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To be published with the 3lagazines, at the end of the Alontb, in one volume post Bve., with numerous Illustrations by Leach, THE PORCELAIN TOWER Or, NINE STORIES of CHINA. By T. H. SEALY, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. On Wednesday nest, the 25th instant, in 3 vols. post 6vo. , E D L 0 C K W OR, YESTERDAY AND TO- DAY. A NOVEL. By the Author of " The lthicl's Husband," &c. Bichard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ItOYAL SURREY THEATRE._ UNDER TiiEMANAGENIENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR, WILLIS TONES. Overflowing Houses—Great success of Mazeppa—New Scenes in the Circle. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 23, will be acted Lord Byron's Spectacle, called THE WILD HORSE; OR, MAZEPPA, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. introducing Mr. Ducrow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, highly-trained PaWets, Fairy Pioneys, the Equestrians, and Companies of both Theatres. After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, In the Largest Arena in the World. . _ In which Madame Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Ameri can Rider, the• British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. To conelmie with, THE OLD OAK CHEST. Supported by the entire Dramatic Company. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. More novelty and attraction at this uow the ouly perfect Minor Theatre in London. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 23, An original Melodrama in Three Acts, founded on the events of a most atrocious murder, even more apealling than that committed on the Mar Family in Ratcliiff. Highway, called DEEDS and DOINGS of the DARK HOUSE; or, SIMPLE BESS of BILLINGSGTE! Bradburn, Mr. Dale : Charles Elford, Mr. Seaman ; Davey Duhbs, Mr. Gardner; Hoppy Bob, Mr. Paul ; Ann, Mrs. W. We t ; Simple Bess, Mrs. G. Lee. After which. THE BEAR HUNTERS. Caribert, Mr. E. F. 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The Great Wizard, by his individual exertion, has tilled the Adelphi Theatre for one hundred nights, and could for three hundred mere, but that he is compelled to make way for the Great Fred. (not Frederick the Great), who will commence his Mephisto phdian orgies earlier than the Wizard expected. " Come one—Come all !"—The Wizard will be found incom prehensible as he is invulnerable. A hundred of the best of the London Sportsmen have tried in vain to wing him, but he is still on the wing, and will for one week more be their Living Target. The Wizard hopes that " Homo Involnerabilis" will still be his motto ; and he pledges himself that he will exert all his powers to please his patrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. * * Remember !—The Last Week—Poz! Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Half-past Nine o'clock. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Places for the Boxes may be taken from Mr. Swinburn, at the Box-office, between Eleven and Four. Parties are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nightly crowded, an early application is requisite. .N.li. Private Boxes, containing six persons, 1/. 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 TO-MORROW, the 24TH, THE LIST OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT Will be REPEATED, with THE QUEEN'S SPEECH ON OPENING THE SESSION. Early Orders are requested to enable us to SAVE POST. THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW RE-PUBLISHED, PRICE SIXPENCE. Sun Office, 112, Strand. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. tUrntriv...... 51 minntes after 5. 1 Evening .12 minutes after fi. LONDON: MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1841. As the day approaches on which Parliament will be opened for business by a speech from the Throne, albeit not delivered by her MAJESTY i n person, speculation is very busy with what it will contain and what the parties will do. We have never for one moment supposed that the Ministers would retire till after they had, by some distinct vote, ascertained the sense of the present House of Commons, on the mea sures they proposed to the last Parliament. The Tory journals have indeed threatened them if they remained in office for that purpose, but for their bullying there was no ground, and it could have no effect. It was merely the rail. ing of disappointment. Ministers will at least endeavour to ascertain the sense of the new Parliament, by the speech from the Throne, and by such an address as shall render it difficult for the Tories, with all their Parlia mentary tact and their majority - , to avoid de claring by a vote what answer the electors have given to the appeal made to them. The speech will not be so bold and uncompromising as we wish, but it will compel the Tories to propose an amendment, and a debate will ensue, which is expected to last all the week. The Tories will, of course, try to shuffle away from any declaration of opinion as to the measures which are necessary for the country. Their tactics are obvious from the language of their journals. As the latter have railed day after day against Ministers for remaining in office, so the Tories in Parliament will turn all the debates on the con duct of the Whigs. They will refer to the vote of want of confidence, and will refuse, if they can, to discuss any question connected with the situation of the country, or with sugar or corn. They will, probably, propose some amendment turning on that vote, and endeavour to prevent any decision co cerning the measures of the Ministers. They will make the debate a personal dispute; they will say that the appeal made to the electors was, whether they had confidence in the Whigs, not whether the people want cheap food, and all consideration of the measures necessary for the welfare of the country will be discarded. It may serve the purposes of the Tories to make the debate a personal dispute. With the House of Commons for judges, and a suit in stituted between them and the Whigs, they will get a verdict in their favour. But it will not serve the dignity of the House of Com mons, nor the interest of the people, to en gage that assembly in such personal squab bles. The bulk of the people are now too observing and have too much kaowledze of what the Parliament ought to do, and if they see the in terests of th e country continually sacrificed , a*,.... , ..,_ ~ , . 4 1 * 46 ' ? , 4 O AT Qu a , 4 .. 2? ) . . A # LA ' l. + ..- 7 C'f,.... •- 1 : ~ 1 --.1... , ,,L.4.W.70,411N 0 W ; gt_:_,),' ~ . ' ‘l4)'''* *ilk .0)0 DBE ' ......„.•' . 4 j,• 117 -, _. %- ' 4, tfe f • . °'. VZ. ~:,, . ";. • r. ."-?- ' c . _ r-- t••• ,§un. mand obedience, if it do not take instant means to Ascertain the causes of the present distress of the working classes, resolved to remedy it. If that be postponed to the petty paltry intrigues of either Whigs or Tories, the power of Parlia ment will speedily come ° to an end, and all rights, which depend merely on the law of the land, will expire with it. Now that the Conference at Manchester is over, we can venture to estimate its influence and its utility. We rate them both very high. It was composed exclusively of ministers of religion, collected from almost every part of the empire. Its debates were conducted with great order, but they were distinguished by fervour and enthu siasm. The ministers came forward voluntarily ; their's was a labour of love; they put themselves to trouble and expense; they can get no pecu niary remuneration for their exertions; and their whole conduct is impressed with the characteris tic of the most devoted sincerity. That circum stance will make their opinions be respected throughout the community. But these ministers are, in all cases, the repre sentatives of their congregations. They spoke not only their own sentiments, but the sentiments of many thousands, perhaps even of millions, who are in communion with them. Such heart felt sincerity, speaking truly, backed by such a mass of physical force, is sufficient to produce a moral revolution in the empire. The Conference has already dissipated many errors and embellished some truths. By merely meeting, it put down at once the assertion that the Only persons vieho sought the abolition of the Corn-laws were greedy manufacturers, who were intent to beat down the wages of labour, regard less of the poor. The assemblnd ministers have brought proof from all qua; ten of the empire that t lie labourers now are in a most destitute Con', ition, and they expressly advocate the aboli t-lon of the Corn-laws because that will benefit the poor. In their admirable address to the people of the United Kingdom they say : Our attention has, in the first place, been directed to the principle upon which the Corn and Provision-laws of this country are based. The immediate effect of these laws is to make the food of the people dear. It is de monstrable that this can be done only by rendering food scarce. From the artificial scarcity so created the dif ferent classes of consumers escape, in proportion to their wealth--the evil pressing with accumulating severity upon the humbler classes, exactly in the degree of their inability to sustain the burden. These laws operate with continually aggravating force, in consequence of the natural and inevitable increase in the numbers of the people. The most painful evidence of the truth of this principle has been laid before us from all parts of the kingdom, proving the poverty and privations of the working classes, whose generalfortitude under their augmenting wretchedness has awakened our sympathy, and called for our present interference in their behalf. In addition to the existence of domestic suffering, often in the most distressing forms of misery and disease, proof of an increased mortality has been forced upon us, and we have had the appalling fact disclosed that famine is already doing its deadly work among the most destitute portions of the community. Such language at once relieves the manufac turers, and especially it relieves the Anti-Corn law League, from the imputations of selfishly seek ing their own profit, and of wishing to beat down the wages of their workmen, which have been so calumniously heaped on them by the Tories. The Conference has fully and unanswerably established, through the statements of pastors engaged in agricultural as well as manufacturing districts, that the wages of labourers are at pre sent miserably inadequate. It has, therefore, exonerated the manufacturers, and it has demon strated the necessity of doing something to save the people from perishing. These, however, are but the smallest part of the great services it has rendered to the public. It has pointed out the demoralizing effect of the Corn-laws, and shown that they are contrary to the principles of Christianity. The address above quoted has also this passage : Them, ooruar/ efiseriic:isoefotnzdhceorarpti consideration. Provision-l aws hi ve occupied It has been proved to us that the physical deteriora tion of multitudes of our countrymen has p ro d uce d an alarming amount of demoralization. Under this aspect these laws ha ve i l t l u w al h a o nd are appearedo t o us to nquire the most anxious attention oi eternal interestsconcerned for o t f h e theirad - vancement of the spiritual •• fellow-creatures. As Christian • • above all prizing all other consideration s the interests of morality . and re livion, we have been unable to anticipate, without apre hension and dread, stimulatedrowth and development of . those passions which are and called into action by hunger and destitution. The petition to the House of Cornmons says— That your petitioners are only actin+ in the spirit of their office when they remind your I L/curable House that laws of human legislatures should 1* framed in strict accordance with the declared will of God and the beneficent designs of his providence ; and that all laws which contradict his will, and counteract his bounty, must of necessity be wrong in principle, and injurious in their tendency ; and that it is the deliberate and solemn non _ viction of this assembly that this is the unrighteous cha racter of the operation of the provisio;:-laws of this kingdom, under whoie baneful influence our bel ove d country is severed from profitable intercourse with other countries which are ready to exchange their products for our manufactures—the skill and labour of the indus trious classes of our countrymen are rendered of less and less avail to their own subsistence, whilst immense num bers of them from day to day are thrown out of em ployment, and reduced to a state of utter destitution ; or cast upon the rapidly decreasing resources of the humane and charitable, who, in their turn, are sinking down into the abject condition of paupers ; and famine, disease, and death are spreading with fearful desolation through out the length and breadth of this once prosperous and happy land. Your petitioners, therefore, convinced of the sinful ness of these laws, which violate the paramount law of God and restrict the bounty of his providence ; of their injurious operation on the domestic comforts, and the social, moral, and religious condition of the people of these realms. A great body, then, of Christian ministers have branded the Corn-laws as contrary to Christi anity, which will burn deep into the minds of the people. All the wit of all thd Tory scribblers will not harden their consciences against this as- •to party objects by the Legislature, they will come first to despise that body, and next they will refuse to obey it. Sir ROBERT PEEL is, we believe, ambitious of exercising power quietly through the means of the House of Commons, and he is woefully mistaken if he thinks he can afford to destroy its character by engaging it in party disputes, and neglecting the interests of the people. What is now their state ? It is established, by concurrent testimony from many quarters, that they are in great distress, and great suffering. While their ingenuity and industry are unparal leled—while the ALMIGHTY gives a favourable answer to their striving by overflowing the land with wealth, the average wages of labour is barely sufficient to keep a family in existence, and in many instances does not suffice for that purpose. Thousands of the people are a prey to famine. The Corn-laws may not be, as the Tories say, the cause of this deep distress ; Lut, whatever be the cause, the Legislature is bound to ascertain it, and remedy the distress. The Parliament passes laws to give a remune rative price to farmers, and it must therefore be bound to ensure remunerating wages for labour. It is careful not to allow the income of the clergy to be lessened ; it endeavours to keep up and in crease the income of the landlords ; and it must also in consistency keep up the wages of labour• If it say that it cannot—that wages are regulated by the demands of the market, the question will be, why then does it interfere at all with the dis tribution of property, and above all, why does it direct all its attention to securing an increase of v ealth to the opulent farmers and landowners ? St ch an answer might be accepted if the Legis lature did not interfere at all, but, interfering to keep up the rent of land and the remuneration of the farmer, it is also bound by all the princi ples of consistency to interfere with and keep up the wages of labour. If it do not, if it avow that it can and will do nothing for labour but tax and oppress it, what claim can it possibly have on the obedience of the labourers ? If, in addition to refusing to do anything for them in their present condition, it refuses to in quire into . the causes of their distress—if the ma jority of the House of Commons shall decide that it cares nothing whatever about them, but a great deal about placing the Tories in office, how can the House of Commons dream of securing the affection and obedience of the labouring classes, of which it will be so totally undeserving? It is not in human nature, we believe, fur the L eg i s l a t ure to coin- THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1841 sertion. Their railing will not rail that seal off the law. Branding the law as unchristian, these . Christian ministers brand all its supporters with the same characteristic; and something must be done by the clergy of the Established Church and by the landowners, to demonstrate that the law is consistent with Christianity, and that they behave like Christians in supporting it, or the people will treat them as heathens and atheists. To have that law stigmatised, and its supporters, too, by one of the most numerous congregations of Christian ministers which have for a long period been assembled, must put an end to all compromise, and ensures us at no distant day complete success. The Conference will have a still more import ant effect. In taking up the question on the principles of religion and morality, and in show ing, as it has done, that the law the Conference denounces as unchristian is impolitic, it has done much towards placing legislation altogether on a new basis. Expediency is very well when ef fects can be correctly calculated, but modern ex perience has demonstrated that statesmen are much oftener erroneous than correct in estimating future consequences. It is properly, therefore, concluded, that no legislative measures can be expedient which are immoral or dishonest. The Conference have enforced that principle in the strongest manner, and the abolition of the Corn law can only be the commencement of a reform, on principles of mora lity, o f our w h o l e system of legislation. We are not deceived, therefore, in our expectations, if the Conference has turned out, as we foretold, one of the most important and influential Conferences that were ever held in this or any other country, in this or any other ao.e 0 . A Correspondent expresses surprise that so ittle notice has been taken by the Liberal Press of the absence of the Bishops at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday last. For our own part, we have but to observe, that there was nothing in the circumstance of our Venerable Prelacy keeping out of the way on such an occasion, in consistent with our ideas of episcopal piety. Had Parliament assembled to discuss a Church Extension Bill, or to grant money for increasing the enormous incomes of the 'clergy, the Episco pal Bench would have presented a goodly show of most meek and attentive lawn-bedecked oc cupants; but as there was only a prayer to say— a heavenly blessing for the SOVEREIGN, the Par liament, and the Church, to be asked, the Bishops, of course, never troubled their heads about it. And what is there in this to surprise any person conversant with the general conduct of the dignitaries of the Established Church ? Where are they to be found engaged in the simple worship of GOD when such worship is at tended with no worldly profit ? And where does Mammon erect an altar before which they are not to be found prostrate? Is there one so simple to suppose, that if, instead of saying a prayer, any of the assembled Peers had expected the Bishops to dine with him, that so much as one of the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Fathers in GOD would have been too late for the first course ? Had the Bishops been expected to do the honours of the table instead of the honours of religion, there would have arisen no difficulty from their absence. Not a chime of the dinner-bell would have escaped their eager auriculars. The Peers sought in vain fbr a Bishop when Heaven was to be invoked, but what Pre hte ever kept a Peer waiting, whose influence was sufficient to obtain a translation to a richer see ? What Chancellor was ever kept waiting who had a living at his disposal, which he was willing to bestow upon the pluralist nephew or son-in-law of a Lord Spiritual? However, the Peers contrived to open Parlia ment without the Bishops; and as the attendance of the Prelates is not at all indispensable to the business of legislation, the Church would be a gainer by their being entirely relieved of their legislative functions. In their path to paradise they have too many grave obstacles to contend with, independently of those which beset the foot steps of law-makers. CHRIST deemed a second coat an incumbrance to salvation, and money in the purse a weight sufficient to prevent the soar ing heavenward of an apostolic spirit. The Bishops are bolder men than the Apostles. In the manifestation of their power over the Prince of Darkness, they are indifferent with how much of the world's wealth and superfluities they load themselves. CHRIST shunned honours; the Bishops seek them. When the Jews would have made CHRIST a king he fled into the wilderness; the Minister who would escape the daily solicitation of the Prelates for the highest dignities and preferments in the Church would require to fly the country. Such is their confidence in their ability to save souls, that they fearlessly undertake for the salvation of thousands whom they never intend to edify by their example, or to comfort by their ministra tion. CHRIST constantly lashed the vices of the rich and powerful, without regard to their opinions. The Bishops, on the contrary, are never weary of tolerating vice, never tired of traducing, and, as far as they can, of perse cuting opinions. CHRIST judged of opinions by general conduct; the Bishops take opinions as their standard of conduct. CHRIST lauded virtue; the Bishops declare all praiseworthi ness to consist in orthodoxy. CHRIST and hie Apostles constantly preacht d against faults in morals; the Bishops, when they do preach, inveigh with the greatest bitterness against errors in doctrine. They trouble themselves not about what men do, but about what they be lieve. The most flagrant sinners trouble them a thousand times less than schismatics, heretics, and infidels—viz., persons who think GOD may be worshipped in spirit and in truth without the intervention of Prelacy. 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 by 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 CHRIST, and some other autho rity than His. Seeing, then, that the religion of CHRIST and the religion of the Bishops are altogether dis tinct, there was surely nothing to shock the moral sense of our Correspondent in the ab- The Conference is attacked, too, by anotherparty 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 sence of the Bishops at prayer-time, on Thurs day last—save in so far as regards their pro fessing to walk in the footsteps of the SAVIOUR —and consequently nothing to evoke the ex pression of an indignant feeling on the part of the Liberal Press. Our Correspondent may rely *upon it, that the first levee held by Sir ROBERT PEEL will not want the presence of a Bishop to shed upon it the lustre of an Episcopal approval, however indifferent the Right Reverend Bench were to the character of Thursday's proceedings in the House of Lords. The knees, stiff in the service of GOD, will he pliant enough at the Mammon-worship of the Tory Premier. 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 conduct of the Metropolitan police veri fies more and more the character which, some ..... twelve months ago, we ascribed to th em , an d The French Journals of Thursday have all which was repeated at the time amidst, loud been received, but th e news con t a i ne d i n th em cheers by Mr. THOM A S D UN COMBE in the H ouse was anticipated in the afternoon edition of Fri ofCornmons. We described them as the greatest ' We have , seen no days Sun. Th e f o ll ow i ng extracts f rom t h em curse of a free country. reason since to alter our opinion. The case of are, howev er , i n t erest i ng : Mr. WILLIAMS, a Common Councilman of the Between f our an d fi ve o ' c l oc k , t h e a f ternoon b efore last, as one of the men of Messrs. Jouan and Favre, letinto the cellar brnke a it. bottle The City of London, i s f res h i n th e reco ll ect i on o f our druggists, in the Rue Saint of Martin,ai was carrying readers. readers. T wo o f t h e po li cemen on t h at occas i on down it drop, and gas v at was immedi a t e ly e made statements on oa th w hi c h were i ncontro - vertibl ignited by th e can dl e the man held in h i s hand, and y refuted, and chi e fly f rom th e i r own spread like lightning over the whole cellar, in which evidence. A policeman of the name of RUSSELL, I were other inflammable essences, so that in a few who had been in the habit of making false minutes it was fill e d w i t h fl ames . Th e firemen were charges aga i nst f ema l es, had been repeatedly almostly instantly on the s p o t, an d se t th eir engines to r eprimanded by on e o f th e M ag i strates o f Bow work. Several p ut on C olonel Paul i n ' s apparatus, and went down, but the explosi were so repeated and street Police-office, Police-Office, and, accordin g t o an accoun t gerous , that they were forced to return, and was every in the The Sun of this day, has, after some un- minute expected t h at t h e whole house wou ld b e blown accountable delay on t h e part o f t h e Commis- 1 skill and perseveran ce , th at i n t h e course o f t wo h ours I up. Their ex er ti ons were, however, ccnt i nue d with such sioners, been at l ast a ll owed to re s i gn . We ' an d a half the fire was extinguished, but withot could add uce many other instances of insuff er - I doin g very extensive d amage . Th e loss was not consideru able conduct ; but the most atrocious case , able, but fortunat e ly th e part i es were f u ll y i nsure d. yet occurred on F r i day night, when a gen- 1 Two evenings ago, as a farmer of the Seine et Marne was returning h ome f rom Paris, when at a b out h alf a tleman, long re gar d e d as one of the first league from the barrier, he heard groans by the road-side. merchants in the City, both for his integrity and and, having dismounted, saw a man i lying on the bank of his knowledge of commercial affairs, who repro- a di tc h. H e stooped down to assist him, but mmedi• ately received in his eyes a handful of dust and snuff, sented in Parliament the Tory constituency of the w hi c h for a few moments deprived him of sight. Mean metropolis for four years, and who bears the 'time the ma n w h o h ad thrown the mixture got up, hi g hest character f or d omestic virtues, was I mounted the farmer's horse, and galloped off. The dragged to a station-house on a false charg owner, who was l e ft to continue his route on foot, on e arriving at home found his horse in the stable, but with made by a policeman. He was obliged to march . out the saddle. It is supposed that the thief being un- , like a felon through the streets, compelled to find bail, summon medical men to attest to the state of his bodily infirmities, and undergo all the degradation which these imperious guardians of morality and honour and religion choose to in flict. We regret this outrage for the sake of Mr. WARD, but in other respects we rejoice. It will call the attention of the Legislature to a grievance which has long pressed heavily on the lower and middle classes. When they find it touches themselves they will interfere. No man is safe under the present system. Charac ter, honour, and station in society may be blasted by the oath of policemen like those who swear falsely against unfortunate females, and who take the most atrocious means of affixing a stigma on the most honourable of men for an imaginary insult. Highly important news from China, to the 17th of April, brought by the Akbar, Captain DUMA RESQ, in 109 days from Canton to New York, and thence to England by the Great Western, wiil be found in another part of The Sun. As doul is 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 on Friday, and despite the loud trumpet_ ings of the Tories, was neither more nor less than a miserable fitilure. Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT was in the Chaic—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 old man made ! Never before, we believe, was such nonsense spoken at a public dinner, even by Mr. BRAD SHAW of Canterbury ! Not content with declar ing that the Tories were the best and most tried friends of the people, the Hon. Baronet actually eulogised the " unswerving integrity" and " strong determinateness of purpose" of Sir ROBERT PEEL! The " strong determinateness of purpose" of the - man whose chief fault 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 of society ;" — 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" wms 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 ! able to make the horse take a cross-road, had abandoned it, after stealing the saddle, and the animal had gon: home by itself. A correspondent at Alg,iers 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 kalifa of the Emir's, who was en deavouring 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," ' The Precurseur, of Angers, says, " A report was spread at Angers yesterday that dist ur b ances h a d t a k en place at La Ro chelle, caused, as some said, by the expor- Lacion 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 chelle 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, do u b t l ess f or th e purpose of taing 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 of Spain with plans for an insurrection. We are able to affirm that that General has been for some days past at Pampeluila." —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 Indkateur 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, cantoned in the east of the 11 th Military Division; to march to Bor deaux.—Lc Constitutional. BO URSE-PARIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. , - First Highest Lowest 1 ast Price Price. Pricy. Price 'tench 5 per Cerny ll6 tO ... ild 55 ... 1 6 50 ... 116 50 4% per Cents ...... 4 per Cents 99 70 ... 99 70 ... 14) 70 .. 99 70 3 per Cents. ex. div 77 60 .. 77 60 ... 77 50 ... 77 50 Bank of France .... 2190 ...3190 ...3190 ...3190 Lartitte hank 1.11001. St area 1140 ...1940 ...I(40 ...1040 5,0001. Skares 5 , 20 ...51.10 ...5110 ...51211 icleian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents 7l a 0 ... 71 50 ... 71 51 ... 71 50 Dutch 2% per Cents. 52% ... 52 1 4 ... 52% ... svsli ip..insh Au.i.i 50% ... :OA ... 1:0% ... ,20% Pasmi,.. 4% ... 4% ... 4% ... 4. 4 New Deferrhi Neapolitan 114 30 •114 30 Liman lo2}ti 1044 ...1023 ...10251 ItAILWAN 81- IAREs. 728 75 73 , 1 ... 728 75 ... 728 75 408 75 . 210 2.0 i 75 ... 210 321 50 37 5C ... 323 ... 3.5 450 ... 450 ... 45,1 ... 450 4,-2 50 482 50 , 82 20 ... 482 50 237 50 ... 237 50 ... 237 50 . 237 50 A. Germain __— Versailles. LB •..•• it. B tousn Mean. irrastitirt to Bale MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) 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 d. 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 A mer i can , 2 60 P eruv i an, an d 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 Birmingham, 321. Shares, 54+; Midland Counties, New Shares, 19+ ; North Midland, Thirds, 91. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 20.—Shares kept firm in price with but little doing.—London and Birmingham, 160 161 _; Ditto, 321 . Shar es , 53 53 . ; Ditto, ditto, New, 22+ 24 ; Ditto, Quarters, 22. ; Manchester and Leeds, 53 ; Ditto, Halves, 21k ; Man chester and Birmingham, 201. The 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 be 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. Consols opened at 891 1 for Money,' and 891 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills, 12 14 prem. Spanish Active Stock, 194 20. No business doing. The English Stock Market is flatter since the opening. Consols are now quoted at 891 1 for Money, and 891 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 13 prem. In the Foreign Marketßrazilian Bonds are 673,-; Chilian 71 ; Spanish Active Stock, 20 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 511 ; Ditto Fives, 1014. Little doing in Shares. Great Western are 81 ; Lon don and Brighton, 44 a ; Manchester and Leeds, 57 ; South Eastern and Dover, 164. The advices 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 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, and Tallow, but Sugar 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, 893 ; October, 89i 90 ; Colombi an , 204 ; M ex i can , 26+ ; Spanish, 20+. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock .. 168 India Stock 3 per Cent R e d B9l, IDitto Bonds ........ ..... pm 3 per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent Red 99 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 9Bi Ex. Bills, 1 , 0 00/....21d 13 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 50 01......... 15 pm Long Annuities toexpire Ditt 5ma11...... 15 pm Jan. 1860 .. 12 15.16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct 1859 lndia Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... 109. Portuguese, 5 ,per cent. l3elgidn, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... 67i Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent...... 70i Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, .5 per cent 2O Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred ... -- Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. --f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 percent —f. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52i Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent.......... 102 SHARES Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Ditto Debentures ( 6 paid) 8 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Bl Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London'and Brighton (50 paid)... 45 Londoriand Blackwall Railway (25 paid) l4i. London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 1616 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l2l Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto New Shares (30 paid 24 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... 81 South Eastern and Dover (38 paid)... 161 York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 74 Ditto New Shares (10 paid) THE SLIPPERY BARONET. If there's a man, of whom 'tis said " He's slippery as an eel ;" No one deserves the compliment More than Sir Robert Peel. If we upon his public life E'er venture to look back, O'er all the way there still appears A crooked sliding track. Not long ago he vainly hoped Prime Minister to be ; But slippery was the road he took, Like all his policy. He held not a straightforward course, But, full of wiles and snares, He slipped while turning out the maids, And fell upon the stairs. For Britain's weal, the Ministry The Corn-laws now assail— True to himself, Sir Robert Peel Prefers the sliding scale. 'Tis quite in keeping that the man (Though some may here deride) Who has so slippery been through lite, Should love to have a slide. When after place again he looks, I hope he'll get the slip, "Which sometimes happens, it is said, Between the cup and lip. And so may all Monopolists Who do our land enthral, Get, like the wily Baronet, A heavy backward fall. S ARV pf PSEIVS AND tittbltt Optuion. " Who runs may read." The American papers bring important news from China to the 17th of April, which will be found in an other part of The Sun. 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 killed—that the Chinese Admiral Kwang, the " lineal and terrible descendant of the God of war, from 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 miming from the Continent. PUBLIC OPINILJN. The Times asks the following carious 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 dign;lied pursuits, for the mere purpose of putting an extinguisher upon humbugs ?" 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" of 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 onegreater than himself, unless indeed it be that selfish anti-national faction which is now as much the theme cf 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 thesg men's pompous and in flated arrogance has succeeded in ensnaring Lord Ducie and Mr. Cobden, M.l'., 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 heseldom 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 mush 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 be 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 fur 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, sqy 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 giving 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 carnivore 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 not been more unjust to his oppo nents, than it has been embarrassing and awkward for his own friends to deal with. Pressed right and left, be fore and behind, by their respective adherents, gasping, yearning, and importuning for intelligence," n ews,' or information,' the best public instructors' of the Tory Press have been forced to say something yet, being left quite in the dark as to the f u t ure policy of the ir 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-TRADE-C9IVI DIERCE. The Devizes turnpike tolls have been let for the en. suing year at 3,030/., being 432/. less than last year's let. Accounts from Trieste say that several commercial, failures have occurred in that city. There has beeifff C s tf tr av li or ni- ra a ble ct . ange in the Brigh ton weather. On Monday and Tuesday, though rain still continued to fall at intervals, the atmosphere be came much warmer, and the barometer rose ; and on: Wednesday the sun rose in unclouded splendour, and has since maintained its supremacy. Both Thursday and Friday were beautiful days —warm without being sultry. The harvest has now pmpeucesi in earnest ig FOREIGN. The American domestic news to the Bth inst., brought by the Great Western, is of so miscellaneous a character that no summary of it can be given h e r e . N or d oes it contain a single fact of paramount importance save that Mr. M'Leod would positively be brought to trial at Utica on the 19th inst. MORNING SUN this neighbourhood. Along the coast a, most busy and animating scene is presented —every operaiion of the harvest being carried on in full vigour. Much corn, however, still remains unripe. We doubt, from gene Oil" 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 MILITAUT. A private, of the name of Courtney, in the 72d High:: landers, now at Windsor, found guilty of stealing three loares 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. On Friday Mr. Balfe passed his finaTexamination in the Insolvent Debtor's Court and was discharged. The Chester C,ltfonicle 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 succeeded, and= caused an additional expense to the Court of 1,000/. The Nenagh Assizes (North Riding of the county of Tipperary) have proved maiden. X4XTERARY. Dr. Arnold has been appointed to the Professorship of Modern History at Oxford, in the place of Dr. Nares. SPORTING. The late cold wet weather has let loose many of the different packs of fox-hounds. The Oakley have alreadf 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 saes factory to sportsmen. ELECTIONEERING. The Liberal e l ec t ors o f Andover assemble d et the Town Hall on Tuesday evening to celebrate their victory over the Tory candidate at the recent election. Tw ° bung dred and fifty gent l emen sat down, and sixty, fur want of accommodati on a t t h e T own H a ll, dined at the St ar Garter. Th ere were present, the Hon. New ton Fellowes, as Ch a i rman , supported r i ght and le f t by it' Etwall, Esq., M.P. ; L or d W m. Paget, M.Y. ; Lord Huntingtow er ; Ch ar l es B ar i ng Wall, Esq., ; th e H)n. A. W. F e ll owes , t h e Rev. Mr. Blount, the Rev. M r. Smythe, G aw ler, &c. The -sp eec h e s on the occasion were eloquent, and m os t ent h us i ast i ca ll y rece i ve d. The Tory festi va l t o ce l e b rate t h e return of CePtaill Rous for Westminster took place on Friday at Drury' lane Theatre. The party, in order to make the old .14! 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 $ charge of assaulting Captain Craddock during the 06'9". tion, and of forcing his vote, were discharged. COURT—FASIZION.ILTILE. Prince Albert will preside at the meeting of the Scl lo o of Design, to be held at Somerset House, this day. Prince George of Cambridge left St. James's Palac° on Friday 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 Wellingto n 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 Toll Government, The Marquis of Abercorn has arrived at his seat at Baron's Court from Colonel Conolly's, where he has be ell enjoying the salmon fishing. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Friday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. MISCELLANEOUS. A person, named A rgen t, o f C am b r id ge , 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, an d his niece obtains the property. A floating breakwater is proposed to be erec ted at Brighton, and this day a meeting takes the Pr°Psi 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 alwaya borne an irreproachable character, and bed been fur two years and a half in the service of Mr. Evans, drawing master, at Eton College, had been betrayed by sonic 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 Saturday was 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. Saturday was the anniversary of the battle of Vimiers, 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 eke' tro-magnetic power, in one hour and a half ; 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. 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 b. 7 sworn in or business commenced, no r th e gallery prayers have been read. On the pre sen t occa s ion no Bish o p was to be found."— Openi n g of the House of Lords 04 Thursday. opened. unt i l 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 prey ailable. Pray—good 'men—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 ! If time for sport or play Suit scarlet Churchmen, filled with q uails and nectar—. The Heavens and all their rain Pour down but human pain On us—the poor —who cry to teir. Pray—good men —pray ! Gold spreads its dire dismay— O u r bankrupt p rinces and our merchants quiver 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, Breath'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 —pray ! 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. THE WEATHER.—NooN, AUGUST 21. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STAN:Rio Barometer Thermometer... 68 ( Highest 69 1 Lowest ... ..... . 5 4 Wind S. W. —Freezing Point 32 Dog. The accouchement of Lady Louisa Johnstone, the widow of the late lamented Sir Frederick G. John stone, Bart., took place on the sth instant, at Gore House, Kensington, when her Ladyship was safely deli vered of twin sons, who with her Ladyship are doing well. It is somewhat remarkable that the Johnstone property should be again placed in trust dur:ng a long minority, the late Sir Frederick being an infant at the death of his father, Sir John. A thre.e hundred miles march in Indio, without cholera, is one of the pleasantest things in life ;_ with the cholera it is one of the most miserable,-- 4 Journal. Pr me dr, ab, 'is Ma fice Nir taai Pro, reb t crin and tors hi m all 1 fo r ore] hay bar] lie s , sen(