The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

MORNING SUN. E R T Of SUNDAY NEXT, the 15th of August, Will a spirited, accurate, and exclusive Account of THE CONTEST BETWEEN BRASSEY AND TASSPARKER, FOR TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, By " FATES." Boulogne Races--The Trip to France—With all the General and Sporting News of the Week. To be had of all News Agents in Town and Country. Office, 20, Catharine-street, Strand. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (tbou.4ll they are NO LOTTERIES) o ler many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Persons 4esirous to purchase for the Next Distributions mar receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH DLIT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 100 90 50 800 150 The largest Dividend of the Distribution of Ist March last, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, was remitted to London and vicinity by HEINE BROTHERS, who remitted, during, a few years, 2'2 large Money Dividends', Irom 6001. and upwards unto 23,0001., besides many Dividends of smaller amounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Grand concentration of attraction, and no advance in the price. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 12, Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called THE WILD HORSEOF T HE ,D. OR MAZEPPA, THE CHILD Introducing Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfre,s, Fairy Peneys, the Equestrians, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, THE SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. In -wbieb IVlsclarno Ducrow, bignor Slither, the oreax istoevi ean Rider, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, arid the First Artistes in Europa will appear. To conclude with tilt.. Nautical Drama of BEN THE IDATSWAIN. Supported by the straigth of the Company. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. 'iFirst week of "Mary Clifford!" increased attraction of "Wo man's Lova !" three morenights of " black Eyed Susan !" and first week of " The Voed Demon THIS EVEYING, AUGUST 12, The performances will comnence with the N ew Domestic Drama in Tires Acts. called MALY CLIFFORD; THE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL! Clipson, M. E. F. Saville ; Bowling, Mr. Paul ; Bobby Benham, Mr. Gardner; Sarah, Mrs. W. West ; and Mary Clifford, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, WOMAN'S LCV COTTAE OR, KATE WYNSLEY, THE GE . 'Wilford Clitheroe, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Hugh Wynsley, Mr. James; Holiyhrck, Mr. Gardner; Scaresbrook, Mr. Seaman; Kate Wynsley, Miss Vincent. To conclude with, THE WOOD DEMON. Hardykntte, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Willikind, Mr. Gardner ; Una, Mrs. W. West. Boxes, 2s—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. To-morrcw, Mary Clifford, Black Eyed Susan, and The Wood Demcn. R AILWAY SUN THJI IS NOW PUBLISHING, P PICE ONLY SIXPENCE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. rning..—.l9 minutes attar 8 I Evening minutes after 9. :tea? k . . Er 4707 - . . m . •,,, 40.11.1. MI4 LONDON: THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1341. " The heavens rain repeal" was announced a week ago. Since then the weather has become worse. We have had a great deal more rain with heavy wind. The corn has been laid in many places where, ten days ago, it was looking as fine as possible. Whole fields, and even large dis tricts of wheat have been beaten down. The wet has made it begin to grow from the ear. Wheat rose yesterday '2s. per quarter in the London markets, and the supply was scanty. It will rise again, we fear, next market day, and bread will follow the same course. The rational hopes of the public a week ago were poor and stunted, but now they are completely blighted and at an end. "The very heavens," says the Non-Conformist, " frown upon Toryism, rebuke its presumption, and threaten to crush its power." But our State church preachers, who see a miraculous interpo sition of Providence when some frail sinner who goes forth to enjoy himself on the Sabbath meets with a misfortune, will see nothing instructive to Tory statesmen, whom the Church is bound to enlighten and restrain, in this unseasonable weather. The landlord's will regard it as a matter of course, and never dream, however palpable is the national distress, in conjunction with the Corn-laws and with a bad season, that the latter may be influenced by their enactment. Though they call themselves very religious, they will learn nothing from the heavens speaking to them in wind and rain ; they will say that wet and windy summers are in the order of nature, and that the season would have been equally bad, whether Corn-laws had existed or not. Nay, they will go further, and abuse the Anti-Corn-law party for taking advan tage of &u unfavourable season to excite a pre judice against them. Yet, if we are not mis taken, it may be shown, without supposing th e age of miracles to b e revived, or that the land lords are worthy of a special 'interposition of Providence to save them, that the evils of the wet season are caused by their law, and ought to be looked on by them, if they had a just sense of all-pervading power, as a warning against continuing, their injustice. The certain consequence of that law is to limit our population very nearly to the resources of our own country, and the certain consequences of allowing free scope to the energies of mankind, would be a great increase of population. Not to urge that this increase of population . might have, as clearing away the forests of Americ a has, some influence over our climate, and being in the order of nature, may be required to cor rect or compensate some peculiar state of the atmosphere, which those who control popula tion cannot control,--it is quite certain that the increase of the people would tend to extend the demand for meat, and as corn can be bet ter imported from a distance than cattle, the proportion of pasture lands and green crops, relative to white crops, would be increased. In that case the people woulddepend, so far as our wet climate were concerned, more than at present on green food for cattle than on wheat, and a wet season, instead of making us dread starvation, would fill us with joy from sup plying an abundance of food for our cattle. The people, drawing the large portion of their sup plies of meat from our own island, owing to the peculiar nature of cattle, and the adaptation of our climate to rearing and fattening therm, and looking, more than at present, to other less humid climates for their bread stuffs, they would not find, as at present, a wet season to be a sourcu of poverty and sorrow. Without supposing any deviation from the order of nature, it appears to us that, accordin i ; to its regular and ordained course, a cold wet season like the present, destroying the harve.st or making it late and scanty, may be said to ad monish the landlords of the evils theyare causing. They would have no terrors forour people, did they look principally to England for meat, and were they sure of obtaining a large portion of their bread stuffs from an earlier and a warmer cli mate. We will not say, strange as it may seem, that the Corn-laws may not cause a wet season, for we know not that some connection may not exist between climate and population; but we will say that the Corn -law turns a wet season, which might be a blessing, into a curse. That a lam which arrests the progress of pop may have some influence over climate, is ulation not harder to believe than that the waters of the earth rise from the attraction of the moon, and follow her course in the heavens. We fear, however, that neither the voice of philosophy nor of science will avail with our rent-owners, for they have already re sisted the more urgent and powerful demands of humanity and justice. Supposing it proved that the landlords are responsible for any evil caused by a wet season and a late harvest, their respon sibility will not extend beyond what at present rests on them. They are accused of causing po verty, crime, and death, and a heavier catalogue of offences cannot be found. At the Guildhall yesterday, no less than four individuals were brought before Mr. Alderman KELLY, who committed offences for the mere purpose of gaining the temporary shelter of a station-house, and the chance of a crust of bread. Crime, therefore, is better off in England than poverty. To be entitled to pro tection, shelter, and food, a man must be a criminal. Such a fact, though there were only one in a year, instead of crowding upon us four in a day, would be an unerring indication that our legislation requires revision. The process of debasement and degradation seems to be this : scarcity of employment and scarcity of food, as they are felt in class after class, make one class press down on the other, and squeeze out the lowest to utter destitu tion. Amongst the humble classes there is a great deal of charity; they help each other; but when all find it difficult to live, they are obliged to deny succour to the most distressed, who are driven to commit offences that they may drag oul their miserable existence a few days or weeks longer. We are much afraid that the misery which thus forces itself into public notice bears only a very small proportion to that which hides itself and perishes in obscurity. We are much afraid, too, that reckless despair in stead of blithe and careful hope is becom ing-, from continual disappointment, the prevalent disposition of our people; and that those who deny them bread and a fair field for their exertions, will have to answer, not only for starving many out of existence, but for the moral debasement of all. Ours is a curious system. On the one hand we call for schools and education, and stimulate the mind of the people to unwonted activity; on the other we enact laws to restrain en terprise, to bind down genius, and prevent those who have been trained to exertion from finding a reasonable mode of exercising their talents. If the present system of hemming in enterprise by laws be continued, it will be cruel to continue, at the same time, the system of training the mind of youth to activity. If men are not to have free trade, and free scope for their activity, the whole political system should be adapted to that, and all mental activity should be nipped, not fostered, in children. At present . we train them to be emulous and ambitious competition at school prepares them for compe tition in life, and, when they are ripe for exer tion, they find themselves walled in by restric tions, and unable to move. They cannot get bread by honest labour, and they steal or break the public lamps, as the least offence they can be guilty of, to ensure them a week's lodging in a gaol. The following letter, copied from the Times, and inserted in that journal in large type, with out any date—and after the former letter on the same subject with the same signature has been described by more than one of our Contem poraries as the produce of Printing-house square—must be taken to speak the sentiments of the editors of the Times, and is worthy of notice as an index to their and to public opinion:~ TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l congratulate you on the torrents of abuse which the publication of my letter has brought upon you from the " Liberal" papers. The fact is, they want to keep all liberality to themselves, and are dreadfully annoyed when they see you at all inter fering in their professed vocation. They know full well, that should you adopt the course I ventured to recommend, their " occupation would be gone," for I hesitate not to affirm that the people will rally round and support any Government that will satis factorily settle this vexata questio of the Corn-laws, and, what is more, that' no Government who shall oppose such a settlement can by any possibility remain long in power, whatever may be their present numerical ma jority. Hence, Sir, the rage and wrath of your Con temporaries, lest you should by your powerful efforts, now put forth, prevail on the Conservative party to play I this golden card. Sir, the constituencies, in giving such a majority to the Conservatives, did it, not because they would at all hazards maintain the existing Corn-laws--no, but because they mistrusted the Whigs ; were tired of them and their do-nothing policy ; suspect ed their motives in their proposed measures ; doubted their honesty in carrying them out, and de termined that they would have the Government of affairs placed in other and abler hands, such as they could trust and implicitly rely upon ; and, Sir, having effected this object, they are, doubtless, pre pared to give their support to such a Government in carrying out whatever measures they shall recom mend, ay, even though they shall be more liberal than those proposed by the Whigs. Let Sir Robert Peel look fairly into the various departments of the national affairs—come forward, and tell us honestly the true state of the case; and such will be the confidence placed in his statement, that, as I said before, whatever may be necessary the people will support him in effecting. But let him do less than this—let him lean a little to this or that party in order to meet their views —adhere inflexibly to the favourite sliding scale of some, or the " No surrender" of others, and he will have lost, I will not say the confidence of the country, but the op portunity of conferring as a gracious benefit what will one day or other be extorted as a right. I trust, Sir, I have said enough to induce zou to give the Conservative party at large the benefit of your own views on this matter, fully assured that, coming into power as they do without a single pledge, in spite of all the fish ing and pumping of their opponents, there never was such an opportunity for a Government to work out the salva tion of a people, and no one is so able to strike out the path they should take as yourself. You have led the people of England before—do so again, remembering that to do so effectually you must go with the stream of public opinion, and not against it. Only settle this Corn law question on such a basis as to cause it to become an article of regular commerce, like other things, and such will be the relief given to commerce—such the benefit accruing to the revenue—such the employment given to the operative, that I do not believe it would be possible to get up an agitation on any other subject whatever. But, on the other hand, neglect or refuse to do this, and every other grievance, real or imaginary, gives force to each and all, and their combined pressure may become intolerable. beg pardon for thus trespassing on your space, and conclude, as I commenced, by subscribing myself, CONSERVATOR. Our fellow-labourers in the cause of Corn-law repeal, will rejoice to hear that, in the opinion of the Times, no Government can remain long in power, whatever its majority, which refuses to settle the Corn -law question . But how settle it makingßy makin corn a regular article of commerce," says the Times, like other things, that is doing away the sliding scale, which is to give relief to commerce and improve the revenue. It is to supplyemployment o topics—evenym et to render agitation on all o new Poor-law—impossible. We would say nothing more favourable to t he Ministerial scheme, of which the Times thus avows itself a defender It takes this view, also, because that is coincil hdent with the stre am of p ubl ic opinion, —be cause the bulk of the people will rally round a Govern ment which adopts this course, though that is the course the Tories and the Times have for months zealously opposed, when recommended by Ministers. This letter, therefore, short though it be, will be an infusible conductor to carry away harmless into the ocean of oblivion all the thunder-bolts which the Times has been hurling against the Ministers for the last few months. But can Sir IL. PEEL act on the principles of the Times? Impossible, without confessing himself to be the most stupid and ignorant, or the most knavish politician that ever pre tended to guide the affairs of a State. Against settling the Corn-laws in the sense of the Times Sir ROBERT PEEL has ar gued over and over again, and no person has shown more forcibly than he has the mischief of a fixed duty. He cannot come into office to settle the question in that way, without making a complete§ wreck of his yet float ing though half dismantled hulk. Nei ther can he propose the total abolition of Corn-laws, though there is less in his way to that end than Lord MELBOURNE'S, without forsaking and destroying his pb.rty. Nevertheless, in spite of both these leaders—in spite of the landed aristocracy—in spite ofall the ruling powers of the State, we have no hesita tion in now saying that the total abolition of the Corn-laws must be granted and whether that be undertaken by Sir R. PEEL or Lord JOHN RUSSELL, whoever proposes it shall have our support. Another thing, too, is quite certain, namely, that the Times cannot and will not sup port Sir R. PEEL unless he swim with the stream, and settle the Corn-law question, by making corn an article of (free, qy.) commerce. The express from Paris published in The Sun of yesterday, anticipated much of the news contained in the French Journals of Monday. The reported death of the SULTAN, though not generally credited, created some stir in the French capital. His High ness was supposed to be much worse, and as some eminent physicians have given it as their opinion that the habits in which he indulged would soon put a period to his life, the question naturally occurs, what is to be done with the Ottoman Empire? The heir-apparent is a mere boy, who will require by law to be many years older before he can be permitted to sway the Im perial sceptre. A Regency is therefore inevitable, and among the candidates for that office already , in the field are HALIL PACHA and - MEHEMET ALI. The Viceroy of Egypt has purchased powerful friends in the Divan, including some members of the Imperial family, and could he but overcome the scruples of the Moollahs, there is little doubt that the great bulk of the Turks would be delighted to see him invested with the Regency. But would the ambi tion of the wily Albanian soar no higher? Would he with the sword of the Prophet within his grasp hesitate to enrobe him self in the Imperial mantle? Would the mur derer of the Mamelukes scruple for an instant to crush the spark of life out of a child stand ing between him and the attainment of the very summit of human ambition ? Reports of con spiracies among the great officers of State to in vest him with the command of the Ottoman army and fleet during the life-time of the SUL'. TAN, and so place the Regency entirely at his disposal, have for some time been rife at Con stantinople. They may be unfounded, but they advance the interests of the Vaissal, by making the public ear familiar with his pros pective greatness. Thus everything indicates the commencement of a new era in Oriental politics. The Toulouse affair has had its day, and the Parisians begin to get sick of it. They want something fresh, and Madame LAFFARGE sup plies the newest topic of conversation. Not that they take any deep interest in her fate, but they have nothing else just now to talk about. A re port of the trial, so far as it has proceeded, will be found in another part of The Sun. The Courrier Francaise of Monday has rather an extraordinary article on the state of Europe, the purport of which is to demonstrate that every nation is going to the dogs but France. It will be difficult to make the starving poor of France believe this. The Emancipation of Toulouse states that, in con sequence of the arrest of its responsible editor, the pub lication of the Utilitaire has been for the moment sus pended. M. Arzac had been summoned to give evidence concerning the disturbances before the competent autho rities. This journal publishes an angry document from its responsible editor, M. Raulet, who is detained in the prison of the Senechal in that town (the warrant for his arrest having been changed into a warrant of deten tion), protesting in strong terms against the proceedings adopted against him. The Journal de Toulouse, of the sth instant, says that numerous arrests were simultane ously effected that morning in various parts of the town, but does not specify the persons thus apprehended. The Municipal Council of Marseilles has decided, by a majority of four to two, that a representation should be made to the superior authorities, requesting that the new measures concerning the assessment should be put an end to, since they appeared to the Council not con formable to the formalities established by the laws and regulations with regard to the direct taxes. The Courrier d' Indre-et-Loire asserts that at Nevers and Tours most of the inhabitants have refused to admit into their houses the fiscal agents charged with conducting the operations of the census. The Journal du Havre quctes advices from Monte Video, of May 27th, which state that Commodore Coe, with his squadron of six ships, had attacked Commodore Brown, of the Buenos Ayres navy, who had only three ships ; but after an obstinate battle of upwards of three hours, Coe received so much damage that he was obliged to return into port, with twelve men killed and twenty wounded. The Argentine artillery and crews are said to have been much superior to those of Monte Video. The Armoricain of Brest states that the military and naval authorities have become so fully aware of the tremendous effects produced by the guns a la, Paixhans upon batteries of all kinds, as shown during the late operations in Syria, that they have determined on mounting all the batteries in the ports of France with artillery upon this plan. It has also been found neces sary, it adds, to change the position of the powder-ma gazines, and they will all be put under ground, or under works casemated in an extra manner, since common bomb-proof masonry is not proof against Paixhans' shot. The actual magazines of Brest, it observes, would all be immediately blown up, and the upper town do stroyed, if an attack were now to be made with such artillery. The Gazette du Mudi states that General Changar nier passed through that city a few days ago, from Al giers, on his way to Paris. A correspondent of the Prase, writing from Con stantinople, on the 17th ult., asserts that a conspiracy has been detected in the capital for calling Mehemet Ali to the Ottoman capital, and creating for him a post com bining the functions of Grand Vizier Seraskier, or Com mander-in-Chief of the Army, and Capitan Pacha, or Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, so that, in case of the Sultan dying, he might assume the post of Regent at once. It is added, that several persons in high places were concerned in this plan, but that no proceedings have been adopted against them. Ad - vices from Aleppo of the lit ult. in the Augs burg Gazette, state that Zekariah Pacha, governor of that district, had succeeded, at the head of six thousand Al banian troops, in putting down some insurrectionary movements which had broken out in the district of Orfa, but that tranquillity was not yet fully re-established in that of lliabekir. A letter from Alexandria, of 19th ult., in the Augs burg Gazette, quotes advices from Beyrout to the 14th, according to which numerous mountain tribes have broken out into open revolt, and hare not only refused all payment of tribute, but have claimed 300,000 pias tres; which they advanced to the Porte last year. ACCIDENT TO TIIE DUKE DE BORDEAUX.—A letter from the from the frontiers of Austria, of 30th ult., states that the Duke of Bordeaux, while riding, on the 18th, near Kireliberg, met a waggon full of peasants and covered with a cloth top. Ills Royal Htghness's horse was frightened at the cloth, reared, fell on the Prince, and broke his thigh in the upper part. The physicians and surgeons assure that the fracture is only a simple one, and that there is no danger. Two surgeons were sent for from Vienna, to aid the usual attendant of the Royal Family. The family of the Duke de Blacas, M. de Levy, M. Ducayla, and the Count de Montbel were at Kirchberg. M. Ouiaot left Paris for Eu, on Saturday evening. The Havre Journal mentions that, about two months ago, a gentleman and lady, havin g a ll th e a pp earance o f respectaility, went across in the steam-boat froth Havre to Hontieur, and there abandoned a little girl only three years old, whom they had with them. The child, though able to talk, could give no account of her parentage, nor even give her name, and, no trace of those who brought her being discovered, she was placed in the Hospice. Fortunately for the poor deserted creature, a M. and Mme . Carreau, of Paris, being in easy circumstances, but childless, happening to be at Honfieur, have adopted the foundling, and engaged to bring it up as their own. On Thursday last the following accident occurred on the line of the Paris and Rouen Railway, between Rolleboise and Bonnieres. Three men were being drawn up in a basket from a shaft 320 feet deep, and had just reached the surface, when it was perceived that a young man, also a labourer in the shaft, had, from fool hardiness, and unknown to the men in the basket, clung to the under part of it. He was so exhausted that be fore he could be taken off, he lost his hold, and fell to the bottom of the shaft, where he was instantly killed. On being taken out it was found that nearly all his bones were broken. —" M. Humann," observes the Siecle, "appears de termined not to carry into effect before the end of the year the loan which was authorised last session. It is even possible, so report says, that the Minister may wait for the meeting of the Chambers in order to present to them a new plan combined with a positive aut,mentatioia of the t axes . Th e treasury i s i n no want of funds; specu lators for a fall will get tired, and the loan, if it is indis pensable, will be contracted for on conditions favourable to public credit." The Augsburg Gazette, quoting its Paris correspon dence, say s :—" The marriag e of th e P r i nces s Clemen tine with the hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg is fully decided on. The trosseau is in actiN e preparation, and it is said that an application to the Chambers for a dower for the Princess, as in the case of the Queen of the Bel gians, will be made next session." We find, in an article of the Quotidienne, the fol lowing on Mr. O'Connell :—" Mr. O'Connell astonishes us by the efforts of his genius, but, whatever may be his zeal, we think he errs frequently, He errs when ha se parates the Catholic Royalists of France and Spain ; he errs when he takes us for bigots, who offer up their prayers to kings before God; he errs when he makes ab straction of political authority as the fundamental condi tion of the liberty of nations ; he errs when be mixes up the defence of the Church with th e cr i es o f a faction THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1841. against the Kings of the earth.:; he errs when he lightly provokes their anger, and when he instils into the hearts of the people sentiments of hatred and revolt. This is not Christianity; at least it is not the Christianity of the old Bishops, or of the Pope, 'or of those Prelates of Ger many who ive just set such great examples of courage and dignity." BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 9. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prici, Price French 5 per Cents ll6 70 116 70 ... I'6 60 ... 116 60 434 per Cents 4 per Cents 99 90 ... 99 90 ... 99 90 .. 99 91 3 per Cents. ex. div 77 70 ..... 77 75 ... 77 0 ... 75 Rank of trance Laftitte Bank I,ooof. Si.ares 1040 ...1040 ...NA ( ) 5,0001. Sham 51i 5 ;..5105 ...5105 ...:.015 "vlmian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. New Loan 163;6 1 , 34 ~. 1034 ... 10:33% ipanish Active OK ) ... 20 1 4 t. 0% Passive.. 4 New De ferred Neapolitan Roman IOWA 10334 ... ... 103% ... 1390 25 210 :.:*2 50 455.. 455 ... . _477 50 477 LO S URINIARY OF NEViS AND Put)ltt Opinion. " Who runs may read." ronzsGN. Two thousand muskets had been delivered up on Sunday by the National Guards of Toulouse. This in dicates a sweeping system of disarmament, and must in crease the popular disaffection. The towns of St. Omer, St. Quentin, Dijon, Tours, and Nevers, have declared against the imposition of ad ditional taxes. They have compelled the authorities to suspend the taking of the census. All the fortresses on the coast of France are pre paring to mount Paixhan's guns. The destruction ef fected by them on the coast of Syria has induced the War Minister to employ them in all fortifications purely defensive. We shall next hear of their being mounted upon the walls of Paris. The Regent of Spain has published a manifesto in answer to the protest of Queen Christina relative to the guardianship of Queen Isabella and her Royal sister. We shall publish, perhaps to-morrow, a translation of this document. The Spanish Government has ordered the partial disbanding of the Royal guard. This is an excellent measure. The army in Spain is enormously dispropor tioned to the resources of the country, and ought to be diminished by at least one third. Spain wants hus bandmen and artisans, not soldiers. An enterprising merchant is of more value to Spain than a score of her decorated Generals. Espartero has hurled defiance at the head of the Pope, and in the provinces the priests are preaching up another civil war. The French Government connives ut every attempt to overthrow the Regent. The embers of rebellion begin to emit dangerous sparks in Spain. Discontent prevails extensively among the Chris tain population of Turkey. This morning we have news of an insurrectionary movement in Syria. The agents of France are hard at work in that quarter. Puna.= OPINION. The Morning Advertiser urges Ministers to take the opportunity of recommending in the Queen's Speech decided measures of Representative reform and Commer cial amelioration. " Whatever (adds our Contemporary) Ministers mean to do for the redemption of their charac ters, and the furtherance of the popular cause, they must do quickly. In three weeks they will be comparatively powerless for good. If they suffbr the Queen's speech, and the discussion to which it will give rise, to pass with out identifying themselves with one or more popular Measures, they will neglect the only opportunity which will ever be afforded them of regaining the good opinion of their countrymen, and of promoting the principles on which their Government professes to have been based. They will perpetuate for ever their own exclusion from office, and sink, as Statesmen, into utter insignificance. The Post professes to be quite shocked at the abuse which the Liberal party is pouring forth on the devoted head of Sir Robert Peel, and says—" We call upon the reasonableness and the good feeling of this country to meet such a torrent of malignity—such a depraved out pouring of selfish hatred and party spite—as it deserves to be met. And we feel satisfied that we shall not make the appeal in vain. Englishmen, at all events, are not so mentally constituted as to look on with approval at the paltry and detestable warfare which is carried on against the proximate Minister. They will demand fair play .ands judgment upon his Ministerial acts, and thespiteful calumnies of the defeated par tywill recoil upon them selvte Sir Robert Peel has certainly a right to demand " fair play" from the country ; but why does not he himself set the example of " fair play ? " Wherefore all his studied reserve and mystery on the subject of his reme dial measures ? Has his patient no right to, at least * the promise of a speedy cure of the malady that afflicts him ? Is it " fair play" to keep him in all the torture of suspense when he is daily growing worse ? How can John Bull have faith in a physician who, when he calls on him to explain the nature of his prescription, gravely shakes his head and says nothing ? It is neither just nor fitting that the "fair play"—like Irish reciprocity— should be all on one side, The Hercdd contains a lengthy article on the sub ject of colonial sugar, which ends as it begins, with an egregious sophism. • The Chronicle observes ;—" The Corn-law .ques tion is truly a religious question, if we are to take our religion from the New Testament. Our Saviour hardly ever opens his mouth in the Evangelists, without mani festing his anxiety for the support of the poor. To feed the poor, as well as to instruct them, was his constant theme. Inded, - whir - all - due submission to Mr. W. Gladstone and the Puseyites, who look with such disdain on the simple beginnings of Christianity, and fasten their eyes on the hierarchical and worldly struc tures which have been raised on them, the collection and distribution of the funds for the support of the poor was long the chief business of the successors of the Apostle." The Corn-law question being, as our Con temporary justly calls it, " a religious question," we are surprised that it has not yet received the support of those pious Evangelists, the Bishops. What is Exeter about ? Why does he not3come forward with a pamph let in its behalf ? And London, too ; surely he would be much better employed in advocating the abolition of this monopoly, than in summoning Middlesex Rectors before him, for sitting in their drawing-rooms reading Sun day newspapers, with their legs cocked up on the window ledge? The Times puts forth a remarkable article, the ob ject of which is to exhort the proximate Ministers to stick, like wax, to Mother. Church. The Whigs, says our Contemporary, fell, because they treated the old lady with rudeness ; and the Tories will fall, too, if they be guilty of the like incivility. Mother Church is now all in all with the Times. He is never weary of preaching in her praise. In his pious eyes she is a paragon of perfection. Our Contemporary has been so often converted and re-converted in the course of his weathercock career, that we should not be at all sur prised if his next conversion were to be to rank Me thodism ! From the subjoined paragraph, it would almost appear that he was qualifying for an Indian Missionary : "India is a heathen country, and we, who profess to be Christians, not merely tolerate (for that we are bound to do), but we cherish, honour, and all but worship the idolatries of the most abjectly submissive population upon the face of the earth. So far from attempting their conversion to Christianity, we throw direct obstacles in the way of it ; reviling, and even persecuting (by dis missing from public employments), the few converts who are made. This state of things, we repeat, must cease, or there can be no moral support given by the Church of England to a Conservative Ministry." The Brighton Guardian, speculating on the pro bable conduct of the Tories, says :—" Sir Robert Peel has not the character of being a bold politician, and he is nothing of a schemer. His friends want the enjoy ment of place, not its annoyances. They want to exercise freely their little spites and their petty extor tions. They will be for amusing themselves with turn ing out this man and putting in that, getting this one to resign that some other may have his place ; and so nestling themselves and their dependents snugly in all possible vacancies. They would be startled and annoyed by a novel proposition, or a large plan of any descrip tion ; it would give trouble, and its consequences could not be foreseen.. Thus the wishes and disposition of the Tories, as well as Sir Robert's own character, forbid u s to expect a bold or comprehensive policy." The Cambridge Advertiser says, " After having secured power by the aid of the people's worst enemies, Sir Robert's next object will be to obtain just that degree of popularity which will enable him to make use of the power he possesses. The imposture of a pre tended great discovery in finance will be exposed on his first assumption of office, and for a time he will endea vour to amuse the people with pirated copies of those measures which his predecessors have introduced." The Dublin Pilot, referring to the recent proceedings in Exeter Hall, makes the following remark :—" Sir Robert Peel was of opinion, some two years ago, that Ireland was the chief difficulty in the way of his ac cepting office. He fancies he has got over the difficulty; but he will find, before he is a month in Downing street, that the Orange Associations of Ireland, and the associated slanderers and fanatics of England, will be the chief difficulty in the way of his retaining it." The Tyne Mercury thus expresses itself on the sub ject of Tory statesmanship :—" A more blind or bigoted race than the present Tories, from their representatives in high rank and in the newspapers, we never yet saw or heard of, and at the present day could not have expected. We had looked for a change in Toryism ; we see at pre sent no signs of any favourable alteration." AG2I2.ICULTUR.AL. Reports from Essex say that the stock of wheat on hand there is so short, as to be sufficient for only three week's consumption. On Friday last an individual showed in the market a sample of fine new wheat, of which he offered to deliver 120 quarters. He was offered 201. a load, which he refused. The past week at Cork has been one of alternat rain and sunshine, with high winds ; but though here and there a field is laid, no extensive damage has been done. A Correspondent of the Chronicle, an experience corn-merchant, writing from Woolsley, thus remarks, in a letter on the prospects of the wheat crop:— " I have taken a ride to this place with a view of see ing how the crops look, and find them much more back ward, and in a less promising state than I anticipated. Indeed, the wheat crop is very much injured, and with out an immediate improvement in the weather, the con sequences must be serious in the extreme. Whatever comes, the crop will be a very short one, and we must have large importations. I look for a very low, if not a Is. duty in a few weeks, which will release about 800,000 quarters of wheat and flour. This will be immediately absorbed, for I never knew the country so bare of wheat. The farmers have literally none, and the stocks in the ports never were less." SPORTING. The contest for the silver sculls—a sort of floating prize —took place on Tuesday evening. These silver sculls are only retained by the winner one year, and he who holds them at the expiration of that time is obliged to resign the sculls or again take his chance of being victor. Mr. Jenkins, the last year's winner, contested it this with Mr. Chapman, who had before been victor. Mr. Jen kins won by half a minute, or more than three lengths a-head. The cricket match between the county of Hants and the Marylebone Club was played on the sth, 6th, and 7th, at the Southampton Cricket-ground, and terminated in favour of the Hampshire men. RAILWAY SH A RF.S. St. Germain Versailles. L.R...... 207 50 .. 210 L B 535 ... 3. 5 lotion (0 - 1 , 4 n. .. . ......... ...... •• • - -• Mulhausen to Thann ..... 412 sn ... 412 50 ... 412 tO ... 412 50 LO Bale 238 75 ... 538 75 ... 238 75 .. 228 75 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Market for the English Securities was very de pressed to-day, and there was more disposition to effect sales. Consols for immediate transfer were reduced from 89} to 891 to 1, closing at the intermediate value of 891. For Account the quotations were 89i to the last bargain being at 89f. Bank Stock was as low as 1671 ; and South Sea Stock was marked 98g. Exchequer Bills were 14s. to 16s. premium ; India Bonds, 6s. to Bs. premium ; and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 98* to 4. The feature in the Foreign Market was a decline again in Spanish Bonds, in consequence of sales effected by the parties who, in the Stock Exchange, go under the denomination of the Pigeon-men," these affecting to re gard the state of affairs in Spain in an unfavourable light. The Active Swish Stock was flat at 19i for money, but touched 191,4 aeogunt ; Portuguese Oldl Five per Cents, were at 57 ittidColombian Bonds at 20 to 191 ; Danish brought IV and Dutch Two-and- a-Half per Cents, 511 to s:i. A The sales in the Share Market were not extensive, but, nevertheless, the quotations gave way wherever they were attempted. Great Western were at 17 ; the New at 6 ; the Fifths at 4} to 41 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter, at 17} ; the New at 211 ; and the South Western at 131 to 12 y premium ; Brighton were 61 to 7i ; Blackwall 10, and South Eastern 20k to 201 dis count. Union Bank of London Shares were I t discount. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 10.—We have had a very quiet Cotton market to-day, the sales not itinountino• to more than 1,000 bales at the previous quo tations, boi4v§§ has beell confined entirely to the trade, LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AL7G. 10.—The follow ing are the transactions :—Grand Junction, Quarter Shares, 27 ; London and Birmingham, 160 ; Ditto New Shares, 24 ; London and Brighton, 43 ; London and South Western, 52 ; North Midland, 64i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 10.—But few transactions in Shares have been reported to-day, al though the present low prices of Railway Stock afford a safe and eligible opportunity for capitalists to effect in vestments :—Midland Counties, 85 ; North Midland Thirds, 9i ; North Union, 88 ; Manchester. Bolton, and Bury, 55 ; Grand Junction, 198. The British Market opened this morning fiat and heavy owing to the change in the weather. At a late hour yesterday afternoon a purchase was made of near one hundred thousand Consols, said to be by the Government broker, which caused the Market to recover from its previous flatness. No arrivals, nor any news. The drooping state of the public Funds, added to the wariness displayed by our monied men in all their operations, show clearly enough the pdss to which things are come ; and we may fairly observe, that what with bad trade, bad weather, and the prospect of a Ministry disinclined to do what alone can make up in some measure for either, all classes have reason to look twice before entering into fresh engagements. The discussions in the City upon ;lie question of commercial reform are becoming every day more frequent and earnest, and the views of intelligent and wealthy foreigners resident here, and engaged in business pursuits, generally concur in censuring the impolicy of our food regulations, as enabling them to compete with us in the race of cheap manu facturing. We may further add, that the shoe pinches so much with many of the merchants pro fessing Conservative politics, that they begin to look with anxiety to the adoption of some liberal measures which they before strenuously opposed, even by the new Ministry. CLOSING PRICES, BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l67} ' India Stock 3 per Cent Red. 9O ,Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ... 88 3} per Cent Red 9B& (Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 96i iEx. Bills, 1,000/....2id 14 pm New 5 per Cent — 1 Ditto 500/ l4 pia Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small.— Jan. 1860 ... 12 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct... - CI AA . 1E349 lndia Stock for °pg.._ Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct B9i FOREIGN FUNDS. tustrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 57 Belgian, 5 per cent — IDitto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... — 'Prussian 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent Russian , per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent._ -- Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... -- Spanish, 5 per cent l9} Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent. --f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —e Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2} per cent. ... 52 Peruvian, I 825, 6 per ct. 13} Ditto, 5 per cent 101 i SHARES Great Western Railway (65 paid) B2 Ditto New Shares (50 paid 56 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton ( 50 paid) 42i London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 15 London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western Ditto Tenths (li paid) ... ... li EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. The Moniteur announces that General llulhieres re viewed the troops at Toulouse on Sunday, in presence of an immense eoncourse of people. The muskets given up by the National Guard amounted on that day to upwards of 2,000. The municipal authorities of St. Omer, Si. Quentin, and Dijon, had protested against the fiscal measures of M. Humann. At Tours and Nevers the inhabitants having refused to admit the revenue officers into their houses, the operations of the census were suspended. The Members of the Committee of Armament of the northern coast of France, placed under the presidency of (iier►eral Lahitte, had arrived at Havre, after inspecting ilieiwhole line of coast between that harbour and Dunkirk. The French fleet, under Admiral Hugon, consisting of twelve sail of the line, a frigate, and a corvette, anchored on the morning of the 2d instant in the roads of Algiers. The Friedland, 120 gun ship, arrived at Toulon from Cherbourg on the Gth. The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the 7th inst. states that an extraordinary courier of the Spanish Government had passed through Bayonne fur Paris, who was said to be the bearer of an invitation to the French Cabinet to evacuate the military hospital established in the Balearic Islands. PARIS BOURSE.—Five per Cents., 116 f. 75c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 70e. ; Spanish, 20i. SPAIN. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. BAYONNE, AL:G. 9.—" The official Gazette of Madrid of the sth, publishes the manifesto of the Regent, the protest and the letter of the Queen Mother, and a decree of partial disbandment of the Royal guard. The body guard, two regiments of foot, two of cavalry, the artil lery, and the militia of the guard, are disbanded." Discontent prevails in the Spanish army. The Vice roy of Navarre and the Captain-General of Valencia, had informed the Government that they could not depend on the troops under their command. Letters from Madrid of the 3d inst. state that the widow of General Mina had accepted the office of governess to the Queen ; M. Martin de los Heros had been appointed Intendent of tho Royal Household ; and a Nobleman, and a Maid of Honour, lately sent from Paris by Queen Christina to attend on her daughter, had been dismissed by M. Arguelles. A protest forwarded by General Francisco Narvaez against the proceedings of the Senate in the case of the guardianship, bad been indignantly received by that Assembly-, and referred to a Committee. Advices from Madrid of the 6th state that the Regent had published a most energetic manifesto against the Popes allocution s which he regards as a declaration of war against Spain. A letter from Tolosa of the 4th states that M. Gon zales had intimated to the deputations of the Basque provinces that if they did not send commissioners to Madrid before the 10th instant to regulate the .fueros question, the Government would submit a project of its own to the Cortes. Le Temps adds to what it has already stated on the revolution preparing in Spain, that three Spanish Gene rals of Christina's party had lately left Paris fir the frontier, and that a movement is to be attempted in Catalonia. Little or no business was transacted on the Bourse. Only four bargains had been concluded for 2,000,000 of reals at 231 for cash, and 24 at 60 days. RUSSIA. -- - The Augsburgh Gazette of the 6th announces that the Russian Government had contracted a loan of 5,000,000 of silver roubles, by authorizing the banks of St. Petersburgh and Moscow to issue bonds of 60 roubles each, to the amount of 30,000,000. An Imperial ukase raised the stamp duties on paper from 30 to 60 silver kopecs, and foreigners are hereafter to pay two silver roubles for permits of residence. TURKE Y. All the accounts received from Asiatic Turkey concur in describing the harvest as the most abundant remem bered for several years. The Christian population of Braila revolted against the Turkish authorities on the 24th ultimo, and it be came necessary to demand assistance from the neigh bouring Pachas. COURT-FASH2GNIU3LES. Lord and Lady John Russellare expected in town to- clay from Minto House. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby con template a continental tour in the autumn. The Duchess of Buccleuch has left Montague House for Dalkeith Palace. Among other "fashionable departures," we find that of the boy Jones for Cork ! IMCISCEZZILITEOUS. Her Majesty has presented a donation of one hun - dred pounds to the City of London General Pension Society. —ln the excavations making near Notting-hill for the erection of houses and the formation of a park, to be called " Victoria Park," an ancient tumulus has revealed itself. A stone coffin and two wooden sarcophagi, along with the remains of several human bodies, that crum bled on exposure to the air, have been discovered en crusted with lime. The Judges of the Home Circuit will be enter tained at Addington Park, by the Archbishop of Cantor. bury on Thursday. The late colliery explosion at Thornley is believed to have been occasioned by the negligence of the boy Gardner, who perished, in leaving the trap-door open, which caused an accumulation of gas in the waste, that ignited by the candle of the boy. At a late meeting of the Dublin Repeal Associa tion, Mr. O'Connell observed, " Conquest —conquest is the cry ! But let the Tories beware ! They shall walk over the dead bodies of Irishmen ere they shall subju gate the people, or destroy their liberties 1" All the lawyers on the Welsh Cirmit are starving. There has been little or nothing to do there in the way either of civil or criminal business ; and at the Denbigh - shire Assizes there was only one small case of rape, but " what is that amongst so many"—lawyers. Twelve convicts will be liberated this week from the Warrior convict-ship at,Woolwich, under the f..,tension of her Majesty's Royal prerogative, in cP"inmemoration of her Majesty's visit to witness the T rafalgar launch. IttIZTOUILS 0:a. THE nay. The letters in foe Ti mes s i gne d " C onservator ," proceed from S,',r Robert Peel, and are written at his suggestitm. Sir Robert and the Times are going to rat together, -- Mr. Bathhouse means to resign his situation as Vader-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Tories propose to raise the postage of letters, with a view, in complete opposition to Lord Ashburton's maxim, to raise a revenue by carrying them. It is reported that Sir George Cockburn goes to the Mediterranean, in command of the fleet in that sea. -- Rumour states that Mr. Peter Borthwick, M.P. (late of the Surrey Theatre), has publicly announced his determination to decline the office of First Lord of the Treasury, in the highly probable event of its being offered him. We understand that the Bishop of Exeter is busy writing a pamplet recommending the expediency of the Tories restoring to him his fat rectory of Stanhope, of which the wicked Whigs deprived him. On these con ditions he is willing to give Sir R. Peel'S Ministry the benefit of his disinterested support. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The unfavourable state of the weather has prevented her Majesty and Prince Al bert from leaving the Castle. to-day. The Earl and Countess of Erroll and Lady Ida Hay was expected to arrive on a visit to her Majesty, and Lord And Lady . Leveson have arrived this morning at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde took their departure from the Castle this morning. The Roy-al dinner party at the -eaStle This evening will include, in addition to the visitors staying at the Castle and the Royal Suite, the Noblemen and Gentle men who arrived this forenoon to attend the Privy Council, including the Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Duncannon, the Hon. E. J. Stan ley, and Mr. C. C. Greville. The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yes terday afternoon . at Windsor Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the First Lord of Treasury, the Secretaries of State fir the Home and Foreign Departments, the First Commis sioner of the Woods and Forests, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Paymaster-General of her Majesty's Forces. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Marquis of Headfort was the Lord in Waiting, and Major the Hon. Geo. Keppel the Groom in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, returned to their residence at Kew on Tuesday evening. The Marquis of Normanby, accompanied by the Hon., E. J. Stanley, left town yesterday morning, to attend the Privy Council at "Windsor Castle. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday forenoon for Windsor Castle, to attend her Majesty's Privy Council. DUTCFI AND GERMAN MAIL. We have received papers from Amsterdam to the 7th of August. We hear that the Minister of the Interior has laid down some regulations for the delivery of certifi cates of origin for goods destined for the Dutch colonies, with a view positively to ascertain whether the manufac tories, and manufacturers named in the certificates are really such as they are represented ; whether they are of such a nature and extent as are calculated to produce the quantity and qualities of goods named in the certifi cates ; and whether the goods have been wholly manu factored by the manufacturers and in the establishments mentioned, or whether they have only undergone a slight and last finishing. Papers from the Hague up to the 6th August state that Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, who had been here for some days, had yesterday a brilliant assembly at the Hotel Bellevue. Mr. Joseph Gurney, who accompanied her, described to the company the state of the reform among the negroes in West Indies, and was listened to with much attention. Mrs. Fry communicated many particulars respecting the prisons which she has visited in various countries, which made a great impression on the hearers. THE HAGUE, AUG. B.—Mrs. Fry yesterday paid se veral visits, to take leave, among others, to his Excel lency the Minister of the Interior. DUTCH FUNDS.—AIisTaaDaU, Ave. 9. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, % 4 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Atnert Syndic,.l% per cent ll l3 91% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 75 :5% Commercial Company, 4% per cent 155% 156% Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent lOl% 102 Loan 1837, 5 per cent............ ........ 97% 97% Exchange on London, One month l2 023{, . Two months ll 95 Hamburgh, One month 35 811( Twomonthe 35 56% Dutch Papers, Aug. 10. AUSTBIAN FUNDS.VIENNA, JULY 31. Five per Coats. fsfetalliquee • lO5 Four per Cents Three per Cents . Bank Shares ... .. l5lB —illgernesneZeiturtg, Aug. 5 . - _ i THE WEATHER.—The weather maintains a variable character, and much rain fell during the past week. On Thursday last it rained, Friday and Saturday were fine, but early on Sund a y h eavy s h owers fell. Yes terday we had showers and sunshine alternately. The crops, however, we are glad to say, have not sustained so much injury as might have been anticipated ; the oats have suffered most, so far as we have seen, but the wheat has escaped without being laid to any extent.—Edin burgh Advertiser. MANCHESTER CONIERENCE.—We have al ready given expression to our belief that the main object to be sought by the Conference is to produce a deep and wide-spread moral impression in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws. It can hardly be necessary to suggest that the prevailing spirit and tone which shall pervade the meeting will greatly affect the ultimate result. Vague declamation, however fervid—bitter denuncia tions of aristocratic selfishness, however richly deserved —will nut tell upon the public with half the effect of facts aptly brought out, reasonings fairly and fear lessly pursued, and conclusions calmly but unshrink ingly stated. The foes, both of cheap bread and un shackled religion, are anticipating with malignant plea sure, a violent effusion of ecclesiastical, or rather, cleri cal acrimony. We do not say we hope, but we are con• fidently persuaded, that both parties will find themselves thoroughly disappointed. Scarcely inferior in import ance will be a rigid exclusion of party politics. Any thing like an attempt to ring changes upon the patriotism of her Majesty's present Ministers, if it did not provoke irrelevant discusiion—which most probably it would, would create suspicion that the whole movement is no thing more than an underhand trick of the Whigs to re tain or to regain office. The matter must be discussed without reference to parties—quite irrespectively of the men who have advocated either the thy o a : pe e ° d ioe e nse, o r at t hn h ed e o ct t ah h uo e ss r ee . l l v t h i n who have ha o in v t eat i t ts em el p f t a question edtomake of it p s a e r infinitely more harm than good.--/Von-Conformist. INhe county ißEL A D majority of h o N fK7rr A y haAe signed a t eGrand Jury RAlLROADSpetitionnfavour of of the Government plan of railroads for Ireland. MORNING SIJN. ------- • TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BAR', LETTER 11. SlR,—Revenons a nos nzontons. I return to the su. ject of your Dorchester speech once more. Not satisfii, with laying before your hearers your own opinions co c ita the subject of the people-killing Corn. laws, I find tha:3)9 you are guilty in it of one of the most extraordinaiV perversions of Scripture on record. It is true. that y0u . ,30 only circulate it, as you say, second-hand, but that is no excuse for you. It is at least to be expected that you, lf who set up for a " master in Israel," should have a full t acquaintance with Scripture, and " not blindly follow a blind guide" into the slough of deception, if not of • falsehood. But who is this Gamalie], at whose feet yout sit in such humble teachableness of disposition to im bibe Scriptural lessons in favour of monopoly for thee landowners and starvation for the people ? Verily I could but smile when I discovered it to be that "emi nent and dignified divine," as you most facetiously call him, the arch-apostate of discord from Ireland, the eulogist of Jezebel, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. will be kind, to you, Sir James, and give you a hint not in future to pin your faith on the sleeve of such a spiritual Will-o'-th'-Wisp as this. I do not deny that. the gentleman in question has words at will. No no ! fro has plenty of talk at his command; but then too often it is all talk and only talk with him. He is at best b' s kind of slap-dash dealer in theology, noisy as a bab".ling brook in summer, and quite as shallow. And yet you, forsooth, speak of him as "an eminent and dignifies - 1 di vine." If notoriety constitutes eminence, then, i iideed, it must be conceded that Mr. M'Neile is not only eminent, but pre-eminent, and not only that, but pre-eminently pre-eminent also amongst the advocates of intolerance and the champions of bigotry. But as to the F econd thet, " dignified," which you bestow upon him, those who' know him, will not only smile, but laugh or -fright, at such' an astounding misapplication of language, while those to whom he is a stranger will be exceedingly; amused wheza tell them that this dignified divine, as you are please:tato' style him, is as wild, dashing, and, to use his own coun - ' try's phrase, " rollicking" looking an Irishman as has ever been imported into this country eithe r by sa ilii vend or steam-boat. Auspice Teucro, from such amaster you borrow the errors whi c h you w ilf ully or ignorantly , I suspect the former, attempt to palm upon the public. But I now proceed to consider this perversion of Scrip ture. In laying it before your hearers you had the unblushing audacity to assure them that it w a s taken' " from that sacred fountain which contained ies; sons of pure knowledge." Yes, sir, the divine .won does contain lessons of pure knowledge, but what nr-ot we say of the spirit of him who, to subserve base &lei' secular and worldly objects, presumes to pollute anni de' file that purity, by mixing up with ithis own,implim readings and misinterpretations. But you shall Le con" victed out of your own mouth. 'Here are your as taken from the reports of the Tory papers : • " They would remember that the most ancient com mercial city was the city of Tyre, described in H my Wri t as sitting like a queen upon the waters, as the crown ing city, whose merchants are princes ' ,whose traffickers are the honourable of th e eart h , ' who was Ile mistress of the world, enriched by the ships of Ophir, and dealing in the dyed garments of Bozrah. Yet a little but striking incident is related with respect to this city. She Was i n. the neighbourhood of a poor and app4rently powerless' kingdom, that of Jude,a. A quarrel arose between them , and the inhabitants of Tyre were obliged to s end 'AP Ambassador v_ad sue for peace at the hands of the lii of Judea. and the reason assigned is, that their coin try wP:s nourished by the King's country.'—(Hear, hear.)' T i le) , did not grow their own corn.—(Hear, hear.)" Now, Sir, " he who runs may read," and at onco see through the gross delusion which you have here at tempted. How stands the case ? You, first of all, give a description of what, according to the Prophets, TYr e 'was in her days of magnificence and palmy g l or y, but,, even in that description, s h ow i ng your ignorance 01 ,. Scripture, by dragging into y our pi c t ure o f " t h e c i t y 01 ,.. waters" part of one of the m us t s pl en did pre di ct i on s of the coming of the Messiah. But never mind that now.- I am not going to lose sight of your grand fallacy, b trifling with nice criticism. You give us, I say, an count of what Tyre was in the days of the Proph ,tt- 4 0 who wrote six, seven, and eight hundr e d . years be ibrt Christ, and then jump to conclusions in favor ,a• 0 .1 the Corn-laws from a cas ua l ment i on o f a fend between her inhabitants and Herod, in the forty fourth year of the Christian era. Nev er 1 1 ' 0 there a grosser imposition essayed upon the hr_man tin' derstanding than this. The Tyre of the first period spoken of was the mistress of the seas. Her navies , which at once extended her power and ministered to the wealth and luxury of her inhabitants, penetrated to' every accessible region of the th en k nown wor ld. She , had, too, her land traffic with the country behind her whence she could draw supplies of corn; while Afric Sicily, and Sardinia, then known as " the granaries 6 1 the world," were open to her ships, as her sails white aeo: every sea, and her keels pres se d ever y s h ore . But. she was not such in the second epoch, in which you drill, her forward as if still the same Tyre in the egays_:,: Herod. A long and melanch o ly i nterva l h a d (.4apseu, Ages, .pregnant with great and sa d even t s , hr.d rolleo between. Her glory had departed from her ; her c orn: merce had been turned into other c h anne l s . Time and the sword had been at work with her. The. Babylonlar.! and the Macedonian had pressed heavily upon her. Tyre had been overwhelmed by th e conquer ing eri n Nebuchadnezzar. New Tyre had only s prung °P . . of undergo the same f a te b e f ore th e ma t c hless 1 9 ° vv . 1 Alexander the Great... So th a t only th e nam e of remained, although still clung to, it m a y be, I% l ° l fend affection, by those who, in the time of Herod, inhabited the ruins of what now was but the . shadow and ghost of what once was Tyre, but which for ages had been decaying, and w a s s till tic cay ing, into the fulfilment of the prediction whichspoke of a time to come, when s h e s h ou ld be its the top of a rock, a place to spread nets upon"—and nothing more—an almost deserted spot in a remote corner' of the mighty and universal empire of Rome, while Herod him self, whose feud with her you weave into your sophistry, was but a mock Prince, a phantom king, t o l erate d, from motives olpolicy, by the mistress of the world. And now, Sir, let me ask you, whether you are not utterly ashamed of the manner in which you stated your argu ment to the Dorchester electors ? In your premises re set before them Tyre when Queen of the Seas, Whe y ' every land was bridged, if I may so say, to her by Wit' navy, and the productions of every country were . her reach and her command. In your conclusion, 7 0 speak of Tyre, ruined, desolate, shorn of her comm erce and her greatness, with a few inhabitants on a bran rock, who, without any corn-growing land of their 07 0 _1 were compelled to buy food f rom th e i r ne i g hb ours , ~and then you triumphantly exclaim, " They were at the ma arc) of those neighbours, because they did not grow their own corn." No, Sir, that was not the reason ; at all 'l,l entsf not the only reason. They did not grow their ow n corn in the days of the Prophets, but their commerce opened the world to them. If th e crops f a il e d i n one region °, the earth, they could supply th emse l ves f rom another. .11 one country were hostile to them ; they could approach the markets of another. But this.state of things had not eadured, and they we re now d ependent upon Herod and his people for corn, because they had lost their trade and commerce. The inhabitants of Tyre, &Om lording it over the world and dictating from their ships to all nations, had shrunk into the dwellers upon a barren rock, with no means of sustenance, but what their fisher" men's-nets supplied them with, with no fertile land to' cultivate for their own support. And yet on this founda tion you dare to build an argument in favour of yoo . food -monopoly, and rake up an anology between tbit England, mistress of the ocean, and with capabilities, i h free and fair scope were given to them, for trading with; all the w or ld an d f or i mport i ng f oo d f rom every cornet . of the globe. For shame, for shame, and you a would-b° statesman ! And was it in wilfulness or ignorance, via!,. it in your own blindness or in a contempt for the intellecy of your hearers, that you thus exposed yourself at 1) or; chester ? In either case you are alike inexcusable r htl" alike deserve to be held up to public scorn and ridicul R. l For to-day, farewell. To-morrow or next dab.- shall have another word or two to say you. A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH or ENGLAND. August 10, 1841. CHESTER REGATTA. (From the Liverpool Times.) On Thursday last the regatta came off at Chester, :0 1 , the fineness of the morning g ave earnest of a delight Pl' pastime to the lovers of aq ua ti c s p orts. B y previ. 11 arrangements, the principal places of business were 'all closed by noon ; and soon after the steam of our pops }la" tion were seen wending their way to the banks of .the Dee, on the tiptoe of expectation. Long before .the commencement of the races, the shores of the river •iv.ete pretty well lined with spectators, who had come for th td enjoy the beautiful spectacle, and with it the pleas'ares of a sunshine holiday. The fine band of the 68th v.lgiment were on the green sward, nearly opposite Sc. John's Church ; and on the same spot were tents and booths, of . various descriptions, some grotesque and whilst others were of a higher order of rural architecture. The Members' Plate was the most exciting of the races, and a very splendid race it was. .The cr ews in the respective boats seemed eage r f or the signal to start, and when the competitor s had arra nged their boats in the manner prescri bed b y Mr. Gr een, every man gave ear attentive for the sound of the pistol ; when th e cre ws all bent to their oars, and away they scudded to the goal. No B a gging here—all applied to the oar wit/.0 unabated zeal ; the watchword :was courage, and high metal was never shown ; the Liverpool and Dublin rr,em pulled manfully, and after a nobl e struggle, perhaps un exampled as to the tri▪ m of the b oats and crewsits the , Dee ; the pistol was fired over th e h ea d o f the Piincess: Royal, and awarded vi▪ ctory to the Cestrians. It was gained by three length s . Sh outs then rent the air— commendations were passed on the skill and prowess of the crews—and congratulations to the victors, who now bore away the palm. The Dublin m en conducted themselves in a manner befitting the occas i on ; they ack now l e d ge d th e i r d e feat, and admitt e d t h e di stance was enough • they endured all cheerfully, and dined with the Cest'rian Club, at CO Spread of th e Hop Pole displa in.-the wonted the er fulness of the sons of ' Erin. )We must not oini to state, that the Liverpool and Chester men were train the former by J. Kippen, of London ; the latter 1 ?- Cormihes, of London ; both well-known trairrers their beautiful art. ---- - THE LATE LADY MARY BRUDE NELL' BaucE.—The mortal remains of the above lady, w h ` ). died on the 26th ult. at Paris, were interred last . week the English burial-ground in that capital, the decease d lady's brothers, Earl Bruce and Lord Ernest :Bruce, at tending as chief mourners. The deceased vas second daughter of the Marquis of Ailesbury, by his first mar riage with the sister of Lord Berwick, and was sister (It Earl Bruce, Lady Augusta Wentworth, Countess 1 an neskiold Samsoe, and Lord Ernest Bruce. In conse quence of her Ladyship's demise the Marquis and Mar chioness of Ailesbury intend passing some wee ks at Tottenham-park, the melancholy event precluding the Marquis and Marchioness from receiving visitors. ~..■••••••■ s 1 A Cc scriptiol Again stltte