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Saville ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Gardner ; Jaci,b Twig, Mr. Paul ; Doggrass, Mr. James ; Susan, Mrs. W. West. Boxes, 25.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at. Half-past Eight. To morrow, Susan Hopley, Woman's Love, And Black Eyed Susan. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We should like to know the address of A. B. in confi dente. The recommendation of " An Admirer" shall be attended to when the returns are completed. The statement quoted by Mr. Hall did not appear in The Sun. Moreover, his explanations and defence should be given ip Court, not sent to the newspapers. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW PUBLISHING, PRICE ONLY SIXPENCE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. minutes after 3. f Evening • 6 minutes after 3. LONDON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1341. It cannot be too often repeated that the country requires improvement in legislation, much mor e than a change in the Ministry. Undoubtedly the substitution of the Tories for the Whigs, now that the former have obtained a majority in the House of Commons, will bring the two Houses of Par liament more into harm )ny, and enable Sir Ro- RERT PEEL to pass his measures; but that will be only an evil, should the measures, corre sponding to the principles on which his majority has been elected, go to . sustain monopoly and extend the Church. He may constitute perhaps a strong Government, but if that be bent on mis chief; how will the country be benefited ? What can such a Government do ? Were the laws now not enforced, were property insecure, had men no confidence in the future, were riot and rebellion rife in the land, were the ad ministration of what is, misnamed justice im peded, were our commerce interrupted by other States, were the seas infested with pirates, or the roads with robbers, a strong Government to put down such enormities would be most beneficial ; but there never was a period when the laws were more steadily administered and enforced, and where property was more secure, and the future more certain. We maintain, then, that the strongest Government which can by any possi bility be formed, so far as protecting the property and lives of the people, by duly administering the laws, and so far as protecting our subjects abroad go, cannot add one jot to the national prosperity, and is by no means the thing which is r , Aluired. The only point on which we have seen it even surmised that the strong Government of the Tories would be of advantage is, that it would Put an end to Anti-Corn-law agitation, and to all doubt. as -to the continuance of the Corn- laws. MonopeAy, it is supposed, would then be per fectl7 secure and the country would flourish. Tl , .,at is, however, a mistake. The complaint is `that the monopoly has been secure too long, and that its existence is the cause of our distress. It is perfectly clear that increasing its security, by the strong Government of the Tories, vr ,- - only add to the man u f ac t urers ' com pl a i r ' -aid same time, no Clovernment, how- —.9: At the .Arer strong ) Can put an end to Anti-Corn-law agitation, or aiN to the landed il.t,Z•rest a full ic. - settee t t. se curity. No human power can do either. The strArving manufacturers must and will strug gle. The alarm of the landowners arises mainly from a consciousness of wrong, and they Batt 110 more be protected against that by any legisla tion than a thief can be relieved from his own fears. The apprehension and insecurity are the necessary and inevitable consequences of in justice, and no mortal power can annihilate thin. Thus we ma i nta i n that a strong Executive Go vernment, as such, can confer no benefit what ever on the community. The distress, we say, arises from faulty legis lation, and if the stron g e Gov rm Tories can pa ss l aws to amend thatn e w n i t i i eohf the e Whigs could notpass, it may confer a benefit en the a ut_ry tc . is In at u t r ha e Ntvs.en. se a strong Government „,...)._ antes of e the l illin.,r to redress the ( - 7 . - • people. But there is not Ithle k", ''' slightest r heli ev . of the To . .(- that the G ' '':. vernment reason to r- 4- , • SO useful II work. !..) • (~, ri o es will be willinr, to strong • Go_ the eoutr perform • ary, the Tories %N. (- ( ''' /. / . 2y / • T ti ',....." •' ". -- .....C:. • o.u, A,. lestiore m 4 , tit y• • ItL are the authors of their grievances, the parents or supporters of Corn-laws, discriminating duties, restricted franchises, Church-rates, and of every other evil growing out of legislation of which the bulk of the people complain. They will constitute a strong Government and a united Legislature, only to prevent all and every the least of those grievances from being redressed. Having nothing to hope from the strong Go vernment of the Tories in executing the laws, we see, and so, we think, must every reflecting man, great cause for apprehension in their forming a united Legislature, to maintain all the accursed laws which are at present dire plagues to the people. If it be said that the Tories will redress the grievances of the people, will walk in the way of righteousness when they are in office, why, every man will ask, did they not do that in op position? Why did they not, as their opponents when in opposition continually did, bring for ward measures which they suppose will benefit the community? Ministers have not yet monopo lised—whatever the Tories in their ambition ' may contemplate—the initiative of all laws, like some Governments on the Continent ; it is yet open here for every independent Member of either House ofParliament to propose whatever measures he pleases. The Tories are as well aware of the state of the community as the Whigs, and the only measures which they have proposed, are Church Extension, restriction of the franchise in Ireland, and a law to settle disputed elections. The last was a useful measure, and that passed— as if to show what the Tories could have done had they been disposed to effect any good for the people—without the smallest opposition. So far as benefiting the community by legis lation is concerned, the Tories have had just as much power to do that out of office as they will have in office. Why have they not done it ? They declined or refused, because they were not Ministers. They thwarted their opponents in making laws, for the sake of thereby obtaining place and profit. They could, as Members of Parliament, elected to perform that duty, have amended or suggested new fiscal regu lations at any time, but they refused to perform the duty, because they were not also the QUEEN'S Ministers. They neglected their duty, to satisfy their ambition. They conspired to impede legislative improvement, the one thing needful, that they might usurp the Government. Those who seize the Government to gratify their own ambition, will use it to attain that end ; aid for them the public good will be, as it has been, a very subordinate object. We know that it is rebellion to resist the law and treason to take arms against the QUEEN ; but we have yet to learn that it is rebellion to resist the Tories, or even, if necessary, to take ants against such a selfish, ambitious crew of mere place, and power, and pelf-seeking politicians. If the authority of the QUEEN be separated from that of the Ministers, the fault lies in those who three themselves into office by dark and crooked arts against her will, and certainly not with the concurrence of the majority of the people, though they are supported by the Monopolists. Know ing how the constituencies have been constrained, intimidated, and bribedj into electing a Tory majority, we cannot conceive that the com munity is under any moral obligation to submit to their dominion, or be guilty of treason against the QUEEN in order to sustain their usurpation. If such nice and important questions are now stirred in the country, it is the consequence of strange conduct on the part of politicians. If we are compelled to make a distinction between the QUEEN and her future Ministers it is because, in fact, they will be creatures of a dishonest oli garchy, not the freely chosen depositaries of the power of the people. All the provincial Tory papers we see quote the leaders of the Times on the probable policy of the Conservatives as quite conclusive as to what Sir R. PEEL will do. They repeat the recommendations of our Contemporary, and raise an expectation that Sir ROBERT'S policy will correspond to the articles of the Times. There is good reason, however, to believe that the Times is not the organ of Sir ROBERT, and that the policy it has sketched out has no other authority .than its . own Wishes and principles. That the Times is not authorised to speak for him is plain, from the fact that it has advocated the election of a Tory Speaker, while it is almost officially announced that Sir R. PEEL will not oppose the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE. In its columns yesterday it also unwittingly complimented the Whigs, as it followed out its own principles, and condemned the Tories. It advocated self-government, and censured all endeavours to absorb and concentrate in the hands of Ministers the various and widely dis tributed elements of administrative power. Our Contemporary said : For every Board of Commissioners which they 1- dve created, so much power has been taken out of h . ands of the people, and so much actual liberty, Thd still more, security for liberty, has been lost. P the New Poor law they have drained off the stre . - ..ms and fountains of a vast system of self-governm er :.Which circul a t e d through out the nation, into a 8 7 -fall number of main dikes and ditches, tern-anatint, - An the one everlasting and insatiable reservoir—the m del4s. The Rural Police Act is another offspring Of this un-English and anti-popular spirit ; and we. cannot help referring to the same principle TAPI: John Russell's arbitrary attempt to make the self " Assertion of privilege by the House of Commons para mount to law. We know of no CommisSion which has taken any administrative power out of the hands of the people except one, the Poor-law Commission, and of that the Duke of WELLINGTON and Sir R. PEEL were strenuous advocates: The Duke of WELLINGTON, in particular, with his military spirit, approved of it as the only means of correct ing the abuses of the Poor-laws;and took pains, by recommending the keeping of records, to make it complete. The other Commissions, such as the Factory Commission, were constituted to carry new laws into execution or merely to in quire, and took no liberties whatever .from the people. They were intended, whether success fully or not, to protect factory children and guard them from many injuries. The new Poor-law, with which the Times finds most fault, is especially supported by the squires, who constitute Sir R. PEEL'S majority. It was exclusively a landlords' measure, passed by them with acclamation to save their estates. Sir R. PEEL approved of it throughout, and moreover, a s the leader of a party, he is their creature, and must do their bidding or retire. His own predi lections are for manufactures, of the value of n thiemnsielifn sensible;ord eorder t o bu r t he is ready which he to has sacrifice shov h N t h e leader of the squir es . The P .7.7lain Police condemns ' Was Act, which th tl i i e e ir passed _....,vantage, and Is only or Sir Rotkitt PiiL; )3 a Motto polite Poe; mat a aw 44111i,5i tdd, ici 6:111. junet‘o a with ,4if it. PEit3 TAM ivi es of 614 el mons, greatly to th e annoyance t tss it Ei, tindeAtlet i. 'the Times. All the measures which the Times now condemns are notoriously baled t .v principles, and Wel-e w 1. 4 6 4 ta...“..- 4 7 . it them the Ti mes the To4e* icSO VVO,y - Is at VA:ie§illt In opposition to its own part . , -- . The principle of local self-government! of 11 1 11 0 the Times is enamour. - A i 5 h. Whig pfli?tirit, Wilk% the rolug have allVayt dr!viz: 6o : utmost of th.lr -• example to give popuiar and local government to the large towns, andproposed that they - should . elect their own Magistrates, while the Tories in , sisted on keeping the appointment of tilt MagiS% trates in the hands of the Crown. Both It'eland and Scotland are deeply indebted to the Whigs for carrying out, in their municipal and burgh reforms, the principle oflocal government to the utmost extent which the Tories would allow; and if England he not so much indebted to them, it is only because they merely renovated here the beneficial system which they there, for the first time, established. Our Contemporary did not mean- it, but his observations render a pro i'eund homage to the principles of the Whi , rs e and repudiate those of the party to which he belongs. Nor is our Contemporary, in using such lan guage, even consistent with himself? He wishes to see power locally and administratively dis tributed amongst the people—so do all Liberals. He argues against an executive despotism, against which the Whigs contend. At the same time . he is steadfastly opposed to en trusting the Catholics of Ireland with local and administrative power, and over them he would establish the executive despotism of Protestant England. But principles of government have nothing to do with principles of religion, and those which are proper for Calvinists, are equally pro per for Mahomedans or Hindoos. The religion of people, whether Catholics or Protestants, no more renders them indifferent to good or had go - vernment than to pleasure and pain, and should not be taken into consideration. At the same time, of all religionists the Catholics of our country, after the Pagans, if there be any, seem to have the strongest claim on the benefits of our ancient insti tutions. The freedom of our Saxon ancestors, the basis of our best laws, as contrasted with laws which all Europe adopted or borrowed from im perial Rome, was the offspring of heathenism, and was in no wise indebted to Christianity for its origin. If it were polished it was also en feebled by our Christian, though Roman Catholic, ancestors. Nor were our franchises considerably enlarged, or our municipal privileges much ex tended, except during the Commonwealth (though some alarming specimens of feudal tyranny died out), at any period subsequent to the Reformation. If any persons now existing amongst us may, on account of their religion, claim a right to have our institutions restored on their ancient foundations, those persons are the Catholics; but to them the Times denies the jus tice it demands for others, and would establish over the Catholics of Ireland the executive des potism of England. Our Contemporary boasts, too, of the " connec tion now existing in England between Church and State," as having "made the ramifications of self-government among the people flow in the same local channels, and observe the same boundaries, with our ecclesiastical institutions/ Our parishes, to which our Contemporary al ludes, were, in fact, Roman Catholic contri vances. They were intended to serve the pur poses of the Church more than the State; but with singular ingratitude the Times, while it ap plauds the contrivance, would deprive the direct heirs of the founders of its benefits. Adopting that line of argument the Times takes the Tory side, and is inconsistent with itself; praising local and self-government, it takes the Whig side, and quarrels with its pre 'sent patrons. A journal which is zealous for Whig doctrines in one sentence and zealous for Tory doctrines in the next, cannot, however, be looked on as an authority for any line of policy, or for any party; and we should not have noticed its contradictory vagaries at much length, were we not somewhat desirous of undeceiving our distant brethren who quote!the leaders of the Times, as a sure indication of the future policy of PEEL. The Paris Journals of Monday have all reached us. The news of the French victories in Africa, published in our Second Edition of Tuesday, created no sensation in Paris. Such successes are in truth of very little moment in any point of view. While every town garrisoned by the French is blockaded by the Arabs, and all ex terior communication cut eft, it matters very little whether such garrisons be few or numerous, or for what number of months they are pro visioned. The Toulouse Correspondent of the Commerce writes as follows of the state of affairs in that city : We are inundated with troops, but the Toulousans do not appear much frightened by them. They are deter mined to stand firm on the ground of legal resistance. The census will not be taken without violations of domi cile, every man being resolved to suffer his doors to be broken down rather than open them to the agents of the Treasury. The preliminary inquiries are going on. Some citizens have become accusers of M. Lenormand, the late Commissary of Police Extraordinary, pretending that they have legal proofs of a number of agitators hav ing been formed by him into brigades, with instructions to shout A bas Mahal! A bas Plougoulm ! A bas Hamann! It is further said, that by the same hands a charivari was prepared for the arrival of M. Maurice Duval ; but this trick of the police was defeated. The Journal de Toulouse states that at the funeral ce remony for the victims of July on the 28th ult., in the cathedral of Toulouse, at which all the civil an d mili tary authorities, including M. Maurice Duval, Lieute nant-General Rulhieres, and M. Nicias Gaillard, were present, the Municipal Council, who had arrived without any other escort than some officers of the Nat; iiai Guard out of uniform, were treated by the , d -with great respect. On their leaving the which was composed chiefly 0.-* . PL .urch the crowd, Guards in plain clothes, fo- • a13 . 0U - t 2,000 . National —.lied in line f our abreast, and followed the Counci , Capitole, where silence to the interior of the fore them. —•ine - itook off their hats and defiled be than, M. Arzac, as Mayor ad interim, returned • - -.s, and was frequently saluted with cries of " Vive a. Arzac 1 Vive le Conseil Municipal !" —ll letter from Cagliari in the Courrier de Lyon sn i ps t.—" The island of Asinara, a short distance from the coast of Sardinia to the north of Capo del Falcone, has been granted by the King of Sardinia to one of his generals of engineers, to introduce such improvements as it may be found capable of. This island is six leagues in length, with the average breadth of three leagues. It is inhabited by herdsmen, hitherto divested of all civili sation. They tate of an unmixed race, preserve all the fine countenances of the south, and the women are re markable for the regular features which characterise the women of the Campagna di Roma. Game, and particu larly partridges, which are abundant, form its chief articles of commerce, and have given it the appellation of the Island of Partridges. Porto Torres is the principal market, where the vessels of the Mediterranean come to carry on their traffic." Mlle. Rachel has arrived at Bordeaux. On the 18th ult.," says a letter from Erreux, when the rain did so much damage in this country, a grove of firs, birch, and other trees, which stood on the descent of a hill near Venables, having become detached from the substratum by the flood, glided down into the valley and planted itself firmly on a fine field of oats, which it covered so entirely that the farmer, on coming next day to see what injury had been done to his crop by the storm, was a long time before he could discover its locality, and then found a part of his oats converted into trees.' Dabgui, a man condemned by the Court of Assizes of the Loire Inferieure, to hard labour for life r for the violation of his own &tighter ) was to have been exposed in the pillory at NatiteS a few days agti but bu otithrin g his cell to convey him tO the pillory he was found dead, having hung The liague papers give the following painful ac count of the death of Mme. Rochussen, the young and amiable wife of the Dutch Minister of Finance. She had lain in a few weeks ago, but was still in a feeble state, when her brother, whom she had not seen for ten years, arrived from abroad. Intending to give his sister an agreeable surprise, he entered her chamber without even her knowing that he was in Holland. The shock was so strong, that Mme. Rochussen was thrown into a fainting fit, which terminated in her death, before even the Minister ould be called from his cabinet to receive her last Extract of a letter from Corfu :—" Colonel John stone has joined his regiment, the 42d Royal Highlanders, quartered horu, nig corps has a regimental library for MP use of the iten-commissioned officers and soldiers, i*higif hag bob egtaitiished since 1830, and generally 4tifls)stfl ef s froth 1000 to 2,000 volumes. It has been ddrkita about with the regiment at home or abroad, Withtfut an 37 diffietilty4 since its formation, and the sub- PfiptiFiiiS to it have amounted to 1,0 891 ., all subscribed By f.I N §oltiii4sl the eAception of oae shilling per month from each officer. 'MA books are seldom used by the officers, from an unwillingness to interien; wit 7 the comforts of the men," o letter from Athens,in. the Leipzig Gazette, says " - Of r,eftigpd accept M. iriitoupis, as Greek Ambassador to the dottrt of Bt., James's ; and adds, that Lord Palmerston hits Written to the Greek Cabinet that the first duty Of their Govern- mcnt ji as to ebtoree 6Cofitithy, iti Older to be tiblb tb the interest of the debt; phtsitiaft State Gazette announces that the Bra kik:ol7 114 edrifefiett ilitiii Mti:lot-Qetterttlithtt. imseltra Khan Sehamehal and Tarti, hf il;i th na e k z , e l a \ l 'a ß l n i, ti ar 6 i n d: rg 'h y a ti k l e „ s in ta . n : the decoration of the Im . r0:i,,11. Order of Stanislaus the First, in acknowledgment . --ed by him in the war with the mountaineers of qreassia. 11M and Belles-Lettres , tits pitiposkid its for tcifiiiVs tur 164 g the following topiest—" Th e composition of the Roman tribunals, and the administration of justice from the Gracchi to Ha drian. J;soofr."--‘i Th e hi - s t ory establishments in Si c il y, 2,ooo fr,"—.And for 1843, "The history of Cyprus u n d er t h e Pr i naca o f t h e R o use of Lusignan, 2,000 fr," and progress of the Greek The body of a young map, well dressed, was found, the day before yostere.) w., in a. fosse in thi Champs Elysees, As there was money in his pocket, ,and nn traces of violence appea red on his body, it is suppood that he died suddenly, a nd was not murdered., He was taken to the ltZorgue, . A Berlin letter, in the Frankfort Journal, states that on the afternooq the ~1,801 ult., the day of the • ' ' violent storm, which was felt in France, a phenomenon of the same kind was witnessed in that part of Prussia. The heat had been very oppressive during the day, and the approach of the rain was preceded by a whirlwind of dust. The direction of the wind was from south to north. The rain fell in torrents, and the lightning was exceedingly vivid. Several people were overthrown by the force of the wind, and the damage done to trees and houses was considerable. The King of Bavaria has proposed the establish ment of periodical exhibitions of the produce of the use ful arts in the several countries connected by the Ger man Union Customs. His Majesty suggests Berlin, Nu remberg, Cologne, and Leipsic, as the towns best suited for this purpose. The Baxon Government has revoked the order for prohibiting the exportation of horses to States not form ing part of the German Customs Union. On Saturday (says the Coninitrce) the small cannon, with the 12 o'clock burning-glass affixed to it, in the gar den of the Palais Royal, exploded for the first time dur ing 65 days. The wadding, as is usual when a piece has been loaded for a long time, had become fixed in so tightly that the shock of the explosion was greater than ordinary, and several panes of glass in the Cafe Cor razza and the Salon Litteraire de la Tente were broken. According to the Quotidienne the proposed change of the uniform of the infantry of the line, suppressing the present coat, great coat, and belts, for the dress and belts now worn by the Foot Chasseurs, is confidently stated to be decided on. " This alteration," it adds, "is to be extended to the artillery and engineers, but each corps will preserve its distinguishing colours and facings. Nothing, it seems, is yet determined upon as to the dress of the cavalry." A letter dated Leghorn, 24th ult., contains the fol lowirr, passage :—" To judge from what is passing round us one is naturally led to believe that we are on the eve f some great terrestrial revolution. We have just been witness of an atmosperic phenomenon, which we could wish to hear explained by some natu ral philosopher. On Saturday the 17th ult., at three o'clock in the morning, an extremely hot wind set in with gusts from the south-west ; it might, without ex aggeration, be compared to the steam produced by a heated furnace. Every one in consequence rose, finding them selves much oppressed. There were four thermometers exposed by scientific persons, which at mid-day marked 26 degrees ; at one o'clock, 23 ; at a quarter past one, 28 ; at half-past one, 29 ; at two, 30. At this point the thermometers, after having vacillated as the wind rose and fell, until three o'clock, descended gradually until eight o'clock in the afternoon, when they marked only 26 degrees. At the same time the elevation of the quicksilver in the barometer was 28. inches without va riation. During the morning of the 22d, at half-past two, three shocks of an earthquake were felt, accom panied by a considerable noise from the west. Much apprehension was entertained that some calamities would be announced from other parts of Italy." A letter from Geneva tthnounces that " the police has arrested at the inn tailed the Grand - Aigle, a partner in one of the first banking houses of Vienna. He had about him times and bills to the amount of 150,000 f., and a considerable sum of money. Some say that this per son has absconded with this property belonging to the house ; others pretend that it is the principal partner in the house, Mr. Steiner, who has been arrested as sus pected of fraudulent bankruptcy, and that it was disco vered from a letter that his accomplice was to arrive at Geneva on a certain day."—La Gazette de France. SAINT JEAN RED-DE-PORT, JULY H.—Yesterday evening nine Spanish priests came from Estella to the Aldudes ; seven of them passed through this town going to Mauleon, and beyond it towards Pau. They are of the number of those who will not submit to the orders of Espartero concerning the last bull of the Pope. They were to be arrested. It appears that a great number of their brethren have been thrown into prison.—Le Com merce. The Constiktionnel has a passage in which it inti mates that M. Ilumann has submitted to the Council of Ministers several proposals tending to reduce the expen diture of 1843 to an equality with the revenue, consider ing that the late Convention between the Five Powers seems to promise some repose to Europe. Certainly if M. Hamann would attempt to reduce only useless and unprofitable disbursements, we should heartily approve his perseverance in demanding that the expenditure shall not exceed the revenue. But if it is intended under the pretext of economy to recommend the ridiculous and in the end burdensome operations of diminishing the effective strength of our army and navy, we shall oppose it to the utmost of our power, and wilt spare no pains to communicate to the country our just apprehension. The situation of France and of Europe will not allow a disarming to be thought of. The only result would be that perhaps in less than six months it would be neces sary again to torn), on a sudden, the Cadres and the Material, which had been disorganised. Meantime we should be weak and condemned to inaction. In a word, short-sighted politicians are ever labouring to place France in the situation from which the Ministry of the Ist of March endeavoured to extricate it.—Le Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 2. i int Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French A per Cents •••••••••••• 115 50 ... 115 DO ... 15 50 ... 115 DO 4 per Cents.... .... . . 99 50 ... 99 50 ... 99 50 ... 99 90 3 per Cents. ex. div 76 80 .... 77 10 ... 76 60 ... 77 10 Sank tit trance Latlitte Bank 1.0001. Stares IC4O ...1140 ...1640 ...1040 5,000 f. St area 51 95 .095 ..4093 ...(095 Pelti an Bank Belgian 3 per Cent 5....... .. 70 10 ... 70 10 ... 70 10 ... 7J 10 New Loan ll3 ... 1 3 ... IC3 ... lt3 Spanish Active t.054 ... (05! ... 1.04 ... :0% Passive ........ Neapolitan Roman 05 ... 100 35 «. It 3 35 ... , c 3 2 5 -- 1 1'2% ... 102% ... 102% ... 100% RAILWAY SHAR*, St. Germain - 682 50 ... 61 7 12 50 ... 682 50 ... 639. ' 0 Versailles. ...... 215 ... 99.0 221 25 K. B 357 5o 245 ... 1",37 ;Au Orleans' .... 9tr3sburc to Bale 235 ... 137 50 ... 235 ... 216 25 MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. — The usual Ministerial Circular to the Members supporting the Government sets at rest the question of the meeting of Parliament. It, is in the following words " Downing-street, July 31, 1841. " Sir—As, upon the meeting of Parliament, on Thurs day, the of August, the House of Commons will imme(!letiely proceed to the choice of a Speaker, and to tne - Consideration of business of the highest importance, I take the liberty of earnestly requesting your attend ance on that clay.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient, faithful servant, NICK NAMES.—Some of our Tories call the present Ministry the Deficit Ministry, and will of course be pre pared for us to call their friends the Monopoly Ministry, the Thieving-by-1:w Ministry, the Ministry for exe cuting the Devil's laws, the Anti-Social Ministry, the Anti-Trade Ministry, the Anti-Civilization Ministry, the Squirearchy Ministry, or the Starvation Ministry. At least, such is a sample of the epithets they well de serve, from the principles on which they are coming into office ; and some one of those, or similar epithets, will be applied to them, according to the taste and fancy of different parties. Looking to the subterfuges of Sir Robert •Peel, the contemptible accusations of Lord Stanley, and believing that they will be powerless to give effect to their own otetestable doctrines, we shall be in clined to call them—the Mean Ministry. A TORY LIE.—It having been communicated to us that Lord Campbell had left this country for England— and such a departure, under his Lordship's circum stances, being necessarily final—we made the announce ment to that effect. It now appears that we had been misinformed. His Lordship, with Lady Stratheden and the lion. Miss Campbell, are at present on a visit to Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, at Malahide Castle. —Dublin Evening Mail. THE SPEAKERSMP—We have reason to known that Sir Robert Peel has communicated to Mr. C. Shaw Le fevre his intenticn to support the re-election of that gen tleman in the event of his being proposed, on the meet ing of the new Parliament, as Speaker of the House of Commons. We may add that those personal and poli tical friends of' the Right Hon. Baronet to whom this intention has been imparted, concur unanimously in the propriety of the decision. It is known to our readers that we should have preferred a different course. We are perfectly aware that a different course would have been preferred by some valuable Conservative Members of the ilotise of Commons; but this does not prevent the expression of our firm belief and of our earnest hope, that, all circumstances being duly considered, the Conservative Members of the House of Commons will unanimously embrace the decision, adopted, for himself, by Sir Robert Peel.— Morning Post. ANOTHER TORY LIE.—AII the Tory Jour nals have greedily copied from the Manchester Courier the falsehood, of which the following letter, addressed to the Standard, is a correction Temple, Aug. 4.—Sir, — Your habitual truth and candour in your advocacy of political principl es p reven t s the suspicion of any inten tional deception in your re-publication of a paragraph headed " American Cheap Bread, from the Manchester Courier;—"_ Five pounds of bread sold in Philadelphia for a shilling !" and a comparison with the 61b. of bread sold in Manchester for 100. ; by which you would make it seem that bread is muc h cheaper in England than in Philadelphia. The shilling, however, in Philadelphia is not the sterling coin, but a coin of which there are eight in every dollar, each of them value about sixpence ster ling. Therefore 51b, bread is sold in Philadelphia for sixpence, whilst in Manchester 616. is worth told. You will now perceive that bread of the first quality is much cheaper in Philadelphia than in Manchester.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,—A TRAVELLER." 4, - MAN DROWNS HIMSELF AND ANOTHER city on Tue,glaY thrown himself' ;2. LOOKS ori:.--clOnsiderable sensation was excited in this a it i e d in tilti ti f t)titi l i d e. a 4to eem be pa t ni rti o: afternoon by the report that a man had tailor. ice, stood coolly to the Basin and was drowned, instead ti of rendering assist *te 70: : k i iinem, his al p o i e p: Like T r, he an r d ep t e h r e t 0 xri,. :n who committed person who accomiad him to the fatal ) °t was a 1 cti, to of a cre ature nad William Brown, a, er . been dr i nking together the greater part,.‘.of t e day, tit 060,rdied att fi ve o'clock, Bill leaving Brown about the prdliiAs 81 ilie Swot and Falcon public house. About seven o'clock llill fel-wined and asked Brown to walk with him towards the Basin in order that he might receive some money due to him by a ship captain. On reaching the Basin, Hill all of a s sudden .threw off his waistcoat (he wore no coat) nd , and exclaiming, "Good bye, Bill," threw himself into the Basin. Brown went to the edge and looked at the drowning man, then picked up the hat, putting it under his arm, and sat down quietly on a convenient re sting place, smoking his pipe with as much ndifference as though nothing particular was going on . An inquest was held on the body on Wedn.,aday, when, afte r Brown and several witnesses had been gAtulaind, the Jury re i turned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had drowned himself, being at the tithe in 'a state of tempo rary insanity, with . a strong expression , of censu re as re garded the coAduci Ofßrown.—Gloiiceitershire Chronicle. t;,:.. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND public t9plntom " Irho runs may read." FOREIGN. Louis Philippe is reported to have addressed a let ter to Espartero, in which his Majesty states that he regards the vote of the Cortes, declaring the office of guardian of the young Queen vacant, and appoifiting M. Arguelles to fill it, an attack on crowned heads. Sup p)sing this to t'e the case, which we willingly admit, as all the acts of a free people attack some prerogative or other claimed by crowned heads, a regard for public decency should have withheld the Citizen King from being the first to complain. Was the revolution of July no attack - on crowned heads ? Was Louis Philippe guilty of no attack on crowned heads, when he encircled his brows with a diadem, which he had solemnly sworn to preserve inviolate upon the head of the exiled Charles the Tenth ? Louis Philippe is so very young a member of the family of Kings, that any expression of his resentment at attacks upon their prerogative sounds in the public ear like an impertinence. A Toulouse correspondent of the Commerce states that the inhabitants of that city are resolved to offer, a determined passive resistance to the taking of the census. The agents of the Government will be obliged to break open all the doors before they can make the returns. A resistance of this sort is a thousand times more to be dreaded than a hostile revolutionary outburst. Passive resistance paralyses all the powers of any Government against which it is opposed. On 'the 26th ult. M. Arguelles took the oaths as guardian of Queen Isabella 11., in the saloon of the Se nate at Madrid. All the great officers of State were pre sent, and the ceremony was very imposing. The protest of the ex-Regent was officially delivered to Espartero on the 25th. No notice was taken of it. Nine Spanish ecclesiastics entered France on the 25th ult., preferring voluntary exile to an obedience to the Regent's injunction respecting the Pope's allocution. Will Louis Philippe discover in this expatriation of the clergy another attack on crowned heads ? Her Most Faithful Majesty Queen Donna Maria is trying her hand at match-making. She, too, is among the- candidates for the honour of giving a husband to her Royal Sister of Spain. Her Majesty's protege is her brother-in-law, a good Catholic, and quite an enthusiastic admirer of ma trimonially-disposed virgin Sovereigns. Queen Donna Maria's experience of the mental virtues of the illus trious house of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, imparts much weight to her Majesty's opinions upon an affair of Such exceeding delicacy. Royalty continues to have its inconveniences in France. The National states, that " since his Majesty Louis Philippe fixed his residence at St. Cloud, a great display of military force was observed there. Cannon was placed in convenient positions, and the numerous regiments in garrison at Versailles, Sevres, St. Germain, Rueil, Nanterre, and Courbevoie were on the qui vine. The brigade of safety,' composed of select policemen, was established and reinforced. Horse and foot patrols were constantly on duty, and the bridge was occupied by a numerous guard, which extends to the Paris road." PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle has another article on Sir Robert Peel's late Tamworth speech :—" We gave him credit," says our Contemporary, " for the external semblance of a better morality than it now appears he put on for 'the occasion. The incautious protest of the Post strips off this rag of decency. Its rash denial brings out into bold relief the fact that Sir Robert Peel is a states man who withholds what he knows, or professes to know, will benefit the nation, avert public calamity, and ensure public prosperity, until he first grasps the fee' of office." We do not believe that it is the " fee of office" which causes the Right Hon. Baronet's present reserve ; but that he withholds his remedy, simply and solely because he is unprovided with one. Instead of taking time by the forelock, his policy will be one of shifting expediency—to do no more than he can help— to have no settled principle of action—but to trust to chance for escape from perplexity. The Herald reads a long lecture on propriety to the expected Tory Government, exhorting it never to lose sight of " the straightforward, genuine earnestness of the British character." From the exceeding earnestness with which our Contemporary enforces this exhortation, it is pretty evident that he is somewhat distrustful of Tory policy, and thinks that the party stand greatly in need of his refresher. The Times gives some amusing advice to the British Association—in default of a more important subject for discussion—recommending it, inter alia, "to elect an agreeable philosopher, President—a man of rank, Vice, to fix the next meeting at Cheltenham, and have plenty of experiments and eloquence," in which case, we arc assured, " it will be likely to prove one of the most for midable antagonists that horse-racing has encountered in our days." The Advertiser justly remarks, " We deem the ques tion of the Corn-laws one in which the ministers of the Gospel, whethar belonging to the Establish ment, or ranging themselves under the banners of Dissent, may not only with propriety take a part, but in which they ought to take a part. They are bound to do this by every consideration of humanity and religion. Were the clergy to follow this advice, they would really, instead of nominally, be showing themselves Ministers of the Gospel. But this is almost too much to expect from well- endowed Pluralists, who have an interest in maintaining Tory abuses. The Post contains an article whose object is an ex - ceedingly novel and edifying one—namely, to prove that the present Tory leaders in Ireland are " men of un usual moderation and sobriety of judgment." If so, they must be strangely altered from what they were only six months since. The Dublin Evening Mail is truly of opinion that Mr. O'Connell is the sole cause of the disturbed and criminal state of Ireland. Owing to his machinations the landlords consolidate their estates, and turn wretches out to starve or murder. He alone has kept Ireland from reaping the harvest of peace, union, industry, and prosperity ; which language, translated into an idiom which we understand, means that Mr. O'Connell is the sole cause why the landlords of Ireland have been checked in the most villainous career that ever a well fed set of gentlemen ever pursued towards their half starved and over-worked brethren. The Tyne Mercury says, " Sir Robert Peel admits that the Queen has the power of choosing her own Mi nisters, at the very moment that he is urging in every possible manner the necessity of the House of Com mons acting as the great constitutional power. He plays into the hand of the Queen, but he will not relinquish the trump cards of the Commons. He is like the man with the enormous squint, who was said, in vulgar parlance, to look two ways for Sunday. He is like the inconsistent boat man who looked one way and rowed the other. He does, indeed, act, or rather say, by and bye, in the same speech with considerable candour, more than we could have expected of him, for men's real motives, however evil and black, are sometimes most beautifully wrapt up— the most rough and ugly and unsightly determinations, are not uncommonly very admirably folded in the finest muslin—as some old phrase about the Archipelago has it, it's very easy to put a pirate's head in a golden cloth.' But not so Sir Robert. He is more candid than usual. He says, 'my advice for the present is, dismiss those who are at present in office.' This is all he wants." The Brighton Guardian says :—" The nation consi dered as a patient has been placed as much in Sir R. Peel's hands as a Member of Parliament as in those of the Ministers. Her disorders are legislative, not admi nistrative ; they lie in the digestive organs, in the vital functions, not in the nerves of the will or the organs of locomotion. So far from not being admitted to feel the national pulse, as a legislator he has his hand continually upon it, and as a legislator he con tinually prescribes for the patient. The Corn-law is one of his pills, the discriminating duty on sugar is another, the timber duties are a third, Church-rates a fourth, Ecclesiastical Courts a fifth, a great limitation to the franchise is a sixth, with a great multitude of powders and draughts, steel pills, and great depletion by taxation. It is quite false, therefore, to say that he is n7t admitted to the patient ; he is a regular attendant, and continu ally forces, with ever injurious effects, the most disgusting nostrums down her throat. England is already dying of Dr. Peel's attendance and Peel drugs ; and there is no hope of a cure but by throwing the physic and the doc tor out of the window." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. On Monday last another large failure took place in Manchester, and more hands have been thrown out of work. On Saturday night the number of individuals then out of work, from the] stoppage of different mills, amounted to. no fewer than 4,000. 11GRICULTURA.L. We learn from several Irish journals that the pros pects of the harvest are anything but encouraging in the great corn wanties of Meath and Lowth. We leuns from the Tyne Mercury that the late rains have bawl a most beneficial effect on the potatoe and turnip crops, which are looking extremely well, and that the wheat is also looking very healthy. and is beginning to change its colour ; but is rather deficient, as well. as oats, in quantity. MAW AND POLICE. At the Ipswich Assizes a baker of the name of Pettitt appeased, for having lighted up his stall on the race-course at Eye, astonishing "the good people of the place, with four carriage-lamp candles. Their unwonted brilliancy - attracted the policeman, who remarked he had got some "spicy" candles, and the prisoner "fancied ! , e had." The policeman knowing that nobody but " th© general shop in Eye" furnished such can dies, repaired thither, and learnt that they had of late been robbed. All other candles of that kind there after, were laid on the counter, and a black pin stuck in the bottom of a dozen. These also disappeared. The police adjourned to where Pettitt " burnt," who denied all knowledge of the candles, except that he had such, " but they;were his own ;" when to his horror, the police man told him they had each a black pin stuck into the bottom, which he showed to the affrighted eyes of the baker. He was tried, and sentenced to imprisonment for two years. The trial of the Sandyses, charged with poisoning their children for the alleged diabolical purpose of ob taining the bur!al fees from a Stockport funeral society, is now proceeding at Chester, before Mr. Justice Erskine. The trial has already taken up two days, and the investi gation of witnesses has, so far, been thorough and minute. ELECTIONEERING. Mr. Maule, the Solicitor to the Treasury, was seen in Chester on Tuesday, and it is presumed he was there on business connected with a number of indictments for outrages committed at the late electioneering contest for South Cheshire. A Reform Banquet was held at Canterbury on Tues day last, to entertain the late Reform candidate, Thomas Twisden Hodges, Esq. The company numbered 400. SPORTING. A cricket match was played at Harleford, the seat of Sir "N. Clayton, on Wednesday last, between eleven, chiefly of 2d Life Guards, against eleven of Marlow. The Guards were the winners. The return match between the county of Kent and All England, will come off on Tuesday and Wednesday next, the 10th and 11th inst., on the Beverley Ground, at Canterbury. The Scotch papers assert that game of all kinds is unusually plentiful this season. THEATRICAL. lildlle. Rachel has arrived at Bordeaux. COURT-PASHIONABLES. Viscount Melbourne will give a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers on the 13th instant. The " 2%. odel of the Tage Muhal," at present exhi biting to the fashionable world in Regent-street, is a copy in ivory of that celebrated edifice in Agra, erected by the Fifth Great Mogul as the cemetery of his fa vourite wife, Sultana Mehd Aliya. The original mauso leum was built entirely of white marble, and its original cost was 60 Lacs of rupees, or 750,0001. MISCELLANEOUS. On Monday an extraordinary sensation was occa sioned in Guildhall, by the appearance of a fine, large black cow, which walked up the flight of steps leading to the Court of Common Council. We suppose the affectionate ar.imal had come to look after her calves there ! A linen-draper, living near Ebury-street, Pimlico, has advertised his stock to be selling off " 20 per cent., under prime cost." The large posting bills in his shop front are headed " Pro bono Pimlico." The Hungerford Suspension Bridge is now in course of construction. The engineer is Mr. Brunel, who erected the Suspension Bridge at Clifton, over the Avon. The masonry has been contracted for at 63,0001. by Mr. G. Chadwick. The iron work is to be exe cuted at the works of Messrs. Sandys and Co., in Corn wall, at the estimated cost of 17,000/. It is to be for foot passengers only, and the toll a half-penny each per son. The total cost of this bridge and approaches is es timated at 102,2541. At a Conservative dinner, given on Tuesday at Can terbury to Mr. Bradshaw, that gentleman, alluding to the " enormities of the Catholic priesthood," observed that " they were not fit for detail," whence he ingeni ously inferred that " they would shortly be laid before the public." The Sportsman gives a curious anecdote illustra tive of the voracity of the trout, which proves that it is nearly equal in voracity to the Dundases and Bathursts of sinecure notoriety. At a meeting of the Loyal National Repeal Asso ciation, held at Dublin, on the 2d instant, a packet, en closing 200/., and a letter from the Philadelphia Repeal Association, came addressed to Mr. O'Connell. A clause in the letter thus speaks :—Everywhere throughout this vast country, in which there are already seventeen millions of souls—from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains—Societies are springing into ex istence, and collecting funds to aid the Irish people, and especially to support the tenantry—the honest tenantry of Ireland, in an independent exercise of the right of suffrage. In this great and spontaneous movement, it is but jus'ice to the Philadelphia Repeal Association to say that they have taken the lead, and will hold it until her own Parliament shall be restored to Ireland. Should English policy and English jealousy still resist the appeals for an equality of political privi leges with the rest of the British Empire, thirty thou sand pounds sterling will be immediately raised in Ame rica for the glorious purpose of Ireland's regeneration ! -- Mr. O'Connell observed, in a speech delivered at the Repeal Association on Monday last, that he had proof of several Dublin freemen recording their votes, who were sick in their beds, who were at a distance in the country, and some who were actually dead. One vote was given by a gentleman who died in Kilkenny on the same day. Another gentleman coming out of his grave to vote after having lain there upwards of two years !" We recommend these facts to the attention of the Times, who expressed himself so horrified yesterday at the enormities practised during the late Irish election. RUMOURS OX' THE DAY. We understand that the Protestant Association of Exeter Hall, not contest with the present agitated state of Ireland, are going to agitate it still further, by taking it under their special protectiorn A meeting on the sub ject is announced for Friday next. It considered at the Clubs as not improbable that a second dissolution of Parliament may take place at an early period. The Post confirms the rumour which we gave yes terday, namely, that Mr. Shaw Lefevre will be re-elected Speaker. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert took their usual walk this morning, and the Princess Royal has been taken her accustomed airing. Miss Anson, Lady C. Barrington, and Mr. G. E. Arc son, joined the Royal dinner party last evening. Mr. and Lady Mary Gertrude Vyner, and Sir Henry Wheatley, arrived to-day at the Castle. Lord Byron took his departure this morning. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies Elea flora and Constance Paget, and the Right Hon. Sir Wil liam Fremantle, will have the honour of joining the Royal circle at dinner this evening. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back in the afternoon, attended by Colonel Wylde and Mr. George E. Anson, and returned soon after five o'clock, when the Prince drove her Majesty out in a pony phaeton. The Duchess of Bedford, Lady Olivia Tayleur, and the Marquis of Headfort followed in a carriage and four, and the Hon. Harriet Pitt and the Hon. Sarah Mary Cavendish in another carriage. Lord Alfred Paget, Col. Wylde, and the Hon. Major Keppel attended on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and D uc h ess o f Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck, honoured the performance of the Italian Opera on Tuesday evening with their presence. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, took an airing yesterday in a carriage. Monsieur Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council will meet in the Council Chamber on Mon day, the 16th inst., at three, o'clock in the afternoon, to deliver judgment in the appeal of " Wood and Others v. Goodlake," relative to the will of the late Mr, James `Wood, the banker, of Gloucester. The Marquis of Normanby left town yesterday morn ing for Ryde, Isle of Wight. POLITICAL TRACTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have long been of opinion that a Political Re form Tract Society would be of incalculable benefit. I propose that the tracts be written in a plain, forcible, and easy manner, so as to convey to the uneducated sound political doctrines and forcible truisms. I am accustomed to meeting and conversing with many in my own neighbourhood, both above and below myself in society, who are as ignorant of any political know ledge as children, and all for want, in my opinion, of ac tivity and earnestness being displayed by those who feel the necessity of promulgating sound doctrines in poli tics, equal to religious bodies in diffusing their doctrines. Newspapers have undoubtedly done much good, but there is a large class of persons amo n g w hom they do not circulate, where tracts would do. Should this letter be noticed , I shall be happy to do all in my power to assist its object. I am, Sir, your's, &c., BALLOT. P.S.—Could you, or any correspondent, favour me with the various modes of taking votes by ballot, that have been published ? We experienced a shock of earthquake at Crieff on Thursday afternoon last, at half-past two o'clock, which could only be rivalled by that which happened in the latter end of 1839. In Comrie, same day, it is said about eleven shocks took place, and the people were in great consternation.—Scottish Guardian. • INCREASE OF LETTERS. WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LOADO , A LETTERS. THROUGH THE GENERAL POST. -_ _ _ _ NO. OF LETTEBS. Four weeks, ending 31st July, l ß 4l Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of lt:t 9 , 1,7-1,977 Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letter e 1,622,598 Ditto 1839 Ditto i. 1,817 ,856 THROUGH THE DISTRICT POST. Four weeks, ending 81st July 1841 1,713 ,2 5g Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1)339 , Increase since 1840 on the four weelss; letters ' 150,788 Ditto 1839 Ditto ' 701,882 This argue:.; well for the speedy realizi,!ion of air. Hill's most sanguine expectations. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. There was a limited market for the EngliSh PO" curitics, and the quotations wore rather a heavy appeal" ance. Money, nevertheless, was not complained Of a. 4 being tight, and in the Stock Exchange especially are still to be had on easy terms, - where Stoc k or El ' chequer Bills is the security pledged for them. Consols for immediate transfer were to-day quoted 89:1- to 89i and for the account 89i to Exchequer Bills wer e 14 to 16 premium, and East India Bonds 6s. to B s. pretnlut Bank Stock was heavy again at 1 6 9 to 169 8. The '7'e" Three-and-a-Half per Cents. obtained 98 3 to a nd tho Three per Cents. 90 to loans The Foreign Securities were not brisk, bu t in the' Northern and more bona fide ones a steady business vvel done. Active Spanish Bonds were not higher than 194 to 1 In Portuguese Stuck there were no bargains. Co lombian brought 198 to 201, and Mexican 25:,. Belg iari t Bonds got up from 101-a to 102 ; Danish were firm a 791 ; Austrian at 109 ; Russian at 114 1 ; a nd Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 52. The Five per Cents• fluctuated from 1018 to 102; Railway shares met a fair Saki, Great Western Icel l at 19, the New at B+, the Fifths ttt 51, the London an., Birmingham at 71 to 72, the Thirds at 214, the Ne s ; at 211, the York and North Midland at 26, the 11} to 12 and the South Western at 14* pretuiti Brightonwere 78 to 61, Cheltenham and Great I;reste,i 4q, Midland Counties 15i, North and Eastern North Midland 36, and South Eastern 20 discount. British North American Bank Shares were 5 discount, and Colonial Bank 7 premium. The City of Dublin Steam Packet Compaq It_ . % !, claims upon public respect and gratitude by their flit ln L ficient recognition of the public debt due to Jam" Hartley, Esq., of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, for his successful prosecution 01 those connected with the gold dust robbery. The 0' tent of the plunder, the permanent good example shown by Mr. Hartley to all commercial Companies, in bring' ing to justice culprits engaged in such a. nefarious rob bery, and doing this public good at his sole expense, e v . ll- titled him eminently to such a mark of respect. / e only wish him a long and prosperous life to enjoy st he has deserved it. The testimonial has been prepared by Mr. Law, ° ( Sackville-street, and the work does honour to the manu factures of Ireland. It consists of a silver salver, with richly chased scroll edge, representing the seasons, and the following inscription :—" Presented to James Hart , Esq., by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Compani„ pursuant to a resolution passed at a General meeting °I the Proprietors, held on the 6th May, 1841, in testiraol i of the services so honourably and energetically rend ered by him to the mercantile community at large, by bringl,_og to condign punishment, at his own personal expense , t•;r principal offenders concerned in the gold dust robberP f The arms are engraved in the centre of the scroll. J ll addition a beautiful centre-piece, to correspond, has le ers presented, as a suitable accompaniment, by the Bri tish and Irish Steam Navigation Company. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 3.—We W e had a very moderate business doing in the Cotton ga r ket to-day, the sales not realizing more than 1,500 West at prices of a downward tendancy. Exporters and sPec a. lators have been wholly inactive. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 3.—Tbe follow' ing are the transactions :—London and Birmingham , ( 321 ' Shares, 53i ; London and South Western, 3llll , l- chester, Bolton, and Bury, 56i ; York and North 11.i ,1 " land Half Shares, 21 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 59• MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 3.—we h ave had a flat market. The only sales are—Hull and Seib'' , 36 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 211. By the arrival of the merchant-ship Edward, at Cowes, from Rio de Janeiro, papers as late as the 10th Juin: have been received,- they are fifteen days later tha n t o f previous accounts, but they do not contain any ne ; " .s per importance. The exchange on England and the S-3-03., Cent. Local Stock comes lower ; the former is at and the latter 74. Both the English and Foreign Stock Markets opened without any variation from the closing prices Of yester day. Consols are 89i for Money, and 89'1, for count ; Exchequer Bills 14 16, and India Bonds 6_9 premium. Spanish Active Stock 191- Passive, 4-13- Portuguese Five per Cents. 29 4 4 1 301, Ditto Threes, 1/ .1 to 181-. The Foreign Exchanges were firmer yesterday, parti cularly upon Hamburgh. which advanced to 13 9-4 13 9i. There has been but little business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the present time. Consols are now quoted at 891 for Money, and 894 for the Account ;_ Three per Cent. Reduced, 90 ; Ditto Three-and-a-Half per Cent., 981 ; Bank Stock, 1691. Exchequer Bills, 15, and Indißonds 6 8 premium ' • Spanish Active Stock , 19i ; Columbian Bonds, 20+ ; Mexican, 254 6 ; Rus sian, 114 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52. There has been rather more business doing in t : Share Market, but prices have not improved. Or- 2i ; Western, New, are at 58+ ; London an/ Brighton , 4 „„ t h London and Birmingham Quarter Slivres, 53i ; °"," r k Western, 53 ; North Midland, 64 ; ditto New, 32 ; - and North Midland, 76 ; ditto New Shares. 22. fit le This being the fourth of the month, there is else doing in the City but paying and receiving ".° amount of the different drafts. We believe th ere ha" been no particular embarrassments resulting therefrom, the money market being easy, under all n circomsta nce o s. Foreign Corn in Bond is 3s. to ss. higher than Monday, with a ready sale, and the arrivals continue large. Consols, Account, 89 a ; Colombian, 20+ ; 31exi ; can 254 26 ; Spanish 191- 20. No business ivhatev" doing. 133,1 3 per Cent Red 9O Ditto Bonds ............... 3 per Cent Cons B9/1 Ditto Old Annuities •.• 3i per Cent Red 994 ,Ditto New A 1 4 nnuities... —* m New 3i per Cent ! New 5 per Cent Ex p . .......... Long Annuities to expire I Ditto 5ma11.... .• 14 P t° .. 4 i Jan. 1860 .. 121 1 Bank Stock for Acct... —' Oct 1859 124 'lndia Stock for fDpg• ••• Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... 109 Portuguese, 5 per cent. --- Belgt.in, 5 per cent lO2 Ditto, New Ditt0......... Brazilian Bonds Prussian, 5 per cent. • 114 z CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. nk Stock, India Stock, r 3 F" Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent...... Chilian, 6 per cent.-- Ditto, Meta11ic............. Colombian, 6 per cent... 20 Spanish, 5 per cent...... 19r Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred •• • '— Danish, 3 per cent 79i French, 5 per cent. —f. Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 234 French, 3 per cent. —f• Ditto, 6 per cent, 1625. Dutch, 2i per cent. ••• Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent.... ...... ltGa SHARES Cheltenham and Great Western (62k paid) 21i Great Western Railway (65 paid) B4 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 5B l Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 43 1. London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 16 1 Ditto Thirds (32 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid) .. ...... 84i Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) Northern and Eastern (30 paid) ...... •••• 191 North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) 'South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 18 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 7 6 Ditto New Shares (10 paid) STOCK OF GRAIN ON HAND, &c.—The favi mers, from the very fine weather we formerly had, ely the agitation of the corn question, thrashed out larg . and I consider they will have none in six weeks shall, therefore, be dependent on the granaried stock* which is small. We have no free wheats, either foreign, Scotch, or English ; our stock consists only of 40,000 quarters of wheat in bond ; last year, at 2d Septemer, we had 150,000. We may possibly get other 20,00, which will make our stock 60,000—under half of wh at ' we had last rear. Our millers and bakers have now ? ' and are daily buyers from the farmers.— Caledonio Mercury. On Saturday last a very interesting and edi: fying scene presented itself in th e Episcopal Chu rci. here, when there were present an American bisher; two clergymen of Engli s h or di na ti on , and two °' Scotch ordination, all of whom took part in the ser vices of the day. This coincidence is worthy of being recorded, not only from its being quite acciden t "' but also from the w e ll-k nown f ac t, that the }- 7, 1 3 !'5,_ pal Church of the Am er i can St a t es derived her el' s % pacy partly through E ng li s h, an d p ar tly through Se °- tish ordination. Th e p er f ec t h armon y i n which all t hese met together on common ground, in unity of spir it, and in the bond of peace," was pleasing and impressive in no ordinary degree. The American Prelate, we nil derstand, Nras the Bishop of Virginia, and one of the English clergymen the Rev. Mr. Stowell, of Manchester. —lnverness Journal. A TRUE TEETOTALLER.—A man of the OLIO of Alexander B r e m ner, a tailor, resident in Scarle t, neat ; this place, has, we understand, not tasted solid food 0' any kind for the last thirty days. During period the man, it is said, has only made use of two small jugs of milk, but drinks one of water eve r y day. The person from whom we have our informs: tion is in every way worthy of credit, and we B a th' therefore, no hesitation in giving publicity to above facts. The poor man has become, and no w onder , 7 ghastly-looking subject, and as lean as his own g° °s a e i l this long What his object may be in his total abstinenc e from that sustains we know not ; but suppose he must be in training for the part of the apothecary in Borneo air. Juliet. Bremner c o n verses a good deal on religious se_ jects, on which, however, there is evidently an apPe c a h n e c e e r f o u f l, h r is ea b d e s in a g g c r ra ea z t ed d . eal H . He n h o as t 40coutfilnveodrkteod at 1.0: trade for the last three months. Perhaps it tuwsg his intention not to taste brea d until the Coru-lauiv altered.—John o' Groat's Journal. MORNING SUN• THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, I'l4l. MORN! NG SUN. Ith L' 4 (l, t y~'e ~F~ ~ha