The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-04 00:00:00

EITF,NINt4 SUN. F R GERMANY. t „. OU- -:.''FORT, JULY 31 .— The anticipated chan g e in Ilinistry is beginning to produce the expected e ffects 11 1)( 3 4 the Continent. The last accounts from Italy tell L s that tr aces o f the l ong -l ost secre t societies have again a found i n Sardinia and NaNaples, which have occa zned m any arrests upon suspicion. In Germany the Ci u n ifilissary d e p u t e d by the Elector of Cassel tells tke 4abled Estates that the Members have no business to eise ee censures upon the Government. since the exer oi such a control over the Ministers would make Coi the servants of the Chambers, instead of being the .rable t oo l s of the Crown. S evera l M e mbers of this 'uaniber vindicated the right to express their opinions to roe" in office ; but the Commissary seems to have Grand his point. In Baden, in the toleame manner, the It l u e d Duke, persisting in his right xclude or admit eh Ten as are in the employment of the State from the t i rn itt "ers, the latter have been obliged to let the dispute t i o "P s , with a protest against the validity of the new elec -14,• In this amiable contest for despotic supremacy it es _ could be unjust to suppose that the King of Hanover Z ild remain behind band. Accordingly we have not thia verbose proclamation, fixing that his opinion of 1 8. „levalidity of the Constitution which he had a ye, the must out weigh, in our so imperfe c tly enlightened the votes of two Chambers, and the practical he tells of the said Constitution for four years ; but tells his clamorous subjects (what he certainly v ed) that w r itt en Constitutions are but so much w ast di s e Paper . The Hanoverians, howeve r, manifesting a Jesition to believe that, while cities and provinces have the right left to choose representatives, things must j E ,; el ,7 bard if th e y cannot protect themselves , his Ma i "as been graciously pleased, in the following pithy ,Zamation, to undeceive them, as well as anybody to s i v ' llo may bo simple enough to think like them, and curtained, be . I ,o‘v that if a certain number of troops can in any way willing to obey his orders, there is no diffi ,,,el) too great, no right so sacred, but it can be ridden r roughshod R ANovEn, JULY 00 , 1841.—His Majesty, the King, p roe l l 'een pleased to ordain, with reference to the royl amation dated 14th instant, that all unlawful opposi par.to, ,the present Constitution be vigorously resisted; but that ' that every attempt to influence the elections in th at s 'llse be met with the most decisive measures ; and t tila 'll accordance with the law, as it now stands, at to exercise a resistance of this kind, but espe 1, yto exercise an influence - in the manner al luded to, Prevented interference % re ented by the of the authorities, who be pi, charged to indict, and imprison, all persons who s hall "ed to have originated such proceedings. l While ibi s d es i re of his Majesty is hereby brought li a ever Y body's knowledge, all the Royal Landdrosts, Ttrates, and Courts ofJustice or Police, are re d to Watch over the commission of unlawful acts of to e, enature which we have described, and to cause watch i rlst ' ) held against them, and without waiting for higher b e !nifty of to proceed vigorously against all who shall ic h - ty of such acts ; especially, however, to enforce of e strictest manner against all offenders the provisions e law of elections of the 6th of November, 1840, j un .a case s of need to act under the law of the 27th of Avo r l e ,', 1840 , concerning the detention of prisoners in the al e v "ouses of the police prisons ,• and when in either of b 4u() Ye eases an accusation liable to severe punishment I,?ught forward, to deliver the criminal immediately th at "'e Criminal Court. Notice is hereby also given, Police restrictions impOsed upon the Com missar y nber have been removed. "Ministry of Justice, J. CVD. WISCH." l t ,„ m hen th ese proc l aa tions, joined with ins ults to the ' t h e "Thers of the Chambers, and unceasing persecutions of Publie Pr ess , are the treatment which t he Germans du ly Meet With f r o m th e i r r ulers, in token of the grad te! felt by tile latter for the unanimity shown in the grad tile! Pr enc .h invasion last year, it may be ver y well , Sovereign's of Germany to speculate upon a con jewed, unchanging submission on the part of their sub . - t t i „,` , but it is necessary for foreign PowerS, in their i , Lorn at • eou lc relations, duly to weigh the possibility whether ntrY distracted in its interior in this manner can, on kimaincergency, be expec in the ° of power of Europe. ted to prove of weight . rivD COURT CIRCULAR. Walk TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert r tirs ed this morning in the Slopes and Little Park. h": Duche ss a Bedford arrived at the Cas tle, and n s '* u a ec it ,.. e eded the Dowager Lady Lyt telton, as the Lady hl a on the Queen. t he q t , -1 , 4 9pel has succeeded Sir F rederick Stovin, as Vi g , —r n In Waiting on her Majesty . Olivi„- n u nt Melbourne, Hon. W. Co w p er, and the Lady - -L-aYlour arrived to-day at the Castle. pi la ri ef t he afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony r° ll , the Prince driving. T he Ron. Harriet Pitt and the Hon. Sarah Mary Ca v„ l n u T ish followed in another phae ton, and Lord Alfred a get, Colonel Wylde, and the Hon. Majo r Ke pp el at ,llded on horseback. jler Royal Highness the Princess Royal has been ften her usual airing. Lady Caroline Barrington and Mr. George A. Anson, have the honour of joi nin g the Ro y al Circle at the Atfle at dinner in the evening. Rh Royal Highness the Duke of Ca mbrid g e visited „su,g Panormas of Damascus and Ac re y esterda y , and was -rtelsed to express his approbation of the pa intin g s. The D uc h ess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin - IsL sses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, took an airing Yesterd ay in a carriage. iiaVisaount Melbourne, accompanied by the Ho n. Wil ,,era Cowp er , l e ft town yesterday afternoon on a visit to r Majesty at Windsor Castle. M r. - irc'tk had an interview with the Marquis of Nor- The yesterday at the Home-office. the Chairwan of Excise an interview with t i,,," l ancellor of the the Exchequer had yesterday, at his offi- V esiden ce in pawning-street. nesters ount Me the w i ll h i .4, Thal e Patehes from Sir Charles Metcalf, Governor of Lord ea, Were received yesterday at t he Colonial-office. and Lady Hamilton Chichester have arrived at - • gra —l nee's Hotel, Bel grave-street, from Melton. j 3 ONABLE INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURES. Lady t r , Elizabeth Fielding and the lion. Henry Fox Talbot, to Sackviile-strea, for La coc k Abbey, Wiltshire ; M r. C h o 4rle s and Lady Catherine Cavendish, from Latim ers, for D a .,"," 00 e 1 Park; the Hon. Mrs. Brand, from the seat Robert the floo, Hertfordshire, for Goodwood;atn Mr. el* Belfo r d, from the Marquis of Northampton's mansion ter ihde-Prk corner, for Westonbirt House, Tetbury, Glouces for-,ere ; Air. and the Hon. Mrs. Shavre, from Berkeley-street, onshire ; Mr. Lyne Stephens, from Portman -s q uare, tin a to ur ; Commodore Sir Charles Napier , K.C .B. and '" from the Gloucester Hotel, for his seat, Merchistoun I, atl near Hornclean ; C. Houston, Esq., and Mrs. Houston, C ot : 1‘ Mar hsall Thompson's Hotel, lo the Continent ; J ohn E . sq., and Mrs. Cobb, from ditto. r ARRIVALS. C a d ; e , two Spanish Princes (the Dukes of Sevil le a nd of t z) and suite, at Hathaway's Hotel, from a tour in the Sfr,"' Kingdom ; Lord Saye and Sele, in Grosvenor-square , t 'roughton Castle, Oxfordshire ; Lord Eliot, in Dover- Z e s from Corms all ; Sir Robert and Lady Stopford, and the „La airs. Stopford, at the Burlington Hotel ; Cooper, Esq., E S I "' Cooper, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel; E. Elton, ( 1., and Mrs. Elton, at ditto. , ENT AT MOST MELANCHOLY COACH ACCIDEr... 43 1 E SL ALE —Would it be a 1 KENDAL. ATTENDED WITH LOSS OF LIFE.-•--0/1 Sunday "rosa InING SC -- . g ood afternoon last the Engineer coach, which runs betwixt ie I , n r for the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., to the Lancaster Railway terminus and Carlisle, when on BE " The Sliding Scale?" "'RAI/ B . n Wednesday its return from the north, was overturned on the road at t f. es ORT IRON On a place called Coldharbour, on the Shap-road, about four v. sZr te , yhe 21st ult., about eleven o'clock, Beaufort was miles distant from Kendal. It appears that strong op in sit ~...11) Y a gang of nocturnal desperadoes, amounting position now exists between the stage and mail-coaches lospini-soer to about 100, who proceeded, amid yells, bel noiset g , s, rattling of chains, and the most discordant as to which can arrive first in the various towns off the load, in order to secure the greatest number of passengers. toi ill ..: to the house of Emanuel Hughes, late of the Vic- To effect this object the horses are driven at a most the dernn, but now of the Picton beer-house, burst in atic ic i s r, and commenced beati n g rapid and unnatural speed. This being the case on the out, unmercifully, with day in question, and the Engineer having the lead of ton us, e _ , tvvo bailiffs, who were in possession of the house mails, was proceeding at a tremendous rate, and, .on of. , . r a &stress for debt, and carried off several articles leaching the above place, the traces of the leading b e I t ta lr•l rsc t iturks and destroyed others, while what beer could horse were forced from their fastenings, which caused car °f tll,nd muss set flowing about the floor. The landlord a temporary check s when the coach, which was fo r 1 . Premis es, who was there at the time making claim heavily laden with luggage on the roof, and car ,t, , n e s rent, also got very roughly handled, and was glad rying at the time four inside and nine outside passengeTs, the": first orportunity to decamp. After securing all began to swerve from one side to the other upon its et _ a c luable,p(rrtable articles, and having smashed the sprinffs. This dangerous motion was perceived by a Mr. tre e: 4 d ry and other goods of little value, the herd re- Heyward, farmer, of Hintlesham, Sutfolk, who was re (lr tl to the moulitain. It is thought that the authors turning from Scotland, where he had been to inspect _ t , s lawless proceeding will not be discovered, as they some new and improved agricultural implements, and sel blackened their faces and otherwise disguised them- who was sitting behind the driver. He immediately es ;but, independently of this, the dread of being i leaped from the coach in a direction from the horses, ba s eiltched" is so great on the hills, that were any of t i d e when, most appalling to relate, his head came in contact ti v i tr known no persons would risk their property an with the ground, by which he was killed on the spot. Ls by discoverirng Assistant them.—Silurian. After this sad occurrence the coach proceeded on the two Rarristership of the county qt.. .... right side wheels about 50 yards, when it went over with A Thterick is vacant by the death of Mr. Malachi Fallon. a tremendous crash, precipitating with great violence to 'ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM FEAR OF PUN -1811 EMPTED the ground the whole of the passengers, amongst whom EN T -__- tlitni., - On Satu • . . rday afternoon a poor Irishwoman were two lake tourists, whose names have not yet la s'n Jane Murphy, living J ov e-court, Petticoat- transpired, who had the in misfortune to be thrown under the Il e W • 1/ 0 , lutechapel, was brought in a c ab to determined onon coach, and the horses still furiously continued to drag the atL/Ital, lab,nuring under the effects of a coach. These _ one hadese two gentlemen were most grievously in h , I "'Pt at 6 elf-destruction. it appeared that she jured, 11'4 • •of her coup- the ancle to the knee, torn in the most dreadful manner, tryw been qu.vrelling with some . k ss (n nen, when she was informed that morning that whilst his foot was completely twisted round. The other -"lnnsonand she d _ have to gentleman escaped somewhat more favourably, but, not tor" s was o tit against her, i lpon before the 11,Ingistrate, which ha such] d an effect withstanding this, one of his legs was broken, and the keif ' l er, that she went up stairs, and thrust a ta ble other much contused. They were both afterwards re ' a carriage t o t h e C rown Inn, Kendal, v e two inches into) one side of her throat. She then moved m _ where all trapped • th e _ a pillow rou ud her neck, and told the people in surgical assistance was rendered them, and where they the nett room to pay a shilling she owed, and to sen or d f 'lllin er in an almost hopeless state. The body of Mr Policeman, directly, instead of which they fetched a Heyward was removed to the Plough Inn, Selside, about . Sh e man. No hopes are entertained of her recovery. five nu e'l s north of Kendal. A coroner's inquest was held the body on .1‘ co. _ got her living by waAshing for several Jews in Patti- upon .. I d ' on ay, but up to eight o'clock in the 'ise . evening no verdict had been returned. With respect to Cok.. R.,„ other passengers, nothing material occurred to them, Ass n 1 s. AVERAGES IN FRANCE.--PARIS, the . • non of the shock from the accident. l's • 's — The average price of wheat for the whole of with the exception _ a nn_• n 1 „ a 7e, for the month ending the 31st day of July last _ . ROXBURGHSHIRE ELECTION.—Great indeed ii s ,? , according to the official returns made up and pub- must has e tied b , been the disappointment experienced by the litre, y the Minister of Commerce, 67f. - 4c. per hecto- Tories during the polling days at Hawick on ace:unt of ciu , which is equivalent to 385. 9d. for the Euglish no riot having occurred. Gentle reader, only conceive hand 16f' The a v er a ge price at the end of June last was what a mortification it must have been, after qi,lsc., equal to 368. 3d. for the English imperial conveying to Hawick about thirty . pairs of th t e nter. The average price by the London Gazette for cuffs ! and an ample supply of chains ! ! notwith trisiast week is G6s. 3d. for all England, differing a standing the provocation given to the people by trifling 30s. a quarter. the ruffianly conduct of an infuriated soldiery not ss.syse y UT,„ INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.-- a single pair of them were• required 1! I So ashamed den esterday h ttl e whole of these morning the following awful instance of sud- were they of the transactions, t a 1 or- Yesterday death occurred to Thomas Aitcheson, 75 years of naments (certainly more befitting those, who sent them, age. The dec ease d and had been 'for many years, than those for whom they were sent;, were huddled into In th e ern l was, d Stang •dth -, k b rvation, and reconveyed, as if by t en s 13 to of Messrs. Nixon an awar , o ex- a sac to prevent ose sive builders, in Palace New-road, ate. About stealth, back to Jedburgh by the mail cart. Does this Seven o'clock in the riling the deceased was in the throw no additional light upon the conduct of certain w orkshops, about In° • his daily work, and, whilst officials upon th a t memo rable occasior—Kelo Chronicle. it , ated , to begin .011, on a st oo l, hi s bead was observed to droop, and Lard Derby has just added his extensive to ,n. some of his fellow-workmen going to him, ho gave ornithological collection at Knowsley, upwards of one snu e e ,gasP and instantly expired. The deceased was hundred new specimens, the greater portion of which are _ n respected by his employers, and on the body being from Timor and New Guinea. Many of these varieties removed from the premises, Mr. Nixon, with much possess the most plendid plumage, and their natural f • emotion, exclaimed, " There is the last of an old and faith servant." characteristics have been preserved by Mr. John Lead beater, of Brewer-street, the ornithologist to her Ma .. A COOL PLACE !—The New York Express jesty, from whom these delightful objects of nature were ,73's, ",The th ermome ter, in a cool place, yesterday obtained. Among other attractions, Knowsley possesses , stood at 92i at half-past one." This cool Owe must the finest aviary in Europe, his Lordship havin g devoted " 4" been rather warm. much time and expense in its formation, BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING, AUG. 2.—On Satur day, none of the sections meeting on that day, the seve ral excursions were made. The largest party, consisting of the several geologists, went on an excursion to view the Elven dykes of Cornwall, on the edge of that large and romantic wild, Dartmoor, the picturesque and neat town of Tavistock, with the celebrated Wheal Friend ship and Wheal Betsey mines at Mary Tavy. This party contained the most distinguished of the savans, amongst whom were the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl of Morley, Lord Ebrington, M.P., Sir Thomas Dyke Ac land, and Sir Charles Leman. Almost every conveyance of the town was put in requisition, the distance being about 18 miles from this place. The party, consisting of upwards of 200 persons, was conducted round the mines to witness the application of water power and steam on a very exten sive scale, to the various purposes of pumping, raising the ores, crushing, and stamping, by Mr. John Taylor ; and Mr. Delabeche explained the nature of the strat a . These mines are very extensive, the seam running up wards of three miles, producing the ores of copper, lead, and tin, and being excavated to a depth . of 1,200 feet. The party was afterwards provided with a cold collation by the:proprietors of the mines. Two steam-vessels having been placed at the disposal of the Association by the liberality of the Admiralty, were employed in excursions to the Eddystone light house and the Breakwater; and to explore the beautiful ; and far-famed scenery up the river Tamar, which we have already noticed, and the source of the Weir. To-day the great object of attraction will be the launch of the ship Hindostan t at the dock-yard at Devenport ; and to give greater effect., the tradesmen of the town have come to a general resolution to close their shops at noon. This morning, at eight o'clock, the preliminary operation of lifting the ship by wedges was performed before a large assembly of members. The Hindostan is a teak-built ship, the frame timbers of which were converted in India, and sent home. She has been 13 years in construction, having been laid down in August, 1828, and was origi nally intended to be an 80-gun ship. Her burden is 2,050 tons, the weight when launched 1,606 tons, and her weight when completely equipped for sea 3,213 tons. The disposition of her armament is as follows :—Gun decks, 30 guns, four of which will throw hollow shot of 561bs. weight, or shell of 8-in. diameter, the remaining 26 being 32-pounder guns ; on the main deck .32 guns, two of which are for 56-Ib. hollow shot .; and on the quarter deck and forecastle 1 6 guns, of w hich four will be 32-pounders, and the remaining 12 will be 32-pounder carronades. The weight of a round of shot from this armament is 9,5201b5. of iron, and of a broadside 1,260. Up to this morning the number of non-resident mem bers present is 435, the least attendance of any of the meetings, with the exception of the first at York. Some valuable discussions are anticipated to-day at some of the sections, the number of papers put down for reading being very considerable. CORONER'S IN QUEST. Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Robin son Crusoe, Earl-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of William Morton, aged 51, formerly an omnibus pro prietor, latterly a conductor, but more recently without any employment. Edward 'Wright, an omnibus driver, residing at No. 31, Little Carlile-street, Edgware-road, said, deceased was a lodger of his, and that about four o'clock on Saturday last, witness sent his daughter, aged nine years, to deceased's room to call him down to tea. She re turned quite alarmed, saying, " Mr. Morton looked very white in the face, and had a string round his neck." Witness was then in the act of cutting bread and butter, and he ran up stairs with the knife in his hand, and seeing deceased hanging, he cut him down. lie was quite dead, and a doctor who was called in tried ineffec tually to bleed him. He had cut one of the bed cords in half, and with it hanged himself by the neck from a hook in the ceiling. By the CORONER—I saw him reading a book about eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon, and I then told him, his rent being in arrear, that I had let his room to another. He replied very carelessly, "Oh, have you ?" He was formerly in partnership with Mr. Shillibeer. Since then he became a conductor, but eight months ago lost his situation through drunkenness ; he was extremely low and dull, except when he drank, and latterly he was never a day sober. lam confident he hanged himself. The CORONER, addressing Wright—Do you think that drunkenness brought on insanity, or that insanity led to drunkenness? Wright—l think the man must be insane to drink as he did. I have known him drink a bottle of brandy a day for twelve months together. He formerly attempted to cut his throat with a razor, and on Friday night last he asked another conductor to lend him a penny, saying he wanted it to buy a cord wherewith to hang himself. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." DEER-STEALING IN WINDSOR. GREAT PARK. Notwithstanding the sharp look out kept day and night by her Majesty's keepers in the Great Park at Windsor, deer-stealing has been successfully carried on, and to a great extent, during the whole of the summer. On Monday afternoon a notorious character, residing at Old Windsor, named Joseph Atkins , alias ovely Joe, who has long been suspected, from his well-known poaching tricks, to have been connected with these de predations, was brought before Mr. Ward, one of the Magistrates for the county of Berks, at Englefield green, charged by David Fisher, constable of Old Windsor, with having shot at and killed a female deer, the property of her Majesty, early on the morning of Sunday last. It appeared from the evidence of Sampson Strickland, one of her Majesty's keepers (who was-corroborated by another witness), that between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning (the moon shining at the time) he and three of his assistants were on watch in the park, at Peter's-hill, near the paddocks formerly used for the Hanoverian horses, and almost close to the new union workhouse, when they heard the report of a gun about 300 yards from where they were standing. After wait ing quietly behind the trees for nearly half an hour, they saw the prisoner descend from the wall into the park, by means of a short ladder, which it was proved had been taken by the prisoner from the rick-yard of a farmer at Old Windsor, named Friend. It was from the top of this wall the deer was shot. The fellow, in attempting to carry off the deer, several times tried to get it upon his shoulders, but failed,from the state of drunkenness he was in, falling each time with the deer in his arms. At this time Strick land and his assistants went up to the prisoner, who made no resistance, and took him into custody. The accused, who had hidden his gun on Peter's-hill, in a gutter or water-course, within a short distance of where be was taken, pointed out the spot to the keepers, where it was found. The prisoner, w ho said nothing in his defe nce, was fully committed to Reading gaol to take his trial for the capital offence of killing and slaying a deer within en closed grounds, the property of the Queen, at the next assizes for the county of Berks. He has been several times convicted at Aylesbury and Reading of poaching, for which he has undergone various terms of imprisonment. As a " wirer of hares" be is considered to be the greatest proficient in the neigh ' of Windsor and Eobam. bourhood SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—Sir Robert Peel has pledged the Conserva tives who follow his guidance in Parliament to act as men " determined to maintain upon their ancient founda tions the institutions of the country in Church and State." We claim the full benefit of that pledge, for the main tenance, and for the restoration, so far as they have been impaired, of those fundamental institutions which we have now been engaged in describing, and which we verily believe to lie deep at the root of the liberty, the strength, the prosperity, greatness, and glory of the British nation. These foundations have been of late years systematically undermined by the Whigs, and se rious breaches have been made in some of them. It is here, then, that the essential difference between Whigs and Conservatives ought to be exhibited. If Sir Robert Peel did not mean so much as this, he has used idle words; and trifled with the earnest expectations of his supporters and the people on a vital point. ,There has been no vice of Lord Melbourne's Government more strongly marked, none certainly which has contributed more towards its fall, than the tendency of their mea sures, of late scarcely disavowed, to introduce upon the ruins of our ancient constitution the principles and prac tice of an executive despotism. Under the pretence of removing abuses, promoting economy, and increasing the efficiency of institutions, they have been engaged in a constant endeavour to absorb and concentrate into their own hands the various and widely-distributed elements of administrative power. For every board of Commissioners \ hick they have created, so much power has been taken out of the hands of the people, and so much actual liberty, and still more, security for liberty, has been lost. By the new Poor-law they have drained off the streams and fountains of a vast system of self-government which circulated throughout the nation, into a small number of main dikes and ditches, terminating in the one everlasting and insatiable reser voir—themselves. The Rural Police Act is another offspring of this un-English and anti-popular spirit ; and we cannot help referring to the same principle Lord John Russell's arbitrary attempt to make the self assertion of privilege by the House of Commons para mount to law, and also the language which the Whigs have lately begun to hold concerning the prerogative of the Crown. But this is a point of too much importance to be treated of incidentally at the end of an article, and we shall reserve the development of it till a future op portunity. HERALD.—The Whigs seem determined that their candle shall not be hid under a bushel. Lord John Rus sell, in his epistle to the citizens of London, took as much credit to himself as might satisfy any reasonable appetite for self-praise ; but the Chancellor of the Ex chequer has proved himself a real glutton in adulating himself. We did not expect this from him. We had always attributed to him greater • tact and a better taste than he evinced in his speech the other day at Winches ter. We even went further in our good opinion of him. We acquitted him of the mean • propensity to steal the laurel from another man's brow. But we must take the Right Hon. Gentleman's claims on public credulity seriatim. Whatever might be their fate," he says, speaking of the Whig Ministry, whatever might be the result of the first few days of the meeting of the next Parliament, whatever the majority which the people may have returned against those who at present hold the reins of power, from the annals of hiitory they could never erase those great trophies which her Majesty's Government had won for the people." What an ungrate ful set the people must be to turn out a Ministry who have won such " great trophies" for them ! If the people had thought that the Whigs sticking to place was a '• great trophy," the people would have kept them in place. The people—by which term we designate the pro perty, intelligence, and industry of the country—are not to be deceived twice. In every walk of life this charac teristic of the Englishman is remarkable. The Irishman is more zealous, the Scotchman is more calculating—the Englishman reflects. The sensible Englishman is never cheated a second time; and in that feature of our national character Mr. Baring may read as he runs—the down fall of the Whig Ministry. But the "trophies," and we will take the first that Mr. Baring appropriates. "Do what they (the people) might," he says, " the chains of 800,000 fellow-creatures have been struck off." Who struck them off? Not Mr. Baring, for he was then not even in the Cabinet. Not Lord John Russell, for the question was too large for his limited intellect. He had not the moral courage to strike the chains from the slave at a blow. Not Lord Howick, with his petty fancy of a loan of 15,000,0001. No : none of these fine holiday gentlemen knew how to effect the emancipation of the poor negro. It was left to the more masculine mind of Lord Stanley to elbow Lord Howick out of his way, and purchase the negro's liberty out and out. And Mr. Baring claims this, the best achievement of Lord Stanley, for a Ministry which Lord Stanley abandoned in disgust ! The second trophy is comprised in the following words, —" Whatever language they (the people) might use, history will write that, since Ireland has been a con quered country,. during the whole of that period this is the first Administration to which the Irish people have looked with confidence." A few years ago Lord Mel bourne persuaded the Sovereign to stigmatise O'Connell as a disturber of the public peace. Not only was the public peace then thought to be compromised, but the personal peace and constitutional dignity of the Sove reign. This was no dream of the Conservative party ; it was then, we believe, the honest conviction of the Whig Government. Lord Melbourne himself dictated the Speech ; and now, what will history really tell of a Government who were mean enough to proscribe a mis chievous agitator from the throne, and, in order to keep in place, hold the self-same man up as the man they look to with "confidence !" What must be thought of a party which can encourage disaffection to the Queen by ripping up all the bad legislation of by-gone centuries, inflaming the passions of misguided men, by taunting them with the reproach tint they are a conquered race ? Are they statesmen who, for the mere sake of place, can do this ? No ; they are merely placemen. ADVERTISER.—The Tories begin already to dis cover the inconvenience attendant upon the necessity of maintaining a good character—namely, that it requires a constant outlay for the purpose of keeping it up—an un intermitting expenditure of oasis as well as conscience seems indispensable for preserving their reputation in even tolerable condition ; but it is with the latter alone that we have for the present to do ; and, leaving the consideration of pounds, shillings, and pence, for a future occasion, ,we must briefly notice a small traffic in the article of conscience by a veteran huckster, whom few of our readers will suspect of dealing in that commodity. Sir James Graham has, we perceive, been following the example set by Sir Robert Peel, and entertaining the pure electors of Dorchester at a public dinner, instead of being himself the object of their invitation. Toryism must be at a low ebb in the country when, in lieu of those political banquets which used to be held in its honour in all parts of the kingdom at a time when its votaries were in a minority, a gratuitous feast is now necessary to congregate its helots when their banner is for the mo ment triumphant. But this is a consideration which more concerns its disciples than ourselves, though the country may derive consolation from the reflection that, even with its own supporters, Toryism is at such a dis count that even its adherents can only be assembled by the prospect of a gratuitous guzzle. The speech which has prompted these remarks undoubtedly required some slight lubrication a la Kitchiner to make it go down even with the dull denizens of Dorchester ; for a more inane piece of egotistical insipidity it has not been our lot for many a day to encounter. It far outvies in emptiness the Tamworth oration, which even the Standard was obliged to confess "would possibly disappoint those who looked to it for novelty ;" and is the nearest approach in recent times to the realization of Talleyrand's celebrated apothegm, that language was given to man for the pur pose of enabling him to conceal his thoughts. In the whole of its dreary dulness it would be more difficult to distinguish a particle of meaning than to find a needle in a bundle of hay, or a pickle of corn in a cart-load of chaff. Even the Tory journals would seem to have been ashamed of it, as they have not only allowed it to pass unnoticed by the slightest mark of editorial comment, but consigned it in obscurity to the most obscure quarter Of their columns ; and, but for our casual observation, it would at once have been doomed " Soon to the mass of dulness to return, Where things forgot are swept to things unborn." In the whole mass of senseless verbosity which encum bers a column of the Times, it is impossible to distinguish the slightest extenuation of Tory policy for the past, or the slightest indication of Tory policy for the future. The bulky Baronet who accused the Lincolnshire farmers of heaviness, though he might vie with the densest of them in more than Beetian stupidity, has contrived to outvie Sir Robert Peel himself in point of incommunica- tiveness. POST.—The morning organ of the beaten Adminis tration employs itself in spinning leading articles out of a pamphlet by Mr. Baptist Noel, Minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, on the subject of the Corn-laws. The Whig-Radical journalist says that the reputation of the benevolent author, one of the brightest ornaments of the Church of England, who is looked up to as a high autho rity by the religious world, will no doubt obtain for the pamphlet a very extended circulation, and therefore much importance should be attached to its appearance. We take leave to enter our protest against this puff direct of Mr. Noel's pamphlet. When such paragraphs are found in the " back page" of a London journal, they are generally well enough understood to be the composi tion of some person who has an interest in selling the book or pamphlet thus bepuffed, and who therefore pays for the insertion of the eulogy. But it is really unfair to put such paragraphs into the leading columns of any re spectable newspaper, Without being very presumptuous we may venture to assume that we know rather better than any Whig-Radical Journal, whether any particular gentleman is looked up to as an ornament of the Church of England, and we do assure the public that Mr. Bap tist Noel is not considered by the soundest members of that Church to be at all ornamental to it, and still less is he considered to be useful. In short, he is not looked upon as a Church of England man at all, but a dissen ter ; and if the gentleman had a mind capable of appre ciating, or even of distinguishing, what is necessary to strict propriety, strict integrity, and strict decorum, it is probable that long ere this he would have formally se ceded from the Church of England. We do not at all mean to charge Mr. Noel with an intentional and con scious violation of the integrity of his duty to the Church. The fault or misfortune, or whatever it should be called, lies in a deficiency of understanding and judgment. He is a lamentable instance o f presumption and incapacity combined. To allude to him as a person of authority is perfectly ridiculous. CHRONICLE. —We have to acknowledge the ser vice rendered to the public by the Morniny Post, in bringing into broad and clear light a characteristic pas sage in Sir Robert P eels late oration at Tamworth. The medical analogy is in every one's memory. Physi cians are not uncommon who, in cases of distress, gene rously disregard the fee ; the quack never does. By that unconscious sympat h y which influences a speaker's mind, and brings out the truth in spite of himself, Sir Robert identified himself with the quack while labouring to claim an affinity 'AO; the physician. " I see around TIC E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1841. me," said he, " some of my attached friends of the medi cal profession, and I appeal to them whether they do not cordially concur with me, that it is not fit that one ma n should offer the prescription and another take the fee." — (Continued laughter and cheering.) The dishonest State Doctor suppressed the fact that every Member of Parliament has taken his fee to prescribe for the nation's health. His former election was Sir Robert's fee, and so far as he gave any prescription in return it amounted to spare diet, dear bread, and starvation. But he says he has another recipe in store that will stop the disease. Why does he not produce it ? Because he wants to extort the additional fee of office, influence, patronage, and emolument. Do the medical men of Tamworth call this honourable practice ? Professional people, and unprofessional, elsewhere, cry shame upo n it. 'There is a general disgust at the antipatriotic, sordid, and factious character of the avowal. The Morning Post feels the thing to be so bad that, in despair of vindicating the principle, it has recourse to the desperate expedient of denying the fact ; which it does in the following not very courteous manner The lie we are about to mention is hardly worth contra dicting ; but as the Ministerial faction seem to nurse it as if it were rather a, pet lie of tlnirs, we may as well do so. The Globe and the Observer, and all the other Alinisterial Journals lie, when they quote a pretended passage from Sir R. Peel's speech at Tamwot th, in which he is made to talk of not giving his advice until he has received 'the fee.' The lie is neces sarily a wilful one; for our honest Contemporaries have the speech before them, and there is no such passage in it. But when the Ministerial Journals daily calumniate the Queen, how can Sir R. Peel hope to escape their false and slanderous attacks?" Now, however much the Morning Post may be ashamed of Sir Robert Peel, this is not the way to help him out of the scrape into which he has plunged by his inherent deficiency of moral taste, and has affinity with the selfish and the sordid. The passage is not a " pretended passage." Besides our own report of it, the correctness of which cannot be impeached, we have direct evidence that the words above quoted were spoken ; and the report of the Times bears distinct and complete testi mony to the fact. The," Globe and'the Observer, and all the other Ministerial journals," had these two concurrent reports before them. Our Contemporary is , much too hasty, therefore, in giving them the " lie," saying it must be " wilful," and asserting that they had " the speech before them, and there is no such p assa g e in it." The speech was before them the Times report was be fore them ; and there is that passage in it. Our Con temporary may have falsified his own report, and altered the unfortunate passage ; but making a lie is not proving a lie. It is rather too much that the Post should first belie Sir Robert Peel, and then belie the " Ministerial journals" for quoting him truly. CITY M O NEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 6} per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 175. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 31, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25. 37k, it follows that gold is 0.26 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 428 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31.175. 10i-d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 61, it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 109 i per cent., and the par of exchange between ,Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 1.08 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. . . ______ It has been expressed as a matter of surprise in many quarters, that the late sales of stock, including as they did an amount very little under 200,0001., and followed as they were in the one case, and preceded in the other, by news 'which, taking it from either source, America or China, could not be viewed as favourable to this country, did not more severely affect the market than they have done, and the negative impression, for such it is considered to be, is accepted as very good evidence of the state of things produced by the concentration of business in the English funds. Taking a review of the fluctuations that have occurred, it does not appear that their range is more than one-half per cent., even up to to-day, and some allowance must be made for the change able state of the weather, which generally causes capi tal at this season of the year to be diverted to another channel of speculation. Such an,inconsiderable depres sion as this, caused by a succession of circumstances which would in former periods have produced, in all probability, a fall of 1 or 2 per cent., naturally calls at tention to the main spring of so steady, progressive, and increasing a support to our own funds, and it is pretty generally admitted to be the absence of all speculation in the foreign securities and the decrease of it in the other departments, which of course leads to the trans acting of bona fide business only. This has been a long while predicted by those who have watched the current course of events in the Stock-markets, and it seems they have not been mistaken. The late advices respecting the M`Leod affair have not produced any uneasiness in the country, if we may judge from the very few orders the brokers have received to sell upon the news. Although for the present, and more especially to day, there is a partial flatness exhibited in our Funds, it is thought it will be but temporary, and if the transitions of the last few weeks are to be taken as any criterion, the opinion cannot be ill-founded. Money for all purposes is abundant in the Stock Exchange at low rates, but out of doors it is not over easy, although it cannot be said that there is any great difficulty in obtaining accommo dation. Accounts from Manchester state that Messrs. Stocks and Son, the large manufacturers, have Suspended for between 70,0001. and 80,0001. It has had no effect here, and would be regarded as of little consequence were not sympathy . awakened for the further districh it a great num ess wh ber of will occasion among the operatives, whom will be thrown out of employment in consequence. The Crane packet, from the West Indies, brings papers from Jamaica to the 2d of July, from Trini dad to the 22d of June, from Barbadoes to the 27th of June, and from Demerara to the 24th of June. It will be perceived that the accounts from the latter island are but one or two days later than those published yesterday ; they, however, convey the name of the firm which had failed, namely, Messrs. Troughton, whose connections here in London stopped some short time since. The advices from Jamaica are of the same desponding character as pre viously noticed ; the lists of insolvents are beyond pre cedent, and the whole populatian seems to be overpowered with commercial embarrassments. The crops at Barba does were suffering from excessive drought, and there also the planters and merchants are said to be in jeopardy. The news of th e p ro posed revision of the sugar duties had gone the round of the islands, and the papers are filled with comments on the subject. The particulars of the case tried at Bombay, in which one of Captain Elliot's Treasury Bills was involved, are of considerable commercial interest. The defendants were the agents of Messrs. Dent and Co., to whom_ the plaintiff, a native merchant, had consigned 200 chests of opium, the defendants having made him an advance of 72,115 dollars, for which I he drew a bill on Dent and Co., payable to themselves. He instructed them to invest the surplus arisin g from the sale of the opium, after payment of the bill, inSycee sil ver, Mexican dollars, or in specified securities. The opium, which arrived safely in China, was among that sold to Elliot to complete the number of chests he had engaged to deliver to Commissioner Lin. Dent and Co. took bills on the Treasury from Captain Elliot, and wrote to the plaintiff, giving an account of the sales of the chests, and informing him that for the balance (after de ducting the amount of his bill) they had sent a bill pf Elliot's, amounting to 5,3851. 95., endorsed to the de fendants, on his (plaintiff's) account. They also wrote to the defendants, enclosing the bills on the Treasury, at the same time suggesting that it might not be desirable to negotiate the bills with their names upon them, lest they might be involved in some risk, and instructing them to send the bills to England, that the amount might be received and remitted to the interested parties in Bombay. The plaintiff, quoting Dent and Co.'s letter to him, requested the defendants to deliver the bill, which they refused ito do, and the plaintiff ultimately consented that it should be sent to London for recovery. The bill was sent accordingly and returned protested, when the plaintiff again applied for it, but was refused, unless he consented to guarantee the defendants from all liability to Dent and Co. He, therefore, brought an action of trover to recover the value of the bill, when the Court decided that he was entitled to recover, as the bill represented his opium, that the defendants could not negotiate the bill, except for the benefit of the plain tiff, and that Dent and Co. could not obtrude the agency of the defendants upon him against his will. The assent given by the plaintiff to the transmission of the bill to London was not considered as a waver of his right, and a verdict was given in his favour. SUN.—There was a tolerably steady market to-day for the public securities, in the absence of any important operations. As to the Chancery sales which have been effected within the last day or two, these are but in the ordinary course, and would take place under any circum stances, that is to say, whether the market were favour able or unfavourable, when ordered by the Accountant- General. From what we can understand, there are fur ther amounts hanging upon the market ready to be brought forward for wealthy Corporations. Consols for money realised 89i- to 891, and closed at 891; and for the account at 891 to 1, the latest bargains being at 891 to . /Exchequer:Bills were 14 to 16 premium, and India slt and the Thre e p er C ent. An nuitiesast India Stock was at 247 to Bonds 6s. to Bs. premiu m, bein g for th e latter a slight improvement. The New Three-and- a - Half per Cents. were steady at 984 to i , the Reduced Three - and-a-Half per CenattsB. 898 to 9 94 988 to 99 . 248. There was scarcely any demand for the Foreign Stocks, and prices generally ruled the same. Active Spanish Bonds were 19* to 20, French Three per Cents. 76f. 75c. to 77c. ; Colombian Stock was 191, Mexican 251, and Belgian 1011. Dutch Two-and-a• Half per Cents. were 52, and the Fiv e per Cents. 102*. Railway Shares wer e su pp ort ed , but rather dull. Great W e stern New Shares were at Bi, the Fifths a t si ; the Birmingham Quarters at 18, the Thirds at '22, and the South Western at 131 premium ; Manchester and Leeds New Shares were 10, and Bristol and Exeter 28 discount. • London and Westminster Bank Shares were ; :— A r nt a N r v i e s rp 2 , sf i2 64 n c. to 62tc. ; 54 :3 9 to 4 ; and 'I ' este, 9 55 to 21 to 21 ; and General Steam Navigation 10 premium There was no marked alteration in the Foreign premium, a s Amster dam, e changes this afternoon, and the rates current on are the official returns ofthe 57. ; Fran fort, 1491 to w cti a me; The 1 l e h, a a elm b 2 o b u 3 u about followinggt thhoe, exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver coin to Hamburgh ............ 64,000 oz. B. W. Indies ......... 4,619 Rotterdam ............ 9,000 Belgium ............... 6,600 Bars to liarabUrgll ............ 9,639 LORD MORPETH Defeated in the strife for power, In the mid haunt of his renown, He proudly brook'd reverse's hour, And did not wince at fortune's frown. He stood with sadness in his heart, At having miss'd an honour'd goal, But nobly threw all spite apart, And prov'd the brightness of his soul! There, in the place of former pride, Half humbled with a manly woe, Dash'd envy's poison'd shaft aside, To play the fair and generous foe. To own a rival's triumph grand, Bow to the gainer of the race, And give him, with a liberal hand, The winning courtesies of grace! While thousands gather'd round to hear How he would meet his fallen fate ; Warm, earnest, solemn, and sincere, He charm'd the men who came to hate! 'And,-while his lofty spirit shone All jealous:meanness high above, Bound still more closely. to his own The hearts of those who-came to love! Then, when his eloquence grew Still, , And admiration's voice rose loud, There rush'd the warm and generous thrill Of kind emotion through the crowd. And strong, 'mong foes, and friends, as round The gentle inspiration ran, All felt that his farewell" had crown'd An honoured and an honest man ! .Bode Light, No. 111. THE WHEAT CROP IN AMERICA. The following is the report of the appearance of the wheat crops in Michigan, Western New York, Virginia, and part of Maryland : " The Detroit (Michigan) Advertiser gives a most en couraging account of the wheat crop. The simple fact that the crop looks poorly in two or three counties in New York, will not materially affect the supply. The increase of the product since last year in the counties within thirty miles of Detroit is greater, we are sure, than will be -the deficiencyin Western New York. Ana in the State of Michigan there will be an increase, over last year's product, of more than the entire product of the Genesee Valley, for the crops in Michigan seldom looked better. Although there has not been a great deal of rain, there has been enough to give sufficient vigour to our great staple. If there has been a deficiency else where, the world need not be alarmed. It can fall back upon the prolific Peninsula, which (the Advertiser says) can furnish a worse currency and a better wheat than any other state in the Union. " The Buffalo (Western New York) Commercial says, speaking of the remarks of the correspondent of the New York Express, writing from Canandaigua t under date of June 22, that the wheat crop of 1841 will be less by six millions of bushels in the State of New York than it was in 1839, being less than one half a crop. 'We think it so great an error, that we cannot but regard it as a mis-statement designed for effect.' It adds, that unless some great calamity shall befal the grain now standing, before it shall be harvested, there must be a large surplus in the country, and the market price cannot rule above the value of wheat and flour to ship to Europe. " The crops on Long Island, so far as we can ascer tain, are all flourishing. The corn looks exceedingly I well. Wheat and rye are very forward, and give pros pect of a good crop. "The Richmond Inquirer of the Ist of July says : —ln several parts of Virginia the prospects were very promising—but we understand the late heavy rains, falling at the very moment when the latter wheat was ripening, and the harvest for the forward- was coining on, will Seriously in jure it. The rust has appeared, and is doing much in jury ; but it is impossible for us, from the information before us, to estimate the degree of loss which will be sustained. We do not understand that any price has yet been fixed for wheat—but it promises to command a good price. The corn, which has been kept back by the late spring, is now rapidly improving. " The region of the country in the vicinity of Martins burg (V.) was visited on Friday last with a very heavy rain ; on Monday and Tuesday we had also plenty of rain, which has been highly beneficial to the corn and potatoes. The wheat crop, we believe, will be a fair average, should there be not too much rain between this time and harvest. Our farmers say the wheat only wants sunshine now. The adjoining counties of Maryland have also been visited with several refreshing rains lately, and we learn their prospects for a .good crop are quite flattering." The accounts brought by the Britannia are favourable upon the whole, though the prices of wheat and flour continued high, and though there were some partial failure of the crops in particular districts. THE PULPIT DRUM ECCLE- SIASTIC. We perceive that the Rev. Fielding Ould has been glorying in the successful political preaching of the Liverpool clergy, before Mr. Edward Litton's Orange constituents, at Coleraine. The Rev. Gentleman seems to have blown his own trumpet with great vigour and complacency ; so much so, indeed, as to draw a slight remonstrance from the editor of the Mail against these and other attempts to monopolise all the glory for the clergy; and to leave none for the press. In order to show the sort of feeling which the clergy of Liverpool are endeavouring to excite_ amongst the working classes in this . town, we copy the following 2.6- count of a meeting at which the Rev. Peter Brown, enrate of Christ Church, presided, from the Mail of Tuesday : OPERATIVE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—The half yearly meeting of the Vauxhall branch of this excellent Association was held at the Burlington-bridge school room, on Tuesday evening last. The Rev. Peter Browne, curate of Christ Church. presided, and opened the meet ing* with an eloquent speech, in the course of which 1 w alluded to the gratifying results of the recent elections in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and called for an in- I crease of Protestant exertion, in order that the triumph now achieved might not speedily relax. Mr. Evanson, late of Cork, proposed the first resolution, to the effect that the present state of Ireland exhibited the evil work ing of Dens' Theology. Mr. Evanson alluded pointedly to the murders and outrages committed upon the Pro testant clergy and others of the sister country, and at tributed all the demoralizing practices of the Irish people to the baneful effects of Popery. Mr. Greene. an operative, seconded the first resolution, and said the time had now arrived when it became the duty of the several Protestant Associations to call upon Sir Robert Peel to repeal the Catholic Emnaicipaticru Act, which, in the memorable year of 1829, he was mainly instrumental in having passed. Mr. Parsonage proposed the second resolution, to the effect that Popery being founded on a system of blasphemy as regards God, and degrading to man in his moral and spiritual character, the Protestant body at large were called upon to stand up and to protest against it. Mr. Leeming se conded the motion. Both the resolutions were unani mously adopted. The Chairman then wound up the meeting by delivering a suitable peroration ; after which several new members were enrolled, and the meeting closed with singing and prayer. Previous to the de parture of the assemblage, the three watchwords of the Society—namely, " Scriptural Education," " Church Extension," and " The Repeal of the Popish Emancipa tion Bill," were given and heartily responded to.—Liver pool Times. In the parish of Rochdale triere are at present 1,527 empty houses. THE WEATHER.—Since Thursday last the weather has been of a favourable kind, and though the temperature has not been so high as we could wish it at this important season, we have had an absence of rain and dry bracing breezes in its stead. Yesterday the sky was unclouded, and the sun extended its cheering in fluence in hastening to maturity the crops which so abun dantly crown the fields. We regret to observe that the weather in the south of England has been such, from the long continued rains, as to give rise to a feeling of uneasiness regarding the fate of the growing crops, and this has brought the speculators more abundantly into the market than at any former period of the season. On a review of the accounts from the various parts of the country, however, we see no just cause for the alarm which has developed itself. In spite of wire-worm and rains, it is admitted that the yield, under present cir cumstances, promises to be a full average one ; and there is yet sufficient time for the Weather to take up, and per mit of a favourable season for harvest, as has been the case in many similar preceding years. This feeling of uneasiness has, however, had the effect of advancing the prices in Mark-lane from 3s. to 4s. per quarter during the last fortnight, and the tendency of most of the pro vincial markets is rather inclining to be upward. The six weeks, or regulating average, is 645. 2d. for wheat, but the average of the week which has just closed is 665. 3d., showing an advance of 2s. Id. Should this advance be maintained, therefore, the duty, which is now 22d. 8d , must be reduced in a corresponding ratio. We observe that already barley harvest has commenced on a small scale in Morayshire.—Glasgow Herald. FRANCIS BAILEY, ESQ., F.R.S.—We are de lighted to hear that Mr. Bailey, so well known in the literary world, has recovered from the severe injuries he received six weeks ago by being run over by a horse belonging to this establishment. On the 21st of June it will be remembered he was thrown down and ridden over in consequence of the rider losing all - command of the horse, and was conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital, where he remained several weeks, attended by the sur gical and medical officers of that establishment, when, being pronounced convalescent, he was removed to his house at Tavistock-square on the 11th of July. O n Monday Mr. Bailey's carriage drove up to tin; hospital, and he came into the board-room to return thanks to the governors and officers for the great care and kindness with which he had been treated in that charitable insti tution ; and at the same time, with a grateful yet truly liberal and humane feeling, he presented to. the trea- . surer of the hospital a cheque on the bank of Sir Charles Price and Co. for 100 guineas, and one of ten guineas from his sister, Miss Bailey ; and we believe lie also made some handsome presents to those who were specially in attendance upon him during his confinement at the hospital. • ENGLISH PRONOUNCING DICTIONARIES. —lt is a curious fact that there is no English Pronounc ing Dictionary coirpiled by an Englishman. Stephen Jones was a Welchinan, Sheridan was an Irishman, and Walker was a Scotchman. We were much gratified at witnessing the ar rival at the Broomielaw, on Thursday, of the splendid ship .Ganges, to load machinery for Constantinople. She is the largest vessel which has ever ventured above Port -Glasgow, being 728 tons register, or about 150 tons larger than any vessel that has ever come to otx bar bour.—Glasgow Argue. A PASSAGE IN THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. In the elaborate and able article in the "Edinburgh Review" on the Budget, there is one passage to which, as part of an unsound theory, the foundation of many prac tical errors, we wish to direct the attention of the writer and the public. On the 27th ult. we quoted a passage, stating, we think, with great accuracy, that every increase in the quantity of manufactured commodities diminishes the relative cost of production, and exhibiting very con c;sely and clearly the advantage of an increased and in creasing demand. In order to contrast it with thepas sage we object to we shall re-produce it : " The . explanation is to be found in the well known law of manufacturing industry, that, ceteris paribus, with every increase of the quantity produced the relative cost of production is diminished ; and, what is the same in different words, that with every diminution of the quan tity produced the relative cost of production is increased. 'The larger the production the greater is the division of labour, and consequently the skill of the workman, the smaller the expense of superintendence, the more exten sive the use of machinery ; in short, every element of production becomes relatively more efficient, and every source of expense is relatively diminished." In the same article is the following passage. Speaking of Sugar, the Reviewer says : " The price for the first five years having been some what , under 225. Gd per cwt., and during the last five 'years rather above 225. 90., a new demand for the in ternal consumption of the British islands will of course have a tendency to create a rise in the foreign sugar markets ; under that general law affecting the cost of the production of all agricultural produce, namely, that with every decrease of demand the relative cost of production, and, consequently, the price, rises ; just as, with every di minution of demand, the cost of production, and conse quently the price, falls." We have marked in italics the two sentenees in the two passages to which we request attention, and we ask whether the great difference between " the law of manufacturing, industry," and the "general law affecting the cost of the production of all agricultural produce," described by the Reviewer, and assumed as a principle in the doctrines of modern political economists, really exists ? The question and the subject are of no trifling importance. The opinion announced by the Reviewer is the basis of a great body of doctrines, and, therefore, it is worthy of a strict examination. It must first be noticed that the Reviewer contrasts " manufacturing industry," and " agricultural produce," which may tend to some confusion ; but his. conclusion applies to the cost of the produce, both of manufactures and agriculture, and he maintains, in fact, that it is a law that with an increase of demand, the cost of the produce of manufactures diminishes, and the cost of the produce of agriculture increases. We cordially subscribe to the first statement, we deny the latter ; we deny that there exists a - law which causes an increase in the cost of pro duction with; every increase of demand for agricultural produce. The writer conies to this conclusion, in common with a school of political economists, by looking only at one fact in the whole complicated process of production ; or rather one assumption ; namely, that every increase in the demand for agricultural produce forces men to culti vate less and less fertile soils. Supposing that such were the fact, he overlooks all the counteracting circum stances ; but we must first inquire is the assumption true? Are all, or were all the most fertile soils first occupied? Fertility is a term relative to knowledge, and as know ledge advances soils that were not before fertile become so. For example, "by the newly imported practice of furrow-draining," says Mr. M'Culloch, " large tracts that were formerly comparatively unproductive have been rendered capable of bearing heavy crops ;" that is, large tracts have been rendered more productive or more fertile than they were before. They have been made more fertile than other land previously considered to be superior in fertility to them. It is- well known that ex tensive tracts of land in Norfolk and Lincolnshire have been made, within a few years, by the application of modern skill, much more productive of wheat, that is, more fertile, than almost any of the land that was pre- , viously brought into cultivation. It is not the fact, therefore, that what men call the most fertile fields were first occupied, and there is, therefore, no reason to assert that men are driven to have resource to less and less fer tile soils for a subsistence. No man who knows anything of agriculture will assert that the land last broken up either in England or Scotland yields less than the land first ploughed in either country a few centuries ago. But this question is universal, and when we speak of the general law of mankind having recourse to less and less fertile soils, we must include the whole earth. It will not be fair in discussing such an extensive principle to confine ourselves to England, to which an arbitrary law limits our people to obtain their supplies of food. We must look abroad ; and there we see that the plains of the Mississippi, and the Pampas of South America, can be used to supply us with food ; 'and those countries, ac cording to the best information we possess, are quite as fertile as the most fertile parts of Europe, whether we speak in reference to the knowledge at present possessed, or the knowledge possessed a few centuries ago. It is not true, then, that the most fertile wilt were first occu pied, and not true that we know in what fertility consists, so as now and at all times to select for cultivation those soils which will be in future the most fertile. No man, in fact, can say, looking to the past progress, that those soils which are now the least will not, in after times, be come the most productive. In Mr. M'Culloch's work on the " Statistics of the Bri tish Empire" there is a somewhat striking illustration of the improvement of productive power, or of fertility, which is the same thing, by means of knowledge, which we shall quote ; remarking by the way, that those who, like Lord Stanley and Mr. Pusey, persist in calling agri culture a science, will perhaps point out how the science of astronomy or of botany has improved the movements of the stars or the structure of plants, as the art (science) of agriculture has improved the fertility of the soil. We must add, that we quote such instances from Mr. M'Cul loch as unexceptionable authority, because he is one of the leading advocates of the doctrine we impugn : " The following statement of the comparative weight of the produce annually afforded under the system of farming followed in East Lothian, as described by Lord Belhaven, and that which is now followed, is taken from a paper by Mr. Oliver, of Lochend, near Edinburgh, one of the most intelligent and extensive practical farmers in the empire " The mode of cropping at the former period (1723) was—first, peas ; second, wheat • third, barley ; fourth, oats ; the produce being about three seeds, but, to pre vent all cavil, say four seeds. Thus taking the seed for each acre at one boll,* over a farm of 100 acres,t is 400 bolls. The quantity of straw for each boll of such a crop could not exceed 15 stone, which on 400 bolls gives 6,000 stone, or 42 tons 154 cwts. of straw, to be con sumed to the stock, and returned to the, land in the shape of manure. But upon a farm of 100 acres, cultivated as at present—viz., a fourth turnips ; a fourth wheat, or barley ; a fourth rover, or rye grass, pastured or made into hay. and consumed on the farm ; and a fourth oats, "or wheat ; the account would stand thus :-50 acres of wheat, barley, and oats, at 8 bolls per acre, which we arc convinced is not above the average crops of the beat district of East Lothian (and such only was cultivated when Lord Belhaven wrote), this, allowing, as above, 15 stone of straw for each boll, gives 120 stone per acre; which, over 50 acres, makes in all 6,000 stone of straw, or 42 tons 154 cwts. ; being equal to the quantity pro duced by the whole 100 acres under the old system. Now, suppose that the 25 acres of clover and rye grass are made into hay (which, however, is not the mode practised, nor the best mode of obtaining the greates quantity of manure, and keeping up the fertility of the soil), and that each acre yields 200 stone, the total quantity will be 5,000 stone, or 35 tons 14 1-10th cwts.; and add to this 500 tons of turnips, being the produce of 25 acres, at 20 tons per acre, which is by no means above a fair average crop. Upon these data, the weight of materials produced annually for manure under the old and new systems will be as follows : Stones. Tons. Cwt. ' " Old system Straw . . 6,000 42 15 1 4 New system Straw ... 6 , 00 0 42 iq Hay 5,000 35 14 1-10. Turnips 70,000 500 " Thus making the weight of materials to be con verted into manure under the new system, in round numbers, 577 tons ; while under the old system the quantity is only 42 tons, leaving a balance in favour of the new system of 533 tons per annum, being more than rt fertility of n. gress of agriculture. And, n f twelve times the whole quantity produced und er th e r. a a n r d as upon old. Nothing more is necessary to show the superiority keepingthis dependsup the the of the t h e soil new issysteme o ed n inn d, as to the question of compa rative profit, it would be easy to sh ow, from unques tionable data, that time is as superior new syst em old in this respect as it is in the supply of manure to the manure ; but this, we think, must be abundantly ob v i o who contrasts the almost imperceptibl e mile to every onece aviculture, and in the accu mu l at i on of vs agriculturalmade in ca pital for many centuries, with the extraordinary during the last seventy years, or since progress the new system was introduced."—Statistic 1 aAccount of the British Em pire, vol. i., page 563. That is a proof in detail, not of the less and less, but of the greater and greater productive in agricul ture, or of the less and less cost of ro r e w ti e e r n ns hde mand has increased. To illustrate the same fact in a much more general way, we will mention that the population of Great Britain was estimated in King William's reign at 7,200,000, and th e w h ole annual produce of the land was estimated at 32,482,630/. In George M.'s reign Arthur Young states the population at 9 , 350,000, and the whole an nua l pro d uce at 72,826,8271. Thus while the population had increased two-ninths, or less than a quarter, the agricultural produce had ver y nearl y doubled. There is no reason to believe that more persons were engaged in agriculture at the latter period than at the former ; on the contrary, the presumption is the other way, and the increase in the amount of wealth, therefore, shows the increased productive power of the People, or of what is called fertility. of the soil. We apprehend the same pro cess is still going on. The n population of Great Britain , according to the censusf o 1831, was 16,265,865. Mr . M'Culloch,i writing n 1837, estimates the value o f the a agricultural produce a t 145,855,0001. By this s tatement onl as it pp y 7to appears, ' that while aural the population has inc reased 14 to 145; or tenf gr o icult ld. "We produce has increased . thas e know that, in modern t u nes, er has be en a gradual decrease of the number of hands engaged in agriculture, whence it follows that, instead of the labour becoming less and less productive as the population has increased, which constitutes the demand for agricultural produce, it has been more and more productive, or the soil has be- COW, more and more fertile, or the cost of agricultural produce has become, like the cost of manufacturing pro duce, less and less. \V c shall, perhaps, resume the subject. * Ono East Lothian boll of wheat was equal to nearly 4 bushels ; a boll of barley to near 6 bushels. The Scotch acre, equal to 2,161 imperial acres, is here referred to. EVENING- SUN. x 4 an E A a c ß ti ad o M I nemay E oth N fe j eixe S pnece . agfuorfththeEer Paris At a recent SM. CIENTIF IC a ge r,d m ie gave ri- Inuits which had been commenced ten years ago, and were not even yet terminated, respecting gelatine. In the first series it was attempted to feed dogs entirely on gelatine without any other nutriment whatever ; it was given either dry or in jelly. Several dogs would not touch it at all, others ate it for a few days, and then re jected it ; all, however, died of starvation under the sys tem. The next series of experiments consisted in giving gelatine made agreeable to the taste ; and, in particular, it as given in the form such as it is found in the shops of the charcutiers, a form in which it is much sought after. The dogs to whom this substance was given as their exclusive aliment ate it in general with much avidity for a few days; then they refused it altogether, and all died of starvation within three weeks. In a third series several dogs were subjected, some to complete abstinence, and others to pure water for their sole nourishment. Under this system the young do g s generally died directly, some not survivinT'forty eigit hours ; of the older dogs, those which had nothing at all given them died in just the same time as those which had been forced to live on gelatine alone ; whereas. those which took water lived from six to ten days longer. The fourth series consisted of alimentary substances, such as bread, eggs, Sic., mixed with the gelatine and given to dogs. Some of the animals who had as much as a pound English of gelatine, thus administered daily, lived eighty or ninety days"; but all grew thin, and ulti mately perished. If; while one of the animals was ill, fresh meat was given it, an amelioration took place im mediately. The fifth series of experiments was that of giving to the dogs the bouillon a la gelatine, prepared for the patients in the Hospital St. Louis and. the bouillon of the Cornpagnie Hollandaise. An animal fed on the former substance exclusively was well for fifty -six days,_ but got very thin ; at the end of that time the latter substance was administered and the animal got fat directly. Another animal, fed from the first on the second substance, became very fat on it, but on the 56th day, the first kind of bouillon was substituted for the second, and he became thin almost directly. In a sixth series of experiments dogs were fed on bones, from which the calcareous salts had been extracted by muriatic acid. Some beef bones thus treated were to tally refused by the dogs ; and, in the end, they alto gether refused mutton bones on which they had at first fed, and died of starvation. A seventh series consisted of the administering beef tendons and pure water, allow ing the dog to eat as much as it liked. The first day the animal ate 31bs. of tendons, but at last became affected with diarrhoea, and it was only restored by having bones mixed with the food. The further reading of the report was then again adjourned. The committee on arsenical intoxication informed the Academy that they consi dered their report (already given) as complete, and the discussion closed. M. Arago read a letter from Ile Savary, in the Indre, stating that the recent shocks of earthquake were felt sharply there, and that a clock, which had not gone since May, 1840, had its pendulum set in motion by the vibra tions, and continued to go. At the Observatory of Paris the pendulums were not at all affected. A communica tion was made to the Academy from M. Janniar, an ar chitect, on the condition of the stability of the Column of July, which he considered not sufficiently solid. M. Polonoeau sent in a memoir on a new mode of paving for Paris, consisting of artificial stones made of clay, sand, and pulverised charcoal. The mixture stood heat well, and became vitrified • it also dried without crack ing. The stones were made in a hexagonal form, and could be put down or taken up one by one... Government had given leave for an experiment to be made of this system in one of the streets of the capital. A paper was read by M. Seguier on the means of diminishing the danger of explosion in steam-boilers. He recommended a series of numerous small tubes, not more than six inches diameter, instead of large boilers,---since by this method the explosive force might be reduced to 1-17th part of its intensity. DOST MAHOMMED KHAN AT CALCUTTA. —The Government-house party last night, in honour of her Majesty's entrance upon her 23d year, went off with great eclat, and, considering the strong nor-wester, with something more than the sound of abundance of rain, was in full force from half-past eight to nine P.X., the fireworks went off very well too. The ex-Ameer, Post Mahommed Khan, was of course the grand lion of the evening. What would my Lady Jersey or my Lady Londonderry have given for such a lion ? and he bore the starings and gazings of the multitude with very laud able patience and complacency. He sate for some time with Lord Auckland, in the full enjoyment of the rich conversational exuberance for which that Nobleman is celebrated, and afterwards seated himself to a quiet game of chess with the Honourable Miss Eden. His gallantry would not permit him to win the first game, but he checkmated the lady in the second, after a few moves. He said that be would have checkmated old Sale too, out in the Kohistan, if Sekunder Burnes had not been so active with his money-bags. When he took Miss Eden's second knight, he observed, with a smile, that the horsemen of the British were always soon cleared off the board. " Yes," said Miss Eden, smiling, and suiting the action to the word, "but we know how to take your castles." " Ah 1" rejoined the Post good humouredly, " but if the father had been there instead of the son you would have heard less about your Ghuznee victory." The conversation that passed between the ex-Ameer and the Governor- General was highly interesting. It related chiefly to the social customs of the British. The Dost was very eager to know what the gentlemen said to their partners between the figures of the dance, and Captain Nicholson was accordingly ordered to interpret, sotto voce, what was passing between Mr. and Miss —, who happened to be near the l)ost, but the ex-Ameer soon stopped him, observing, " You blame us Moslems for saying that our women have no souls, and yet you British talk to your women as though you were fully convinced of the fact."—Hurkaru, May 25. GIGANTIC JEOLIA N.—Captain Hans, of Basle, thus designates an apparatus which, of itself, emits a variety of tones on a change of weather. Since the year 1787, he has stretched in his garden fifteen iron strings, or wires, 320 feet long, at a distance of two inches one from the other. The largest is two lines in diameter, the smallest one line, and the intermediate strings a line and a half. They are placed to the south, and inclined from 20 to 30 degrees. Their ten sion is effected by an apparatus prepared for the occasion. At every change of weather these resound ver y f orc ibly. Sometimes th sound resembles that of water when in a state of ebullition ; sometimes that of the Har monica ; and at others that of distant chimes, or of an organ. The invention of this curious machine is due to Mr. Ventan, provost at Burkill, near Basle. The following was the occasion of its discovery. He sometimes amused himself by shooting with a cross-bow, at a target opposite to his window and in order to withdraw at will the arrow discharged, he. fixed thereto an iron string. He more than once re marked, that the string sounded exactly the octave of its whole length ; and he also found, that all the iron strings, strung in a direction paralled to the sound, gave • this intonation at each change of the weather. A cop per string produced no sound, nor did iron wire when strung from east to west. M. Dobereiner, of Jena, con ceives that the phenomenon just described is the effect of an electro-magnetic action, and proposes to try if a copper string might not be rendered sonorous, by placing its extremities in communication with a powerful elec trometer. As a very curious and scientific experiment,. we recommend the trial to such of our readers as have access to the needful apparatus, as any discovery rela tive to the philosophy of sound must be valuable to musi cians, considering the very imperfect data they possess on the subject.—Musical World On Monday afternoon a daring robbery was committed on a Russian gentleman of the name of Kolli koff, while passing along Cheapside. The gentleman was standing at the corner of Friday-street, where several persons had collected till a cart had passed, when two of the swell mob managed to rob him of a steel purse, con taining 5/. 10s. in gold, and 13s. 4d. in silver. The thieves were about to decamp with their booty, whena person, named Croft on , who witnessed the robbery, .In formed the gentlem a n of it, when one of the thieves seeing asieewirg they were followed, threw away the purse, Iv. picked up by M r . C ro ft on , a nd the fellows ‘;'7_ive n into. _ the custody of police cons t a bles Webb and Pearson, i!ita took them to the station-house. As the gentleman could not speak one word of En him to the Russian Consul, stated that he lodged at the li ,, sh h , er th e e h p e ol to ice o m k a a n n w oa e t n h t with the property was Tim CHIN E "' R -at which the Lord a meeting ryas held Hotel de Commerce,hisr: a t and_ e r a l r ooA Leicester-square. few o , ayago ent e as il s r p for thseevepruarlpoyseearosf in n rec c e h iv in inz gave an interestingse in and affecting account of the -wadi-. several particulars, and more es- ne deplorable destitution of medical know- • pedal): of their consequence of which the ravages of disease ledge, in re most terrific ; anhedescribed d Ho a which they sought, and the gratitude with which they PParorlytnera,t .s p s l re io slded : received,the advice and assistance of physicians and tion of d ill n Ch t Chinese surghoenfae fr i o l m itie ß s r m ita h i i n en an m d ,ere A t m hn e s ric aff a. ord l e i d e foarlscoompominutedni out t suchca t communi cating ga as concerns o t n h c e e m r n s otherthei their species m or lofankndowspleicytue,alanwdeelfsapreoie. A. society has been formed in Canton of British and Ame rican residents for procuring for them medical aid and religious instruction ; and a Committee was appointed to co-operate with that Society.—Correspondent of the Edinburgh Courant. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.— We are glad tohear that the London and Birmingham Railway Company have at last effected the object we pressed upon them some time ago—namely, the purchase of a piece of . ground contiguous to the Euston-square terminus, so as to provide a hackney-stand within the limits of their own station. An almost inconceivable nuisance will thus be removed from Seymour-street, and the company, having the selection of the coaches and cabs who ply for fares from the up-trains, will be able to secure their passengers, on arrival, something like decent accommodation for reaching their destination in town,'both as regards the comfort of the vehicles and the civility of the drivers. It may be remembered that we suggested to the Directors of the Company, in order to prevent the extortion at present so grossly practised by hackney coachmen and cabmen on the luckless victims they pick up from the railliay, that their servants should inform every passenger who calls a hackney-carriage of the amount of fare he has to pay ; but we have heard a still better plan proposed—namely, that a competent officer should be posted at the exit gate of the station to per form this duty. By the by, when the hackney -coach stand no longer infests Seymour-street, we trust that the Duke of Bedford will allow it to become a thoroughfare p to re t s h e e n tm therer northern n orth o e o rn utl s e u t b to urb t s he o m f frothem themet Nropoelwitro except ad, up woarpds o edes f tri t a w n o s, betweenhundred lii ministers n ' s-cros of Ding's-cross and r T eli ot gion ten ham-court-road.—Morning P a p er . have engaged to attend th e C on f erence at Manchester, on the 17th of August, on the subject of the Corn-laws. us - the rent ,uth 7ork ittle the .aril 1 on Lnue but a nd ❑ of ;Top the ofof 'p.