The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-21 00:00:00

EVENING SUN On Monday next will be published, rice p 2s. sewed, the G ROUNDS AND OBJECTS OF THE BUDGET. Reprinted from No. 148 of the Edinburgh Review. London : Longman, Brown, and Co. 13, Great Alarlborough•street. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK, CHARLES CHESTERFIELD; or, The YOUTH tne uENIUS. Compete in 3 vols., post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Phiz, will be ready for delivery at all the Libraries on Wednesday next, Aug. 25. . - Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. NEW WORK for TOURISTS in FRANCE. On Wednesday next, August 25, in 2 volt. small Bvo., E XCURSIONS IN NORMANDY, Illustrative of The STATE of SOCIETY, the SCENERY, &c. of that INTERESTING PROVINCE of FRANCE. EDITED by FREDERICK SHOBERL, Esq. Author of " The Word in Miniature," Editor of " The , Forget-me-Not," &c. Henry Callum, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbot °ugh-street. On the 27th inst., in 3 vols. post Bvo., NEW EDITION OF TRE CLOCKMAKER; or. SAYINGS and DOINGS of SAM SLICK of SLICK V IL LE. Richard Bentley, New Burlingdon-street. ETIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) oSer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBUTIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distribution, way reTeive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS istirTuts and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH DUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEIN E 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, 22 large Money DividenTl, tom WV. and upwards unto 25,000/., besides many Dividends of stealleumounts to England, Ireland, and Scotland. AOYAL SURREY MP:A.IIE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Glorious success, n tiv overflows--Immense a; ti action ! THIS EVENING, AUGUST 21, Will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. introducllng Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained Palfreys, Fairy Pwneys, the Equestrians, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, THE SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. In which Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier. the Great Ames i can Rider, the I.tritiFh HorFeman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conclude with THE REIVER'S RANSOM ; OR, GILDEROY, THE BONNIE BOY. Gilderoy, Mr. Henry Hughes. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. 1/NDER THE DIRECTION OF 3J12. OSRA r.DTSTON. Grand and triomohant success of " Mary Clifford !" Miss Yin ceiit in a Sew llama, entitled " Madeline !" and first week of " vh. Pil.t !" THIS EVENING. AUGUST 21. Thoperformances will tommence with i he I\ ow Domestic Drama Three Actg. c:l!ed NARY CLIFFORD; THE FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL! Clipson, Mr. E. F. Savillr ; Bowling, Mr. Paul ; Robby Benham, Mr. Gardner: Sarah, Mrs. W. West ; and Nary Clift . ,ld, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which. the Nev Musical Romance of MADELINE ; OR, THE POOL OF TIIE DROWNED! Charlrs de Guie, Mr. Seaman; Dr. Reechtrile, Mr. Howard; Peter Mane!, Mr. Gardner; Madeline, Miss Vincent. To conclu.lc with, THE WOOD DEMON. Hardykon!e, Mr. E. F. Saville d, Mr. Gardner; Una, Mrs. W. West. foxed, (hi. Half-price to the Boxes only, at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPEII. LAST WEEK of the WIZARD of the NORTH working Ms WONDERS, and LAST SIX NIGHTS of the SONS of EXTEMPORANEOUS II A RMONY—The Lancashire Bell Ringers. All who Wish to see the Great De:usionist—or MIRACLE OF THE NINE FEENFH CENTURY—must visit the Adelphi during next week, as it will Le the only 'opportunity the lovers of the marvellms will have of beholding this SON OF DELUSION, whose extraordina,v powers have caused all to wonder from the Throne to the Peasant, from the Peasant to the Philoso;:her. 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 one— Come all !"—The Wizard will be found incom prehensible as be ii invulnerable. A hundred of the best (•f the London tSportsmen have tried in vain to wing him, but he is still on the wing, and will for one week more be their Living Tirget. _ _ . _ Ihe Wizard linprs that " Homo Invulnerabilis" will still be 111 4 motto ; and he pledgcs himself that he will exert all his powers to please his patrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. . _ 4 4' Remember !. !—The Last Week—Poz! Boxes, 2s: 641. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at fialf-past Nine o'cli.clc. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinbnrn, at the Boa-office, be tween Eleven and Four. Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nn, iitly crowded, an 4 any applicatiim is requisite. N.B. Private Eoxes, containing six persons, l/. ss. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock precisely. Half-price at Half-past Nine. THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN IS NOW PUBLISHING. PRICE SIXPENCE. And on TUESDAY, the 24Tir, THE NEW PARLIAMENT Till b© REPEATED, with THE QUE3ITS SPEECH ON OPENING THE SESSION. Early Orders are recuested to enable us to SAYE POST. THE RAILWAY STN IS NOW RE-PUBLISH.ED, PRICE SLYPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand. HICIII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-1101(110 Vorning....— 11 tninutm; after 5 I Evening 30 minute; after 5 41. c'z' 4. Aro cit j e Mt, L4DON: SATURDA UGITST 21, 1841. Highly important news from China, to the 17th of April, brought by the Akbar, Captain DUNA RES% in 109 days from Canton to New York, and thence to England by the Great Western, will be-found in another part of The San. As doubts of the authenticity of this intelligence are enter tained by respectable merchants in the City, and as Brother Jonathan is very capable of a hoax of this description, we cannot vouch for its correctness. The most apocryphal looking thing about it is a report that the EM PEROR had offered 50,000 dollars for the head of Captain ELLIOT. After the experience his Ce lestial MAJESTY has had of the worthlessness of such a purchase, the intimation staggers our credulity. This news being of doubtful authen ticity, we quote it without comment from the American Papers. The Westminster Conservative dinner took place.,yesterday, and (i( spite the loud trumpet ings of the Tories, was neither more nor less than a miserable failure. Sir FRANCIS Bun- DEW was in the ChaW—he, who in his better days, so often presided at the public dinners of the Westminster Reformers ! Doubtless, he felt the humiliating nature of his position—for it is impossible he can be wholly lost to all sense of shame ; and if so, the vociferous ap plauses of his Tory supporters must have sounded in his ears like stinging sar casms reminding- him ...like of what he once was, and what he now is. And such a Chairman as the poor o:d man made ! Never before, we believe, was such nonsense spoken at a public dinner, even by Mr. BEAD SRAM, of Canterbury ! Not Content with declar ing that th e T ories were the best and most tried friend s of the people, the lioa. Baronet actually eulogised the " unswerving integrity srrong determinateness of 'purpose" of Sir ROBERT PEEL! Tile " strong determinateness purpose " of the Irma whose chief fault The Tories having gained nothing by abusing the " surplieed ruffians" of Ireland, seem now inclined to try what they can win by falling foul of the " political Dissenters" of England. The Morning Post of yesterday said : It seems proper to notice that the first meeting of this Conference of hypocrites and atheists was signalised by a fierce and disorderly squabble upon the question whether they should or should not commence their daily proceed ings by prayer. This is evidently a false charge. The Dissenting ministers can gain little or nothing by hypocrisy, and in them, whatever may be the case with the clergy, who are tempted by large bribes to be hypocrites, it would be a most gratuitous vice. Some philosophers have doubted the possible existence of an atheist—the Post is quite sure on the point ; and, to serve a party purpose, calls some of the most religious and devout ministers of CHRIST in the kingdom atheists. These gentle men have come together to serve the poor, and save the country. Such conduct the Post can not comprehend, and as ignorant people always abuse what is strange to them, it calls the Dissent ing ministers hypocrites and atheists. This lan guage exemplifies the consideration in which the Dissenters are held by the Tories, who, when they do not want aid at elections, cease to dis guise the antipathy in which they hold the chosen ministers of the people. One part of the paragraph of the Post, we are told, is positively false. There was, we are in ' f or ,::ied, a suggestion made on the subject of prayer ; some objections were made to the Con ference beg.quiug their aproceedings daily with prayer, b ecause t he prayers of one m i n i ster acceptable to another, a n d might not be st r i c t:: after the briefest possible discussion it was quietly settled that the membei-s who chose should as semble in a chapel to Pray) yefore meeting at the Conference. To call that brier and not improp er discussion " a fi erce an d disordOrlY squabble," is, we are assured, a gross abuse 1 / 4 '4' language. Far from any intemperance having been exhi bited by these Ministers, we cart positively as sert that their conduct has been all tn. at could be wished. Some f ears were entertained, and not unnatu rally, th at collected togu in a novel guide them, no established, to preserve epzlsfoorfthsiexfirhsutntti-lrineedfromevery part of the empire, and gentlemen ofevery Christian creed, Confe rence, having no precedents to well-infO rme d Chairman, l on g order, and every one of those gentlemen b e i ng accustomed to speak from t h e pulpit ad libitum —some fears were entertained that these gentlemen would fall into wordy con t en tion, and that the Conference would fail in its object. These fears have been mo st agreeably disappointed. It way impossible, we understand, for any body of men to behave more temperately and orderly, and their discus- sions, as far as we have hithorto heard, would, for order and decorum, have done ho nod y to either House of Parliament, tbough both of them have a fixed Chairman, and have a lo ng line of precedents to guide them. The paragraph of the Post is the offspring o f ignorance and passion, and is full. of untruth and asperity. In that Journal, whi ch continually boasts,in a mawkish style, ofits dervotion to truth, and as continually abuses the Whig-Radicals for not being animated with a similar , devotion, it is quite unpardonable. It must be highly gratifying to the working classes to observe, that at present • the discussion on the Corn-law has dwindled t 4) one point, namely, its influence on wages. There is a secondary point, indeed, yet undec's :ed, namely, the quantity of land the repeal of Cie Corn-law would put out of cultivation; butt hat is consi dered by the Tories only of import trice so far as it would diminish employment for the people, and reduce the rate of wages. Thus ; the benefit of the working classes has, in fact, ; tAtTording to the opponents of repeal, become th only con sideration for the settlement of tL question. That brings the matter to a simple issue, of which the working people are the best; fudges. We may observe, as to the land go,hi i s out of is, that he possesses no determination at all, but is solely guided by expediency ! The " unswerving integrity" of the trimming politi cian who carried Catholic Emancipation, after quarrelling with Mr. CANNING for being favour able to it; and whose slipperiness of purpose is so proverbial, that even his own party cannot trust him ! Really when one reads trash of this sort, one would almost be tempted to believe that political honesty is not the only thing that Sir FRANCIS BURDETT has lost, but that he is deprived also of what political sagacity he once possessed. We are the more confirmed in this opinion by his declaring immediately afterwards, that the "proximate Ministry would maintain the present glorious state ofsociety ;" which same society he nevertheless asserts to be in a condition "of imminent peril," such as de mands the gravest consideration ! Capt. Rous followed Sir FRANCIS in a speech of orthodox dulness; but in which he made the important declaration that he " hadin view nothing but the welfare of this great country, which he would endeavour to promote to the best of his abi lity." This is encouraging, and will be as balm to the souls of all true patriots. Henceforth, let all anxiety on the score of the people be at an end, for Captain Rous will look after our interests; and with such a man to be- friend us, what need have we to fear ? By way of appropriate close to the entertainment, the song of the " Fine Old English Gentleman" was sung, in express compliment to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. What a bitter sarcasm is this ! Till now, we had always understood that a " fine old English gentleman" was one remarkable for the uniform steadiness of his principles, and his attachment to early and tried friends; but we now find that he is most appropriately represented, when he is shown to be a drivelling apostate, a deserter of all his old connexions, and a supporter of those who are the worst enemies of the people ! The bitter and simultaneous attacks made by the Tory journals on the Manchester Conference is a splendid homage to its utility. The sincerity of the gentlemen who are there assembled can not be impeached, and therefore their dress and manners are ridiculed. Their motives are above suspicion, the facts they have brought to light of great importance, but they are to be annihilated by the wit of a few Tory scribblers. Let them, however, be of good heart, their works will de fend them, and present an unassailable bulwark to Tory malevolence. We can readily explain the animosity of their opponents. They are Christian ministers ofevery denomination save one. There were none of the clergy present except the Rev. Mr. SPENCER, who, though belonging to the Church, shares none of the principles of the established priesthood. The Christian Ministers of every sect except the Church have denounced the bread-tax as un- Christian. The clergy have not joined in the denunciation, and the conclusion univer sally drawn is that the Church of England is not a Christian Church. It acknowledges some other master than CIIRIST, and some other autho rity than Els. The Conference is at tacked, too, by another party in conjunction wtth the Tories. The invitation was limited to Christian Ministers, and several So cialist preachers presented themselves under that character. They- being known were refused ad mittance, and thereupon both Socialists and Tories, with one accord, accuse the Conference of unfairness. What would the Tories have said had they admitted Socialist preachers, and what would those preachers have done ? The Tories would then have abused the Con ference as irreligious and atheistical; and the Socialists would on all occasions have propounded their own nostrum as a re medy for the admitted distress. The Mi nisters of the Conference acted wisely and well therefore in refusing to allow the Socialists to meet with them ; and the Tory Journals turn round on them and abuse them even worse than they abused Lord MELBOURNE for presenting the leader of the Socialists at Court. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1841 The choice of the SPEAKER is the only busi ness of importance which has yet occupied the House of Commons. Whatever interest might have attached to that question was extinguished when it was announced that the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEPEVRE was not to be opposed. The whole affair from that moment became a matter of routine, and our Contemporaries must have been much at a loss for subjects to ex patiate on, when they devoted column after column to this bygone event. In fact, the elec tion of the SPEAKER took place when Sir It. PEEL consulted his friends, and allowed his de termination to be announced that lie should not oppose the re-election of Mr. SHAW LEPEVRE. We might as well waste our space in discussing the dissolution or the election, as the re-election of the SPEAKER. The French Journals of Thursday have all been received, but the news contained in them was anticipated in the afternoon edition of yes terday's Sun. The following extracts from them are, however, interesting : Between four and five o'clock; the afternoon before last, as one of the men of Messrs. Jouan and Favre, druggists, in the Rue Saint Martin, was carryiar, down into the cellar a bottle of volatile alcali, he let it drop, and broke it. The gas was immediately ignited by the candle the man held in his hand, and spread like lightning over the whole cellar, in which were other inflammable essences, so that in a few minutes it was filled with flames. The firemen were almostly instantly on the spot, and set their engines to work. Several put on Colonel Paulin's apparatus, and went down, but the explosions were so repeated and dan gerous, that they were forced to return, and it was every minute expected that the whole house would be blown up. Their exertions were, however, continued with such skill and perseverance, that in the course of two hours and a half the fire was extinguished, but not without doing very extensive damage. The loss was consider able, but fortunately the parties were fully insured. Two evenings ago, as a farmer of the Seine et Marne was returning home from Paris, when at about half a league from the barrier, he heard groans by the road-side, and, having dismounted, saw a man lying on the bank of a ditch., He stooped down to assist him, but immedi• ately received in his eyes a handful of dust and snuff; which for a few moments deprived him of sight. Mean time the man who had thrown the mixture got up, mounted the farmer's horse, and galloped off. The owner, who was left to continue his route on foot, on arriving at home found his horse in the stable, but with out the saddle. It is supposed that the thief being un able to make the horse take a cross-road, had abandoned it, after stealing the saddle, and the animal had gone home by itself. A correspondent at Algiers writes, on the 9th inst. to the Moniteur Parisien : " The dissolution of the power of Abdel Kader is at hand. All his ability and activity cannot delay the dis location of the tribes for more than a few days. .At Constantina a tribe has . delivered up to Ben Gan nah, our shiek, a lialifa of the Emir's, who was en deavoliring to re-establish his authority, and who has been sent to the prison of the island of St. Marguerite. Several Kabyles of Soumata have made their submission at Blidah ; and at Milianah 54 deserters from Abdel Kader's regulars have come in and surrendered them selves. The garrison of Milianah is in a satisfactory state of health. The utmost activity is using in pre paring for the autumnal expedition. Eighteen hundred mules are ready for the baggage, and another thousand are expected at Oran, from France and Bona. An im mense supply of, provisions and ammunition will be sent to the magazines of Blidah. The expedition will take its departure from the 20th to the 25th of Sept." Thd Precurseur, of Angers, says, " A report was spread at Angers yesterday that disturbances had taken place at La Rochelle, caused, as some said, by the expor tation of corn, or, as others stated, by the re assessment. It is said that the battalion of the 30th regiment gar risoned at Beaupre and Cholet has been sent to La Ro cholle in consequence of these events. We have not been able to ascertain the complete accuracy of this report, but it is certain that one or two companies of the garrison at Augon have marched this morning forßeaupre and Cho let, doubtless for the purpose of taking the place of the battalion, which has been sent to another place, accord ing to the report which we have stated, to La Rochelle. The Phare des Pyrenes, published at Bayonne, of the 15th of August, says, " Several journals make Lieut.- Gen. O'Donnell travel from Paris to the frontiers ofSpain with plans for an insurrection. We are able to affirm that that General has been for some days past at rampeluna." —La Gazette de France. The Moniteur of this morning has no official part. We have received the Journals of Bordeaux of the 17th. They announce that there had been no disturb ances on the evenings of the 15th and 16th. The Indicateur says, that, on the morning of the 10th, part of the 9th Regiment of Light Infantry had arrived from Saintes. In the evening there was a very considerable display of force. There were only some isolated at tempts to excite disturbance, in which the crowd took no part, About a dozen persons were arrested. The number of persons arrested, up to the 15th, is 194, almost all of them strangers to the city, and belonging to the working classes. Orders have been given for troops, catatoned in the eas t of the 11th Military Division, to march to Bor deaux.—_Le Constitutional. BOUT'SE— PARIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Priv, Pri CP French 5 Der Cents . ..... ll6 50 ... Ild 55 ... 116 50 ... 116 :,0 4% per Cants ...•••••• 105 50 ... 103 50 ... 105 30 ... 105 50 4 per Cents ... . .5 1 C 1 2 4 00 . .. " .5 1(4 14 5 3 per Cents. ex. div. 77 60 ... 17 60 ... 77 50 ... 77 5..) Sant of trance Latlitte Bank I,OOW. Skates ses 5120 1040 ......51420 . 0 ... Belgian Bank ...... ...... Belgian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents 7l 50 ... 71 50 ... 71 5) ... 71 50 Dutch 2% per Tents. 52% ... 52% ... 52% ... 52% rpanah Acuvis ........ 10% ... SO% ... sO% ... ox Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... % New Deferred Neapolitan lO4 30 ... ir4 30 ... 194 30 ... IC4 30 tt , unan . .... 102% ... 102% ...102j1 ...102% RAILWAY SHARES. 728 75 ... 731 ... 728 75 ... 728 75 S sy t te: : :: : iii : : : 3 : ' ,3t : .::..l .... ............. .. _.......... 32 508 1 5073 .... 3 210 7 50 ...... 3 20 25 9 73 ...... 3 .7 5 0 Rouen 0ne..., . 237 50 ... r 37 50 ... 237 50 .. 237 :Al CIIILDIIEN DOING THE I . : Maufth he ter the remarkable thing s stated at . the *lry OF PAIIENTS.-011C of Confe rence, of which several instances w.'re g iv u ll, W" , that whole families are sometimes supported hY the labour of one or two children who are fortunate enongh to be kept in employment, while their parents and broilers can find noti'ing to do. There is little demand for the it. - . l our of adalta, and could not the children find work, whole fa milies would be starved. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week ending August 16, 1841: — Passengers Merehandiz , 368 8 4 cultivation, that it never will, as long as the cus tomers of the agriculturists Increase in numbers and in wealth. That the repeal of the Corn laws would increase the number and wealth of the town population there is not the smallest doubt, and that increase would do more to stimu late and extend cultivation than all the Corn laws and agricultural societies that ever existed. What would the farmers do without customers, and what would they - not gain by the rapid in crease of their customers:? As to wages, the tailors, carpenters, brick layers, shoemakers, &c., of the metropolis and of every town of the empire, are paid weekly wages, the rate of which seldom varies. The same fact is true of porters, clerks, and a great variety of other labourers. It is a plain and palpable ab surdity to assert that their wages have risen or do rise with the price of wheat, which varies be tween 365. and 80s., while the rate of their wages has continued for many years past very nearly the same. When prices are low and wheat abundant they probably get an increase of em ployment, but their payment does not otherwise vary with the price of bread. What proportion such classes form of the whole body of labourers, including servants, &c., we cannot say, but it is very considerable, and completely disproves the assertion, as a general statement, that wages rise and fall with the price of bread. But as the question is now narrowed, we have only to look at the condition of the working classes for its solution. Never was that much worse. In the manufacturing districts they are starving or praying to be transported, and in the agricultural districts they commit crimes, and deliver themselves up to the law, that they may be sent abroad. There are seven thousand handloom-weavers in Manchester living in cel lars, without a blanket to cover them, or a ves sel to boil their food, while wheat is between 70s. and 80s. the quarter. In some manufacturing districts some workmen receive 55., and in the agricultural districts Bs. per week. The average of wages throughout the empire is barely suffi cient to obtain subsistence for a family. If the fate of the Corn-law is to be decided by its influ ence on wages, the condition of the labouring classes at this moment pronounces against it a withering condemnation. We feel grateful to those who have reduced the question to this nar row issue, and we call on the workmen through out the empire to decide it. S ?A nv oF t 7: R• 1 zW3 AND ttb at) tO It• " Mu runs may read." POILEXGN. The American domestic news to the Bth inst., brought by the Great Westerr, is of so miscellaneous a character that no summary of t can be given here. Nor does it contain a single fact d paramount importance save that Mr. M'Leod would positively be brought to trial at Utica on the 19th inst. The American payers bring important news from China to the 17th ofApril, which will be found in an other part of The Sea. It states that the British had seized upon Canton, from whence all the wealthy inha bitants had fled—that the High Commissioner Yang had been disgraced and sent in chains to Pekin—that in their engagements with the British the Chinese had lost about 3,000 men and 800 pieces of cannon, whereas the British had only one man lilled—that the Chinese Admiral Kwang, the " lineal aid terrible descendant of the God of war, whose wrath the barbarians could not withstand extermination," was killed in one of the forts—and that all hopes of an accommodation being at an end, a British expedition would attack Pekin in the month of June. As doubts of the authenticity of this news is entertained in the city, we refrain from expressing any opinion upon the events. We have, however, considered that we would not be justified in withholding a full report of this news from the public in the shape in which we find it in the American papers. No news of importance this morning from the Continent. Punzac OPINION. The Times asks the following curious question, with reference to the late Manchester Conference :—" Is 'it not abominably hard that we are obliged ever and anon to abstract ourselves from more dignified pursuits, for the mere purpose of putting an extinguisher upon hurnbugs ?" The " dignified pursuits" of a Journal, whose sole pur suit for some years past has been to bolster up the cause of faction, at the sacrifice of every just and conscientious opinion that it once maintained—that shifts like a weather-cock from day to day, and is consistent only in its flagrant inconsistency ;—the " dignified pursuits" cf a Journal like this is such a broad, palpable joke, that it is impossible to think of it without a burst of laughter! As for our Contemporary's flippant allusion to " humbugs," it would be difficult to find one greater than himself, unless indeed it be that selfish anti-national faction which is now as much the theme of his idolatry, as it was five years ago of his contempt. In another paragraph, the Times, still re ferring to the Members of the Manchester. Conference, adds, "it would seem that these men's pompous and in flated arrogance has succeeded in ensnaring Lord Ducie and Mr. Cobden, M.P., into a belief that it was really worth while to excite public wonder by the appearance of a clean shirt or two at the Conference. Those respectable persons little knew who their linen distinctions and good sense were wasted on." From the constant reference that our Contemporary has of late been making to clean shirts, we infer that they are luxuries in which he seldom dreams of indulging, for we always think most of those things that are novelties to us! • The Morning Herald objects to the speakers at the Manchester Conference, that they were uncultivated and ungenteel, observing—" The Rev. Chairman of the day, in the verbiage of a coal-porter, declared to the Confe rence that there was no palaver about the American orator." The word " palaver" has evidently given quite a galvanic shock to our contemporary's notions of classic elegance, he himself being a model in this re spect ; and he adds, immediately afterwards, " The effects of education, we had thought, were in no sense more distinguishable than in the avoidance of slang; we have either been labouring under a mistake, or political dissenting teachers may be devoid of the education as well as the manners and feelings of gentlemen." Hence forth, let no public speaker, whether Parliamentary or otherwise ; ever make use of the word " palaver." The Herald pronounces it vulgar and ungentlemanlike, and who can demur to his high authority on the subject of graceful and polished diction ? But if " palaver" be low, and worthy only of the meridian of Russell square ; how much lower and vulgarer must have been Lord Stanley's famous slang allusions to " thimble-rig ging !" Yet we do not recollect that our fastidious Con temporary expressed his disgust at this lavish display of " Billingsgate ," for he seems to be one of those discreet public instructors who can swallow a camel while they strain at a gnat ! After all, however, the people will look, not to the language of the Manchester speakers, but to the principles they enunciated ; and if these are sound, they will pardon the homeliness of their diction. The Chronicle says :—" The general character of the Conference proceedings at Manchester is such :as cannot fail to command respect. The resolutions are so framed as to embrace the great moral and religious bearings of the subject, founding the inferences which they embody mainly on facts coming under the personal observation of the parties themselves, or on the broad, undeniable truths of history and moral science. The convocation, or synod, as it has been termed, promises to be as unique in its results as in the impulse on which it was sum moned. It is the one general council of practical Chris tianity. Aided, as its object has been, by such publica tions as those of the Rev. Thomas Spencer and other clergymen of the Establishment, especially by the powerful pen and high character of the Rev. Baptist Noel, we cannot but consider one most important result as achieved. The religious sense and principle of the country has declared itself against the Corn-laws." This is perfectly true ; and the sound, healthy, patriotic spirit displayed at the Manchester Conference will very soon find an echo in the hearts of nine -tenths of the com munity. The Post observes, in an article praising the incom parable public virtues of the Tories •--" We should b e glad to know what there has been in• the conduct of the Parliamentary party, headed by Sir Robert Peel for the last ten years, which should warrant any man of vera city in attributing to that party intolerance or exclu siveness ? We defy any one, however hostile to •the Conservative party, to produce instances, or a single in stance, of such dispositions." For an answer to this barefaced assertion, we refer our Contemporary to the Parliamentary Debates for the last ten years and up wards. The Dublin Evening Post assigns these reasons for the increase in the military force in Ireland :—" Four regi ments have been ordered to Ireland, say the Orange journals, and the Whigs, by making this tardy increase of the military force, admit that the country is not in that blessed state of tranquillity for which so much credit has been given them. The sending of those regiments to Ireland has had nothing whatever to do with the state of the country, which is as tranquil as represented by the Judges during the recent Circuits. Two of those regiments are Cavalry, and they have come over to complete the quota of that description of force allotted to this country, and because, from the paucity of cavalry in Ireland, much inconvenience was suffered, and a great number of horses were rendered unfit for service, owing to the very distant stations, it has been found necessary to send detachments. With respect to the infantry, the corps ordered to Ireland, being reduced below the proper standard, are coming over to recruit, and complete their complement. The arrangement is altogether one of military conve nience, considered expedient at the Horse Guards, and having no connection whatever with the preservation of order in Ireland. The Durham Chronicle gives the following etymology of the distinguishing feature of Conservatism :• There is a difficulty often in giiing a new definition to party ; for unless it be fit the original name predominates. Conservatism and bigotry are one. Now, what is bigotry? Walker is happier in the pun of his pronunciation than in his definition. Big-gut. ted, or Big-gut-try, makes a very good collateral or analogical definition, while the real meaning of the word is an attachment to idolatrous error—to something beyond party. All the figured idols of the earth have been exhibited with big bellies and the priests and idolators of all countries as carnivori or great devourers of animal food, which they call sacri fice. Eaters without work would be another appropriate definition of Tories or Conservatives." The Coventry Herald remarks on the obscurity of the Peel measures :—" The dishonest silence of Peel for the last two months has n o t b een more un j us t t o hi s oppo -1 nents, than it has been embarrassing and awkward for his own friends to deal m ith. Pressed right and left, be ' fore and behind, by their respective adherents, gasping, yearning, and importuning for ' intelligence," news,' or ' information,' the ' best public instructors' of the Tory Press havebeen forced to say 'somelhing ;' yet, being left quite in the dark as to the future policy of their leader they have scarcely known what to advance, or what to withhold ; what to advocate, or what to oppose, save and except that it is quite right to ' turn out the Whigs.' " MONEY - TILIDE-CONCIVIERCE. The Devizes turnpike tolls have been let for the en suing year ; 3,030/., bring 432/. less than last year's let. Accounts from Trieste say that several commercial failures have occurred in that city. A.GRICULTUV.A.I4. There has been a most favourable change in the Brigh ton weather. On Monday ' and Tuesday, though rain ........ , I s till continued to fall a t interval s , th e a tmosphere be- His _Royal Highness Prince Alb er t w ill preside ' came much warmer, and the barometer rose ; and on at the tne2ting of the School of Desig n , whi c h will be W e d n esday th e sun rose i n unc l ou d e d sp l en d our , an d held in merset-house at half-past tw e l ve on Monday has since maintained its s u premacy. Both Thursday next. T... greater part of her Maj es ty' s Mi n i s t ers ex pected $0 and yesterday were beautiful days—warm without being to be present on this interesting occasion. Sir E. reel has also been invited to attend. . sultry. The harvest has now commenced in earnest in 1,451 19 7 Dallington, Aug. 18. D. O'BRIEN, Secretary. this neighbourhood. Along the coast a most busy snd animating scene is presented —every operation of the harvest being carried on in full vigour. ,- 11fuch corn, however, still remains unripe. We doubt, from general reports, if the crop will be a full average one. The accounts of the weather and crops from the country are now very favourable. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A private, of the name of Courtney, in the 72d High landers, now at Windsor, found guilty of stealing three loaves from the canteen, received yesterday, one hundred lashes, agreeably to the sentence of a Court-martial. The Spartan frigate, 26 guns, was launched on the 16th inst., at Plymouth. Captain Sartorius is appointed to the Malabar, 74, at Plymouth. LAW AND POLICE. Mr. Balfe yesterday passed his final examination in the Insolvent Debtor's Court and was diseharged. The Chester Chronicle complains grievously of the slovenly and hurried manner , in which Lord Abinger conducted the business in the Civil Side of the Court at the late assizes. He struck causes out of the list—and was determined, as everyone said, to gallop through the business in one day. It appears, too, he succeded and caused an additional expense to the Court of 1,000/. The Nenagh Assizes (North Riding of the county of Tipperary) have proved maiden. LITEFLAEY. Dr. Arnold has been appointed to the Professorship o Modern History at Oxford, in the place of llr. Nares. SPORTING. The late cold wet weather has let loose many of the different packs of fox-hounds. The Oakley have already killed several foxes. Mr. Smith, with the Pytchley, it is said, begins hunting in the afternoon instead of the morning. This more rational hour, as some people think, has induced the Duke of Dorsetshire, with a large party, to attend Drayton. The accounts of foxes from all parts, especially the West of England, are most satis factory to sportsmen. ELECTIONEERING. The Liberal electors of Andover assembled at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening to celebrate their victory over the Tory candidate at the recent election. Two hun dred and fifty gentlemen sat down, and sixty, for want of accommodation at the Town Hall, dined at the Star and Garter. There were present, the lion. Newton Fellowes, as Chairman, supported right and left by P. Etwall, _Esq., M.P. ; Lord Wm. Paget, ALP. ; Lord Huntingtower ; Charles Baring Wall, Esq., M.P. ; the Hon. A. W. Fellowes, the Rev. Mr. Blount, the Rev. Mr. Smythe, Gawler, &c. The speeches on the occasion were eloquent, and most enthusiastically received. The Tory festival to celebrate the return of Captain Rous for Westminster took place yesterday at Drury line Theatre. The party, in order to make the old Ra dical Burdett utterly ridiculous, placed him in the Chair, as the laughing stock of Whigs, Radicals, and even To ries. The Tories mustered strong, amounting altogether to about 1,300, and were very noisy. The three men who were indicted at Dublin under a charge of assaulting Captain Craddock during the elec tion, and of forcing his vote, were discharged. COUUT-PASECION4LBLE. The Marquis of Normanby and other Cabinet Mi nisters left town this morning, to attend the Privy Council at Windsor Castle, appointed to be held at two o'clock this afternoon. Lords Melbourne and Pal merston are staying at Windsor Castle. The Royal Speech, to be delivered by Commission to Parliament on Tuesday next, will be arranged at the Council. Prince Albert will preside r.t the meeting of the §eho( of Design, to be held at Somerset House, on Monday the 23d. Prince George of Cambridge left St. James's Palace yesterday morning, to rejoin his regiment at Dublin. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland leave Sion House on the 2d of next month for Wynnstay, the seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. We are happy to learn that the Duke of Wellington has returned to town in better health than he has ex perienced for some years past. His Grace has also ex pressed his willingness to form a part of the new Tory Government, The Marquis of Aberc.orn has arrived at his seat at Baron's Court from Colonel Conolly's, where he has been enjoying the salmon fishing. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town yes terday afternoon on 'a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. MISCELLANEOUS. A person, named Argent, of Cambridge, lately left his property to his niece, on 'condition that before he was buried his head should be cut off, as he dreaded being buried alive. This was done a week or two ago, and his niece obtains the property. A floating breakwater is proposed to be erected at Brighton, and on Monday a meeting takes the proposi- tion into consideration. • • A few days ago a Coroner's Jury, which met at the George Inn, Burnham, Bucks, returned a verdict of felo de se on the body of a servant girl, 20 years of age. It appeared that the unfortunate girl, who had always borne an irreproachable character, and had been for two years and a half : , in the service of Mr. Evans, drawing master, at Eton College, had been betrayed by some vil lain, and to hide her shame took a quantity of arsenic, sufficient to kill six persons. The body was interred at eleven o'clock at night, without religious rites. What a picture of the cruelty of man ! This day is the anniversary of the death of King William the Fourth. He was born in the year 1765. The cattle are dying to an awful extent in the vicinity of Dublin, Carlow, and Drogheda. The distemper arises from cold, commences with a cough, and generally termi nates fatally in ten days. To-day is the anniversary of the battle of Vimicra, the first battle in which the Duke of Wellington mea sured himself with the then conquerors of Europe. It is said that a distance of fifty-seven miles has been travelled on the common road, in a Bath chair, by elec tro-magnetic power, in one hour and a half r and fur ther, that the applier comes over daily from St. Alban's to the Bank of England in the said chair in half an hour, at an expence of sixpence. MONEY and COWEVIERCT A.!, NEWS. • CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 20.—The trade have shown decidedly more disposition to purchase than for a considerable period, which we may attribute to the unnatural state of the Market last week, accompanied 'with a favourable change in the weather, from the com mencement of the present week. Holders also, influenced in a great measure by the latter circumstance, have mani fested less anxiety to sell, which has resulted in an ad vance of id. per lb. in the common qualities of Ameri can, and generally an id. in the better sorts. The de mand for Brazil, &c., still continues very moderate and are nominally as before quoted. Surats also, though there has been a fair quantity disposed of, remain un changed. 1,900 American, 260 Peruvian, and 500 Surat have been taken for export, and 7,000 American on spe culation. • Stock on hand August 20, 1841 Do. August 20, 1840 LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 20.—The im provement noticed in the Share Market has continued to-day, and the following are the transactions: —Grand Junction, 199, ex dividend ; Great Western, New Shares, 57 ; London and Birmin g h am , 3 2 1 . S hares, 54i; Midland Counties, New Shares, 194 ; North Midland, Thirds, 9i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE; AUG. 20.—Shares kept firm in price with but little doing.—London and Birmingham, 160 161 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 53 53. Ditto, ditto, New, 224 24 ; Ditto, Quarters, 22. Manchester and Leeds, 53 ; Ditto, Halves, 211 ; Man chester and Birmingham, 201. ie following is an extract of a private letter from New York, dated August 7 : " Of Teas there has been a direct arrival from Can ton this week, in 110 days, with the intelligence that all the English and American ships in port would bP dis patched with full cargoes. A public sale to-day went off with spirit, and, considering the nature of the intelli gence from Canton, very full prices were paid. TILE FUNDS. Consols opened at 891 i for Money, and 89i for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 12 14 p rem. S pan i sh Active Stock, 19 3 1 20. No business doing. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western London andßrighton London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13/ l 3 Manchester and Leeds South Eastern and Dover York and North Midland '5O Ditto New Shares.... lO - JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland... .. ...... Ditto New COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7i Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 1312k1 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 80 Frankfort on Maine... 150 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37i Berlin.... ... Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 948 Trieste, ditto 9 52 Madrid Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona Seville ... 36 .. 25 10 iGE—(YESTERDAY). 'Gibraltar . 'Leghorn ........ 30' 20 Genoa 25 60 M ilan Venice ... 47 Naples 39i Palermo, per oz 1181 Lisbon Oporto 52 Rio Janeiro 2 71 Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days sight Obi Philadelphia 46 PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Portugal Gold Coin £0 17 5 Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 101 Silver in Bars 0 5 o HALF-PAST ONE. The English Stock Market is flatter since the opening. Consols are now quoted at 891 for Money, and 891 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 13 prem. In the Foreign Market Brazilian Bonds are 671; Chilian 71 ; Spanish Active Stock, 20 ; Dutch Two-and-a-llalf per Cents., 511 ; Ditto Fives, 101 a . Little doing in Shares. Great Western are 811 ; Lon don and Brighton, 44it ; Manch es t er an d L eeds, 57 ; South Eastern an d Dover, QUARTER TO THREE. The adviccs from the United States are considered ra ther satisfactory in some points, and it is anticipated that if the Bankrupt Bill receives the assent of the President, and operates in the way it is in tended to operate, the rotten traders will no longer struggle on, and embarrass their European creditors, but being relieved by giving up at once what they possess for the liquidation of their engagements, will once more become useful members of society, and learning wisdom from experience, as we hope also the creditors on this side of the Atlantic will, be disposed henceforth to conduct their business more upon the cash and bona-fide principles. The result of this week's business in the produce markets is satisfactory as regards Tea, Cotton, Coffee, Sugarand Tallow, but suffers from the heavy supplies of East India, &c. Altogether we may congratulate the mercantile community upon an improvement in their prospects. Consols, Money and Account, 89a R ; October, 99i 90 ; Colombian, 20a, ; Mexican, 26,f ; Spanish, 204. THE MARKETS-THIS DAY. TEA MARKET. The market was quiet, and more desire was evinced to sell, Company's Congou moved off slowly at 2s. did. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Ihe transactions were extremely limited, prices ton the de cline. P. Y. Candle on the spot 495. 3d. and 495., for deli very in last three months.___ THE PRAYERLESS BISHOPS. " After the commission had been opened their Lordships were unable to proceed with business, in consequence of the absence of all the Bishops. It appears that no Peer can be sworn in or business commenced, nor the gallery opened, until prayers have been read. On the present occasion no Bi s h op was to be f oun d."— O pen i ng of the House of Lords on Thursday. Pray—good men —pray ! Though Lords and Prelates stay From holy orison, and book, and bell ; Your accents must not die, But pierce the blue-veiled sky, With holy violence prevailable. Pray—good ran—pray ! If Bishops be away, Faithless to duties solemn and divine— So likewise be not ye, Nor act the Pharisee, Making religion but a cloak "or sign. Pray—good men—pray ! Whether in lane or way, Or hedge or ditch—pray, day and night and ever ; Your cries from huts and tents Shall pierce God's firmaments With such high might as mitred prayers knew never. Pray—good men —pray No time to be away From holy house, deep prayer, or prompt beseeching, When all the fields and food Which God gave man for good Stand like dark mourners, or sad prophets preaching. Pray—good men —pray 1 If time for sport or play Suit scarlet Churchmen, filled with quails and nectar__ The Heavens and all their rain Pour down but human pain On us—the poor—who cry to their Protector. Pray—good men —pray Gold spreads its dire dismay— Our bankrupt princes and our merchants quiver-L If Bishop-lords can sport While England runs to nought-- Pray ye—that miracle may yet deliver. Pray—good men —pray ! The pious voice, they say, 13reath'd by earth's lowliest 'mid his rags and dust Shines blest before God's throne— While that falls vain alone From the faint heart and whited altar thrust. Pray—good men-Lpray The scarlet Lords may stay Where the world's vanities or pleasures woo; — But ye—in prayerful mood, Shall pray your God for good— Yea, pray in love for faithless Churchmen too. TUE WEATHER.—NOON, AUGUST 21. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer fhermometer... 68 f Highest 69 Lowest ......... 54 Wind S. W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. Mr. Crowder had an interview with Lord John Rus sell yesterday at the Colonial-office. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum in good demand, and prices on the advance. Brandy taken sparingly, but holders firm. Corn spirits rather higher. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. The buyers were timid and cautious, but the supply being very moderate, most of the meat were sold at fair rates. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 45.; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 2d. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 3s. Bd. to as. ; Lamb, 4s. to ss. Clover, 3/. to 6/. 6a : Meadow Hay, 2/. to 4/. 15s. ; New Hay, 2/. to 4/. ; Straw, 21. 4s. to 21. 10s. WOOL MARKET. The demand good at the public sales, and although the im mense quantity of 21,000 bales have been declared, yet former rates were supported. FRUIT MARKET. Currants in good demand at 58s. to 60s. per cwt. Raisins sold more freely. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, AUG. 21.—Wind this day at noon W. to S.W. DEAL, AUG. 20.—Wind S.E., moderate. —Arrived the Severn, Williams, from Bahia Arrived from the River and sailed, the Anne, for Trinidad ; Spy, Corfu. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 20.—Wind S., fresh—Arrived the William Prawse, Prawse, from Valparaiso, sailed 19th May, with 150,000 dollars ; Margaret Elizabeth, M`lver, Bahia ; Coquette, Chambers, and Jane Augusta, Bogart, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Britannia, Oliver, St. Andrews, N. 8.; Feronia, M`Lellan, Horatio Davies, and Circassian, Fenwick, M ontrea l ; Queen, Edinburgh, and Jane Black, Quebec ; Albion, Newfoundland ; Lo tits, Alexandria ; Elizabeth, Palmer, and City of ham, Smyrna ; Laur e l, Duckett, Dalhousie. Arrivr_d off the Bombay packet, and John Lilley, from Miles:, ; Su sannah Cumming, Savannah ; Sandbach., Deme rara ; Crusader, Haidee, and John Ormerod, Sailed the Pendarves, for Palermo ; Frances, Port Phillip ; Columbine, Ne w South Wales ; Prince of Waterloo, Calcutta ; Tyro, Brazil .; 'Rapid, Galveston, Perdonnet, and Michegan, New Orleans ; 'Westchester, Portsmouth, and Oxford, New York ; Mais, Montreal. The Diligence Jones, bound to Carnarvon, was run into by the Westchester, for New York, in the River, cap sized, and sank ; the latter proceeded. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Mary Ann, from London, for Madras ; Eliza, from Shields, for Alexandria, leaky. S a il ed the Santo Amaro, Pereira, for St. Michael's. NEWPORT, AUG. 20 . —Sailed the Bocounve, Malaga. PORT TALBOT, AUG. 19.---Arrived the Sun, Potts, from Quebec. RUDE, AUG. 19.—The Canadian, of Padstow, which was on shore, was got off after being lightened,' appa rently with very little damage, and will proceed. CARDIFF, AUG. 16.—Sailed the Exile, for Quebec ; Columba, Boston. RAMSGATE, AUG. 20.—Sailed the St. John, for Gib raltar ; Sarah, Lisbon ; Predad, Bilboa ; and the rest of the outward bound. STANGATE CREEK, AUG. 20 . —Arrived the George William Coun, Alexandria ; Concord, Radley, Malta. CowEs, AUG.2o.—Sailed H. M., Schmidt. Monte Video. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 20.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed the Gilmore, for Sydney, New South Wales ; William Morey, Calcutta. FALMOUTH, AUG. 19 .—WindS. to E.S.E.—Sailed the Star packet, for Havannah ; Lady Basset, Alicant. PENZANCE, AUG. 19.—The Iris, from Dartmouth to Neath, is totally wrecked, between the Land's End and Cape Cornwall ; crow and part of materials saved. BRISTOL, Auo. 1 9.—Sailed the Frederick, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; William, Quebec ; Galen, Portsmouth, Unittd States. GLOUCESTER, AUG. 20 . —Arrived the Eliza Liddell, Gray, from Odessa. WORKINGTON, AUG. 18.—Sailed the Fawcett, for Restigouche. WHITEHAVEN, AUG. 19.—Sailed the Robert James, Haynes, for St. Thomas. CLYDE, AUG. 18 . —Arrived the Superb, from Bay Chaleur ; Borealis,. Newfoundland ; Rainbow, Scott, Montreal. Sailed the Janet, and Lord Sidmouth, for Bay Chateur. CORK, AUG. 18.—A rr i ve d t h e Pr i scilla, from Macao, for Hamburgh ; Margaret Parker, Miramicha. Arrived off, the Reis Effendi, Williams, from Monte Video ; Branches, White, St. John's, New Brunswick. PETERHEAD, AUG. 18.—The Harrison Chilton, on shore on Sea-town Head, has been got o ff, and brought into port. Th e Lady Grant, hence to Dundee, has been towed into harbour with lass of mast. COLONEL HILL, S3D REGIMENT, AND THE PLYMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL. At the last electios for the borough of Plymouth, Sir Henry Blackwood, who is an elector, rather imprudently produced a copy of the Standard newspaper among a crowd of persons, ly and publicly announced the d e f e at of Lord John Russell in th e Ci ty . Sir HenryHe„ry was immediate ly set upon by a num b er of the bystanders , and being i n danger o f hi s lif e, C olone l Hill, and others of the 53d, i n undress, ru s h e d to hi s re lief, when an affr a y too k place, and blows were exchanged. The next day the Colonel waited on the Mayor and expressed his regret in the pr esen c e o f t h e town-clerk at his ha v i ng b een present during the election. The Colonel's explana tion was considered perfectly satisfactory to the M a y or and the town-clerk. At a meeting of the Plymouth Town -Council on the 18th, a resolution was passed, " That the presence of the military during an election is highly improper; and that it be a recot,ntnendation to Lord 11ill, the Commander-in-Chief, that all officers and soldieh should remain in the barracks during any future election for this borough ;" and " That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Horse- Guards." The ' Council consists of about 18 Conservatives and 30 Whigs. k~ p ~l EVENIN UN LITERATTITrP. -11; , s POPEW POETI: t Mr. Smith deserves high praise for the spirited manner in which he is carrying on his " Standard Library," of which the present edition of Pope's Poems—comprised in one five shilling Number —is a favourable , specimen. Nothing can be completer or more elegant than this edition, which we doubt not, will very speedily achieve an extensive circulation. Few writers, indeed, are more likely to repay the expense of re-pub lication, no matter in what form, than Pope, for he was a poet essentially English in the quality of his intellect, sound, manly sense being the source and mainstay of his strength, the primary feature of his genius. His " Essay on Man" abounds—to say nothing of its incomparable grace of diction—in thoughts, sentiments, and opinions which find an echo in the breast of every intelligent reader; and even in his " Dunciad," clumsy as its design, and course and intemperate as is its execution, there are seve ral lofty poetic flights, which will surprise those who have allowed themselves to be influenced by the absurd clamour that he had little or no imagination. There are few things, even in Mil ton—certainly none in Dryden—more stately. or more pregnant with thought, than the closulf, passage of this singular and wayward satire. 01 his Epistles, it is enough to say that they are, the tersest and witti est spec i menS of t h e sa tirical we have in the language ; and that of all their numerous imitators none have approached them in force and neatness of touch. A single couplet of Pope often contains more wisdom than i s to be found in whole pages of our professed ill?" ralists ; and this is not thrown out ostentatiously or oracularly, but as if it dropped from „ j aw . ; writer by sheer a cc id en t. As Johnson, and aft e r him, Byron, j us tly observed, " a thousand y ea rs may roll away b e f ore we have such another poet as Pope." FINE ARTS. BURFORD'S PANORAMA OF JERUSALEM.. This painting was ex hibi te d for a pr ivate view yesterday; it is a clever specimen of the art , indeed it m a y ran k among the best panoramas that Mr. Burford has produced. Thu drawings' it seems, were take n f rom t h e terrace o f t he hoot' of the Aga, or Governor of Jerusalem; and th 6 view from this elevation is most compx:chens ive i embracing nearly th e w h o l e o f t h e un portso rtations mentioned in Scripture, and a vast ss : semblage of monasteries, mosques domes, 111113 a rets, &c., which spar kl e under the rays of a ll Eastern sun, with extreme splendour. Noir diately in front of the spectator, towards the South, stands th e beautiful mosque of Omar, 0 c,," copying the site o f th e T emp l e o f S o l om on, al ul resembling, from its cur i ous style and variety 01 gay colours, a n i mmense piece of Mosaic work, the rugged summits of stony and unfruitful hills appearing behind, with a portion of the Dead Sea in the distance, inclosed by lofty and :nays -- tic mountains. As a whole, the panorama is one of the most interesting and picturesque.that has appeared for some years. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) - PAISLEY RACES.—"TmunsDAY. The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 20 add ed ' Mile and a distance. (4 subs.) Mr. Ramsay's Nubian, 6 yr s , 9 s t (Noble) 1 t Lord Eglinton's Zoroaster, 6 yrs, 9st .... ......... Mr. Radfern's Sl as hi ng H arry, age d , 9st ............... ! ' Mr. Alexand er ' s C am ill a, 3 yrs, Est 81 b .................. * Won by a head. The Burgh Members' Plate of 50 gs. Heats. two win Mr. Ramsay's Sunbeam, aged, Bst 111 b ..,(Noble) 1 2 Lord Eglinton's Zoroaster, 6 yrs, Bst 1)',13 ......... 2 , . The first heat was won by a head, th© second by The Glasgow Cup of 100 sovs., d 11 .ded to a Ilandicagivol 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., an 4 -1, op i ,-- y sif declared. 1 c' miles. (10 subs., 6 o vi: 1 :1 0 ta declared.) ) i Lord Eglinton's The Po'.er, tate, age d, Bst glb..•(Ly e • 2 Mr. Robertson's The Ite',,ected, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ......... - Won by a neck. K ith The Two yrs-old Won of 20 sovs. each, 20 added, T . hree quarters of a mile. 4 Subs. . Mr. R am saY's:V r histle Binkie, Bst slb (Noble) !._ Mr. JohnstQw,'s Princess Royal, Bst 21b. ............... a leugtD„, . Won alg th. The Paisl ey C u p o f 501., b a y dded en to a Sweepstakes of° sovs. each, h ft. Heats, once round. Low Eglinton's Dr. Caius, 4 yrs, walked over. ABERYSTWITH RACES.— T H u sDA i r • The Gogerddan Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added. 2 miles. 2 Subs. Yin Parr's Aimwell, 6 yrs, 9st (Owner) 1 Mr. J. Pryse's Cnaos, 4 yrs, Bst 81b Won cleverly by half a length. The Hunters' Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 20 added. 4 miles, 12st each. 5 Subs. Mr. B. Davies's Merry Lass (Mr. Parr) 0 1 Mr. Lewis's Tally-ho 0 2 After the dead heat won easy The Members' Plate of 561., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Heats, 2 miles. 4 Subs, Mr. Parr's Ai mwe ll, 6 yrs, 9st (Owner) 0 1 Mr. Parry's bg by Jupiter, 5 yrs, Bst 71b 3 3ba Mr. Gough's Fausta, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b The first was a dead heat, the second won by a neck , and the third easily. The Handicap of 3 sovs. each, with a Purse added, one mile (5 Subs.), was won, it'. two heats, easily, 1 5 Mr. Gough's Gr een fi nc h, 4 y rs , 9st ( J . Enn i s ) , b e ads, Mr. Green's b fby Jack Tar, 3 yrs, 7st 91b ; Mr. r• Pryse's gr c by Firman, 3 yrs, Bst., and Mr. Parr's 131 11 " bridge, aged, 9st 61b. EVON AND ESZTER RACES.—WEDNESDA.Y. The Devonshire Stadr_es of 20 sovs. each, h ft, and 5 milt if declared ; the . 6econd to save his stake. Once round. 20 Subs, elev Or, of whom paid 5 sovs. each. Gen. Gilbert `stork, 5 yrs, list 1 llb Mr: Trelawr.,e7 nd Cerito, 4 yrs, 6st 81b 5 Mr. Downes Cracksman, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b Stickle?, BF,t 81b, and Master Tommy, Bst 51b, were no"' placed. Won by a head. The Ladie' s Purse of 251., added to a Sweepstakes 5 sovs. Ach, 3 ft., gentlemen r id ers . O ne mile of th , New C ourse. 0 1 D 1 Mr, oTvue's Cracksman, 5 yrs, 12 s t 0 Mr. King s l an d' s c b y Hi n d ostan, 3 yrs, 9st ..• 3 „- Mr. Asundell's cby R a j a h, 9 st 3 1b 2 - 0 • Won easy. The - Trades' Purse of 25 sovs., and a Sweepstakes of 3 scws. each, T.Y.C., were won i n t h ree h eats by M r ' Taunton's The Jewess, (Cowley), beating Cerito, first heat), Adrian, and Master Tommy, by a neck. T'd URSDAY. The Home Plate of 50/, and a Sweepstakes of 5 W l ' s ' each. General Gilbert's Stork walked over. _ _ The City Member's Plate of 50/. Mile heats. Mr. Budd's Adria n , age d, (B arne tt) Mr. Taunton's Jewess, 4 yrs 1 3 2 ! Mr. Roe's Sti c kl er , age d The Han'iicap Purse was won by Cracksman, and the County Mr. mbers' Plate by Stork. GREAT SCULLERS' WAGER. Yesterday a second purse of sovereigns o , liberally sub, scribed by the Directom and friends wh had w itnesseo on board the Bachelor - the match of last Tuesday, 0" the most noted scullery; of the day another opportunitY of exhibiting their prciwess. This had been got up for the seven unsuccessful men in the match to which we have alluded, and the following were the competitors :-- John Connoway, Horsleydown Stripes. Henry Godfrey . Old Swan White. J. Kelly _ Fulham Pink. J. Maynard .... Lambeth Yellow. C. Perry _ Lambeth Red. John Phelps ...—.....Fulham Green. e if twice from . The if. B distance, helton it will be Lonrton-bridge to Chelsea; this, The Bachelor to Swan with the stream, about 51 miles._ Lambeth rememberw . on . BTlLatecskuay was againa tide, and two heats were . robwoewdeirnerthasisfmni swan of the Directors and their frifol could not last,into A great deal of betting for the public to view - the match.ormer. Connoway, the hi thertotook place on board the f steam-boat was, as b eft .re, chartes,readndforthtleme Bcorincie'egryaonocme disrepute as a sculler- with Phelps the favouritism. Kelly At half-past four the starting wasand N n l e a x y t n a i r n d r d e i p v lu i a d ;g e f e evident Tham e Thames, had a e t o l leading favouri.teiotnl,tahse could rd galley withithe ui? a Cssleeuell::raoalnadpdovsas positions, n : it , oa e fi r p a s : place, where the other cutters, hroeNNvmverct. by gentlemen, went to the starting ba i: d h t e h - e sta h r e t st was of igt,raanndd, took Conn t o h w e a) fi r, r as st had l been end as far as the rerini'vtinniettelLvoeekanctodi p ace rdin.axy speed. Godfrey dropped astern - htly after the first few strokes, and. Shelton, slightly Perry, and Maynard ~ rvere all scull and scull. Kelly i m mediately -afterwards joined the party. At this time one of the best men was deprived of all chance of vic tory by an r.ccident. As Kelly was making play for a lead a. 5. n a e. nxp feted, ex station.t i a o cutter bek.nging to one of the other parties came across his wherry and swamped. it, and he was obliged to jump into a. dal ley that was pr.ssing at the instant. Connoway did not maintain his It .ad for more than half a mile. Phelps and Shelton ro , Ned by him at once, and a great struggle ensued betw , !e a these two for the first place. Phelps just below Fa 3kfriars Bridge appeared to have got the best cf it, but it was only for a moment. Shelton picked up his boat,. -and gradually went in advance. Maynard passed Con nviway, and ere the arrival of the Party at Westminste.7 :Bridge the latter had dropped into the fifth place. Bet'wt en the first pair it was a first-rate display all the way u] ~ In vain did Phelps endeavour to overhaul his opponent. Although encouraged by the deafening shouts of hi ; backers and friends all his efforts was unavailing. Shel . Lon maintained the lead, and won by two lengths only. Maynard was third, six lengths a, stern of the second tnt n. The prizes were presented to the winners by Mr. 0 maplin on board the Bachelor. DEPA RTURIL Cl. F THE STEAM-SHIP BEI" TANNIA.-LIVEWPOOL., FRIDAY.—The Britannia steam -. ship, Captain Clellana, sailed yesterday about noon, for' Halifax and Boston, vpi ;h her Majesty's mails for Canals; and the United States— The Britantom took out one ez the largest mails ever s hipped at this port, and about one hundred and twenty p issengers. She appeared in fine trim, and left the ri 7ei • with a fair wind, and wi. l l, 0 ° doubt, make ono of h e: r usually short trips acrVss the Atlantic. Pro, poi E that t out Via Ilea! hie; stet ( Ties alnic even to s I k'llll in E Otill ant tteiur It Alai tajnll bov e l flu t y that's bringA. , Weld of the tomb VannE Th to a 1 N, Nir New 1 1lin o Ind:a Ohio Te nn kepi Arka Pkrni U • Si In re. ga , as W of it: read stre( for 1 e