The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-27 00:00:00

Hltlll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW Ili,rning 33 minute, after 11 Evening 0 minutes after 0. EVENINh SUN BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MA GAZINE. No. CCCXI. For SEPTEMBER. CONTENTS I. Lessons from the Past.—ll. A Convent of Franciscans.— 111. Chapters of Turkish History ; No. 6. The Battle of Mo hficz.—l V. The Picture of Danae.—V. The World of Lon don; Part S.—VI. Exhibitions, Royal Academy and British Institutions.—Vll. The Spanish Gipsies.—Vlll. Nicholas Dunks ; or, Fried Mackerel for Dinner.—lX. Biron and the Bastile.—X. The Fowler ; by Delta.—Xl. Poems by M. M.— XII. Sir Robert Peel's Position on next resuming Power.— XIII. Good-by to the Whigs ; a Song of Rejoicing. William Blackwood and Sons, 45, Geerge-street, E . dinbargb, and 22, Pall Mall, London. FIRST DIVISION OF THE PRESENT HOUSE OF COMMONS. TOWE'S DIVISION LIST, printed on a . large sheet, with the Votes, Pairs and Absentees, upon the WANT OF CONFIDENCE QUESTION, will be ready in time for post the day following the division, price 6d., or, post free, ed. Also, LOW'S COMPARATIVE REGISTER, with the Polls of 1837 and 1841. Fifth edition. Price Is., or, post free, Is. ed. An interleaved edition, for registering subsequent change., cloth boards, ls. 4d. Sampson Low, 42, Lamb's Conduit-street. NEW ROMANCE BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE. PRAIRIE," " THE PATHFINDER," &c. On the 4th September next, in 3 vals. post Bvo., THE DEER-SLAYER. A ROMANCE. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER TitE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS TONES. Overflowing - Houses--Great success of hlazeppa—New Scenes in the Circle. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 27, Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called THE WILD HORSE ; .... (R, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. i ntroducing Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, h :011y-trained Palfreys, Fairy Peneys, the Equestrians, and C) eepanies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. In which Madame DucrOw, Signor Hillier. the Great Ameri can Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, arid the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with, THE OLD OAK CHEST. Supported by the entire Dramatic Company. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSRALDISTON. More novelty and attraction at this now the only perfect Minor Theatre in London. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 27, An original Melodrama in Three Acts, founded on the events of a most atrocious murder, even more apealling than that committed on the Mar Family in Ratcliiffe Highway, called DEEDS and DOINGS of the DARK ROUSE; or, SIMPLE BESS of BILLINGSGATE ! Bradburn, Mr. Dale ; Charles Elford, Mr. Seaman ; Davey Dubbs, Mr. Gardner ; Floppy Bob, Mr. Paul ; Ann, Mrs. W. West ; Simple Bess, Mrs. IU. Lee. After which, THE BEAR HUNTERS. Caribert, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Estevan, Mr. Dale ; Larolle, Mr. James ; Bluebelle, Mr. Gardner ; Mine, Mrs. W. West. To conclude with SWEET POLL OF HORSELEYDOWN ! In which Mr. James, Mr. Seaman, Mr. Paul, Mr. Williams, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Cullen, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Howard, &c. &c. will perform. Boxes, 25.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To. morrow, The Dark House, The Bear Hunters, and Sweet Poll. THEATRE ROYAL, .ADELPHI, LAST WEEK of the WIZARD of the NORTH working his WONDF.RS, and LAST SIX NIGHTS of the SONS of EXTEMPORANEOUS HARMONY—The Lancashire Bell Ringers. All who wish to see the Great rlelusionist—or MIRACLE OF THE. NINETEENTH CENTURY—must visit the Adelphi during next week, as it will be the only opportunity the lovers of the marvellous will have of beholding this SON OF DELUSION, whose extraordinary powers have caused all to wonder from the Throne to the Peasant, from the Peasant to the Philosopher. A wonder unparalleled. The Great Wizard, by his individual exertion, has filled the Adelphi Theatre for one hundred nights, and could for three hundred more, but that he is compelled to make way for the Great Fred. (not Frederick the Great), who will commence his Mephisto philian orgies earlier than the Wizard expected. " Come oue—Come all !"—The Wizard will be found incom prehensible as he is invulnerable. A hundred of the best of the London Sportsmen have tried in vain to wing him, but he is still on the wing, and will for ono week more be their Living Target. The Wizard hopes that " Homo Invulnerabilis" will still be his motto ; and h., pledges himself that he will exert all his powers to please his patrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. "„* Remember !—The Last Week—Poz! Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Half-past Nine o'clock. Boxes, is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinburn, at the Box-office, between Eleven and Four. Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nightly crowded, an early application is requisite. N.B. Private Boxes, containing six persons, I/. ss. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock precisely. Half-price at Half-past Nine. PARLIAMENTARY SUN. NOTICE.—We have received so many orders Sun, that we shall republish it, if possible, on Monday next, or as soon as the Debate is closed, com plete, .for the last time. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. It world be an endless task to refute the fabrications of the Journal adverted to by " An Elector of Plymouth," and he will therefore excuse us, considering also the press of matter, for not inserting his letter. The letter of " J. S. S.'aud of " Cassandra," and another without any sigaature, have been received, and wou:d have been published but for the length of the debate. gtg LONDON: FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1841. Th ,ugh the Tories have not spoken much in this de bate, they have said some things especially worthy cf public attention. That memorable phrase of the Duke of RICHMOND, which we y es t er d ay quoted, cons i dere d as a co mplete index to the intentions, and to the very heart of the rent-owners, is one of these things which we must impress on the public. " We," said the Duke, in substance, speaking for the landlords, " are about to send you,. Sir R. PEEL, into office to maintain our mo nopoly, and if you dare to touch it, out of power you shall go." This brings home to every man's bosom the arrogance of the rent-owners and the sl avery of 1 besides. They also claim and possess th e political power of the State ; they determine who s h a ll be Ministers, and what laws shall be made ; they have, as even Lord MELBOURNE stated, passed a law by Aich they are re:uniatily benefited ; and they passed that law, as we assert, exclusively for their own benefit ; and now they tell us, that, whatever may be the neces sities of the people or the Government, this law shall not be altered, and that the Government shall be kept in existence only to maintain their monopoly. It is to be nothing but the tool of the landowners to do their dis honest work. What does that high-minded statesman, who owes his all to cotton, say to such a degradation ? But if Sir ROBERT PEEL be willing to be the despica ble tool of despicable men, the public will not submit to a similar degradation. The intelligent but suffering inha bitants of Manchester and Leeds have already begun to inquire into the titles of the owners of rent and the usurpers of political power, which they abuse to their own gratification. It is said aloud and in many places that the land of the empire is common property, and only guaranteed by the public in the possession of individuals for the public advantage. It is concluded, therefore, that if they use their possession to injure the public they for feit their title and the land reverts to the people. . _ It is said, too, that the land was conferred on individuals to enable them to perform public services. The duty of defending the State, now paid for by a tax on all the people, was annexed to the possession of the soil. It was the price paid for the secure possession of rent. That duty the landowners have cast upon the public and maintain possession of the soil without rendering the services for which it was bestowed. Nay, more, while they make us pay for doing that which they re- C ,ive possession of the soil to perform, they make a g; eat noise about the heavy burdens imposed on them in order to conceal their malversations. The scamp, some French Abbe who used to preach vehement sermons against the petty faults of his congre gation, that they might have no time nor inclination to notice his vices, is the type of our landowners ; they cry out bitterly against their burdens, and against the petty palling of the people, that their own great scheme of Pifering by means of law, and their gross neglect of duty, may escape the public observation. They are herein proverbially ;tepid; for they live in glass houses, they are surrounded by persons willing to demolish their dwellings, and they begin by casting stones. Another remarkable sentence was uttered by the Duke of WELLINGTON. If any other person but his Grace had said that such a measure as the repeal of the Corn laws required to be preceded by inquiry, we should have been astonished at his impudence; in this frank but old soldier, it Was only the forgetfulness of age. Why, the Repealers have besieged the doors of both HoUses of Parliament for inquiry, motion after motion has been made to grant inquiry, and the Duke of WELLINGTON and his friends have obstinately resisted them all. Moreover, there have been, as the Marquis of LANSDOWNE ob served, a multitude of inquiries into the subject. Yet the Duke of WELLINGTON made it a reproach to the Ministers that there sliould have been an inquiry, which he had refused before an alteration in the law was pro posed. In any meaner man than the illustrious Duke, such conduct would call forth our severest animadver sions; in him we can only notice it as a striking evidence how much the practices of Parliament, which Noble Lords and Hon. Gentlemen will not have modelled by the precepts of morality and religion, corrupt and perver t the most ingenuous natures. The frank Duke let out, too, a little secret of the par ties or factions who rule the State, which, for the sake of preserving their scheme of humbugging the people, ought to have been only talked over in some secret con clave of Peers or politicians. 'The Duke found fault with the language of the Queen's Speech, which Vis count MELBOURNE justified by quoting similar words of the Speech of George 111. in 1784. Very true, admitted the Duke, but the quarrel then was one "in doors." It was wholly confined to privilege and prerogative ; and though many persons took an interest in it, it did not concern the people. That was a family quarrel, and you should be careful, however you may commit the Crown in such quarrels, never so to commit it when the dispute is out of doors and the people interested in it. The frank soldier says, therefore, in substance, you know, brother MELBOURNE, that this farce of QUEEN'S speeches, and meeting of Parliament, &c. &c., is merely intended to humbug the public, and you ought not to turn them to the purpose of serving the people. The Royal power may be used by one faction against the other, as either may chance to get hold of it ; but it must not be used in the service of the people against the oligarchy. That is the sum of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S observa tions, andla the heinous charge he made against' Lord MELBOURNE. The people are at the same time told that they support the pageant of Royalty as a protection for themselves ; that is all a mistake, says the Duke ; it is wholly and solely intended for the " in-door" purposes of the two factions of the aristocracy. We look on the lan guage used by their Graces of RICHMOND and WELLING TON as a kind of revelation to the public of the innermost thoughts of the aristocracy, and on this account we refer to it as worthy of public attention. With singular inconsistency the Opposition Press of France, and a considerable number of the French people, condemn the census and abuse M. GUIZOT. The impo sition of taxes to defray the expenses of war preparations drives them to a state of insurrection bordering upon open rebellion ; and yet they treat to a concert of mar row-bones and cleavers the statesmen who of all others contributed most to save them from the infliction of war taxes. The National of Thursday (yesterday) relates with evident delight that the inhabitants of Caen to the number of 3,000, gave a char ivari to M. GUIZOT on the 23d instant ; and yet these persons, in insulting the Minister, kept shouting, " Down with the census." Were these maniacs ignorant that it was not M. GUIZOT, but their idol M. TRIERS, and his darling organs of the Paris press, that rendered the taking of the census, with a view to the imposition of fresh taxes, neces sary ? Did they expect that Paris could be bastilled for nothing, or did they forget that the warmest sup porters of the new bastilles were the Constitutionnel, the Courrier Francais, the National, the fighting Minister TRIERS, and the Radical lawyer ODILLON BARROT ? Had the individuals, the journals, and the corporations, who now make such a noise about the census, opposed the war policy of TRIERS as M. GUIZOT did, or de nounced the embastilling of the capital as he, we regret, did not do, then could 'we sympathize with those ebul litions of passion which seek to cover with popular ob loquy the character of a time-serving Minister. But when true patriotism was called for M. GUIZOT was the only Frenchman who distinguished himself by the adop tion of a humane policy ; and now his opponents have the meanness to revenge upon him the consequences o f their own want of public virtue. This is the ne plus ultra of baseness. In our summary of Public Opinion we have given the comments of the French Opposition Journals of Wednesday upon the excellent speech of M. GUIZOT at the Lisieux banquet. They are not wanting in the bit terness of defeated malice. They abound in the venom of a faction ever ready to unfurl at the mast head of the great vessel of the State the black flag of piracy. But they have no longer any commanding influence either at home or abroad. In the name of humanity we thank M. GUIZJT for the ser vie,s his moderation upon tho question ren• tiered to Fran.. to Europe. But for his sagacious councils, and the firmness of the KING, who had set his face against the mad career of conquest projected by M. THIERS, England and France would be now engaged in a contest which would have shook 'Europe to its centre. To whom is national gratitude due, if not to the men by whom two great, but heavily-taxed nations, were spared the infliction of such a calamity ? A letter from Eu of 22d inst. says --" The Rodeur, after' firing a salute of 24 guns, left Treport yesterday to return to her station off Dieppe. If the afternoon of yesterday the King, ac companied by Marshal Soult and the Minister of Commerce, went to Treport, where he received a salute from the Grondeur, steamer, and from thence proceeded to the village of Mers. On arriving near the Church, the cure, who was there, expressed a hope that his Majesty would condescend to allow a poor priest to call down in his humble Church the benedictions of Heaven upon the head of the Sovereign, who had preserved peace for his people. The King entered the Church, and a simple and affecting ceremony took place, which was followed by the Domine salvum, sung by the village congregation. The Ali nister of Finance has arrived this day ; the Alinister of Justice has left for Paris." The Courrier Francais says—" There was some talk yes terday of the intended retirement of M. Humann. We be lieve this rumour is without foundation. Far from thinking of retiring, M. Hamann is approaching the moment for realising the scheme whieh he has most at heart. He has deferred the emission of the loan, because he knew this was the best way to retard the Ministerial crisis. By postponing the loan, Al. Humann has necessarily postponed the session, and by post poning the session he has given two or three months more to the Ministry. On the 22d September the Treasury has to pay nearly 80 millions to the holders of 5 per cent.. 4i per cents., and 4 per cents. By fixing the emission of the loan for Octo ber, the Minister hopes that the greater part of this money will be converted into new rentes, and return to the Treasury." Of 90 young carrier pigeons belonging to the Societe d' Abeona of Brussels, which were let fly at Paris on the 22d instant, at ten o'clock in the morning, nine got home between two minutes and nine minutes past two o'clock the same day. A similar trial was made between London and Antwerp a few days ago. No less than 147 young pigeons were let fly from London at eight o'clock one morning ; the first that got home reached An . twerp at seven minutes past two o'clock, thus gaining the prin cipal prize (a clock and a silver article) for its owner, M. Segheri. The Ministry announces in the Messager this evening a wholly unexpected application of the laws of September. We find in that paper the following statement : " The Editors of the Gazette des Tribuneaux and the Quotidienne have been summoned to-day, at the Instance of the King's Attorney-General, to appear before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, for having given an account, contrary to the IGth article of the laws of 9th of September, 18.35, of the action brought by M. Simon Didear against the Editor of the Courrier der. hire, in the Civil Tribunal of Grenoble, to ob tain damages for an article which M. Didear pretended to be a libel on his father's memory. The article of the laws of September, the application of which is asked, is as follows : " The journals and periodical publications are forbidden to give an account of actions for insults and for defamation. Where the proof of the defamator's facts is not admitted by the law they can only announce the action on the demand of the plaintiff. In all cases they may insert the sentence." This Grenoble plot must certainly be a terrible affair, since recourse is had to the most unforeseen exaggerations of a le gislation a l ready so severe, in order to keep this mystery in ob scurity.—Le Commerce. Advises from Algiers of the 16th inst., in the Toulonnats, state that great activity prevails at Coleah, Blidah, and other fcorntteudouTdinittcsh on the letidjah, in making the o to keep ouittts of the 1‘ the Arabs. The Tuscan Consul at Algiers, M. Tobler, a merchant of high respectability, had failed for 800,000 francs. His creditors were principally at .Leghorn. A correspon dent of the Sentinelle estimates his liabilities at only half the above sum. It is stated in this journal that the chief , of the Madjouts near mn --ianah, is disposed to come over to the French if they will ensure him an eminent position in his own part of the country, and efficien rotection against Ab del Kader. The Governor-General is asserted to have come with th o p e n rupture e Bish o p to anof Algiers, and to have forbidden that any more Priests should be sent to make over tures about exchange of prisoners. This was believed to have exasperated the Arabs against the Bishop, whom they had more influence tha n con sidered possessed of .was the.ca se , and are disappointed at not r ece i ving any more envoys from him. It was thought that the sudden departure of the Bishop for France was not unconnected with this misunder standing with General Bugeaud . • - A letter from Kirchberg of the 14th nag : , quoted by the Duke de Bordeaux is. France, says, that the go in g on in the ahgnant s messenger. , st satisfactory manner.- - G most satisfactory BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25. :fret Ripest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price french 5 per Co us .........." 116 20 ... lld C 5 ••• 1 45 20 ••• 1 16 25 4 per Lents ll9 70 ... 90 70 ... 00 70 .. go 7 , 41 3 per Cons. ex. die 77 2LI ... 7 7 2 . 5 ... 77 20 ... 77 20 Ran 4 of prance Leftists: dent I.ooof. St arcs 1(.40 ..1040 ... 11 ' 40 ...1040 Spent. Scares 5125 ....513.1 ...5125 ...5130 Belgian 5 per Cents. .... New Loan •143% ... 1 , 3% ... IC I A ... Ilk% iparnsh Active ..... .........." 1:11,4 ... SON, ... 10,4 ... ..os4 Pa115ive."......". Neapolitan .....».».» lO4 25 .. 1114 25 ... 1 94 5 .. ',0 5 Roman... If AILWA V BHANEB. St. Germain 725 ... 725 ... 725 ... 725 Versailles. LB. . ..." ..... .. H. 11 327 50 ... 327 5e ... 327 50 ... 327 50 Rouen 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 45.4 sil ... 451. ~,n,, 5 ° Mir:lshtar to Bali , sharesred 237 50 ....37 50 ... 226 25 .. 23 0 Orleans . 4BO ... 480 ... 478 75 ... 480 We are rejoiced to learn that, notwithstanding the apprehensions which have been entertained on account of the crops, the damage which they have sustained has been comparatively trifling. Prayers for fair weather are regularly offered in the churches of our city and its vicinity, and it gives us much gratification to find that this is also done generally in the kingdo.n.—Batle Chronicle. The fall in the prices of corn in the market of Brussels has at length enabled the burgomaster and Magistrates of their city to lower the price of bread. 4 ftu, 40 f, - T. •••- _ • 19,,,„1 4 , 0, •*, - 4 * • • -• THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1841. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitc Optuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. M. G uizot's speech at Liseux is severely attacked by the French Journals which supported the hair-brained policy of M. Thiers. , The Constitutionncl says :—" M. Gnizot attacked with extreme violence the policy of the Cabinet of the Ist of March, in the acts of which he had concurred. To .exalt himself as Minister, he lowers himself as Ambassador. To obtain favour as a courtier Minister he abjures all the principles upon which his opposition to the Mole Ministry was based." The Commerce remarks :—" The manner of M. Gui zot is well known. Cold and calculating, bold in asser tion, and hypocritical in language, full f paradox, and haughtily dogmatic ; such are the qualities by which this scourge of. our country . is remarkable. M. Guizot pretends by his speech to bring about the restoration of monarchical power.. He knows what he says. Words with him have their full meaning. He knows that monarchy and constitutional power are incompatible. He knows that by monarchy is meant the power of one person, and that a representative Government admits the Crown as only one of its elements. Ile knows full well, therefore, that when he talks of monarchy he sets up the standard of a counter-revolution. We shall see where that will lead him." The Courier Francais observes :—" It does not re quire a long examination to judge of this speech, which is more hollow, more unmeaning, than any we have heard fall from the same orator during the last session. M. Guizot tries to make us believe that we are living in the best of worlds, that the machinery of our institu tions works adorably, and that we arc in the enjoyment of an excess of liberty. In talking of the census M. Guizot evidently knows nothing of the subject, and what he says is perfect nonsense. He glorifies the state of peace in which Eurore is now, and by a tour de force, of which he alone is capable, he proclaims the sincere pleasure be experiences at having signed the treaty of the 13th of July." The Quotidienne is more laboured in its cen sures, and even aspires to be classical. " Rome," says the Legitimist organ, " was lost from the moment when she allowed her safety to depend on a single man. Thus, when Pompey was overthrown, the republic in this man lost its only support. The present system has also its Pompey. It is M. Guizot. Like the ancient Roman, M. Guizot is at the head of the Conservative party. In presence of this Pompey we find likewise — so nearly do the most distant ages approximate—a Caesar. This is M. Thiers. Like Caesar he is the great warrior of his age, and like Caesar also aspires to the dic tatorship. At the commencement of his career he was hand in hand with Pompey-Guizot, but after bepraising each other from the tribune and in public they quarrelled and separated. Their ambitious desires clashed, and they became enemies. Each is desirous of reigningalone. At this moment M. Guizot is in the ascendant, and M. Thiers is far from France, visiting fields of battle, in order to mask his designs and his passions, as the true Caesar, engaged on the real fields of battle, menaced his rival Pompey. Let us wait for the end of the struggle. M. Thiers will know how to discover some filthy stream for his Rubicon, and 31. Guizot is perhaps destined soon to seek a refuge in the plains of some new Pharsalia." The Tenips and the National follow in the wake of the Quotidienne, as regards smartness, but rather in advance of that journal in acrimony. But, for the hard words of the organs of a disappointed faction, M. Guizot and his friends must of course by this time be well prepared. Enough for the inward consolation of such a man, that he saved his country from imminent peril ; enough for us who admire him, that he was mainly instrumental in preserving the. peace of Europe. The calumnies of the belligerent press, we accept as the strongest attestations of how much the world is indebted to his peace-pre serving policy. On Saturday last some workmen digging the founda tion of a new building at Brussels found a great number of Gallic gold, silver, and copper coins. They are des cribed as very curious. The King and Queen of the Belgians, in visiting France, have left their children at Ostend, where they will remain till the return of their Majesties. The reception given by the Emperor of Austria to Prince Milosch at Vienna, on the 16th, is described in the German Papers as singularly flattering. The Prince was dressed in a splendid costume of blue and gold, covered with pearls, his breast covered with the insignias of orders adorned with diamonds. The Emperor, as a mark of extraordinary. favor allowed him the privilege of shooting in the Imperial preserves. PARLIAMENTARY. The Peers did not meet yesterday. In the Commons Mr. Roebuck asked five questions re lative to M'Leod, all of which were satisfactorily an swered by Lord Plilnaerston's reading an instruction from Mr. Webster, the AMerican Secretary of State, to the Attorney-General of the United States, in which the reclamation of our GoVernment, in relation to M'Leod, is fully acknowledged and set forth. The principle of international law for which Lord Palmerston has con tended is distictly recognized. It is also stated that the President felt himself called on to interfere to stop all proceedings, and so far as the Federal Government can it will protect M'Leod. The question of the destruction of the Caroline will then be discussed and settled by the two Governments. The power of the State of New York, in relation to the Federal Government, a very curious and novel question and the source of all the difficulty, the Americans must decide. In reply to Sir C. Napier, Lord Palmerston stated that the inhabitants of Syria are to be compensated for the loss of their property. Sir M. Wood's Committee on the Metropolitan Im provements was reappointed. Dr. Bowring obtained some returns to illustrate the working of the Quarantine-laws. The adjourned debate was renewed by Lord San don. He was followed by Mr. Milner Gibson, and a very dull debate occupied the whole evening. The principal speakers were Mr. Borthwick, Mr. O'Brien, Colonel Sib thorpe, whose uncouthness still provoked a smile, Mr. Escott, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who dis cussed finance, Mr. Gonlburn, who refuted what the Chancellor said, and Mr. Wakley, who com plained of the mystical manner in which the pub lic accounts are kept, so that rival Chancellors can draw from them any deduction they pleased. The Hon. Member was less happy than usual, but he did to wards the end turn a joke or two against Lord John Russell, now become a metropolitan demagogue. Our space will not allow us to repeat the Bon. Gentleman's jokes, and our readers will find them elsewhere. Not withstanding the extreme dullness of the debate, the Members were exemplary in their attendance and atten tion ; and, from their patience, we infer that it is.pos sible for the debate, to last another week. The.opmion that it would close "last night, was never countenanced by the appearance of _the House. On Mr. Wakley's re suming his seat, the debate was adjourned till this day. PUIII.IC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle insists that, so far from being a free agent, Sir Robert Peel will be hampered at every step he takes by the faction who have got him fast bound to their chariot-wheels. The following are our Con temporary's remarks on this subject :—" That Sir Ro bert Peel will not be long in office before wishing the Chandos clause were repealed, we verily believe. But he dare not fly in the face of his masters. He knows that the Chandos clause prevents him from discharging honestly his duty to his Sovereign and to the people ; but he knows also that he has no power to shake off the yoke. The Duke of Richmond has only to wag his little finger, and out he goes. In the serious times which are approaching, it is of infinite importance that the people should know their real position, that their force may not be mis-directed. We are the thralls of the landlords. They can make and unmake Ministries, and, as the Duke of Wellinglpon observed, that if the people will not be quiet they ought to be made quiet, so the landlords make light of the inclinations or opinions of the Queen. They can make her quiet. They have proved their power." " Serious times" are indeed approaching, but far more serious for the landlords than the people. Let the for mer then take warning in time. The days are past when the many could be made to succumb in quiet the few. It is now for the few to tremble, when the many express their determination to be righted. In another article, our Contemporary, alluding to Mr. Peter Borthwiek's oratorical-display in the House of , Commons last night, says ;—" Mr. Peter Borthwick rose up, and straightway nearly the whole House walked out This sudden and general movement on the part of Hon. Members, reminds us of a fable in )Esop, where the beasts are represented as holding a solemn council. First the Lion addressed the assembly—then the Tiger— then the Fox—but when at last the Ass got up to speak, the whole meeting at once took to their heels ! We re commend this apt fable to the particular attention of Mr. Peter Borthwick. _ _ We quote the following significant passage from the Times :—" Beware of America,' said Mr. Grattan. Pray what does this mean ? Many of the great communities in the United States participate largely, they tell us, in the feelings and designs of the sympathizers on the Cana dian frontier. • To seduce the subjects of Great Britain with from their allegiance is the main object which those Ire land, whichsympathizers w h a a s v ein originally invited This b y tampering O'Connell him self, was first responded to at Boston, from whence the resident Papists despatched to Dublin a violent revolu tionary address. More recently the Irish Repeal Associa tion has received a contribution of 100/. from its republi can approvers in New York. Who does not see, then, that Mr. Grattan's admonitory warnings, coupled with his faction's American machinations, are just a covert intima tion, or rather a very broad one, that the accession of a constitutional Government is about to be villanously perverted in Ireland as a plea for sedition and revolt?" This is evidently put forth as a sort of feeler, in order to try the pulse of the people, and ascertain how far they will relish the sending of fresh troops to Ireland, and carrying matters with a high hand there. Indeed the Times confesses as much without disguise, for, at the close of its article, it observes, " governed the Irish subjects of her Majesty must be, and shall be." Now, we all know the meaning of the word " governed," as applied to Tory legislation in Ireland. It means neither more nor less than a revival of the Orange system of misrule in that country ; a renewal of tithe. hunts, Rathcormac massacres, and out-door Protestant ascendancy ! ,But will Ireland submit to this sort of government. , Im possible. She will rise as one man, and not-cease from strenuous agitation till she obtains all that she has a right to obtain at the hands of an English Ministry. The Herald is quite indignant that Ministers should have been so far forgetful of precedent as to put common sense and spirit into a Royal Speech, and adds, that this Speech " is little less than a declaration of war against the rights and privileges of the British constitution." Our Tory Contemporary would prefer a Royal Speech modelled on the good old Tory principle, and containing a " declaration of war" only against syntax and gram mar. We quote the Herald's remarks on this matter, for they are exceedingly rich in point of absurdity, especially in the comparison instituted between her Majesty and the " leaders of the French Revolution!"--, " We perfectly assent to the manly and constitutional declaration of the Duke of Wellington, that the, lan guage which the Ministers have put into her. Majesty's mouth in her Speech to the Parliament, is little less than a declaration of war against the rights and privileges of the British Constitution. It is an appeal to the passions of the people against their known and deliberate judg ment, as expressed in the result of the late general elec tion. To make the Queen appeal to her beloved people' against her ' beloved. Houses of Parliament,' is, in fact, to make her act the part of the leaders of the French revolution, who continually appealed from the Govern ments, as by law established, to the people, as distinct from those Governments. Such is the mad, revolution ary, and traitorous conduct of the present advisers of the Crown, who are now resolved to enter on a course of the most factious and unprincipled opposition—nay, to create, if possible, a backstairs opposition to any Mi nistry which does not carry out their headlong measures of anarchy and revolution." We find the following in the Post.:—"The amendment to the Address is described by the Ministerial Journal ists, and by some coarse - Ministerialists in the House of Commons, as an affront to the Throne. Instead of going into consideration of the Corn-laws, the Ad dress acquaints her Majesty that Parliament has no con fidence in her Majesty's Ministers. This is called an affront to the Throne. We say it is no such thing ; but we may very fairly retort that the continuance of Minis ters in office up to this time is an affront to Parliament." The Advertiser thus alludes ty the late Manchester Conference :—" We hail the calm and philosophic dis cussion of the Corn-laws at the recent Conference ; and the more so, because the banner of the Church has sel dom been upreared on the side of the people. History furnishes us with too many instances of the tendency of the clergy to range themselves on the side of arbitrary power, and to forget, that their duty is to sustain the oppressed, instead of supporting the oppressor." The Nottingham Review observes, with reference to the prospects of the Tories:—" If they use their power with moderation, they may continue for many years to direct the reins a state, but if they indulge in the old vices of Toryism, and despise, insult, and oppress the people, again will .they. be shaken off, as an incubus of which a generous bid high-minded nation will be weary." The Chelmsford Chronach speaking of the Corn-law question, says :—" It is well known we feel no sym pathy with the Anti-Corn-law er,y ; we think the Go vernment to a great degree merit 'the ruin into which they have recklessly flung themselves by an attack upon the land ; but Parliareent having been specially elected to decide on the proposition, it ought to give a special answer. When it, shrinks from that answer it engen ders suspiCion of its inte ,, ' rity in - the minds of those who are honestly determined to stand by a fair protection to the soil. The Derby Reporter expresses itself as follows on the subject of the Manchester Conference :—" The minis terial Conference, at Manchester, must convince every reflecting mind that the Corn-law question has taken too strong hold of the public mind to be disposed of without some material melioration, or a desperate struggle, which must involve the land in continued suffering and misery. The attendance of six hundred and fifty ministers, at great personal inconvenience and expense, from all parts, including the remotest dis tricts of the kingdom, speaks volumes on the urgency of the cause which brought them together." MONEY-TRADE-CODZINTERCE. The hosiery trade at Nottingham is very bad ; a great many hands remaining idle or only partially employed. Trade in Leicestershire is equally bad. At the meeting of the Shareholder.; of the British Iron Company, yesterday, the motion for a dissolution of the Company was rejected by a considerable majority, when it was intimated that a dissolution would be sought for by proceedings in Chancery. AGRICULTURAL. At Nottingham the weather has been favourable during the week, and on every hand the scythe and the sickle are busily employed in cutting down the golden ears of plenty. Much barley has been housed, and very little white corn will be standing at the end of the week. In Wiltshire the weather is still unsettled, and a good deal of rain has fallen. The harvest gets on slowly ; in a great many places the wheat is very green. NAVAL AND IVZTLITAZLY. The utmost activity now prevails at our naval arsenals, and many ships of large size have been ordered to be commissioned. The Impregnable, three-decker, 110, is the only ship at Spithead. Information has arrived that her Majesty's sloop Acorn on the 11th of last July, had been engaged with the brig Gabriel, a pirate, under Spanish colours, mounting 18 guns and 62 men, which, after three hours hard fighting, struck. The prize has been sent to St. Helena, and the pirate crew transhipped to the Acorn. MAW AND POLICE. At Lambeth-street , Police-office yesterday, a case of some interest to the mercantile community was decided. John Bruton East, the master of the ship Britannia, ap peared to answer the claim of Archibald M‘Neile, a sea man, who made a demand of 191. los. for his services on board, on a voyage from London to Jamaica and back. Five of the crew ware taken ill of the fever in Jamaica, one of whom died, and the Captain called;upon a doctor to attend them, on board, and he made a deduction of 14s. from the 'ages of each sick man for the expenses of the doctor, fAich the complainant refused to comply with. Mr. Broderip said by Act of Parliament the mas ter of a vessel was bound to provide a medicine-chest, and whatever medicine or advice might be necessary for the health of the men,and he therefore ordered the full wages to be paid with costs. At Guildhall, Mr. Watson, a solicitor in Falcon square, appeared to answer a complaint laid by Captain Shipston, of llotherfield•street, Islington, for detaining a ship's register, whereby he forfeited 1001. The evi dence had been taken at great length on the lath inst., and Mr. Alderman Wilson yesterday expressed his opinion that the plea of detention, urged by the defen dant till his bill was paid, would not hold against the statute, nor would the plea that the complainant, because he had received 1,500/. out of 6,500., was bound to give up possession of the ship or his title deeds to it. Till the payment was complete the com plainant remained the owner, and was therefore entitled to possession of the register. He must therefore order the ship's register to be given up. The defendant, acting under the advice of Mr. Clarkson, refused to part with it, when the Alderman said the terms of the Act were im perative, and it must either be given up or he would in flict the penalty of 1001., and in default of payment commit Mr. Watson to prison for three months. Mr. Watson eventually paid 1001., under protest, and kept the register. At the Liverpool assizes on Wednesday, Thomas Roche and Samuel Blackney were indicted for the mur der of Matthew Naylor, a musician, on the 12th of April, at Manchester. The Jury retired for about an hour, and not considering the evidence sufficient, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. COVILT-1711SHIONABLE. Prince Albert's birth-day.was celebrated yesterday at Windsor with great rejoicings, and tke 72d Highlanders were reviewed in the Home Park. At Kensington, most of the houses were illuminated. The Marchioness of Exeter arrived yesterday at Brighton. A French journal announces that Queen Victoria has lately composed the - music for two ballads of Schiller, one entitled "To Emma," and the other To a youth on the brink of the water." MISCELLANEOUS. A monument, has within the past week been erected in the South East Transept of Salisbury Cathedral, to the memory of the late Canon Marsh, Chancellor of this Diocese. It is well known that trees, and chiefly the oak, are frequently struck by lightning. Chyrnists attribute this to the quantity of iron held in solution by the sap, and distributed through the whole tree. Mr. Baker, yesterday, held an inquest on the body of a child who had died.from a fall. The accident caused stupor, which the mother mistook for sleep, and the proper remedy being neglected, the child died. Instances of this kind, it appears, are frequent. By the machinery at Weevil, near Portsmouth, eight; men and two boys manufacture ninety hundred weight of biscuit in art hour and x half - The Vine Inn, at Honiton, was set fire to on Saturday night by an incendiary. The fire, however, was soon got under. A Commission of Lunacy was opened yesterday at Kensington, to inquire into the state of mind of Miss Charlotte F. Rowley, aged twenty-four years, who, among other strange delusions, fancied that her ribs were falling to pieces, and that she had lost her head The Jury retnrned a verdict of " Unsound mind." A private of the Royal Guards at Paris received some time ago a ioleut kick on the head from a horse, and ever since then the excitement of his hair has become so extreme, that it can only be kept under by almost con tinual bleedings, both local and general. The slightest touch is felt instantly, and cutting the hair gives exqui site pain. To-morrow will be the anniversary of the death of Ro bespierre, who was guillotined in 1794. General Gascoigne, who was formerly the Tory Mem ber for Liverpool, and whose vote gave the famous majo rity of one on the first divisiOn on the Reform Bill, died yesterday, at his house in South Audley-street, of in flammation of the bowels. Mr. Peter Borthwick has a decided talent for clearing Houses. A few years ago he cleared the Surrey Theatre by his performance of Othello; and last night—according to the Chronicle—he cleared the House of Commons by his speech on the amendment question. Yesterday an inquest was held at St. George's Hospi tal on the body of a man unknown, between 68 and 70 years of age, who was killed by a brick falling on his head from a scaffolding in the Edgeware-road. A labourer had shot some bricks as the deceased wag pass ing, and one falling over at the height of 40 feet, knocked deceased down and fractured his skull. Accidental death, and deodand on the brick one shilling. THE WEATHER—NooN, AUGUST 27. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 78 1 Highest 79 Lowest ... 47 Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. The barometer, for several days, indeed ever since the change of Moon on the 16th, has stood high, and the weather in gene ral has been extremely faiourable, We have had occasional slight showers, but nothing to do any harm. The appearances are still good, the barometer for the last two days has been gra duallyrising, and now stands at 30.30, according to this table, according to others, it is about one-tenth of an inch h th ihither. hueg rh The atmosphere for the last two days has been oppres sively sultry, with a good deal of sun-shine. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY. — The Conseil d'Etat of Paris has decided in favour of the legality of the census. On his arrival at Caen, on the 23d, Monsieur Guizot became the object of a charicari from nearly 3,000 citizens of all classes. The tumult was so great, and the mob so violent, vociferating cries of " A bus Guizot, a bas 12 traitre de 1815, a Las le Recensement, a bas le complices du Demourier," that it became necessary to call in the military. The mob dispersed and paraded the streets during a part of the evening, singing La Mursellaise. It is reported that M. Guizot, who had come to Caen to preside at the Council-General, had left the town. A ministerial explanation, says the Charivari, given as reported in the National, to M. Guizot, is consider ably exag g erated. This account states that the popular ebullition by the presence of a Deputy who bad taken some part in the amusement and the public opposition was more directed against that measure than against M. Guizot. Paris Bourse.—FiVe per Cents., 116 f. 25c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 20c. Spanish Five per Cents. 21k. SPAIN. Madrid was perfectly quiet on the 19th, and by all account, such was the case throughout Spain. The Madrid Gazette publishes the new organization of the jiteros of Navarre as decreed by the Cortes. Madrid Bourse.-23-, 2 3 - for case ; 2.11 60 days. GERMANY. According to a German paper, there will be no con ference held by the higher Powers on the affairs of Spain. The question of the Argau convents will, it is thought, be brought before the Swedish Diet early in October. MONEY and COM VIERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 26.—The business done in the Cotton Market is to a very small extent, the sales do not amount to more than 2,500 bales, of which exporters have taken 200 bales American. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET—The following are the transactions :—Grand Junction, 1001 ; Great Western, New Shares, 551 ; 201. Shares, ditto, 71 , London and Birming ham, 155 ; Ditto, New Shares, 24 ; North Union, 78 ; Bank of Liverpool, I Si. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AVG. 26.—Shares are still in considerable request, and an advance in price has been obtained on some of the heavier Stocks. The under mentioned are the transactions of the day.—London and 13ir mingharn, 158 1 ; ex div. ; Ditto, New 321. Shares, 231. 1 15.6 d.; Liverpool and Manchester, 195 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 551 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 21 ; North Mid land, 651 ; Bank of Stockport, 3. Buenos Ayres papers to the 27th of June have been re ceived, which state that according to the late accounts from the interior the anticipation of a general engagement with the remains of the forces of Lavalle and La Madrid is not likely to be realised. As the divisions of General Orobe advanced, the former dwindled away with increased rapidity, passing over to the ranks of the latter. Exchange on England was at 24. The number of merchant vessels in port on the 25th was 99. THU FUNDS. Both the English and Foreign Stock Markets opened firm this morning with a tendency to advance. Coniols are now 69i for Money, h and 894 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89a;Ditto Three-and-a-Half, 98.1 -L. Spanish Active Stock has advanced to 201; A. Portuguese Five per Cents. ;1294 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 174 18i._ _ _ PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Bristol and Exeter GO .. ... 32i to Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths Gosport Junction London and Brighton London and South Western 3sl, 53 ... .. to llanchester and Leeds (New Sh. ) 30 JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American ......... 40 National Provincial of England... 35 HALF-PAST ONE. The English Stock Market continues firm. Consols are now 89 / for Money, and for the Account. Spanish Active Stock is firm at 20i 4 ; Mexican, 26,‘ ;• Danish, 791 ; kortuguese Five per Cents., 29k. There has been rather more business doing in Shares to-day, and the market is firmer. Great Westerns have advanced to 801 ; ditto New, 55/ ; ditto Fifths, 81 •, Gosport Junction, 52; London and Brighton, 45/ ; South Western, 53. TWO O'CLOCK. The Markets continue firm, without alteration. QUARTER TO THREE. The Corn Market still presents a flat appearance, and, as compared with Monday, prices are 2s. to 3s. lower for Wheat. The duty has fallen, however, this week, and must go down yet; still it reaches at least 6s. 841., at which probably most of that in bond will be let out. The arrivals, in tho face of much More favourable weather, continue large. Consols, Money, 89a ; October, 89.1 1 7 j; Colombian, 2Og ; Mexican, 264- Spanish, 2O Markets firm, with a decided tendency upwards. Money more plentiful, at a lower rate of interest than yesterday. THE MARKETS-THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English Grain this week have been mock rate, but of Foreign Wheat very large. The weather having been fine since Wednesday, caused the Wheat trade to be very dull, and Monday's prices were scarcely obtainable. Barley, Beans, and leas as last reported. Oats held firmly at Mon day's rates, but the trade was languid. Fleur as last reported. London Averages—Wheat, 8,538 qrs., 80s. ; Barley, 6,356, 41s. 10d. ; Beaus, 8413, 40s. 23. ; Peas, 971 qrs., 525. sd. SM IT 11 FIELD MARKET. The supply was short, which occasioned a brisk demand, and every thing sold well, at the present prices. Beasts, 623; Sheep and Lambs, 7,960; Pigs, 417; Calves, 337. Beef, 3s. 8(1. to 4s Bd. ; Mutton, 4s. to .55.; Veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. Bd. to as. 6d. ; Lamb, 4s. Bcl. to ss. 6d. COLONIAL MARKET. The Market was quiet, and in prices little variation took place. The imports were to a fair extent. TEA MARKET. The Market was quiet, and it was difficult to quote prices, so limited were the transactions. For Company's, 2s. bid. was the nearest value ; Free Trade prices nominal. TALLOW MARKET. Buyers operated with caution, and the market had a dull aspect, but holders were firm, and P. Y. Candle on the spot was not to be had under 493. 6d. per cwt. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVE!) THIS I)AY.) WINCHESTER RACES—THURSDAY. Produce Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, h. ft. New mile. (Nine Subs.) Capt. Gardinor's cby Camel—Cecilia, Bst 41b (Nat) 1 Mr. S. Herbert's f by The Colonel—Galatea Won easy. The Hampshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 50 added ; the second saves his stake. Two miles and a dis. (11 Subs. 7 declared.) Mr. Sadler's Belessima, 6 yrs 7st 121 b (Cenelly) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth , 4 yrs, 7st 81b 2 Won easy. Sweeepstales of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added. New mile. (5 Subs.) Mr. Tre , li's Benedetta, 3 yrs, 7st 21b... (Lee) I Mr. Greville's Palxmon, 3 yrs, 7st 21b Lord G. Bentinck's Nawortb, 4 yrs, Bst 61b 3 A good race with the two first. The Foal Stakes of 501. each, h. ft. The New mile. (3 Subs.) Sir. Sadler's Lady Strut walked over. The Queen's Plate of 100 Guineas. Two mile heats. Mr. Wreford's Wardale, 4 yrs, 95t llb (W. Day) 1 1 Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 5 yrs, 9st 111 b 2 dr The first heat was won easy and the second walked over for. BROM SGRO VE RACES.-WEDNESDAY. The Maiden Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Saunders's Frank, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (Frost) 1 1 Mr. Maule's Sir Harry, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 2 2 Mr. Williams's Anvil 3 yrs, 7st Two others started. Won easy. The Bromsgrove Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10ft, and five only if declared, with 40 added. Twice round and a dis. (5 subs.) Mr. Collett's The Dean, 5 yrs, 9st 41b (Whitehouse) 1 Mr. Flintoff's Wings, 5 yrs, Bst 41b Mr. Moss's Frailty, 6 yrs, Bst 41b Won cleverly. The Grafton Manor Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added, once round and a distance, were won by Mr. Arthur's The Star, 7st 61b (Arthur), beating Fitzgambol, ist 61b, Gammon Box, 7st 61b, and another. The Tally-ho Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 15 added, twice round and a distance, were won in two heats by Mr. Robin son's Finality, 12st (Wadlow), beating Cotton Ball, 12st. THURSDAY. A Free Handicap of 5 sous. each, 3 ft, with 30 added. Thrice round and a distance. (Five subs. ) Mr. Wadlow's Finality, aged, Bst 7lb (Whitehouse) 1 Mr. I%laule's Sir Harry, 5 3 rs, Bst Mr. rooke's Sequidilla, 3 yrs, 6st Mr. Cowley's Spangle (h b ), 6 yrs, Bst 71b 4 Won very easy. The Bentley Stakes of 25 soya. each, with 25 added. Winner to be sold for 1201 Heats, twice round and a distance. (Six subscribers.) Mr. Flintoff's Prudence, 6 yrs, Bst 1 llb ( Whitehouse) 1 1 Mr. Samuell's The Knight, 5 yrs, Bst 1016 Mr. Saunders' Frank, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b Mr. Moss's Frailty, 6 yrs, 9st 21b Mr. Wood's Lilie, 5 yrs, Bst 711) Won easy. A Forced Handicap was won by Finality, Bst 71b, beating Frank, Bst 01b. A HOAX.—Considerable amusement was ex cited among some of our townsmen by an occurrence which took place on Sunday last. About eleven ►'clock on that day a number .of persons were congregated opposite the Plough Hotel, and on inquiry we found some poor simpleton was within who had been advertising for a wife in ono of the London papers, and that some of our young sparks, about equally simple with himself, had, by maintaining aSeigned correspond ence, induced him to come to Cheltenham to obtain an assig nation. %', hen here, through imprudence on the part of his tormentors, the plot exploded, and the poor dupe made his exit about twelve o'clock, amid the jeers of those assembled.— Cheltenham Examiner. M. Firmot, coach-master at Vaugirard, two evenings ago sent his son, a boy about twelve years old, to the stables, to see if the horses had been properly fed. As the lad remained away an unreasonable time, the father went to see what he was about, when, on entering the stable, he found him hanging by a halter from the rack of one of the horses. His senses were gone, but, as his feet rested upon the manger, life was not extinct, and, due means being instantly taken, he was recovered. On being questioned as to the motive of this desperate act, the boy declared that he had done so from no other than a sudden and irresistible impulse, for which he could not account. THUNDER STORM.—On Saturday morning this city was visited with a severe thunder storm, and heavy rains; it was previously heard in a westerly direction for se veral hours; at eight o'clock we mere nearly in a state of dark ness, which was rendered more awful by the vivid lightning, and serious apprehensions were entertained that the dark watery cloud would burst over us. From the rapid rise in the tributary streams, the storm • had been mme severe on the western moors, but we have not heard of any accident or dstruction of property in the vicinity. except the electric fluid having struck several trees.--Yorlt Courant. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice ERSKINE and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE..) Thomas Luke Wills, a clerk in the General Post-office, pleaded guilty to an indictment for having stolen a 101. note, from a letter placed in the Post-office. The facts of this case recently appeared in The Sun, at the time of the examination of the prisoner at Bow-street. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, in passing sentence, said, that al though evidence was ready to be tendered of the good charac ter of the prisoner, the crime to which he had pleaded guilty was so frequent an occurrence, that it was necessary, although it was painful to the Court, to make an example of the priso ner. The sentence of the Court was, that he be transported for the term of fifteen years. Elizabeth Maxwell, aged 30, married, was indicted for e loniously as d maliciously stabbing James Maxwell, her hus band, with intent to murder him. The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, ac quitted the prisoner on the capital charge, and she pleaded guilty to the common assault. The facts of the case, as they transpired were recently pub lished in The Sun, the prisoner having stabbed her husband in the back, in a fit of jealousy. The Learned Judge COLE RIDGE then addressed the prisoner, and said—You have been convicted, upon your own confes sion, doubtless advised by your counsel, of a most serious crime. Upon the statement that Las been made, both by the Learned Counsel of the prosecution and for yourself, it has been thought. right at least that no evidence should be offered in respect to the most grievous part of the charge, and the Jury have done their duty in respect to that, and found you not guilty, and )ou have yourself pleaded guilty to the re mainder of the charge. That charge taken by itself is a very serious one indeed, and even under all the mitigating circum stances which appeared to excite you to the commission of it, it is impossible for the Court to pass it over with anything like a nominal punishment. It was stated that having seen your husband under the most highly provoking circumstances, you had gone back to your own house, and then inflicted on him the blow with a knife, and I must say that, if that fact had remained unaltered, it would have been very difficult for the Jury, ac cording to their oaths, not to have found you guilty on the most grievous part of the charge, because however high the provo cation the law will not allow any person deliberately so pi yoked to inflict injury or take life. I have had in the course of my experience an instance before me, strongly impressed on my recollection, when one of the most learned and humane Judges that ever sat on the bench thought it his duty to inform a prisoner who was before him, under the same circumstances, that had the Jury believed that he procured the pistol and fired it, know ing it to be loaded with deadly means of destruction—however high the provocation might have been, the offence would have been wilful murder. The law will not allow any person to avenge himself in that mode. You are relieved, by the ex planation that has been made, from that serious part of the charge, because it seems you did not go for that purpose when you went home. You had probably no thought of vengeance with the knife you had in your hand when you deserted the house ; but it was in your hand when you received the provo cation ; and as the unhappy blow was given, it remains now to pass on you such a sentence as the facts of the in quiry seem to require. And very painful it is for me to pass upon you anything like a severe or painful sentence, because we cannot but recollect that the act was dune on serious provocation—the most grievous perhaps a woman could receive; arid we have learned that up to this passage of your life you have conducted yourself in a most ex emplary manner. But you must pay the penalty for the crime for which you have been found guilty—for the sake of others, for the sake of society, and for the sake of the law, you will suffer a severe punishment. The sentence of the Court is, that you be imprisoned in the House of Correction for 12 calendar months, and that during that time you be kept to hard labour. The prisoner, who was extremely affected throughout the address, was then led from the bar. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Ann llalton was indicted for stealing live spoons, one coat, one pair of trowsers, one shawl, and ether articles, value 171., the property of William Henry Bailey, her master, and Enieline Halton, her sister, was charged with receiving the same, knowing it to be stolen. The prosecutor deposed that on the 6th of July he missed the articles named in the indictment, and gave the prisoner into custody. Police constable 10 C proved to taking the prisoner Emiline into custody, in John's-row, St. Luke's, with some of the stolen property in her possession. The prisoner tere became excessively violent, and, pulling off her shoe, flung it across at the constable, who was stand ing in the witness-box, calling him, at the same time, a-- lying rogue. The Coasatow SERGEANT said, he did not think the case of feloniously receiving to be made out against Emeline Halton ; lie should, therefore, order her to be discharged. The sen tence of the Court on Ann was, that she be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. John Phillips, and Ellen his wife, were indicted for steal ing several articles of household furniture, the property of John Proud. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 4th of August a distress was put into the prosecutor's premises, and the male prisoner was appointed to act as broker or keeper, and in that capacity stole the articles named. The Costatox SERGEANT in addressing the prisoner, John Phillips, after the Jury had returned a verdict of Guilty, said that the fact of the capacity in which the prisoner acted ren dered his crime of the blackest hue. He should therefore, for the protection of the poorer and more distressed classes who were subjectto the mercy of persons in the prisoner's situation, deem it his duty to make a severe example of him. Ile should sentence him to seven years' transportation. The prisoner, on leaving the bar, said he was not sorry to be about leaving the country. The evidence against the female prisoner not being consi dered conclusive sne was ordered to be discharged. John Gosling and William Brooks were indicted for steal ing a purse, containing half-a-crown, from the person of Mary Fitzpatrick. It appeared by the evidence that all the parties were drink ing together in a public-house in Clare-market at the time the robbery was committed. 'he Jury, having returned a verdict of Guilty, the COURT sentc:leed Gosling to two months', and Brooks to one month's imprisonment and hard labour. Willia»t White, a japanner by trade, 55 years of age, was indicted for stealing two get* of dish-mots, an 4 other property, of the value of 275., the property of his employer, Charles Williams. The prisoner pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Sarah Cole, a poor and sickly-looking female, with a child in her arms, was indicted for stealing a pewter pot, value 15.6 d., the property of John Hanson. The prosecutor said he was the proprietor of a public-house in High •street, Kensington, and suspecting the prisoner, he caused a policeman to search her lodgings, where the pot was found. The constable in addition said that he found some lead melted down. The prisoner in her defence said she got the pot with some porter a few days before at the prosecutor's house. The Jury, after some consultation, recalled the prosecutor, who, in reply to a question, said the prisoner had been in the habit of taking beer from his house, and that on such occasions he allowed her to take it in one of his pots. A verdict of Guilty having been returned, the prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and hard labour. MARLBORO UGH-ST RE ET. (TIIIS DAY.) This morning' a young man, named Richard Ingram, was fully committed for' trial, charged with stealing the clothes of a respectable youth, nOued Frederick bleands, while he was bathing last evening in Serpentine River. The prisoner was stopped as he was runnin7 away with the sto!en property. Several individuals have lately ben deprived of their apparel, and been obliged to take refuge in the receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society until they procured another suit. Charles Jones, a boy, and William .-,:lvted, a coal-porter, were fined 10s. each for letting off fire-works in Peter-street, Soho, in celebration of the birth-day of his ROYal Highness Prince Albert. In default of payment, they were . Ontenced to seven days' hard labour. —L Another verification of the saying, one law for the rich and another for the poor. This boy is to be degraded by working with felons on the tread-mill because it is totally out of his power to pay 10s. The two Officers of the Life Guards who were fined the other day for a more danger ous and less loyal amusement, paid the amount, which to them was nothing, and walked out of the office.] THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. Queens are not now as Queens were oft of old Couched like stone idols on a seat of gold, Whose triple locks and closely curtained throne Shut out like adamant their people's moan : Queens, now, have human thoughts—have human hearts That flow with love, and feel for kindred smarts — Weep with the weepers, and in tears distil— Yea, even bleed at their poor subjects' ill. Look up, poor Weaver ; though distresses deep With baleful famine round thy table creep ; Yet, have thou faith, an arm both prompt and strong, Shall give thee rescue ere the day grow long. Mighty thy Queen—supreme in thy behalf— Lean on her sceptre as thy surest staff ; - For perils dark shall fasten on the foes Who thwart her plans, or purposes oppose ; Whilp her high goodness in the end shall bless Thy days with plenty and with pleasantn?ss. Look up, poor Weaver ! trust thou in thy Queen, Bright times are yet to dawn, and days serene. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The half yearly meeting of the Proprietors of this railway was held at Bristol yesterday, when a lengthened report was read. It ap pears that it is the intention of the Directors to raise an addi tional capital, to the amount of half a million, by creation of loan notes. The Directors express a firm conviction that this sum will be sufficient, and that the cost of the line altogether will not exceed 6,250,000/. The dividend is settled at 114 per cent. o n the half-year, to be paid in proportion to the sums called on the respective shares at the former half-yearly meeting, and which obtained the sanction of the Proprietors as being the most equit a bl e . M r . B rune l a ppends an able do cumentto the report, which explains in detail all the matters in reference to which so much difference of opinion has existed. It is in contemplation to erect a large number of house at Swindon, also an hotel, engine -houses, goods' depots, &c. ; in fact, to render the entire establishment the most complete in the kingdom. A VESSEL NEARLY DESTROYED BY FIRE AT SEA.—SPONTANEOUS COMIIUSTION.—On Friday the following particulars were received by the various insur ance offices in the City, relative to the brig Ant, master Captain Paine, belonging to Liverpool, which was nearly destroyed by lire on the morning last, supposed to have originated from the s P" t l ie rd te of la combustion of some damp straw in a crate of of the ware, stowed amongst the cargo in the after-p a n f r ine-built vessel. It appears that the Ant, which s_ iLiverpool for vessel, sailed on Saturday fortnight from the liar- Milford, and on Sunday night arrived Paine, having hour at that port, and the master, Captat of Mondous safely moored the vessel retired to beq; a pilot, named did the crew. At about two o'clock in the In T i V i si g nack, the Mary Phillip, in sailing past the vessel - ring flames burst- Ellen, was greatly surprised in di d `)": destruction of the eapparently no one on ing forth through the deck, an board of her. At one time " flames communicated tohe vessel appeared certain, as t . part of re ater the rigging the mainsail boom, an d the o owing day the g On the f was enveloped in a blaze . as well as examinec_l the master and the s, quartered at Milford, inspected the agents of Lloyd' burnt vessel, crqw, and from. the report they have forwarded to the authorities in the City, there appears no doubt but that the damp straw stowed in a crate, as above alluded to, was the cause of the accident, p E „ sE y.--The crops are looking mote pro mising since the late genial weather, and most of the neigh bouring farmers have commenced reaping.— Hilts Indepemdent. EVENING SUN COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. AUGUST 21.—Janette schooner, Earl of Egremont, from th west ward. 23.—Kestrel yawl, Commodore Earl of Yarborough, from Guernsey and Weymouth ; Brilliant schooner, G. H. Acker., Eq., from Cherbourg. 25.—Merlin schooner, William Lyon, Esq., from North Yarmouth and Portsmouth; Arrow cutter, Lord Godolphin, from Southampton. _ . _ SAILINGS. AUGUST 19.--Ariel schooner, Almon Hill, Esq., for Guern sey ; Camilla schooner, Thomas Hallifax, jun., Esq., for Guern sey and western ports. 24. —Endora cutter, Richard W. Cooper, Esq., for Ply mouth and Ireland, 25. —Midge cutter, John Petre, Esq., for Portsmouth ; Aurora cutter, William Reach, Esq., for Weymouth. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. . _ Schooners—Crusader, Brilliant, Gem, Wanderer, Hawk, Xarifa, Merlin, Noma, Janette, Bostellan, Flower of Yarrow. Yawls—Kestrel, Alarm, Wasp, Falcon, Breeze. Cutters—Ariel, Nautilus, Sparrowhawk, Lord of the Isles, llebe, Petrel, Reindeer, Naiad, Forestay, Phebe, Arrow, Cyn thia, Talisman, Witch, Ariadne, Will-o'-the-Wisp, Fanny. During the week many families have left, and as usual at this part of the season, the town is very thin of company, and the price of lodgings is reduced one-half. Sailing has given place to shooting, and the approach of the Ist of September draws the gentlemen from the yachts to their estates. The bathing season commences in September, to enjoy which num bers of fresh visitors resort to this tort, and soon fill up the houses which the sportsmen have quitted. The weather II beautifully fine, and the harvest getting in well. Bar 30.00. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LoNnoN, AUG. 27.—Wind this day at noon S.W. S•raxttATE Cxxax, Auc. 26.—Arrived the Astra" Hurst, trJni Trieste; Joseph, Anstall, Constantinople. DEAL, Auo. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from the River. Lucas, for Boston; Mary, Quebec. Sailed the Bombay, for Bombay. . . LIVE'APOOL, Aun. 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Lancet ter, Jefferson, and Wave, Seolley, from Bombay ; Lady Scott. St. Mark's, Wolfsville, and Lord Stanley, Wickner, St. John's. New Brunswick ; Gertrude, Picton, Havre, and Elizabeth► Quebec ; Mary, Muiss, Dalhousie ; Express, Maranham ; Au gusta Frances, Corkhill, Barbadoes—sailed 26th ult. Sailed the China, for Quebec; Erin go Bragh, Montreal ; Rosendale, Bahia ; Caledonia, Vera Cruz; John and Coster, and Pat rick Henry, New York ; Joseph Porter and S. Stephens, Bir kenhead, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Pale, St. John's Thomas Naylor, Sierta Leone. The Birmingham, hence to New York, has put back, having lost mainmast and wizen top mast, 18th, in lon. 21. Arrived off, the Cynosure, Monte Video ; Albina, Quebec. Value BILIGHTON, Aun. 25. Arrived off, the Alcyon, from paraiso, for Hamburgh. PORTLAND, 25.—Arrived off, the Margaretha, from Porto Cabello, for Hamburgh. SWANAGE, AUG. 26.—Arrived off, the Thomas Blyth. Hay, from Mauritius. PoitTsmount, AUG. 26.—Wind W.—Sailed the Vernon and the Duke of Argyll, for Calcutta. CowEs, Auc. 25.—Arraed the Flora, Hunter, from Me" tanzas; William Badge, New Orleans. POOLE, Atm. 22.—Sailed the Flora, Veale, Newfoundland. FAL HOUTH, AUG. 25.—Wind W., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Puella, Thomas, from Smyrna ; Loyal William, Malaga. for St. Petersburgh ; Ann, London, for Valencia. PENZANCE, Auc. 25.—Arrived off, the Caroline, Mailer. from Cape Hayti. BRISTOL, Aye. 26.—Arrived the Alpha, from Quebec. HOLYHEAD, Auc. 25.—Arrived off, the Sarah Barry, Corrigall, from Quebec, with loss of topmasts. DUMFRIES, Auu. 25.—The Solway steamer, Barton, from Belfast to Carlisle, struck en Dumroff Bank this morning. and sustained so much damage that she was run on shore near Southern Ness Light-house--crew and passengers saved ; 160 hew' of cattle were thrown overboard, and 40 drowned is the hold. BELFAST, Ace. 23.—Arrived the Temperance, Wyatt, and Dumfriesshire, Gawan, from Quebec. HULL, Ace. 26.—Wind S. W. by W.—Arrived the Cove, Roberts, from Quebec. YARMOUTH Roans, Ace. 26.—Arrived Jubilee, Quebec. HARWICH, Auc. 26.—The Matthew and Ann, Hutchin son, of and from Sunderland to Calais, got on shore on the Shipwash Sand this morning ; part of the cargo has bees thrown overboard, and it is expected she will be got off. HASTINGS, Auc. 26—The Peggy, Le Breton, from Sun derland to Jersey, got on shore last night near this place, but was assisted off this morning, and proceeded. CARDIFF, AUG. M.—The Butibury, W ri t Oporto, has put back leaky, cargo shifted, and foremee sprung, and must discharge. Arrived the Queen, from Queb Swan, hence to MINOR' DUKES. H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex Bed ford Norfolk Somerset Sutherland MARQUISES. Anglesey Clan ri card e Conyngham Head tbrt Laps dowse No. manby ort hampton Westminster EARLS. A lbeinai le Belfast B, nee Ca in perclow n Chat lemon t Chichester Clarendon Cork Cray. n Dude Effingham Errol ngal 1 Fitzhardinge Fitzwilliam Gainsbo rough flusicord Lenz'. m AIAJORIT DUKES. Bean f.rt Micelend] iekingliam Dorset Marlborough Montrose Portland Richmond Rutland Vs ellington MA RQUISSES. Abereorn AylcsLury Bute Camden Cholmondelcy Ely Exeter Hastings Londonderry Lothian Ormonde Salisbury Thomond Twecddale Westmeath :IE ADDRE .TY-FOR THE A EARLS. Lichfield Low elate Minto Morley Oxford Radnor Scarborough Spencer Surrey Than et Uxbridge Yarborough Zetland NISCOUNT°. Duncannon Melbourne Torrington LORDS. Bateman Beaumont Berners B B y ro re u e arn and Vaux Camoys Campbell Carew Cloncurry Colborne t ongleton Cottenham De Freyne De Mauley Ilormer coley '-FOR THE AM EARLS. Aberdeen Abingdon Airlie Amherst Balearras Bandon Bathurst Beauchamp Beverley Bradford Brownlow Cardigan Cawdor Charleville Clancarty Clanwilliam Clare Courtoun Coventry Dalhousie De Grey Delaware Denbigls Devon Digby jj:inonlimore Dunmore EA RLS. Eldon Essex Falmouth Glengall "lath! ington Hardly ek e Ha rrowby Howe Jersey Leven and Melville Lindsay Liverpool I.ongtord Liman Morton Mounteashel (Word Orkney Powis Ranfurly Ripon Roden itosslyn Sand. ich Scofield Selkirk Somers Stanhope St. Germain's Stradbrokc Talbot V erulam Warwick Wicklow Wilton Winchilsea vtscouNTs. Canning Canterbury Doneraile ' , errant Gage Gort Hawarden Hood Lorton Maynard Melville Strang ford St. Vincent Syeriey LORDS. Alvanley PROXIES. York, Archbishop _ DUKE. Northumberland EA Buckinghamshire Limerick Lou4dale Onslow Plymonth RQUISES. Wellesley Winchester PAI Earl of Eglint Earl of Gallon Ea , l Manvers v Iscount EXIT Lord Douglas Louth DDRESS. Loans. Gardner Godolphin Hatherton Kitinaird Langdale Leigh Li:ford Lov at Lvttleton Methuen Nionteagle Montfort Mostyn Plunk et Po:t Imo 'e Portman Saye and Sele Stourton Straftbrd Sudeley Talbot de Malahide Tornliam Vivian Wenlock Wrottesley Ely, Bishop Chichester, Bishop I )erly, itishop of Hereford, liiihop Lichfield, Bishop Norwich. Bishop Worcester, Bishop. ENDMENT. LORDS. Ashburton Bagot Bayning Berwick Bexley Blayney Boston Braybrooke Carbery Carteret Castlemaine Churchill Clinton Clonbrock Colchester Colville Cowley Crofton Delamcre De Lisle De Roos Downes Ellenborough Farnham Fitzgerald Forrester Heytesbury Kenyon Lyndhurst Maryborough Ravensworth Rayleigh lteay Redesdale Rodney Rolle Rollo Saltouu sandys Sondes Southampton St. John of Bletso Stuart de Itotlisay Tenterden Walsingharn Wallace Whatncliffe Willoughby d'Eresby Wodehouse Carlisle, Bishop Exeter, Blshi.h, Rochester, Bishop VISCOUNT , . Berestbrd Sidmouth Loll ne. Dyncvor Wynford as. Lord Belhaven Lord Dinorben Lord Sheiborne Marquis of IlastingS Earl of Bosebery very rich, but unconscious, humour of the Chinese should have e It is remarkable that, until the present time, me escaped observation in this laughter-loving world. o people extant are so prodigal in farcical absurdities as thoselby w resided perceived by an English writer, who.. from h 1 1 e h i as g prepared our tea-tables are supplied; a truth which has at length been among them, knows them well. Ac T ording y i the supersede even , Chinese eccentricities will nownn their since a book to gladden with bursts of merriment our social hours. extravagancies of Brother Jonathan)tate 1 quarrels— iages,divorces, sho . their private caprices—their marriages, a _, airio tq tie p military and naval doings—their S all are alike teem* with fun, from the nu e . .and slate of keeper. The novel and preposterousm exhibited in a new Fng humorous -ni N 8 'aei sketches a4crl tasi e guts-- military t.os Tun example, of this people, will be gloriously, Chinese sound, to with merriment. The very names_ : of nonsens e , such, fa in Bull, from the pen of Mr. our English ears, like the triumph work called " The Porcelain Towoe!:,the book running over for example, as Ho-fi, So-sli3O keen, Nu-moun, Hum, T . - y ° , _, he 'Pr7-11c7 a: i- u 'nifi' e!nti3edentley, under the title of "The Bun will shortly "' t humorous and satirical, by Theodore and arranged by himself, B,e,Twhh which h numerou s,a ppeared i Theodore Book, coll or, Sketch r characteristic illustrations. Ar n ; 00K.--We are 1 d Hook, 11 b e l o p u u t hb published s s h ci e , d „ Di E 0 Dons. !ad to hear that and i ar writer, we believe the n ld, 4 and most inti a most popu ~ d o f the late Mr. Theodore Hook, is stout to under mate !rico Bentley, the publisher, take for Alr a memoir of this highly ovebst. gifted n FRACAS IN PALL MALL—A b w ) : " w i th personal colli sion took place on Wednesday afternoon in front of the United Service Club, between Mr. Sheppard and e Captain th t Captain Fitz Roy, the candidates at the last e lection for the c ity o f D ur h am . It appears his head, befor statedthat Mr. Shepp ar d, accompan i e d by t wo ge ntlemen stepped a ll t, itz thoughlloy, heanc, would shal a d o n t g s t l r i i i k s e l: i h a i i p over , he must consider himself horsewhipped, upon which Capt. Fitz Roy struck Mr. Sheppard. A scuffle then ensued, which terminated by Capt. Fitz Roy knocki ng Mr. Sheppard down, who fell on his back on the pavement, when the bystanders interfered, and the parties were separated. Some matters connected with the Durham election are said to have been the cause of this unpleasant affair. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—The last Masquerade that can ever take place in this popular scene of entertainment is to be given to-morrow, on a scale of great splendour. Ti. Gardens are to be sold and closed for ever next week. VIENNA, AUG. IG.—His Majesty sets out to morrow on his journey to Styria. On this occasion the new road to Styria will be opened and used for the first time, by which the steep ascent over the Semering is wholly avoided. Near to the great bridge, which is built over a deep abyss, forming a communication below granite rocks, the most re markable paint in this new road, a triumphal arch has lately been erected, where his Majesty will be received by an Aus trian and Styrian deputation. Preparations are likewise mak ing at Gratz for the splendid reception of their Majesties- Prince Molosch of Servia has had to-day the honour of an audience of the Emperor at Schonbrunn. I Ml~