,, and I Is. each. To - .. t s.r .flo s. — None is genuine unless "George Franks, Bklckfriars. .'' is engraved ea the Government Stamp a ttached to each bottle Th. - following Testimonials are seeded from amongst Demetrius others forwaried to Mr. Franks. T in Joseph Henry Green, Esq., 1.R.5., one et the Council of the Royal tolkge of Surgeons, Sur germ to St. Thomas's Hospital, and ..rofessnr ot Surgery in King's College, London. Th. l have mane trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St. r r naVii Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and male. and the results warrant my stating, that it is an e ttica. ell:el - remedy , and one which does not p roduce the usual unpleasant .ects of Cepaiba. s. , . (Signed) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. F '5 ,, , Lincoln's-Lin-fields, April 15, PM." • Coinc - "nob)? Cooper, Esq., F. R.S., one of the Council of the Royal allege of Surgeons, Lends.' ; Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer ei . on Anatomy, Ac. thins lr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks, b , great pleasure in bearing testimony to the etheacy of his So. NI Copaiba in Gonorrlrea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has li! , :_ieritied she Solution in tell or twelvecases with perfect success. ,''New.street, A pr ill3, l'iri." From Alexander Tweedie, Esq., Surgeon to the Metropolitan Free ei .. Jri. Hospital, Cater-street, Linc oln ' s Inn-tields. Dean Sta,—l have - notes ot six eases, in which I have adini. all ni t your preparation of Copailia, for the cure of Gonorrhoea, in t .' ,, 0l which the disease has been subdued in a shorter period of time 0 11 according to the ordinary plans hitherto made use of. Besides stances eases of which I have taken notes, 1 have tried it in several in. ~._ at the Greville street Hospital, aed am quite satisfied that it l'ilestiacharge '7".!ges a control ever the urgent symptoms of Gonorrhoea , r.dieving and mitigating the scalding in making water that 1 tugsone instance observed in the usual methods of exhibiting Cop.siba. In un inthine only did it disagree with the stomach ; but in this it seemed ...—. to depend rather on the metho d of exhibition than on tl•r. re- MuY itself, for, on diluting it with a larger quantity of watet.i he ob jection was at once ob v iated, and the patient got well in ten (lye 5_ !n the time th a t h e comme nced taking the Med icine. 1 have not ilt.a.: r a ease in whi c h th e di sc harge continued longer than ten days °I, commencing this treatment. " I am, dear Sir, your's very truly, (Signed) " A LEX AN DER TWEEDIE." ‘t Rhin tii— a Period of Two Mont h s upwards of 'T hreeHundred Pa. si zPA 111 A , with ~..tiii were treated with r It A N Ks'S SP E CIF 1C SOLUTION of perfixt success, at the above Metropolitan Hospi. epati v _i , ,St . Thunias's Guy's, and the Free Hospitals, by their re nt burgeons, whoa leatimoniall arc given above. , EVENI SG SUN. -NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. vD Ndtic., is hereby given, that the TENTH HALF rrbAIILY ts'E.NERAL MEETIM P 3of ROPttIETOR f isle Mnt Mli I.AND RAILWAY will be held in e i tio Y, in pursuance of the provisionsof the Act. of Incorpora n, at the Railway-station, Derby , on THURSDAY, the 26111 d. f'f August next. The Chair to be take n at One o'Clock kriselv. GEORGE CARR GLYN, Chairman, lof the Board JAMES HUBBARD, Deputy-Chairman, }of of Directors. HENRY PATTESON, Secretary to the Board. 'Aces, Warnford.court, Throgmorton-street, • London, July 26, 1811. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that the BOOK S which are :pt In thi s Office for the R eg i s t r ation of Transfers of Shares the Company will be CLOSED, in pursuance of the pro al."l3 of the Act of Incorporation, from Monday, the 16 th rof August, unit Thursday, the 26th day of August nex t, ' tl ' days inclusive. By order. H. PATTESON, Secretary. "ices, Warnford-court, Throgroorton-street, London, July 26, 1841. No 15,265 TO COMMISSION TRAVELLERS. WANTED, for SCOTLAND, a COM MISSION TRAVELLER to introduce a LIGHT ARTICLE amongst Stationers. Security will be required. Addies.s, stating times of journeys and other particulars, to A. 8., 8, London-wall. NOTICE TO COMM ERCIAL TRAVELLERS. NVINFIELD, late SHEWRING'S, COM MERCIAL HOUSE, 2, REDCLIFF-HILL, BRISTOL. The situation is central and convenient, with every comfort and accommodation. Excellent show-rooms. Omnibuses every hour to the Railway Station. Good stabling close at hand WATERLOO, SOUTHWARK, AND VAUXHALL •BRIDGES, OPENING OF, TOLL FREE.—The overburdened traffic of the Free Bridges, and along the leading thoroughfares from Charing-cross to Gracechurch-street, coupled with the repeated closing o f those Bridges—the wretched state of property along the Toll bridge Roads--the disgraceful condition of the Waterloo-road —and the oppressive operation of the Tolls on the poor man and all classes in trade, amounting to a heavy and exclusive tax on labour and industry—fully evince the necessity of extin guishing these imposts. PETITIONS for such object are still in course of SIGNATURE. By erOcr of the Committee of the Metropolitan Anti-Bridge A, Toll Association, HENRY COPE, Jun., Hon. Sec. 29 A, Queen-street, Cheapside, and 14, Agnes-place, South wark. The last Report of the Select Committee of the House b od f Commons on this su b j ect, and Prospectuses, Sec., may be a at the Offices. PUBLICATIONS. Just published, 12m0., price 2s. npHE DIRGES of the WHIG ADNIINIS -IL T RATION. By the Author of "An Inquiry into the Government Scheme of Education." Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane. 1 Vol. Bvo. with 167 Engravings on Wood,l2 s , cloth, lettered , THE'STEAM ENGINE, STEAM NAVI GATION and RAILWAYS, including a MEMOIR of WATT. By Dr. LARDNER. Seventh Edition, almost re-written. Printed for Taylor and Walton, Upper Goer-street. Now ready, in 2 vols. demy Bvo., THE HISTORY OF DUELLING. Comprising NARRATIVES of the MOST REMARKABLE lEST PPEER - S ONAL ENCOUNTERS, from the EARL RIOD down to the PRESENT TIMES. By Dr. MILLINGEN, Author of " Curiosities of Medical Experience," &c. " Dr. Alillingen's work is of a character altogether anecdoti cal—the cream of French and English memoirs. '... Athenreum. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinar y to her Majest y. NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. Just published, price ss. PRACTICAL TREATISE on the CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE QUENCES. By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary fur the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra: CIIAtTLA 1. Causes of Stricture& Divisions of Strictures. , Consequences of Strictures. CHAPTER 17. Of the Different Modes in practice for the Cure of Stricture!, by the Mougie, the Catheter, the Lunar Caustic, and Cutting In struments. The Author's Mode of Cure. CHArTEM tit. On the Diseases where the Sold by Bailliere, Medital,B Simpkin and Marshall, St; tioi rine-street, Strand ; Barlow, I Elnale, Liverpool: and all 800 l JONTENTS. 1 S ym ptoms resemble those of Stricture. citaiirEa iv. Of the Treatment of the Mala• dies Consequen upon Stric. ture. ArrENDII. Cases Illustrative of the Su periority of the Author's Mode of Cure over• the Treat ment by the Bougie, Cathe ter, Lunar Caustic, and Cut ting Instruments. 3ookseller, 219, Regent-street; mers' -court ; Onwilyn, Cathe- Birmingham ; Ross and Night ksellers in Town and Country. Just published, the Seventh Edition, price CA. 6d; and sent free, on receipt of a Post-office order, for 3s. 6d., MANHOOD ; the CAUSES of its PRE MATURE DECLINE, with plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Exceisive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Inf ection ; followed by Observations , ills s- o the Trealment of Syp hilis, Gonorrhoea, trated with cases , &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeo SE ns, London. VENTH EDITION. Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Pattie, 4, Bridges street, Strand, London ; Guest, Birmingham; Sowler, 4, St. ' Ann's-square, Manchester ; Philip, South Castle-street, Li •erpool ; Maclien and Co., 8, D'Olier.street, Dublin; ; Dun can, 114, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to he had of all Book . sellers. The following are a few of the numerous testimonials this popular work has received, and which the limits of an adver tisement will only allow of being published : The rage for books in all departments of Science, literature, and the arts, way, we believe, never so prevalent as at the pre sent time. The unavoidable consequence of this is, that we meet a very considerable proportion of indifferent, useless, and even bad books. With the force of this prejudice on our minds, we with no little reluctance were induced to peruse Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood ;" nor did it re quire much perusal fully to satisfy us that the book was not one of the common stamp. The scientific views taken by the authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing effects of certain depraved habits, fully establish their claim to the character of experienced and jud , cious surgeons. To quote passages from the work in proof of our assertion would be departing from the established rules of the daily press. The result, however, of our careful perusal of the work, has been to impress its with a thorough confidence in the talent and skill of the authors, and to satisfy us that those entrusted with the care of youth are not a little indebted to them for fur nishing them with a means of preventing some of the most frightful maladies to which flesh is heir.—Old England. Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood," is one of the few books now coming befor the public on such a subject which can lay claim to the character of being strictly professional, at the same time that it is fully intelligible to all who read it. The moral and medical precepts given in it, render it inialu able•—Magnet. The perusal of Messrs. Curtis's book entitled " Manhood," has really astonished us by developing a series of maladies, the never -failing consequence of the vicious habit of which it treats. The clear connexion pointed out between the assigned cause and the effects is perceptible to every capacity. liVe strongly recommend the work.—Age. The multitude of books daily coming from the press, some, nay most of them, of a very questionable tendency, made us ex tremely r eluctant to take up another. Having, however, been induced by thtae c haracter given of this work by an intelligent friend, we ventured to open its pages, and now feel no hesita tion in saying that we arise from Its perusal instructed and edified. The clear exposition ti the source cf many of those diseases which proves so fatal to youth, and which are set down by the everyday observer as the result of common a - exposure to cold, sudden vicissitudes of tempe causes, such • rature, hereditary taint, tem., is truly convincing and extre we sa y " satisfactory," inasmuch as Messrs. owls satisfactory• Curtis have shown that many diseases, such as Pulniton ity hitherto the oppi obria of meei- Consumption, Epiiepsy, este., eine, may, when tak en in prop to et lime, and submitted to judi cious treatment, be brought as favourable a termination as ant o ther class of affections. We do not think we g o too far in saying that society is deeply indebted to the authors fur producing s o useful, so much wanted, so valuable, and so truly mot al a book —Conservative Journal. We recommend the work entitled " Manhood," &c., to the careful perusal of persons of all classes. The moral swill w l ll as physical advantages sure to result from such perusal, most be most readily recognised and felt by those who stand in need of them..---Statesman. Messrs. Curtis and Company are t o be csnsulted daily at their residence, No. 7, Fri Sh-street, Soho-square, London. Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases.—As to the duration of the cow.- plaint, the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occu pation in life of the party ; the communication must be ac companied by the usual consultation fee of 11., without which, no notice whatever east be taken of their application; and in all eases the most inviolable secresy may be relied ell. 111.. gi s t I -X nix • N . 4. A • v , ' 4ll - FIO P-"" , , s 4 • •14 .4", 64 Y; 4. . .4 fr • .1s " . Itt, `*• 4' l A‘. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST li, 1841. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. the Administration of Lord Melbourne will be in its ' tomb. The Ministers of religion admonish dying sin . ners that, in proportfon to the shortness of their Om. on ettrth, ought to be their diligence in improving th, little that remains. We would tender a similar exhor tation to the Ministers of her Majesty. We would earnestly beseech them to improve the short remainim span of their existence in expiating the guilt of theh previous conduct. They have been transgressors of nf ordinary magnitude Their turpitude many- in stances has been only of a die less chief) than tha t 0. their Tory opponents.' If they had not grievously sinned against their own professed principles, aric practised deception on the nation, they would no have brought themselves into the melanc hol y anc., mortifying position in which they are now placed. Happily, there is yet time, limited though tilt period be, for repentance and reformation. And if they only turn the remaining fraction of their official existent:, to its proper account, they may yet, in a great measure. atone for past offendes, and, to a certain extent, right themselves in public estimation before they draws their expiring breath. In what way this may be done we hart already shown. It is only by the introduction into het • Majesty's speech, on the opening of the approaching Parliament, of an earnest recommendation of certain re forms in the legislative representation of the country, which are loudly and universally called for by the pub lic voice. These reforms we specified on Monday, and, consequently, do not mean to recur to them now. Om present object is to impress on the Melbourne Admi nistration this important fact, that should they listen to our counsel, and adopt one or all of the sug gestions we have thrown out as to the measures of re form which they ought to enunciate in her Majesty's speech, it will be essential that their recommendation of these measures in the 'royal address be followed uP by s, decided and evidently sincere identification of themselves with the measures so propounded, in the speeches which they will make in the course of the discussion to which the usual Address in answer to her Majesty's speech will necessarily give rise. As independent journalists fold faithful monitors, we warn Ministers that- it will re quire much on their part to remove the unfavourable impression created in the public mind by their past mis conduct. The nation cannot forget the flagrant breach of faith which they committed in the case of the Irish Church appropriation clause. VAO3I THE MORNING I'ArERS OF THIS HAT. 'LIMES.—In approaching the important subject of the relations which may be expected and ought to sub sist between the Church of England and a Conservative Government, we feel that we touch more closely upon the vital principle of Conservatism than we have ever done before. If the Whigs had not attacked the Church, their tenure of office might have been secure at this moment ; and if the Conservatives do not faithfully, steadily, and courageously adhere to the Church, vindi cate her rights, and assert her liberties„they will soon have reason to regret that th6Y have assumed office at all. They may depend upon- it, that the c onfidence of the Church is the real secret of their power, and that the reaction by which they live been borne back to as cendancy has been essenti a y her work. It w ill, there fore, be as much their i terest as it is their dut y to show themselves worthy o 'this confidence, and to cling, as to the very rock upon which the. State of England is built, to those fundamental institutions which connect our Civil Government with the Church. In strengthen ing her, they will infallibly strengthen themselves, will satisfy the expectations of their most valuable supporters, and will confer the greatest possible benefit upon the people. In discharging this duty, however, there are two considerations which they ought chiefly to bear in mind—on the one hand, the inviolable obligation under which they lie to maintain and respect the religious li ' berty of every British citizen, Dissenter as well as Church man, and Churchman as well as Dissenter—and on the other, the sacred and spiritual character of the Church herself, and the infinitely greater importance of her as cendancy over the hearts and consciences of men, than of any outward show of extension which a secular in fluence might be able to confer uppn her. The only test of expediency, when measures consistent with tolera tion are proposed for the ostensible purpose of benefit ing the Church, should be the question whether they are conducive to her real, or only to her apparent, strength. !The living source of the Church's strength is, undoubtedly, ...the - frith which she professes and' the Divine authori..*',:e which_ .she claims. ' These . are matters with which it does not become secular politi cians to meddle ; it is not their calling or their craft ; no statesman has ever attempted it without, sooner or later, discovering his mistake. If -there are cir cumstances in the aspect of the present times which may seem to impair the full development of this essential and inherent power of the Church (and who can deny that such circumstances exist in the theological differences which now unhappily distract her commu nion ?), this is a knot which must be untied, but which cannot be cut asunder. Where there are differences, there must be error ; and error cannot be got rid of without controversy, however painful and embarrassing controversy may be. Magna est veritas, et prcevalebit, if its triumph is not da.maged or retarded by the inter ference of incompetent arbitrators. A statesman who should attempt, in the present state of the Church of England, to silence controversy by persecution, or by throwing the weight of political favour or prefer ment exclusively into either scale, would only irri tate the wounds which it ought •to be his wish to heal. The spiritual rulers of the Church must be left to regulate such matters as these for themselves. We say this, not that we have any fear of an attempt, on the part of Sir Robert Peel's Government, to transgress the bounds within which the influence of the State upon the Church ought to be limited, but because of the precarious and unsatisfactory nature of the defences by which the Church is protected against the insult of theological legislation in Parliament. We know there are hot headed partisans, who would as willingly invoke the aid of Parliament to settle religious questions in their favour, as Lord 'Ponsonby did that of the Turkish Sultan to depose two Christian Bishops who successively filled the office of Patriarch of Constantinople. Con stituted as the Legislature now is, it has no more Com petency or right to interpose in any matter affecting the . faith or doctrine of the Church of England, than of the Wesleyan body, or of the society of Quakers.. CHRONICLE.—Lord Ashley has been visiting the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and holding meetings which have generally resulted in the adoption of the following resolutions : " 1. That it is the opinion of this meeting that a Ten hour Factory Bill would be advantageous to both the em ployer and the employed. 2. That no child under twelve years of age ought to be admitted into any factory. 3. That no woman ought to be employed in any factory after marriage. And 4. That all dangerous machinery should be boxed off to prevent the misfortunes which so frequently occur from its unguarded state." We fear that these resolutions smack of that one-sided and purblind philanthropy which usually blunders into an accumulation of mischief. If the first be sound, it supersedes all occasion for legislating, and will execute itself. No compulsion is requisite for enforcing the par ties to consult their own advantage. The second resolu tion, if legalised, would be evaded as the existing regula tions are. When parents and masters conspire to cheat the law, as to the age of a child, the restriction is no' easily maintained. The same pressure that renders the 1 labour of a child needful for its parents, will continue to tempt them to falsify its age. The third resolution is • an interference with a family which is most likely to be cruel unless it beinoperativeeefi,tends to the encourage ment of coneubinaree amongst the poor instead of mar riage. • The lawful wife is disqualified from adding to earnings which may, without her aid, be inade quate to the support of the family. And Lord Ash ley's generous interference, under the existin g laws, by which he obtained damages of 1001 . fo r a p oor girl who had suffered f rom unguarded machine r y , and practically mulcted the mill-owner of 6001. for his carlessness, shows th a t t h e object of the four th resolution may be attai ne d w i t hout adding to the p ile of penal statutes. We cannot, therefore, anticipate a great amount of good ' frOm - any legislative measure founded on these resolutions., The great extension of child labour and female labour is owing to the taxes on food. While the man's wages will earn the family's bread, only the man works. The monopolist cuts a slice off the operative's loaf ; that sends the wife into the factory. He comes again for a larger slice; that takes the children from school or play, and then they go into the factory. Such is the first sacrifice of natural affections, and - abuses are sure to follow. Parents learn, when they have the opportunity, to live a wretched life of indolence and gin-drinking upon their children's earnings. v The horrible result only marks the progress of bread4ax demoralization. Latid lords''Parliaments and Landlords' Laws have brought on this unnatural condition. Triumphing over patriotism `and justice, in the first instance, their influence stops not short till it has also triumphed over the elementary feelings and deepest emotions of man's moral being. To see the Landlords' Parliament and the Monopolist Ministry, the one elected and the other installed, to uphold the Corn-laws, perpetra ting the hypocrisy of entertaining a Ten-hours' Fac tory Bill, and similar affectations of philanthropy, will be a spectacle to make hell. laugh. Will Lord Ashley himself again patronize the poor, by re fusing to give them their bread, while he offers to give them his Bill ? What have the enactments against child-labour already done in the manufacturing dis tricts ? Diminished the number of children employed in cotton, flax, and woollen factories, to the amount (if 40,000. This is probably equivalent to the reduction of the incomes of the poor and large families by a sum of a quarter of a million sterling per annum. And so the poor pay for the philanthropy of their the reduction, a resource has indeed been found. And what a resource I The coal pit is open to them. A stimulus has been given, by the factory restric tions, to the employment of young children in mines, where they sit and wither in the .dark for hours to gain such wages as are paid for opening and shutting the doors when the coal trucks pass and repass. Accidents happen here as well as in factories. When the water burst in upon one of the Silkston collieries there were forty-four children in the, mine, of whom eighteen es caped, and twenty-six were drowned, including eleven girls, and nine children under ten years of age. None of the men were drowned. The kindly spirit which corn oines with the erring intellect of Lord Ashley, may lead hiM to take the mines also under his regulating care. But he cannot regulate the children of the fa mishing out of all eMPloyment. -, More wages they must I have, or More bread, for their. wages. We shOuld have imagined that philanthropy wouldhesitate a little at such an alternative. POST.—The journal which Lord John Russell uses as his organ of communication with the public, an nounces that Sir Robert Peel will " soon find that he has to encounter powers much more formidable than the combatants of party interests," As to the "formidable" powers which the Conservative leader will have to en ,:ounter, we must own that we have to look to the future for their development. As yet we have seen nothing of them. But if spleen, disappointment, and malice, car ried almost to insane hatred, could be considered " for midable powers," there were no need of waiting. Such things as these he has to encounter every day. We can remember the hissing spleen of malignant Whiggery in . days of old • but never do we recollect such a sputtering of malignant venom—such a pouring out of rage and falsehood, as the W h ig - Rad i cal party has ex hibited ever since it was beaten by the people in the late elections. It is positively a disgrace to human nature. fhey who have seen a swarm of wild wasps attacked in their nest, and witnessing its destruction, can alone ha 7; agine to themselves such an exposure of venomous fury :fs that which the Whig-Radicals have made for the last three weeks in their attacks upon Sir R. Peel. And what . is all this far ? Simply because, by steady perseverance, he has beaten the party in what used to be called " their own reformed House of Commnns." Is it Sir R. Pe e l's fault that the electors of Great Bri'tain prefer his politics, and his management of public affairs, to the politics and management of the Whig-lladheal leaders ? All this fury against Sir Robert Peel and his party is, in fact, fury against the judgment of the people of England, who have given to him and his party their confidence after having withdrawn it from the Whig-Radicals. These wasps have not the reasonable courage to attack the people of England for their votes—they are afraid of any such exploit as that, but they cast their calumnieA, their falsehoods, their rancorous abuse at the libad of Sir Robert Peel, merely because he is in that triumphant position in which the people have placed him through the privileges derived from the old legislative constitu tion, and enlarged by the Reform Act of 1832. ADVERTISER. —The last official pulsation of Minis . tors is about to bc4t. In tigeo weeps from this date FREEMASONS' and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE, LOAN, ANNUITY, and REVER SIONARY INTEREST COMPANY, 11, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL MALL, LONDON. This Office unites the benefit of a mutual association with the seeurity, % ..ot a proprietary company, and offers to the assured, amongst offers, the following advantages : I. 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Years only £. s. d. s. el. £. s sl. £. s. d. 20 113 7 117 4 017 0 017 6 30 24 4 2 3 019 • 10 0 40 2 1111 5 3 1 310 16 0 50 44214 13 6 1 113 0 116 6 60 613 6 7 41(3 0 0 39 6 Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured. DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single Deferred Annuity is made, not only to answer the same object, but to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the ad vantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Be nefit Societies, and Loan Banks. 1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the most ample return for after life; thus--21. 12s. per annum (Is. a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol lowing option. at the age of 65 • Annuity for remainder of life... £47 16 6 Cash 394 11 0 or a Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0 6at death. Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken with similar advantages. 2. Twe-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a find always available during sickness or want of employment. 8. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in case of premature death. N.B. Policies, as collateral money •security, for periods of one to five years, effected at lower rates than are c har g ed b y any other Office, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of con tinuance for Life at the must rates.. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, sec. TO NON-ELECTORS. HOW TO GAIN A VOTE, AND USE IT WITH OUT INTIMIDATION. Every Reformer who is excluded from the list of voters, and does not possess the necessary qualifications to get his name on the register, may as effectually contri bute to the return of a Reform Candidate as if he had a vote for himself, and that vote was protected from inti midation by the ballot, if he will examine the list of voters, which may be seen at the house of any overseer at all reasonable hours, any day before the 15th of August, and make a note of the name and address of any Tory that appears on the resister and is rot in every way qualified. He should immediately forwaid the information, with ground of objection, to_ some active Reformer or Registratton Committee, who will object to him ; and if he is unable to prove himself qualified, will be excluded from the register, the onus of proof lying entirely with the person objected to. '1 hus the Tory vote struck off will be one gained to the cause of Reform, and given as secretly, if not more so, than a vote given by the informant under the protec tion of the ballot. Surely the thousands in the metropolis excluded from the franchise, and those who have been compelled to sacrifice their consciences, and submit to the most shame ful as well as shameless intimidation, will avenge them selves upon their intimidators, and thus regain the vote their private interest compelled them to give against their own honest conviction. EXPORTS OF B RITISH COTTONS FOB 4, (From the Liverpool Times.) We have been favoured with the following official table of Cotton Exports of the United Kingdom last year, with the countries to which those exports took place ; the table has not been previously printed : COTTON EXPORTS FOR 1840. /~~~~~/ PRICE 5d gentleman well versed ..in the financial affairs of his !ountry, as also by the respectable agent .in the busi less here, Mr. Isaac Lyon Goldsmid ; and it is perhaps I)y the dogged determination evinced to withhold justice from the parties compromised until thcocase shall be ab iolutely dragged before a British Jury, that M. Zulueta influenced in the course he has taken. SUN.—We had but a ,small business doing to-day in he Funds, and money bargains were at* per cent. reduc ;ion on yesterday's rates. There seems at present to be nore demand for discount accommodations, the increase ir diminution of .which must materially depend upon he extent to which speculation in foreign corn may be •arried; Consols were not quoted higher, 39* for im mediate transfer, and 89t tog for account. Bank Stock was dull at 169 ; and Exchequer Bills continued at to 16s. premium ; the New Three-and-a-Half per 'ents. were at 98i to .f ; and the Three per Cents. at 90 to g. bargains in the Foreign Market extended to a (cry limited compass, being confined to the following Stocks :—Active Spanish Bonds receded to 20 and 19* to ; the Deferred Stock of 1838 was 16.1, and that of 1841 at 131; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. were steady at 52 tog ; the Five per Cents. at 1028 ; and Russian at 114.. The Railway Shares were in some instances lower. Gtieat Western at 18 to 181, the New at 711, the Fifths :it 5 to 51, the London and Birmingham at 70 to 71, And the South Western at 13* to 138 premium. Brighton were '6l, Manchester and Leeds, New, 9, and South Eastern 201 discount. London Joint Stock Bank Shares were 21 premium. There was an appearance of bea - riness in the Foreign Exchanges this afternoon. There seems to be still a de mand for bills. .At Ilamburgh, on Friday last, the ex change on London was 13 4, and the price of gold 4291. The rates most , current here this afternoon were these : Paris, 251. 55r. to 60e. ; Amsterdam, 12 3A- to 4 ; Ant werp, 12 31 to 1; Hamburgh, 13 9 to t ; Frankfort., 1-195 to ; and Trieste, 950t0 9 52. The following are the official returns of the exports of bullion for the week ending' Thursday last : Silver Coin . to Hamburgh` 34,000 oz. Rotterdam Mauritius TRIAL OF 'MADAME LAFFARGE FOR TliE ROBBERY OF THE DIAMONDS. '3IONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. ... . i 1 . ,. . . . FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TRIBUNAL OF TULLE.—SITTING OF AUGUST 5. CHRONICLE.—Prices in the Share Market were Madame Laffarge appeared dressed in deep mourning, nominally the same as yesterday, with the exception of and seemed to enjoy good health. The Judge opened Brightons, which gave way about 10s. per share. the proceedings by recapitulating what had passed on The business transacted in the Foreign House was previous trials. principally confined to Spanish Actives, which expo - Marie Ca p elle, an or p han and poor, though of a good rienced a slight decline. family, and educated so as to develope her brilliant natti- We have received Hobart Town papers of. the 9th ral qualities, became intimate in 1823 with Mdlle. Cle- April. The first half-yearly meeting of the proprietors mence• de Nicolai, then fifteen years of age, now Ma of the Colonial Bank had been held at the Company's dame de. Monbreton. Madame de Monbreton loved and Banking-house, when the accounts were audited, and a spoke highly of her ;so that when Marie Capelle, in general statement of the affairs of the shareholder's laid 1836, came to live with Madame 'Valence, mother before the meeting. The members present expressed in-law of Marshal Gerard, who• lived near the themselves highly gratified at the general statement and Nicolais, she became intimate with them, and flattering prospects of the Company. A dividend at the especially with •the youngest daughter, Marie, who rate of 10 per cent. per annum had been declared on the became Madame de Leotaud in 1838.. Her mar paid-up capital. riage did not destroy her intimacy with Mademoiselle A new banking establishment had been opened a Capelle. She saw her , five or six times in the year, and few days under the management of Mr. Burke ; it gave her a brooch as a token of friendship. In the month was called the New Colonial Bank. It was under- of May, 1839, Mademoiselle Capelle proposed to visit stood to be essentially a Joint-stock Company, although Madame de Nicolai a: her chateau of Busaquy. The the names of the shareholders had not gene- proposal was accepted, especially as Marie Capelle's rally transpired. Ilis Excellency the Lieutenant- health was said to be bad. She arrived at Busaquy on Governor had been to Green Ponds for the purpose the Ist of June. On the Gth of that month,. apropos of of communicating to the Canadian prisoners the sub- the marriage between M. de ouy and Mdlle. de Beavoir, stance of a despatch which he had received from the Se- diamonds were spoken of ; lladame Leotaud produced cretary of State, in answer to a recommendation for a hers, and left them on the table when she went out, on an mitigation of their sentences, which he had forwarded ecrin; she locked up this ecrin on her return. Seven home soon after their arrival in the colony. They were days after, diamonds being again the subject of to receive tickets-of-leave in February next,. which will conversation, Madame Leotaud brought down her be two years from the time of their landing. His Excel- ecrin; Mdlle. Capelle left the room, and on opening the I lency's interference in their behalf had given much s atis- ecrin, he diamonds, were gone. Search was made. M. faction in the colony. Wheat was finding its way freely Leotaud went to the police of Paris, and on mentioning to market, and the demand was steady ; and it was not Marie Capelle as the niece of sladame Garet ' recalled anticipated that prices would rise much. Wheat was 6s . the circumstances of divers robberies which had taken to 6s. 6d. per bushel. Her Majesty's discovery ships place at Madame Garat'Sa M. Leotaud ceased to push his Erebus and Terror, Captains Ross and Crozier, arrived inquiries in consequence ; and no more was heard until the at Hobart Town, after a voyage of six months to the police examining Glandier, the residence of Madame antarctic pole. • The expedition,'"it is stated, had been Laffarge, alter the death of her husband, discovered the crowned with the most complete success. diamonds\ in a box belonging to Marie Capelle, since TlMES.—There was a fair amount of business doing Madame Laffarge. When first questioned on the subject, to-day in the foreign exchanges. The rate upon Paris Maclaine Laffarge answered that they were given her by remained the same as last post. Amsterdam and Ham- a gentleman whom she did not know. Since then Madame burgh were a trifle lower. Owing to the great demand Laffarge tells another story. She says that she and 'for Vienna and Trieste, bills upon those places were ne- Mademoiselle . Nicolai became acquainted with a young gotiated at remarkably low ,prices, man of the name of Clavet, son of a schoolmaster intthe A Trinidad paper, which has been received in the Faubourg de Houle. having met him at church and in City' (dated the 24th of June), contains an account the street ; that letters passed between them, and at of a very important meeting held at Port of length M. Claret left for Africa ; but that after her mar- Spain on the proposed modification of the sugar riage, wishing to burn her letters and buy up the silence duties by the Ministers. It seems that when the meet- of Clavet, she employed Madame Laffarge to dispose of ing was convened intelligence had not been received the jewels, in order to give the money to Clavet. of the defeat of the measure; but, although this result .M. Lachaud, for Madame Laffarge, then pleaded that had transpired before the appointed time, still . the the trial ()tight to be put off. The Judges. who had already position of the colony was considered to be so caitieal adjourned it, did so on the ground that Madame Laffarge that thes-meeting was deemed necessary. , The reso - shoul d have at least three months to prepare her d lutions passed were to the effect, that it was absurd for fence. ; and it was then but forty days since the Court sa Goveentnenta to expend thousands in . repressing the of Cassetion had Contirmedthe decree of the Court fixing traffic in slaves while opening the English market to the trial. Madame Laffarge only received notice of the the produce of slave labour, thus •enhancing the slave- present trial on the 23d of June. The appearance of M. holder's profit, while professing, to exterminate his Felix Claret, as witness, was indispensable to establish trade, and that Trinidad alone, with a sufficient labour- the innocence of Madame Laffarg,e. The cross-question ing population, would be capable of producing more ing of that witness, and the confronting him with the sugar than Britain could consume, ami at a cheaper two Marks, could alone throw light on the case. It was rate than it can he raised in Cuba. The tendency of now some months since M. Claret must have learned of the arguments used at this meeting, in which the chair- the trial on whic h his name was called, why did he not man, Mr. H. Burnley, took the lead, was to show that return to speak the truth ? M. Lachaud then said, he all restrictions on the increase of labour were inconsist- would read sonic letters which threw light on Clavet's eat with a lowering of the protection. At the same non-appearance. time the Chairman took pains to inculcate the opinion M. Coralli objected to the reading of these letters. that at some time or other a reduction of the diffe- The Judge overruled the arguments for delaying the rential duties must take place until protection should trial. M. Clavet was not necessary to the elucidation of reach its minimum point, as indeed he said the great the facts. • experiment of free labour was to raise p roduce M. Lachaud said that M. Claret was a wretch if he cheaper than could be done by slave labour, which once did not come forward. effected, all differential duties must expire . Trinidad M. Coralli, for • Madame Leotaud, deprecated delay. alone, according to the estimate of one of the speakers, Why was M. Claret's presence so necessary. He was can supply Great Britain with 300,000 tons of sugar, not here, but his sister was, and she was the depository and.there are in the island 1,000,000 acres of land fit fur of his confidence. cultivating the cane, without the means of cultivating M. (Milton Barret said then an important testimony themS • At present the labouring population of Trinidad was wanting in M. Claret; an objection might be made does not, it seems, exceed 12,000, and during slavery did in the course of the evidence, though it was too soon to not exceed 8,000, when in one year it produced 30,000 make it yet; the trial should first go on. hogsheads of sugar, while Barbadoes , with 80,000 slaves, M. Paillet, the eloquent advocate of Madame Laffarge produced no more. This difference of result is produced in her other trial, declared that the presence of M. Clavet by difference in fertility of soil, and Trinidad stands in was indispensable. every other respect in a worse position than Barbadoes; Madame Laffarge's Counsel then said that she would for, according to a statement made at this Assembly, the retire, and faire defeat, that is, make no defence, not being planter in the former island pays nine times as much for allowed the means. labour as the planter in the latter. The inference to be Madame Laffarge having withdrawn about twelve drawn from the , statements is, that the quantity of sugar o'clock, the trial was resumed in an hour by the Procu produced is no proper basis on which to calculate the reur-General, who declared that Claret had been sum productiveness of our colonies. . , moiled at Algiers, in June, 184 1 . He was at Oran, how - HERALD.—Money, it is complained, is getting more ever ' and was lately on the expedition to Mascara , so " tight" in discounts, although in the Stoc k Exchan g e it that he could not app'ear. appears to be easy enough. 'The funds remain heavy but Mdlle. Delvaux, the fermcr governess of Mdlle. de without improvement in prices; although a large pair- Nicolai, was then called and asked to give her testimony. chase of 100,000/. Consols was effected towards the close When Marie Capelle visited us, towards the end of Lent, of the market, which however was understood to be only 1836, we often went together to the church of St. Phi to close a bear speculation to the same amount previously lippe-du -Route. Among those who attended the sold out. . church was a young man, whose assiduity made me Hobart Town ,rapers to the 1 0 th of April h ave b e en believe that he camp there for the purpose of received. They notice the return to the colony of the being remarked by Mdlle. de Nicolai. I acquainted: exploring expedition under Captains Ross and Crozier, her mother with my suspicious ; but having examined after a voyage of six months towa rds the antarctic Mdlle. de Nicolai more closely, I saw that I was wrong, pole, that, is from - Hobart Town, which they left and told Madame de Nicolai so. Meantime Mdlle. in the beginning of last November. It is stated Capelle had succeeded in finding out the name and ad that they penetrated to within one hundred m iles dis- dress of this y oun g man ; she said lie had a fine voice, tance of the pole, when their farther progress was blocked and artfully persuaded Mdlle. de Nicolai to let her write by immense barriers of ice, traced for several hundred to M. Clavet. We went to the country, and I observed miles. Trade was still in a depressed state in the that Mademoiselle de Nicolai was not so gay as usual. colony, with but a remote prospect of materia l im p rove- I took her a p art, and asked her to confide to me the anent in respect of goods imported. The markets there cause of her grief. She told me that she and Marie were overloaded with all sorts of goods on ventu re or Ca p elle had remarked the y oun g man Clavet, and lie consignment, and the enormous amount actually in Marc, bad become the subject of their attention and dfien c r u t • lines. estimated at half a million sterling, exclusive of cargoes Mdlle. Capelle proposed to write to this young man, i l ti lo o s r i d t e y r . not then landed, .of which there was a consignmesit to to mystify him, and she wrote a few insignificant one house alone of the value of 7,0001., may be accepted, Several letters were afterwards exchanged. as additional evidence, were such wanting, of the Mad again consented to write, and expressed to M. diaNveictl3hleali• tt alsocould bggi nor ng extent to which over-man 'ufacturing has been carried in regret for havinr, involuntarily hurt hi m , b this country, and consequent over - trading to a co l on y so him to write to no longer, for sh eeef neither . t s mall and of such limited powers of consumptions would receive his letters. At h 'The following letter is recommended to the p erusal of she danced with him ; this was the de of Tivoli first and last the Portuguese financial agency, and all whom it may time that Mdlle. de Nicolai spoke concern. The whole affair of the Portuguese Conversion this recital, it was not difficult to him. In all June t° appreciate has been so discreditable that the continuance of unfair the small share in it that Mdlle. deNie p o pec la r il ia sai t l e play may not unreasonably be suspected. So me in q uir y I judged the cond this uctof afraMdlle. _Capelle more severely , may probably elicit hereafter further information on the and from the first im p ulse thouir rite ghtithe at an dange,rons, as points referred to : a serpent. Ithought an end, when PORTUGUESE CONVERSION. in the first days of Mdlle. de Nicolai received a - " Brighton, Aug. 6, 1841. parcel, of which the address was written by Mdlle. Ca " Sir,—Having made several app lications through my pelle. . It contained a volum e of poetry, of the which the broker in London to procure for m e a list of Portuguese name of the author was scratched out, and the d stock, concerted subsequent to Ap ril last, and which the name of Sire de • Coucy su bstituted, also agents advertised nearly two months a g o 'as , being in handwriting of Marie Ca the course of preparation , and t o be p ublished as soon as a letter from AL Claret, w Pelle. This boo k contained which Mdlle. de Ni c olai imme - possible,' and not being able to obtain any other answer diately gav e me. This letter expressed the certainty of his than that ' the lists are not yet ready, nor can the agents having been the object of a mystification, and complained state when they will be,' I think it right to c a ll the at- of a cruel jest being played at his own expense. The aim 'His reputes to Mdlle. Capelle, and which tention of the public, and the Committee in particular to of this letter was "toreassure Diddle Nicolai on the sub let ex fears e r i expressed sub the subject. It appears to me to imply a doubt as to the , j a ec ti t m o i f d the correctness of the amount published as being converted Ni and in any case should be seen into without further de - tien was pun!? auedncunt:ttackable." I a dvised bldlle. Ni lay.—Begging you will excuse this liberty, I remain, Sir, colai to ask to have her letters back. She asked several ecould alone suggest. your obliged and obedient servant, "D. 0 ." times without result, and a s I learned that ISldlle. POST.—The circumstance of Mr. P. J. Zulueta hay- Capelle way l in tit I'ari in the month of August, I went ing declined to act as agent for the Three per Cent. Gain- and forl-1-edthem She answered that they were in a boa Conversion of the arrears of interest on the Ativ cu b ‘ :i ' .(l ‘ of hich them. Garet had the key; but that Bonds of Spaim foe the refusal seems now to be rotorl 13 1: ' ' s le would hare them ready on the morrow. When I rious, has led to a, good deal of discussion among the went to receive them , 1 Ives told that Marie Capelle had bondholders as to the probable cause. We think we Have left that with Madame Garet, her aunt. I ourselves already afforded a fair solution of the princi- tho t ueht it hard that Mdlle Capelle should not know the pal object. M. Zulueta has Isis reputation as a merchant day b efore, at four o'clock, that she wasgoing at six the next to look after, and he sees great inconvenience in havin g ' insrn* . acrd I thought II bad perceived some lies in the his counting-house besieged by the holders of the con- - recitals made to Mdlle. Nicolai. M. Claret was no verted stuck, calling for p a y ment a g r eeable topublic longer thought of, when Mdlle. Nicolai came back from notification on a specific day, without having in p ha id the one night in the month of March, and told me the requisite funds to answer their demands. b M. Zulu- 1 she had seen him on the stage, after having remarked eta is but too cognisant of the fact, that the embassy I 'his name amongst the list of singers. I went to see the which took • upon itself the execution of the Tee e I Huguenots to make sure of the fact, but found not the Bond Decrees of 1836 was placed precisely in this asur; least resemblance between the two persons, and even ral bumf- liatingyesitk m , s and that it has affairto the present moment lied her on her facility of finding the strangest likenesses. the staid attaching to that base to wipeout. Unfortunately, in the month of October,lB37, Mdlle.Capele We have reason to know that M. Zulueta hes remon- 1 and Mdlle. Nicolai met at Madame de Menbreton's. &trate(' withh,i,s Governmente, in the most positive man- 1 The former said she was very ill ; the doctors, from tier at the "4"e disposition evinced by it to redeem its I what she said, thought ill of her case. In the month of sa cred pledges of 183 G. In these remonstrances he was I June, 1838, she asked to come to Busaquy ; we did not w armly supported by the late Senor Xebrer at Madrid, i d are to refuse her demand, in spite of all the reports FORTIIERN EUROPE. ...E1,151,798 .. 66,350 .. 28,000 6,328. .. 1,961 ..... 3,551,439 ................. 2,244,373 206,530 Russia Sweden Norway Denmark Prussia Germany Holland Belgium SOUTHERN EUROPE. 209,136 728,30 V 25,238 16,677 11,181 28,331, 635,821 1,671,122 80,261 49,174 631 895,88;. 216.269 France Portugal Proper ................ Azores ................... 71 Madeira .................. Spain and the Balearic Islands ............ Canaries ............................ Gibra1tar......................................... Italy and the Italian Islands ................ Malta lonian Islands Morea and Greek Islands Turkey Syria and Palestine AFRICA. Egypt Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco Western Coast of Africa Cape of Good Hope African Ports on the Red Sea Cape Verd Islands St. Helena Mauritius ASIA. 64,267 47,047 262,499 134,655 2,487 1,494 159,808 Arabia East 'lndia Company's Territories and Ceylon 3,873,186 Sumatra, Java, and other Islands of the Indian Seas Philippine Islands China British Settlements in Australia 4New Zealand South Sea Islands AMERICA. British North America n Colonies 611,303 British West Indies 1,234,687 Hayti 161,929 Cuba and other Foreign W est Indian Colonies 401,382 United States of America 1,123,439 272,663 141,621, 327,137 179,70'i 3,181 1,99: STATES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA, viz : Mexico 249,066 Guatemala Colombia Brazil States of the Rio de la Plata ..................... Chili Peru Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Man, &c 248,045 ...... 1,525,037 335,305 921,627 494,827 65,381 Total Exports £24,668,618 Yards. £ White or Plain Cottons 433,114,373 7.603,772 Printed or Dyed . 357,517,624 8,498,448 Hosiery and Smallwares Twist and Yarn lbs. 118,470,223 7,101,308 £24,668,618 DARING AND DEXTEROUS FEAT.—The pro prietor of a cotton-mill, situated in the neighbourhood of Glasgow had occasion to have some alteration made on the top of a towering stalk adjoining the mill, an iron plate in that direction, which interfered with the free egress of the volume of smoke, having got out of posi tion ; and to have thrown up a scaffolding, to repair the damage, would have cost a considerable sum. A slater, however, undertook, for a few pounds, to ascend to the top of the stalk, by means of a considerable number of sharp-pointed pieces of iron, which he drove into the stalk, commencing at the foot, and proceeding onwards (occasionally descending for instruments), till he reached , the top. He finished his Herculean task in two days, to the satisfaction of the proprietor, but to the no small terror of the spectators, to whom, it is said, he appeared as a speck in the distance, and who were naturally afraid that he might instantly fall headlong from the pinnacle, and be dashed to piecosei.Glogow Argtm. EVENING SUN, concerning her. Hall laditpthose contine .is 1 . ht Wore to be shunned, the world vtiptild soon liKirserte44,- laugh.) I was not at Bu! .9', when the diamonds were sttoli,ai. .As saion..asl I"' I Was told of. the suspicions raised agst Mchiler+Bille.• The second witness was the :-MarchioneS•a — 'a': She knew Marie Capin° in 18:30: An i•equ4.4tve' was formed between her and my daughter. licarlafibiSt..4le Capelle offered to visit us . in the' country, my daughter, Madame Leotaud, being then pregnant and in ill health. There was a piano in my daughter's room ; Marie Capelle practised at it for hours. The witness gave the same account of the disap pearance of the diamonds as Mdlle Delvaux. Some days after Mdlle. Capelle mentioned that she had vomited at night, and had persuaded her servant that it was be cause she had swallowed the diamonds of Madame de Leotaud. Later, Madame de Leotaud confessed to her mother that she suspected Marie Capelle of having stolen the diamonds. Madame de Monbrcton mentioned these suspicions to Marie Capelle's aunt, Madame Carat, who then revealed a 'variety of larcenies committed in her house. We were disposed not to aggravate the position of Madame Laffarge when we heard that she had been circulating stories of Maditme de Leotaud having robbed herself. Later Madame de Martens asked us not to own that the diamonds were ours, in order to save Marie Capelle. M. Bac, her advocate, had a long conversation with M. and Madame Leotaud. M. Leotaud explained to M. Bac that M. Clavet had quitted France in 1836, had gone to Mexico and to Algiers, and only returned in 1839 ;- and that all the infamous calumnies about Madame and M. Leotaud wishing to give her the price of the jewels, fell to the ground. M. Bac admitted it. M. Lachaud made us a similar demand. • Madame Laffarge was importunate, and stretched out a suppliant hand. We observed that the suppliant hand which she held forth was of hot iron. We offered, if Madame Latfar7e's counsel would plead . her being of unsound mind, that we would support it conscientiously, after all we had seen of her. M. La chaud said, that Madame Laffarge would never admit this, that she was an extraordinary wo man, and would . rise up to protest of her perfect sanity. The next witness was Denis Barhiere, who had been servant at M. Laffarge's. He stated merely that M. Laffarge wanting a diamond one day to cut glass, asked it of his wife, who brought him one.., • Philip Mignan said he had heard M. Laffarge say that his wife had offered him her diamonds to sell. The mother of M. Laffarge, it seemed, Avas'ready to make the same testimony, but the Judge would not allow of her being called as a witness. M. Lecomte, mid the setting of 'Madame de Leota.s.: 3201. jeweller, recognised the diamonds ,cents, which bad been sold to • e ornaments were worth about . .. _ ' SECOND DAY.—Aue. 6. ' The concourse was full as great as on the preceding day, nlthongh it was well known that Mule. Marie Laf farge would not appear ; but the public curiosity was excited by the expectation of hearing the evidence of the sister of sf. Claret, and a letter from hinvelf sent froth the town of Guadalaxara, in the interior of Mexico. At a quarter past eight o'clock, the Court was opened, and the proceedings were resumed. Pierre Coullebeeuf, a domestic servant from the Rue Saint-Florentin, Paris, was the first witness examined. He deposed that he knew M. Felix Claret in 1839, when lie returned. Mr. Felix Claret was' a young. man of gentlemanly manner and habits, of a respectable family and good principles, incapable of accepting such p r ese nts . as had been imputed to him, or of committing any base or immoral action. M. Poutier (Raymond), physician in the army of Al giers, the uncle of Mme. Laffarge. deposed as follows: — I was at Algiers in July, 1840, - and one day, whilst walking with some officers, M. Alphonse Clar6" came up , to us. We were talking of the atfair of Laffarge, and, when I heard his name, I asked him if he was the per sou mentioned on the trial ; he replied in the negative, but said he knew the M. Claret referred to, having deli vered to him a box, which had, been sent, by Mine. de Leotaud, on receiving which M. FWx Claret said, " It is a box of colours which has been skt to me by Mme. de Leotaud." I remarked that this infortemtion - was en- tirely at variance with what Mine. de Leot s it,,l had stated at the trial, and, as it was important , requeste:l 111 0 1 to e make a declaration in writing, which he did , and I sent . it to the Counsel of Marie Capelle. The box was id', dressed, in the first instance, by the landlord of the hote e , of the Croix tl'Or, at Toulon, to M. Damy, Surgeon-Mae jor of the Ist regiment of the line. The address was, To M. Damy, to be liven to M. Claret." lle thought,. however, there must have been something to indicate who sent it, for M. Damy said to him, "It appears that ... little Claret has connection only with Countesses." M. Perrin had told him that he heard froth M. Desciorsilles • • that it was known that the box came from the Viscoun tess de Leotaud. • M. H. Brissot Thivars, director of salubrity and public lighting in Paris, said he had long known the .• . family of M. Felix Claret, for whom he had great esteem. He spoke in the highest terms of M. Claret, but admitted that he mi g ht have the defects of youth, vanity and pre sumption,for he was a handsome young man, and the ladies perhaps had told him so rather too frequently. Nothing more was required to fill'his brain with chime rical hopes. On one occasion, when walking with Claret, the latter told him that he was going to be married to a handsome, rich, and, what was more, noble young lady, upon which the witness told him that he was more mad than he had ,hitherto taken him to_ be, and that he was a fit subject for Charenton. Two years afterwards, .: and during the affaiis of Glandier, the witness learned that the lady whoth M. Claret had spoken of as his intended bride, was Mlle.. de. Nicolai, and the - \person who befriended him Marie Capelle. He also learnt that Marie Capelle had been in the habit of walking in the Park of Mousseaux, which, not being, a public pro inenade, is g-enerallY solitary. She ' enfered Under Me auspices of a lady whom it was not necessary to name, who had her child at her breast ; but Marie Capelle would quit this lady and walk by herself until she met Claret, who had also some means of getting into ti k e IPark, and would sometimes give five francs to the gate keeper to admit him. The rendezVous continued for about three mohths, and in the bosquets they pro bably talked over the projects of marriage with Mlle. de Nicolai.—(A laugh.) At length, however, Clavet , Yielding to the remonstrances of his family, or dissa tisfied with the little progress which he made in his suit, told Marie Capelle that he had reflected on his folly, and a situation being offered to him as one of the ma nagers of an agricultural colony at Algiers, he had re solved on accepting it. Marie Capelle replied that .he was wrong, that he should take courage, things did not go on so rapidly in the world, and that at any rate she was there to console him. The witness did not knew whe ther Felix Claret nourished a double passion —(Great - laughter)—but he thought not. lie felt probably that he had been duped into false hopes, and therefore resolved .to go to Algeria. This witness then proceeded to state that the Company by which M. Claret was sent out agreed to give him 4,000 f. a year as manager, and that after his departure from Paris he received from his partnersloo,ooor. for his expenses of the voyage and the first outlay in Al giers. Be continued to receive his salary regularly all the time he was in Algeria, which he quitted in August, 1839, and arrived in Paris in September, where he remained until February, 1840. He did not leavel)tris in the in terval, and the witness, being very intimate with his family, saw him almost daily. In the month of Fe bruary, continued the witness, Claret left for Mexico with his father, mother, aunt, and young sister and her children. At this moment he 'was in the province of Guadalaxara, at 15 or 20 leagues from the Pacific Ocean. He had written, since his arrival there, only once to his sisters, and the letter had been given to the witness. The witness said it was proper to in, form the Tribunal that, when Felix Claret left Paris, ho knew nothing of the Laffarge affair, except the poisoning, and had learnt that Mtulame Laffarge was the Marie Capelle with whom he' had been acquainted. He then continued as follows the reading of -the letter :—" It is impossible for us to know the details be Compromised in it. There of the Laffarge affair. Ido not comprehend how I hen in the defence of Mine. Laffarge, that it was of abnaturtetude render her more culpable in the eyes of every I N @ v ( lia ' t. un to hasten her condemnation. M . —y poor sistcanistimugh lint easiness must not all this have caused Y was so much improbability me some details, this horrible said was possible.to Lip correctly of what if it be possible. lam anxi o u s here handed the letter to know m e well enough not to believeetrdatoaun'ything of what lam accused." The witness here sock: y t of the company of the President, as also the ac f mansger, and the certificate which M. Claret had petit), had her rendezrouta Algiers. He then added, o ti f la h t is at ar ti r l i e ra t l im at e wheark of Mousseaux, shepassed nearly with Claret in the park e , the "'endows of the school of Claret, in every day before Route, No. 20, and the mother - of. tt,e Faubourg lunch struck on seeing her eyes constantly Claret was .rds the house. Madame Claret once said directed toe a rl ter " D you know that young per her eldest daue i , o . Felix?' to Toutoou,lblefaernrojemca s e c h vn e ' Ippeara to TUC to be very bold." Mademoiselle ho is locking so earnestly at the window ofMademoiselle Chivas • who had seen her at the ch urch of Saint Philippe ; de Rouge , replied, " It is Marie Capelle.'' , M. Catrufo, painter, of the Rue de Ponthieu, Paris, stated that, about the end of 1834, he became acquainted with M. Felix Claret, in consequence of their being . members of a charitable association, and an intimate friendship was formed between them. In the begining of the spring of 1836, M. Claret showed witness a letter, which he imagined came from two young ladies lie bad seen at chuich, and in the public walks. Of Mdlle. de Nicolai, whom he said he loved, he always spoke in the most respectful terms, and as one with whom he had no secret intercourse, nor even any acquaintance in seeiety. Mdlle. Claret, sister of M. Claret, now in Mexico, was next examined. Great interest was displayed on the appearance of this young lady, who is so nearly releted to the person who had figured so conspicuously in the de fence set up by the prisoner. In reply to a question of the President, she stated her name to be Catherine Barthelemy Claret, aged 36, and-a teacher at Toulouse. Her appearance was prepossessing, and her emotion for some time prevented her from being _heard distinctly. Before commencing his interrogatory, the President desired her to be seated, and compose herself. President—YOul are] the sister of M. Felix Claret ? A. I am.—Q. Do you know anything of the robbery of the diamonds of *ine. de Leotaud ? A. No, Sir.—Q. Do you know anything of the relations of Marie Capeile, or Mlle. de Nicolai, with your brother? A. My brother, who frequently made me his confidante, told me that he often noticed two young ladies, that he had formed an acquaintance with one of them, who had led him to enter tain a hope that a m arriage might be brought about with the other, who was Mlle. de Nicolai. I endeavoured to persuade him against entertaining such an idea, which I y e f i u v i e l,,( d s saw was illusory. He never said a word to me, to lead rae e t t t , e f one a rs to suppose that these hopes were encouraged by the per son to whom they related.— Q. 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