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M URN ING SUN. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) fer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Neat Distributions may revive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH DUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £2.5,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 100 90 50 LOO 150 ✓ The largest Dividend of the Distribution of Ist March last, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, e was remitted to London and vicinity by HEINE BROTHERS, who remitted, during a few years, 22 large Money Dividend[, from 6001. and upwards unto 25,0001., besides many Dividends of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. :LOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANA(,EMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Grand concentration of attraction, and no advance in the price, THIS EVENING, AUGUST 10, _ Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPO, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. Introducing Mr. Duerow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfrevs, Fairy Peneys, the Equestrians, and Companies bf both Theatres. After which, THE SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. In which Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Ameri can Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Eurepe will appear. To conclude with tlir; Nautical Drama of BEN THE BOATSWAIN. Supported by the strength of the Company. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. First week of " Mary Clifford !" increased attraction of " We man's Love !" three more nights of " Black Eyed Susan !', and first week of " The Wood Demon ! THIS EVENING, AUGUST 10. The performances will commence with the N ew Domestic Drama in Three Acts, called MARY CLIFFORD; THE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL ! William Clipson, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Bowling, Mr. Paul ; Robby Benham, Mr. Gardner; Sarah, Mrs. W. West ; and Mary Clifford, Misa Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, WOMAN'S LOVE! OR, KATE WYNSLEY, THE COTTAGE GIRL. Wilford Clitheroe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Hugh Wynsley, Mr, James; Hollyhock, Mr. Gardner; Scaresbrook, Mr. Seaman Kate Wynsley, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, THE WOOD DEMON. Hardyknuts, Mr. E. F. Saville; Willikind, Mr. Gardner ; Una, sirs. W. West. Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.— Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrow, Mary Clifford, Black Eyed Susan, and The Wood Demon. T HE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW PUBLISHING, PRICE ONLY SIXPENCE. HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Merning.--20 minutes after 6. i Evening..„. 43 minutes after G. 6 . 1?, 4 ga ti 7 SW * 4. vo.' 1 , _ % „ ! „;: 4".4 41 11, IaWS. tit 4 ( 11, LONDON: TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1841. On Saturday we stigmatised the policy of the Tories breaking up the Ministry in June, be cause they would on no account permit the Corn-laws to be touched and recommending in August that very change, as an untrue, unfaithful, insincere, and scoundrel policy. It may sound harsh to some delicate and politely attuned ears to use such language, but politics are a most se rious and important branch of morals, and no more proper to be spoken slightingly of than murder and parricide. The line taken in June by the whole of the Tories, from Sir R. PEEL downwards, was to op pose every kind of commercial relief and every abatement of monopoly, and even Whig land lords voted against the Ministers on the sugar question, because that was the precursor of Corn law repeal. On the principle then announced the whole of the county elections were decided, and to maintain it a majority of the House of Com mons was collected. Its ascendancy has already banished hope from the minds of commercial men and driven many to bankruptcy. It has convinced the bulk of the working classes that they can expect nothing whatever from the Le gislature, and they look with exultation rather than otherwise at the Tory success as the herald of confusion. Their convictions that the Consti tution never can work well are confirmed, and they will rejoice at its overthrow. The Tory suc cess has also engendered great and just discon tent in Ireland. The cries for repeal have be come more urgent, and threats are now there the staple of public harangues. The Tory success, by nourishing arrogance in one party and dread in another, kindling alarm and encouraging ha tred, has already done no inconsiderable mischief: There can be no doubt that it was promoted by the fierce denunciations of the Tory press, but almost before the success has been achieved, before the mischief is completed, a conviction of error has taken the place of bold confidence, and those who in June denounced every abatement of monopoly have become in August converts to the necessity of modifying or abolishing the Corn-laws. The Tory success was also in some measure due to the fierce denunciations poured out against the Irish Catholics, as the allies of the Whigs. Religious hatred was used to strengthen political_ animosity, and stimulate Tory exertion. Lord MORPETH was especially rejected by the West Riding of Yorkshire, be cause he was the friend of Catholic Ireland, and the ally of Mr. O'CONNELL. The journals and the party that in June nourished these senti ments seem to repent of them in August, and now essay in vain to heal the deep wounds they have inflicted. These circumstances are so fu of evil, nourishing seeds of frightful convulsion, which are wide-sown in the land, that we can not treat them lightly or speak of the policy from which they flow, however cunningly contrived, in any other language than that of the severest reprobation. The Times yesterday gave us another speci men of the same conduct, and the Times is only worthy of notice as the organ of the Tories. After abusing the Catholic priests and the Catholic population of Ireland for many months, proposing at one time to reconquer the country, at another calling the priests " surpliced ruffians," so that the Times has been singled out by the Catholics of Ireland, as affording, by its large circulation, an index to the hatred with which the English regard the Irish Catholics,—the Times yesterday uttered the following hearty approval of the policy adopted by its opponents, and the following severe condemnation of its own conduct. Speaking of the Protestant Association, the intemperate language of whi c h h as been re- peatedly condemned i n Th e S un, t h e Times said-- When we find a professedly religious society speak ing of the collective clergy of that communion in the sister island, as "not more honest than those of Maho met, not more pure than those of Paganism, not less in human than those of Juggernaut," we really cannot sympathise with so wholesale and monstrous an accusa tion. It is too like the assertion made last year, at a meeting of this same Society, that " Popery is the re ligion of the Devil." Words such as these are foolish, intemperate, and profane ; they excite noticing but dis gust in the minds of practical and moderate men ; their inevitable effect is to recoil upon those who use them. To the use of such language it justly ascribes much of the irritation which has been kept up in Ireland; but till the elections were gained and the temporary purposes of party Were served, the Times, far from condemning such language, con tinually used it. While the stirring up of strife and the encouragement of intolerance could se- cure avote, the Times was the most diligent hand at the cauldron. Now it puts out the fire in order to smooth Sir R. PEEL'S difficulties with Ireland. It takes the Protestant Association to task for borrowing its facts, quoting its language, and following its example. Till the Whigs are fairly defeated, their policy, We direct public attention to the letter of a " Clergyman of the Church of England" to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and we are happy to say, for the reputation of the Church, that he is not the only one who has taken the side of justice and the poor. It is not yet wholly too late for the body of the clergy to redeem themselves in the public estimation, and restore the Church to some share of the confidence and affections of the people; but they have 'no time to lose, and must at once become, like the Reverend BAPTIST NOEL, Corn-law repealers. JOHN BULL was never yet starved into affection, and the clergy never followed a more short-sighted policy, than when they generally took the part of the bread taxers. Unfortunately for them, their pecuniary interest lies on the same side, and the people look on them as having trampled under foot the principles both of morality and religion, to gain the most sordid ends. If they do not retrieve their character by some general demonstration against the dishonest regulation, by which they are supposed to profit, no claims to holiness will ever suffice to replace them in the affections and confidence of the people. A Liverpool Journal, an advocate of the Corn law and the aristocracy, tells us, by way of ac counting for the difficulties in which our com merce is involved, that We produce the cheapest—Z. e., the lowest priced—. goods of any manufacturing nation 4 Our goods are no toriously the rubbish of half the markets of the world, and the least in estimation. It is no longer a recom mendation for any article to be of British manufacture ; but, on the contrary, the term stamps it to be of doubtful and spurious quality. We have become quack imitators of other men's waxes, and pirates of other men's pat terns and fabrics. We steal even their labels and adopt their names ; and, as a natural result, when we do pro duce and offer for sale an article of our own, it is viewed with suspicion, and purchased only at a depreciated price. From the consequences of such a system of car rying on our operations in foreign markets it is that we are now suffering. To this cause at least is to be attri buted a great portion of our distress. We have for years been afflicted with a mania for producing at a cheap rate ; and, as is the case of all venders of cheap wares, the buyers have become tired of exchanging their money for trash." We are much afraid that there is a good deal of truth in this, and that our merchants and manufacturersj—_driven by the difficulty of making sales from high prices, are willing to imitate the aristocracy and the priesthood, who are notorious for taking that which does not honestly belong to them—have been endeavour.. ing to keep their heads above water - by the arts described by the Liverpool Standard. Suppos ing the observation to be correct, it is calculated to excite no inconsiderable alarm. That Eng land cannot hold her high place amongst na- tions, nor provide her present vast revenue without extensive trade, is quite certain; but if that extensive trade, or much of it,,be conducted on the pi inciple above stated, it must soon come to an end. Honest rivals will beat us out of the field ; and, as the demand for our manufactures decreases, our mills will stand idle, the popula tion will be unemployed, and the consequences of that are enough to fill the stoutest heart with fear and dread. We at least read the paragraph of the Liverpool paper with apprehension, as an additional proof to the many which crowd upon us, that our national prosperity has reached its height, unless the laws be altered, and an ex ample of honesty and justice be set by those who make them. The French Journals of Friday and Saturday have all reached us. Their leading columns are for the most part occupied with the affair of Tou louse. upon which however, they add nothing new, either in the shape of fact or argument. The following extracts from them include all the news they contain of any importance :- - The King and Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Nemours, Madame Adelaide, and the Princess Clemen tine, the Count de Paris, and the young Duke of Wur temberg, accompanied by the Count de Montalivet, Generals Athalin, Heymes, and de Rumigny, Colonel Dumas, Baron Fain, Lieutenant the Count de Grave of the Navy, and Captain de Sailly of the Foot Chasseurs, a suite of orderly officers, ladies of honour, and other attendants, arrived at Eu at half -past ten on Thursday morning. Their Majesties and met at the en t rance o f th e t own by t h e P refect prefe A e li t liotfarCommandant of the departm en t, t h e Sub whole Dieppe, and the Mayor and aut h or i t i es of Eu, and were greeted population. byaccl Immediatelyamtatio nsof.elc on ome from nearly the his arrival, the Rin judicial authorities,g and' all the civil a n d m ili tary an d Guards. i :l a s, and the officers of the Nati ona l Guards, four compje then revie we d th e N at i ona l of the 55th Regi men t o f t h e Line, and a squadron of of the chateau. no! th e 4t h L ancers, i n the court of the Marine at Afterw ards,Havre, who tne Co mm i ssary -G enera l re ceive the King's orders r was in attenda nce t o re vice, presented to his Majesty to th e M ar i ne Ser gteam-vessel Grondeur ande the brig s M ar i e A rne li e, - sty the Captai n o f th e a nd Leerier, and other office r s. In the afternoon, the King, accompanied by the Count Generals Athilin and Heymes, de Mont a li ve t, t r ator of the Domaine Prive, and Messrs.G;rente, Adminis- Leg] and, an 1 Cailleux,: went to visit Fontaine, Mr. Packks a, which have been considerablye mills of enlarged since last y •ar, and now comprise two manufactories of sea-b . :cults, one for lamp-oil, and a saw- m in . At 44 o'clo( k his Afajesty returned to the chateau. the evening the Prefect, Generals Maisonfort, Gerard, an l Feisthamel, the Sub-Prefect of Dieppe, the Mayor of ' Eu, the President of the Tribunal de Commerce, and other functionaries, the Commandants of the Gendar merie of the Seine Inferieure and Somme, the Colonel o f the 55th of the Line, the Captain commanding the squadron of the 4th Lancers, and the Commandants o f the National Guards of Eu and Treport, had the honour of dining with their Majesties. The Duke and Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by General Marbot and a lady of honour, arrived at half-past eight in the evening. A letter from Orleans, in the Messayer, states that Serein, the man charged with having carried off two children, has confessed, dreading discovery, he had strangled them, and put them into a cask, which he car ried in his cart to Vouzon, where he concealed them in sonic undcrwood. The account adds, that a gendarme, who had been sent to the spot indicated by the murderer, had discovered the bodies, but the thigh of one of them had been devoured by wolves. They had been stabbed and mutilated in several places. The wife of Serein has been arrested on suspicion of having known of the crime of her husband. Extract of a letter from Aleppo, June 21st, given by the Sentinelle of Toulon :—" The two English steam boats for navigating the Euphrates arrived a fortnight ago at Boles, the point nearest to Aleppo for the princi pal establishment. There is every reason to believe that an understanding has been or will be come to with the Arabs, but without which the proposed communication cannot take place. The passage from Bassora to Boles and the character and conduct of that part of the population who supported them, were incessantly condemned ; but now that their opponents have a great chance of acceding .to office, their policy is praised and adopted, and their sup porters are not to be vituperated by the Protest ant Association. Such changes can only make the PEEL party thoroughly contemptible. They must be regarded as dishonest politicians, and the sincere men who supported them, from a belief in their sincerity, must be ashamed of their company. The Protestant Association was one of their pillars. The bigotry which that Society has nourished was one of the elements of Tory success; but now that the Tories have scaled office, as they suppose, the ladder is to be kicked down as a worthless instrument. The Tories, in fact, find it is impossible to carry out the policy they have long been advocating with such mischievous effects, and they are now jostling against each other, in their hurry to leave it. The country will, however, yet call them to a severe account, and brand them as wilful and designing political knaves. The writer, who abuses his imitators to vaunt Sir ROBERT PEEL'S moderation, proves at the same time that Sir ROBERT PEEL can govern neither Ireland nor England. Sir ROBERT iS to vindicate the supremacy of the law. If that remark be not that mere common-place stuffing with which writers and speakers fill out their thin mannikin of sense to some required fullness, it shows that Sir IL PEEL cannot be successful. The Irish, like the English, with respect to trade, complain of the laws, not of their supre macy not being vindicated. The laws of Ireland have always been made by a small and narrow oligarchy for the purposes of preserving their own tyranny. To vindicate the supremacy of the laws in Ireland is to ensure Orange domination, and maintain the hated Church Establishment. In Ireland, as in England, the law is the source of the mischief ; and to take office with a deter mination to vindicate its supremacy, and pre serve it unaltered, is to provoke and justify re bellion. It seems now desirable to enforce on politicians, and particularly on the Tories, the maxim that unjust laws ought not to be obeyed, and the only way to vindicate is to abolish them. may be made in fourteen days, the distance being about twelve hundred English miles. It is too late for com mencing this year, as the waters of the river have been lowering ever since May the sth ; the current, however, remaining so strong that boats are obliged to keep near the shores." The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort hsts the fol lowing from Carisruhe, 31st ult.:—" This afternoon the Second Chamber of the States, which is to be pro rogued till November, had a farewell dinner, at which several liberal toasts were . proposed. The Vice-Presi dent, M. Bekk, in proposing the health of the Grand Duke, said—' The Grand Duke, who as a man possesses the greatest qualities, is as a Sovereign the object of the veneration of all of us, notwithstanding our differences with his Ministers. Let us not forget that the Duke is placed in too elevated a sphere to receive the slightest attack, and let our devotedness to him be the greater from the hope that his intervention will put an end to all unhappy dissensions." The New Gazette of Wurzburg has the following from Berlin, July 30 On the morning of the 28th, some workmen, in the musket manufactory at Potsdam, excited by some French workmen, made an attempt at revolt, which the police and the gendarmerie were un able to repress, and which was only put down by the presence of troops. In this manufactory there are 700 persons employed, who would not submit to a customary diminution of wages, and even demanded an increase. The ringleaders were arrested, and tranquillity was re stored. The improper conduct of some young men of the upper classes at a concert having reached the know ledge of the King, through the journals, he has ordered the Minister of the Interior to proceed to an investiga tion, and to report the result. More than 50 witnesses have already_ been examined." The Thlvetie states that the storm of the 18th ult., which was felt severely in Switzerland, was followed by an inundation in the Valais, which produced almost as calamitous results as the inundations of 1834 and 1839. On the 19th, the torrents from the mountains rushed down with such force, that the bed of the Rhone in a few minutes reached nearly the same height as in 1834, and_they brought down with them fragments of build ings destroyed in their course. Several mills and houses were swept away by the Rhone, and the water was be tween five and six feet deep on the road from Tourte magne to Louesch. A post-chaise was there carried away by the current, and the postillion with great diffi culty escaped with the horses. A letter of the 28th ult. from Naples, in the Sema phore, says :—" The King on the 26th held a council of Ministers, which prolonged its sittings for five hours. His Majesty, it appears, will not go into Sicily until the designs and plans for the alterations to be made in the Lazaretto at Messina are determined upon. The revenues of the city of Naples are so ample that hitherto it has never had occasion to raise the smallest loan ; but it is so anxious to complete some important works that it has decided upon borrowing 500,000 ducats, rather more than 2,000,000 francs. Messrs. de Rothschild have of fered to make the advance at 51 per cent., but it is said the city will give no more than 5, nor will allow any commission. The heat has for several days been exces sive, but is so sensibly diminished as to become sup portable." The followine , letter is published by the Legitimist papers, as having been addressed to M. Berryer by the Duke de Bordeaux :—" I have just learnt, Sir, the loss you have sustained by the death of your worthy father, and I have wished to express to you, with my own hand, the share I take in your just grief. I seize this opportu nity of informing you with how much attention and in terest I have followed the important discussions in which you have so frequently and so effectually spoken. Pro vidence has willed, and for this I offer up my thanks, that the most eloquent voice of our times should be con secrated to the defence of those principles, which so long insured the happiness and glory of our country. Con tinue, Sir, thus to serv e F rance , by enlightening her upon her true interests, and believe that you will thereby acquire fresh claims to my esteem and affection, of which I take pleasure in hereby renewing to you the very sincere assurance. " Kirchberg, July 10. " HENRL" The Echo de la Nievre gives the following affecting instance of the force of conjugal affection in an industri ous couple at Nevers. A journeym a n ca bi ne t- ma k er, named" Paris, and his wife, being both attacked with violent illness, were removed to the hospital, where the wife soon recovered ; but the husband remaining ill, she refused to leave him, and was constantly at his bedside. She was at length prevailed on to leave him for a short time, but she died soon after being removed to another room from excess of grief, and at the same moment the husband expired in the arms of one of the sisters of charity. A miser, who possessed a fortune of more than a thousand francs, but who did not expend daily more than six creutzers a•day for the milk and bread which formed his only food, lately committed suicide at Neufchatel, in Switzerland, by shooting himself with a pistol, which he had purchased the day before, after bargaining for a long time in order to obtain a diminution of price on the weapon. -1 A man with the appropriate name of Paternelle, as yet only 33 years of age, of the commune of Saint Martin in the Nord, lately entered for the fifth time into the holy state of matrimony, after a fourth widowhood of only 29 days, upon which occasion his neighbours gave him a spirit-stirring charivari. He Was first married in 1830, next in 1835, thirdly in 1836, and fourthly in 1839. M. de Lamartine has returned to Macon from a tour in Switzerland. The Ministerial evening journal says—" Toulouse has during several days been making marked progress in its return to order. Accordinc , to despatches receiv e d to-day, the disarm amen t o f the national guard is being effected without the least difficulty. Yesterday, in the afternoon, the persons employed at the Prefecture were scarcely sufficient to receive the arms brought in by the National Guards." The Moniteur Parisien states that the number of persons arrested at Toulouse is considerable. Menaces of death, it adds, have been addressed to the new Mayor and his colleagues, and it was this that caused M. Lari gandere to give in his resignation. The Etna steamer left Marseilles on the 3d, the Meteor and Crocodile on the sth, all bound for Algiers. Several emigrant Spanish priests have arrived at Paris. Immediately after their arrival they repaired to the Prefecture. -- The Acheron steamer which returned to port on the 31st of July, had seen the squadron off the Balcarie islands. Seray's division was still at Tunis, and was said to have many sick.—Le Commerce. Letters from Toulon of the 2d inst., on the autho rity of letters from Algiers of the 28th of July, represent the situation of General Lamoriciere at Mostaganem as difficult. Abd-el-Kader, they say, has resumed offensive operations, and has a sufficient force in the field to render the return from Mostaganem to Oran by land dangerous. The Euphrate steamer had left Toulon on the Ist on a secret mission, in con sequence of an order received by telegraph, and the Cameleon was preparing to follow. It was thought at Toulon, that they might be going to take in troops at Port Vendre to convey them to Mostaganem, and that they would be assisted in this service by the vessels of Admiral Hugon's division to which they would give notice as they passed. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y, AUGUST 10. 1841. BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7. f tilt Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents ll6 45 ... 116 CO ... 1 6 45 ... 116 60 4% per Cents ...... 4 per Cents 99 90 ... 99 90 ... 91 90 .. 99 90 3 per Cents. ex. di, 77 45 ... 77 '75 ... 77 45 ... 17 75 Bank of trance ...... ..... Latlltte Bank I.ooof. Shares 1037 50 ...1e37 50 ...DX 50 ...1037 50 ~ itrian Plank Belgian S per Cents. 3 per Cents 7l 40 ... 71 4 0 ... 71 40 ... 71 40 New Loan 10334 ... 1 , 3% ... 103% ... ILO% ipantsh Active lO% ... SO% ... '.0% ... 10% Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4% 4 eapolitan Roman .... 103 ... 103 34 ... 103 ... 10336 - RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, L.B 207 50 ... 212 50 ... 207 50 .. 212 SO 8.13 335 ... 3.35 ... 33, 335 ... Rouen 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 452 5) ... 451 50 `icrastourg to Bale 237 50 ... 238 75 ... 237 50 .. 228 75 HAMBURGH MAIL. HANOVER, JULY 31.—The memorial addressed to the German Diet by several Deputies of the dissolved As sembly of the Estates, under the title of " Respectful Memorial of the Majority of the Second Chamber of the dissolved Hanoverian Assembly of the Estates to the German Diet, has been entirely rejected by the Diet. We are not informed of the grounds on which the Diet wholly declined accepting it. VIENNA, JULY 31.—Yesterday morning, at one o'clock, the Duchess of Berry, who had come down to Gratz to be present at the celebration of the 25th anni versary of the marriage of her uncle the Prince of Sa lerno, set out suddenly from Kerchberg, having received news by express that her son the Duke of Bordeaux had broken his leg. BERLIN, AUG. 4.—M.VonWerttno, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has received the Order of theßlack Eagle, whence it is inferred that he will retire from his present office. Baron Bulow, who has received the Order of the Red Eagle, is gone to Frankfort, to enter on his office as Re presentative of Prussia in the Diet. Should M. Werttno retire from the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Bulow will certainly be his successor.—flanzlurgh Papers, Aug. 6. HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Atm. I Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Anglo-Russian Loan lO3 1C74 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cartificate JON Inscription, lst se:i&s lOl3 101% Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series fr74 Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1340) B6 k, t.o % Dutch actual Debt, 2yi pc. Cent 504 Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, ;5 I4Cr Cert 7:04 75;1, Norwegian Loan, iti3l, 4 per ........ .•2,4 Spanish, Ne w 5 per C-nts. l6 EXCIIANGE* ti 's LON DON. HAMBURG. AUG. 6.-13 sN.—Two months, 13 4 RIGA. JULY —Three Months, 39. STocanout, Jut.‘, :A.—Seventy.five days. 11. 't6. PEITEItSBUKGI/, JULY 30. —Two months, 38 3 .6 pence UNDS-Bau•i.itt..•. Auc. 7. Actual Debt, '2 per Cent. ........ ltothschild' s Loan, 5 per C.n' Loan of l'hirty Ilitlions, 4 per Cent........ 1i _____________. es 3i) Cent. — -.....Thirty.seven--- •• • 1 —_________—_—(l r 40) lOl Loan of City, 1.:3•2,4 per Ce n t 34 Society of C ommerce, 4 !•i i per Cent 93.31 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .... ... ..... N ational Society . Exchange on Londosi (shot t) .................. 11 95 --Brussels Papers, Aug, 7. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viexict, JULY 31 five per Cents. Metalliques . ................. ........ ..... 105 Four per Cents..... .......... ................... .............. 97 Three per Cents. ................. .. ............. ............. d Hank Shares .... ................. . ...... ....«. ..... ..... l 5lB —Allgerneine &MARC • Aug. 4. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—Beaux, Auo. 3. bills. Money , St. Schuld. Sch., 4t v per cent. ..... ........... 114% JOi% 101y * 3nngeEonngilLshonUdoann;tlhB3°ree. 4mPeonicla7 .... ... .....6 ° 17% 6 17S I;u Prtiiiian Slats Gazette, Aug, 4, Prussian sumroAßv OF NEWS AND Pub tit Opinton. " IT'ho runs may read." rortExcN. The acquittal of Mr. M'teod is confidently anti cipated in the American Journals to the 20th of July, received yesterday. We have long ceased to enter tain any apprehension as to the taking away the life of this gentleman. Indeed, from the outset, we never sup posed that the Yankees seriously contemplated involving themselves in a war with Great Britain by a provocation so atrociously reprehensible as the judicial murder of a British subject. Brother Jonathan and his Holiness the Pope will shortly fall to loggerheads unless the Vicar of Christ re verse the order of apostolical salutation by the lip wor ship of a part of Jonathan's person, quite as unattractive as the Papal toe. It appears that some two or three years ago, the Pope summoned the Bishop of Detroit to Rome. The Bishop, Dr. Rees, obeyed the sum mons, when his Holiness ordered him to resign his diocese. This the Yankee Prelate refused, and was at once consigned to the dungeons of the Inqui sition. These facts were reported to Congress on the 18th of July, and it was expected that the President would call the Pope to a severe account for the incarce ration of an American citizen, for ecclesiastical acts al leged to have been committed within the jurisdiction of the United States. The affair was making a greater stir than the 11PLeod case. Advices of the 2d instant from Lisbon represent the interior of Portugal as in a most unsettled state. Murder, sacrilege, and robbery are crimes of daily occur rence in the Algarves. The Government was preparing a law for the more expeditious hanging of culprits. If the Portuguese Government can find no better moral teachers than the hangmanend the gallows, the condi tion of that part of the Peninsula is indeed hopeless. From France the news is more interesting than politically important. Abd-el-Kader is growing more troublesome in Africa, and appears really bent upon bag ging the head of General Bugeaud. This is an imperti nence which the French Commander-in-Chief threatens to resent with tragic effect as soon as he catches hold of the Emir. The Criminal Tribunal of Tulle, at its sitting on the sth instant, agreed to postpone the trial of Madame Laffarge for the diamond robbery for a period of twenty weeks, to allow her principal witness, M. Clave, to return from Mexico., The following is a list of the jewels delivered into the Court, and which are to be produced in evidence, viz. :-122 diamonds, a star of brilliants, a fragment of an ornament composed of a pearl and brilliants, and another fragment of an orna ment in the form of a pompon, 10 fragments of other ornaments, a round box containing a ring set with bril liants and other stones, a small gold chain, and pearls, a velvet book-cover, a box with four pearls and two gold pins. The whole are inclosed in a box belonging to Mme. Laffarge." The Jews of Smyrna are exposed to the most wanton outrages on account of their religion. One of them was recently thrown into prison because a cat was missing ! and no crime is committed of which they are not supposed to be guilty by the bigoted inhabitants. Why do not the European Consuls interfere to protect these poor people ? The little war-kindling ex-Minister Thiers arrived in Brussels on Friday morning from Courtrai. With out stopping to pay his compliments at Court the small statesman proceeded by the railway to Liege, with the intention, as was supposed, of visiting Germany. His organs in Paris have prepared the Courts of Vienna and Berlin for the magnificent reception of the political Tom Thumb of the nineteenth century. The Dukes of Cadiz and Seville, Infants of Spain, left Liege on the sth inst. for Holland. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times, speculating on the probable course of Sir R. Peel's policy, says:—" Re will govern Ireland, like every other part of the British empire, upon the principles of equal justice, and with the full determina tion of vindicating the supremacy of law." This is plausibly enough said, but who is to understand what the Right Hon. Baronet means by the "principle of equal justice," as applied to Ireland. A Tory notion of jus tice in this respect is apt to be a very erroneous one, and to border very closely on pure despotism. In the fol lowing passage the Times evidently gives Sir R. Peel a hint of the propriety of putting down the Dublin Repeal Association :—" Nor should we expect him to' look tamely on, while an organized society collected subscrip tions and held public meetings for the purpose of esta blishing an independent monarchy at Birmingham or Manchester : if Ireland is treated in the same way, what right can she have to complain ?" If the Tories attempt to put down the Repeal Association without giving Ireland some redress of the many wrongs of which she complains—and this they are likely enough to do—they will find that, instead of diminishing, they will only be adding tenfold fresh fuel to the flame that already rages in the sister country. The Herald, recurring to the well-worn question of the Corn-laws, observes,—" If corn were high, the wages to purchase would be in proportion; and therefore there ought not to exist such a condition of distress. If corn were low, low wages would still bear their proportionable relation for the means of purchasing low-priced corn. Therefore, under that state of things, such a condition of distress ought not to exist. Finally, if corn were low and wages high, it would seem impossible that such a condition of distress could co-exist with that relation between wages and prices. We undertake to show, it a fliture article, that manufacturing distress on a scale o enormous extent has prevailed coincidently with each of these conditions of the price of corn and the rate o, wages." The Advertiser strenuously insists on the necessity of an immediate extension of the suffrage :—" The inte rests of the many must continue to be sacrificed to the prejudices and interests of the few, so long as the present contracted state of the electoral qualification is suffered to remain. The aggressions of Toryism in its most.ultra and audacious forms, can never bQ successfully re sisted until the franchise be enlarged to at least such an extent as shall include all the householders of the land. The result of the recent elections affords demon- strative evidence of this ; and has called fortl;, - f;oin one extremity of the empire to another, a louder cry than was ever heard before in favour of household suffrage. To that loud and universal demand for an extended suffrage, we would entreat Ministers to respond in the approaching Speech from the throne, if they would wish to retire from office with credit to themselves, and amid the plaudits of the people." The object of the Reform Bill was chiefly to benefit the middle classes, who may be said to have been almost the only great gainers by it ; and we think it is now full time that a still further reform should be granted, which may include those immediately below the middle classes, and by whose active, zealous exertions, it was that the first Bill was carried. An extension of the suffrage, conjointly with the Ballot, would produce this desir able effect. The Morning Chronicle remarks :—" Admitting, for argument sake, the superiority of the rural popula tion and the depravity of the urban, we again ask how are the latter to be disposed of ? The process of starva tion is slow. The shutting up of the factories may throw the operatives on parochial relief ; but the farmers, who insist that there are labourers enough for their purposes, will be unable to bear the additional burdens of several ' millions, for whom there is no work, and whose vices will contaminate their purer dependents. What is to be done with them ? Will Lord Francis Egerton answer the question ?" This is the very question—more im ' portant than all others--that Sir Robert Peel has so often been called on to answer, and yet it is the very one to which he either cannot, or will not, give any reply. The Morning Post states that Mr. O'Connell's public purposes are revealed in every speech he makes, and that they are to "ripen the spirit of insurrection in Ireland until it can no longer be restrained, un!ess by an overwhelming military force, and, with this view to lead the Irish malcontents to rely upon the aid of the foreign enemies of England." Ireland is the Tories' weak point ; and whenever it evinces a more than ordinary disrelisli of their policy, they invariably cry out, as in the present instance, that its great leader is busily projecting an in- surrection. The Leeds Times, commenting on the present state o affairs, remarks as follows :—",Sir Robert may think tha he has now obtained a power by which to stay the act vanccment of reform and revolution ; but let - the hour o_ trial come when it may, he will find himself utterly powerless to control the progress of events. Circum stances are even now working out the ruin of his party." The Devonport Independent thus defines the cha racter of Sir R. Peel's policy :—" What will Sir Robert Peel do ?—ls the question. The answer is—precisely as he has done before—accommodate himself to circum stances—eat his own words, and belie his own professions, if expedient so to do. He will do as much as he must, but no more than he can help." The Cambrian, remarking on Sir R. Peel's reserve, sa y s , However unpalateable to the plain honest mind of the country such unworthy silence on its vital measures may appear, we ought not to grudge the short period of suspense during which the actor re hearses his part and lays on his paint. We can only remark, that in history no great man was ever known to make a secr e t o f w h at, i n his opinion, was best for the common weal. Chatham, and Burke, and Fox, would have died sooner than dissemble for a moment. Durirg the whole career of those great statesmen, their measures and their sentiments on all points and ques tions were proclaimed in season and out of season, in office and in opposition." The Scotsman warmly praises the clergymen who are about to assemble at Manchester, in order to enter their solemn protest against the Corn-laws :—" We are glad to perceive that many clergymen in different parts of the country are beginning to remonstrate with the landlords against the iniquitous Corn-laws. With the ordinary contests of party it is doubtful how far the clergy should interfere ; but questions occasionally come before the public which belong to religion as well as politics, and in which it is their duty to take part. The efforts, for example, which they made for the abolition of slavery, so far from being in consistent with their calling, were a necessary conse quence of sincerity in the faith they professed ; and as suredly the question of the Corn-laws is entitled to rank in the same category. To unfetter trade is, in fact, to clothe the naked and feed the hungry." The Dublin Evening Post is of opinion that Sir Robert Peel will force the Tories to come into his views, observing, " He has just put the bit into their mouths, and they must obey the impulse of the charioteer." FIEONEY—TRADE—C 0 IVE Z CE. The Scottish Guardian, speaking of another heavy failure that took place in Glasgow on Wednesday last, adds, " We very much fear that we have not seen the worst." AGRICULTURAL. The weather continues very inauspicious at Brighton ; the air is cold and damp, and much rain falls. The wheat harvest has begun in some favoured spots, but in others the crops are green and beaten down. The oats stand thick, and have been mown and reaped. The change of the moon has brought no change of weather. The rains at Lea►nington have been as heavy since that event, as they were before, and large crops are expected to be spoiled. Nearly 40,000 sheep and lambs were penned at Alresford July lamb fair, and by noon the flockmasters had nearly disposed of all. A Correspondent from Birmingham states the last week to have been gloomier than ever. Owing to the short supply of wheat a rise of 4s. a quarter was made on Saturday, which will, of course, be saddled to-day on the already miserable loaf of the half-famished mechanic Turnips look well, but the crops have suffered, and much remains in the fields saturated with rain, and turning black. LAW AND POLICE. -- The Biddulph case at Dublin has at length been brought to a termination for the present. Instead of having the trial proceeded with at an adjournment of the assizes, the Attorney-General hts admitted Colgan to bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 50/. each, and Doherty in 50/., and two sureties in 251. each. This pro. longation of the case has been brought on by the sudden illness of the Juryman Hackett, which obliged Baron Foster to discharge the entire Jury. It may, however, be stated that eleven of the Jury were for an acquittal. COURT - P.SHION.S.BLES. Friday next is the birth-day of the Queen Dow ager. The Tuesday following (17th instant)is the anni versary of the Duchess of Kent's birth, and the 26th is that of Prince Albert. Owing to the unsettled state of the weather, it is expected that the Duchess of Kent will prolong her stay oAhe Continent some time longer. The Marquis of Normanby arrived in town on Saturday from the Isle of Wight. The Duke of Devonshire has left town for Paris, on his way to Italy. Sir F. Burdett has been on a visit to Sir R. Peel at Drayton Manor. The Earl and Countess of Carlisle have arrived in Paris. SPORTING. -- The celebrated steeple-chase horse Jupiter was a few days ago shipped, per Rob Roy steam-ship, from Bull, for Vienna. It is understood to be sent as a pre sent to Prince Lichtenstein. nurscEmmairrmous. Mr. Russell, M.P., observed at a public dinner given to him at Burton-upon -Trent on Friday last, that " his party (the Tories) would not hide themselves behind the ample robes of the Ladies of the Bedchamber, but would envelope themselves in the broad mantle of their own in tegrity." If the Tories wear no other garments than those furnished by their " own integrity," it is evident that they must walk abroad in purls naturalibus—that is to say, in a state of unsophisticated nature, such as Adam was in before the Fall ! Imagine Sir Robert Peel walk ing down Regent -street in broad daylight, with nothing but his " integrity" to cover him On Friday the election of the sixteen Representa tive Peers for Scotland took place at Holyrood. The only alterations were the substitution of the Earl of Seafield and Lord Rollo for the Earl of Home and Lord Gray, who retire by their own consent. The Earl of Lonsdale, at his audit last week at Appleby, caused from twenty to twenty-five percent. on the rents to be returned to his tenants. The Church-rates at West Hackney were polled for on Saturday :—for the rate, 150; against it, 316. Several manuscripts of Mozart, consisting of about two hundred and eighty pieces, are on the eve of publica tion on the Continent. A German Paper states that Madame Pasta has lost nearly all her fortune by the failure of a house at Vienna. * A Morning Paper tells a strange story of the Bishop of London who, it seems, has lately summoned an aged Middlesex Rector before him, on the charge of sitting at an open window in an arm-chair, and reading a Sunday newspaper, with his feet on the window-ledges, and a cask of ale on his drawing-room sofa ! Irreverent and unclerical as this conduct may seem in the Bishop's eyes, it is not a bit worse than standing—as his Lordship did a few years ago—half the day at his palace-window, flattening his apostolical nose against the pane, and counting the boats that rowed from Fulham to Putney on the Sabbath ! The bed-rooms of the new Reform Club-house caught fire on Sunday evening, but by the quick arrival o the engines the flames were soon quenched. The entire Regent's Park will be thrown open to the public on Sunday, the 15th inst. On Monday last, a girl under twenty years of age, eloped from Aylesbury with a. tailor. Luckily, her parents rescued her in time from the ninth fraction of humanity. At a Tory dinner given to Mr. Harman at Bury, that gentleman observed that the Tories would ere long " monopolize all the' education, intelligence, and good sense of the country !" When this time comes, we shall look out with confidence for the Millennium ! HUMOURS or THE HAW. It is rumoured that an alliance is in contemplation between Prince George of Cambridge and a young Ger man Princess, a near relative of Queen Adelaide. We hear that a splendid entertainment is shortly :o be given to Admiral Sir R. Stopford, at the Thatched House Tavern. The Report of Mr. Stephen Conroy's death, late of the Coldstream Guards, is contradicted on authority. Mr. Conroy is at present on the Continent, with Sir John and Lady. Conroy, and though seriously indisposed, is sanguinely expected to recover. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The amount of business transacted in the funds to day was of a very limited character, and, as regards the fluctuations, they were confined to the same extent as on Saturday, viz., about h per cent., taking the extreme prices. The market was ren d ere d a li tt l e heavy in the morning by the loose statement, contained in an Ame rican paper, of an attempt havin g b een ma d e b y the Ca nadians to rescue M`Leod. Very few, however, attached the least credit to it. What we want now to give firm ness to Stocks is fine weather, and an early solution of the intentions of the Legislature on the all important subject of Commercial Reform. For immediate transfer, Consols realised -894 to -, and for account 894 to *. Ex chequer Bills were 145.. to 16s. premium, Bank Stock re ceded to 168 k and 169 ; India Stock got up from 247 to 248, but with scarcely any business doing ; the New Three-and- a-Half per Cents. were rather flat at 98* to and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 90 to *. The transactions in the Foreign Market were on a very small scale, but there was rather more doing than to wards the close of last week. The New Portuguese Five per Cent. Stock was quoted a shade higher, viz., 30*. Spanish Active Bonds were also a trifle better in the morning ; but, in the absence of any business of magni tude, they did n©t quite maintain the improvement, viz., 20* for account. The money price was 198 to 20 ; Co lombian Stock was at 20i, Mexican at 26, and Chilian at 62. French rive per Cents.tonehed 116, and Dutch Two-and- a-Half per Cents. were at 52*. The business in the Share Market was generally upon satisfactory terms for the sellers, though no advance oc curred. Great Western Railway Shares were 19, the New 8, the Fifths 5* to 4 ; London and Birmingham New 21*, and South Western 13* to 13* premium ; Brighton were 7* to WI, Blackwall 9f, Croydon 1, and Eastern Counties 15* discount. National Provincial Bank of England Shares were 11 discount. Provincial Bank of Ireland Shares were 15 to 158 premium ; and Union Bank of London -1 discount ex dividend. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTO N MARKET, Auc. 7.—We have had a very quiet market to-day, and the business limited. The sales amount to 2,500 b a l es ; on l y a f ew o f American descriptions have bean taken by exporters. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 7.—The transac- Highest rate of exchange upon London during the week 20. ; lowest 2 13-16 d. We have received Demerara Papers to the 3d July, which do not contain any intelligence worth notice. Mauritius papers have also been received. They are also void of interest. Cape of Good Hope papers received to the sth of June, state that an edict against Cape paper money has at length been issued at the meeting of the Legislative Council on the 27th of May. The Governor laid before it an extract of a letter from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, dated 27th December, containing a direction to withdraw and cancel the Cape paper money, or substitude in lieu thereof Debentures bearing in terest, as to the Council shall appear most expedient, for reducing the amount of Government paper money in circulation. The Corn Market continues the general object of at tention, and in the face of liberal supplies prices are firmly maintained. Free wheats are ls. to 2s. dearer than on this day week, and bonded 2s. to 3s. higher. The importation of foreign wheat is up wards of 7,000 quarters, and of Flour 1,025 barrels. It must be borne in mind that the advance in prices is only what had occurred on Friday last. The British Funds opened this morning rather better for Money; left off on Saturday at 891 I for Money, and opened this morning at 89i 1; for the Account, the same as they left off, 89/ s ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 901 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 98* 991; New Three-and-a-Half, 9811 1. SHARES.—Great Western, 181 191 prem. ; Ditto, New, 81 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 6/ dis. ; Blickwall, 94 dis. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; South ampton, 52 53 per share ; Croydon, 121 13. There was but little business doing in the Stock Ex change. The following were the CLOSING PRICES. • BRITISH FUNDS. Bank St ock .... 169 ' India Stock .........248 3 per Cent Red. 9O Ditto Bonds - pm 3 per Cent Cons 89,1 Ditto Old Annuities ... _ 3 per Cent Red.. 99 Ditto New Annuities... New 3fr per Cent 9s a Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 16 p . New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/ l6 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small.— Jan. 1860 .. 12 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct. 1859 lndia Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. — 'Consols for Acct 894 FOREIGN FUNDS. tustrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... 62 Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2O Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred . Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent.ll6f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange— ...... —f. —c. 111exican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent. —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct — Ditto, 5 per . cent 102* SHARES Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 7i Great Western Railway (65 paid) B4 Ditto New Shares (50 paid ... ..... 58 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid).... 43* London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid) l4 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) .. London and South Western London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l:2i THE UTILITY OF THE TOAD —A few days ago, a toad was observed in the neighbourhood of Settle feeding on catterpillars, which it appeared to catch by a rapid movement of the tongue. So eager was it in the pursuit of its prey, that it raised its forelegs on the stem of a gooseberry bush, and when the catterpillars were thrown at it, it continued to catch them in the same manner, never missing its aim. It is hoped that such facts as this will tend to deliver a much-injured animal from a contempt which it never deserved ; and that the poor " paddock," in pla c e o f b e i ng th e obect of cruelty, will at length be enabled to take its place among animals of a useful and respectable character—be considered- by the gardener as an useful assistant, and permitted to pur sue its avocations unmolested. • NAUTICAL NOVELTIES IN SOUTHAMPTON. —We remark, among other novel propositions to voya geurs, that on the 15th of August, the yacht-built schooner Louisa will leave Southampton for the Cape of Good Hope and Calcutta, offering peculiar facilities and comforts to passengers.—An opportunity i s now pre sentel for enjoying a trip to Brighton by sea—the Prin cess Royal steamer, propelled by the Archimedian screw, leaves Southampton for Brighton every Tuesday. She made her first passage from Brighton Er Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, in five hours and a half ; from thence to Southampton in one hour and three-quarters ; and re turned from Ryde to Shoreham in four hours and a half. —Within two months of the present time, the entire steam fleet of the West India Mail Navigation Com pany will arrive at Southampton from the different ports at which the vessels have been built, and make a trial cruise round the Isle of Wight, to ascertain their re spective rates of speed. A meeting of Ministers and other gentlemen belonging to the United Dissenting Congregation of this - town-was held at- York Chapel; -‘rat -Monday evening, when it was resolved to depute the Rev. C. Thompson to attend the great Convention of Ministers, which is to be held at Manchester this month, on the subject of the Corn-laws. It was stated at the meeting that, as there may be many ministers in this district who cannot attend the Convention, it would be very desirable for them to drop a line to Mr. Thompson, appointing him their de legate. The meeting considered it of the greatest im portance that as large a number as possible express their concurrence in this great undertaking.—Cambrian. DUMB ELOQUENCE . OF A DYING BABOON. —I remember a touching incident which happened at the Cape of Good Hope when I was them. A party had gone out to shoot baboons. The gentleman who re lated the anecdote wounded one rather severely. Great was his surprise on seeing the animal thus wounded lea 4 the rest of the troop, approach him, and lie down at his* Feet. Looking him full in the f ace , th e f a i n ti ng , d y i ng creature pointed at its bleedinf , side, as much a s t o say , " This is your cruel wor k, an d how have I deserved it ?" No language could surpass this in truth of appeal, or the moral lesson which it taught.—Rev. Dr. Jones's Lecture on Oratory. CLERICAL RETURT.—Our readers, we dare say, will ar , ree with us in thinkinr , that the following anecdote of a clerical friend not a'hundred miles 'dis tant, is decidedly " too good to be lost :"—Sabbath last being the sacramental fast here, sorne difficulty was experienced in procuring a minister to offi ciate to the cavalry in the Low Green. The clergyman to whom we allude having submitted the application of the Colonel to the judgment of his vere.nd helpers, assembled at the time in the parlour )f the manse, and unbending in a little social conversa,- 4):1 after the Saturday's services, the temporary appoint " chaplain to the forces " became the subject of ocular discussion, in the course of which our friend ment 01 took occasion to speak rather disparagingly of field preaching generally. "In that case I doubt you would have made but a poor covenanting preacher, Mr. S--," observed one o f hi s b ret h ren , w ho unluckily is i n the ha bit of reading his sermons—a practice still far from be ing popular in Scotland. " And what kind o' a cove nanting preacher wad ye hae made," retorted the other, " gin a puff o' wiNd had come and blawn awa' yir bits o' paper?"--.Ayr Observer. Lord Ashley is now on a tour through the Ina. nufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, with the view of acquiring information as to the actual condi tion of the labouring population.—Liverpool Chicle. tions are reported as follows:—Grand Junction, 189 ; ' Half Share ditto, 98 ; Great Western, 201. shares, 0 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 195 ; London and South Western, 52; Manchester, Preston, and Bury, 55; North Midland Thirds, 98. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 7.—We can not report any improvement in the Share Market : Manchester and Leeds, 50 51 ; do. Halves. 21+ 21i; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 424. 43 ; London and Birming ham, Quarters, 22k 224 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 21 21i ; Stafford and Rugby, 21., lls. 3d. A Lisbon mail has also arrived by the Br.aganza steamer, sailed from Gibraltar 29th of July, Cadiz 30th, Lisbon 2d of August, Oporto 3d of August. The infor mation she brings is of little interest, except that a confla gration took place in which several lives were lost ; also two respectable tradesmen destroyed themselves by poison. New York Papers have been received by the North America, after a passage of nineteen days to the 20th ultimo, three days later than previously received by the Britannia. The news she brings is not of importance. Some excitement was caused at New York - by a state ment in a Sunday paper that three hundred or four hun-` dred Canadians were going to rescue M•Leod. An alarm was given, and all the bells rung, and the people turned out en masse. The New York daily papers are silent on the above subject ; and no credit is attached to it in well-informed quarters. The rate of Exchange upon England for good bills was Bto 81, and 71 for inferior paper. United Statcs Bank Shares rather lower, 178. We have received Buenos Ayres papers to the 13th of June, from which it appears that Admiral Brown in his brig, accompanied by a brigantine, arrived in the outer roads from off Monte Video, on Sunday last, to re-victual, &c. It is said that the Riveresta squadron, including Capt. Coe's ship, the newly-purchased barque and brig Pereyra, were about to leave Monte Video to seek a new encounter with Admiral Brown. The tone of Capt. Coe's dispatch to the Monte Video Government relative to the action of the 24th is quite different from that which he indited of his operations off this port, and does not warrant the bombast indulged in by the Monte Video papers. It is such as was to be expected from a foiled man who had done his best to wrest victory from his opponents. He states that up to nine o'clock on the morning of the 25th the returns received by him gave the loss to the squadron of Captain Shannon and Lieut. Lemoine (erroneously stated Paz) seven seamen and two marines killed, and nine wounded. The Reve rista brigantine, which was driven on shore on the 25th, has been dismantled; her second in command was wounded in the arm. The arrival of the national vessels of war on the even ing of the 27th ult., caused some anxiety on shore. The former fired a gun on anchorage in our outer roads. A boat was sent to her, which did not return until long after dark, when the cheers of the boat's crew, and of those assembled on the beach, gave the first intimation of the triumph of Admiral Brown's squadron on the 24th ult. The paper of the 12th June states, "we have no news this week from the interior ; a strong wind off land has nrevailed all the week, and• we have no late accounts from sea, or from Monte Video. It is understood that General Echegua has opened the campaign in-Corrientes. The coronation of the Emperor of Brazil has been de ferred until the 18th July. Treasury Bills in circulation on the Ist instant, 4,385,600 dollars. MORNING S COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge has left his residence in St. James's Palace, for Kew. Mr. Yorke and' Mr. Handley had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. A messenger arrived in town yesterday from Ancona, bringing despatches to the Colonial-office from the Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. A NOVEL ORDER.—Last week, writes a pro vincial editor, a gentleman called at our printing-office , and requested that we would print for him about two hundred letters. On handing the copy to us, we were surprised to read the following contents : " MY DEAR --, —I hasten to inform you that ml dear wife Susan presented me with a fine —, at o'clock —, and that she and the dear babe are doing as well as can be ex p ecte d . ' Y ou are aware that this is my —teenth blessing.—Ever yours, This " novel order" certainly caused us to cast up an ill; quiring look, as m uc h as to say, " Are you in earnest? ' —for his reply was, "I am really in earnest." " You know," he continued, " M rs , has just been con fined with th e t we lf t h , an d I see no prospect of her arriving at the end of the chapter. Now, every accouche ment I have to write to upwards of twenty friends and relations. Therefore, if I have a stock of printed forma by me, all I shall have to do on these interesting occa sions will be to fill up the blanks." " Well," we re joined, " but now she has completed a round dozen, the chances are against the number augmenting." " Net at all," he repli e d ; " M rs . mother was remark ably fond of strawberries, and she had 19 children ; rtlY wife is as fond of strawberries, and eats large quantities every year—so that, like mother like daughter." We were not learned en oug h i n connubial mysteries to un derstand, much less to reply to this logic ; so we took up the copy and carried it into the printing-office, and being bachelors, wended our way, much wondering what mysterious connection there could be between babies and strawberries, and admiring the philosophy of our Benedict, who could wear a smooth chin, and a resigned conntenance, with twelve children, and the prospect of an indefinite augmentation of that awful number. Our diary on that day has the following entry :—" Resolved, never to marry a woman that loves strawberries over much."—Hull Advertiser. Cutttous ATFINITY.=-There are residing in a cottage at Welton, in the parish of Midsomer Norton, one great-grandmother, two grandmothers, three mothers, three daughters, two grand-daughters, one great grand daughter, one son, one brother, one sister, one uncle, one great-uncle, two nieces, one widow, and four fatherless children, yet the whole amount to but five persons !--- Salisbury Herald. LoNGEvITY.—There is now living at Belgrove, near Welling, in Kent, a venerable man, named Reeves, who was a soldier in the British army at the battle of Lexington, in America, April 19, 1775. He was then 25, and consequently is now 91. An aged person, who frequently stands at the gate of Greenwich Park was also in the army opposed to General Washington in 1780. He was also on board the Royal George when that ship sunk at Spithead, and is now, by his own account, in his 90th year. The first of these old men is surrounded by two generations, his descendants, all located near his place of residence. NEWBURGII.—The United' Secession meeting have got a bell hung on their church last week, Ni bleb chimed fir service for the first time on Sunday. The time is not far gone by, when any such noise on a Sun day, except the ringing of the parish church bel?, would have been reckoned a desecration of the Sabbath—but tempora mutant:tr. W e certa i nly may be ashamed of t h e bigotry of our ancestors who attempted to prop up their own section of re li g i on by such intolerant pretensions to rule.—Fife Her a ld. PARAPETS ON HIGHLAND ROADS.—We are. glad t o l earn that Mr. Grant, o f Gl enmor i ston , i s agitat ing the pr o p r i ety of parapets being erected on the most dang erous parts of our Highland roads. On the banks of Loch N ess such protection is much required, and we trust the c o u nty will assent to the proposition, when it is fo rma ll y i ntroduced at next Michaelmas meeting. Inverness Courier. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—The cause of la dies' teeth decaying at so much earlier a stage of life than those of the other sex, is attributed to the friction; of the tongue upon them. But according to the Hertford Courier, it is owing to the sweetness of their lips, as it is a fact (well established by everybody's saying so), that sweet things rot the teeth. Barley harvest c ommence d u p on T ues d a y last, the 3d inst., upon a fi e ld on t h e f arm o f G arron haugh, b parish of Rothi e m a y, b e l ong i n g, to Mr. William _ienln.. grain, and proves to be a mo st abundant crop.—Abard Herald. --- WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert enjoyed their usual morning walk this forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has been taken out twice to-day, once for a carriage airing. Her Majesty and Prince Albert went out in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving; the - Duchess of Bedtbrd, Lady Olivia Taylour, and the Marquis of Headfort fol lowing in a pony carriage and four ; Lady . Caroline - Somers Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Cavendish in a poll, phaeton ; a nd L or d Alf re d P aget, C olone l W y ld e , and Major the Hon. George Koppel on horseback. The Duke of Bedford, and the Marquis and Mar chioness of Clanricarde, arrived on a visit to her Majesty. In the evening, shortly before six o'clock, the Royal • party returned to the Castle through the street. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge. and the Lao Eleanora and Constance Paget, will have the honour of dining with her Majesty at the Castle, this evening. The Lord Chancellor arrived in town yesterday from his residence at Copse Hill. Viscount Melbourne's dinner to the Cabinet Ministers. will be given on Saturday next, the 14th instant, at l us private residence in South-street. MURDER IN SYDNEY.--The inhabitants in the vicinity of the Greenhills have, within the last few days, bt.en thrown into considerable excitement in conse quence of a most diabolical murder having been petr" trated upon the persons of two young people (brother and sister) nam e d M ur k ey, son and daughter of a settler of that name, re s idi ng on t h e b anks of the river Mattison, about five or six miles from the Greenhills. The facts of the murder, as far as we at present can ascertain, are es follow : —Th e c hild ren h a d gone on Saturday, 27th March, on a visit to their aunt, with the intention of returning home during the day ,• but as they had not been seen by their friends up to Monday, considerable apprehensio ns were entertained for their safety, and their father pr.°' ceeded over to their aunt's to make inquiries. On atf ing there he found that they had left their aunt's, as if; ticipated, on Saturday afternoon, to return home. immediate search was made about the neighbourboeu'.., but up to four o'clock no trace of the missing clor dren could be discovered. Shortly after that time e stockman, in driving his cattle to a water-hole, to (14 214 found it extremely difficult to induce the beasts to al r proach the s p o t. Thi s remarkable fact led him forivar"' and upon looking among the rushes and weeds, he we e , exceedingly a l arme d at t h e sight of two appa r e ntly naked bodi es lyi ng t h ere i n, with a heavy log of wood; placed acr oss th em to k eep them under the water. In stant alarm was given of the circumstance, and th e bodies, on being drawn out, proved to be those of th e unfortunate Murkeys ; measures were hereupon taken t ° trice the perp e t ra t ors o f so s h oc ki ng a murder, a nd se e " picion fell upon some blacks belonging to a tribe en' camped in the neighbourhood. These blacks had been seen with white people's clothes in their possession, and three of them were apprehended, and are now in custody. It is reported they have confessed the murder of the WY and girl from motives of revenge. The three miscreants, have been conveyed to the gaol at Newcastle, where e' course they will remain until the trial comes on.—SYd al Advertiser, April 5. A FACT IN FAVOUR OF THE BALLOT._-. 1 4 6 the opponents of protection to the vot er ,—let th - shilly-shallyers who think " the time has not yet come, for the appli ca ti on o f t h e B a ll ot—read and ponder th e following sta r tli ng an d s i gn i f i cant truth. The Du k , e of Northumb er l an d h as 400 tenants-at-will, possessi n g votes in North Northumberland, and the polling-boo hi show that out of these 400 the number who voted in favour of Lord Howick amounted precisely to two —not 200, but two single individuals ! To add on e word by way of showing the full meaning of this fact, would be superfluous, —to proceed to argue from i t ' would only weaken its force. No man in his s enses would venture to s a y th at t h ere i s to b e found i n b r oad Britain a rural parish, or a street of a town, containing 400 inhabitants, 398 of whom are, to a man, of ..one mind in politi cs , or i n a l most anything else, regard ing ~' ing whi c h th ere can b e more than one opinion ; an d honest man will attempt to avoid the inference that not some, but many ou t o f t h ese 398 of the Duke ' s ten ant; must have been coerced to vote against their wishes an d convictions. It may be added that those who posse ss the best means of forming an opinion on the subject from acquaintanceship, local residence, and being el l ; gaged in the late canvass — est i mate that (plumpers splits together) 350 out of the 400 were desirous, we d t eager, to vote, for Lord Howi c k. All o f t h ese , all but two suffered their independ ence t o b e tram pl e d down by the myrmidons of the Castle ! High honour to th e two !—the brave an d h onest two ! The Lord of - 4 • I n: wick Castle ou g ht t o b e prou d er of numbering anion: his tenants th ese t wo , w h o, li ke men and Englishmen, withstood his tyranny and defended and preserved t a rights, than of the hundreds of serfs who suffered the i r to rob them of th e i r f ree d om, t h e i r honesty, a nd self-respect. —Berwick Advertiser. seen PICTURE OF A SAVAGE.--I observed a na b tive on the opposit e b an k, an d w i thout being..age him. I s t oo d aw hil e to watch the habits of asa man at home. Hi s h an d s were rea d y to se i ze , his teeth to eat, any livin g thi ng ; hi s step, li ght an d so undl3 3 e, as that of a shadow, ga ve n o i nt i mat i on o f hi s a pproach. His walk sugge s t e d t h e id ea o f t h e prowl i ng of a b ea st of prey —every littl e track or i m p ression l e f t on t h e eart h by the lower animal s caug h t hi s k een eye ; but the trees overhead chiefly e ngage d hi s attent i on. Deep in the hollow heart of some o f t h e upper b ranches was hidden, as it seemed, the opposum o n w hi c h h e was to dine. The wind blew keenly th roug h t h e l o f ty trees on the river margin, yet the bra wn y savage was ent i rely naked. Had I been unarmed, I had muc h rat h er met a lion than that N sinewy biped ; but I was on horseback, with pistols in my holsters, and th e b roa d r i ver was flowing between us. I overlooked him from a high bank, and I ventured to disturb his meditations with a halloo. He then stood still, looked at me for about a minute, and then retired, with that easy bounding kind of step which may be termed a running walk, exhibited an unrestrained faci lity of movement, apparently incompatible with dress of any kind. It is bounding lightly at such a pace, that , with the additional aid of the warramerah (a short notched stick), the native can throw his spear with sufficient force and velocity to kill the emu or kangaroo , even when at its speed.—Major Mitchell's Third Expedi tion into the Interior of Eastern Australia.