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After pointing out with great force many of the evil effects of the present plan of making the navy at engine to promote party purposes, which has gone far to degrade that service into a means of _pensioning the younger sons of the ari3tecracy, the Gallant Officer gives the following sketch of the plan which he proposes for govzs.rning the navy. Our quotati , in is perhaps long, but we cannot in jus tice to Sir CHARLES NAPIER abate one word - of it. " I am of opinion that the navy should be ruled by a naval officer, not a Cabinet Minister, with the title of Admiral of Great Britain (that of Lord High Admiral being perhaps too high for any person under royalty). The whole of the patronage and responsibility should be vested in him. He should be assisted by two flag offi cers, with the title of Vice and Rear-Achniral of Great Britain (doing away the two sinecures of that name), a flag officer or a captain with the title of Captain of the Fleet, a civilian, and two secretaries, one a naval officer, and the other a civilian. " The Vice-Admiral should superintend the dock-yard departments ; the Rear-Admiral the victualling and me dical branch ; and the, civilian the Accountant-Gene ral's department. All correspondence with either of these departments should go direct to them, and they should give their orders to the Surveyor, Store-keeper General, Physician of the Fleet, and Comptroller of Victualling. " The Admiral of Oreat Britain would, of course, con sult with them when he thought it necessary, and give what directions he thought proper. But his attention would be particularly directed to the stationing of ships, the prc motion and appointment of officers, in which he would be assisted by the Captain of the Fleet and his naval secretary. 66 The civil secretary should attend to the political part of the business, which should only be known to the Admiral and himself ; whereas, at present, there are many transactions that ought to be secret, with which the whole Board are acquair ted, and, in addition to t h em , perhaps, one-half of the clerks of the Admiralty. The inspections at the different ports should be made by the Admiral, the Vice or Rear-Admiral ; they should hoist their flags, and examine minutely into their departments, a nd most particularly into the discipline of the ships, which r.ever canabe propertacly koe d d ne to by a Board in plain clothes, with ecretary their tail, runn i ng hast ily through the departments in the manner they have hitherto clone. " I remember perfectly well the impulse that was given to the service when the late king was Lord High Ad miral. He might, perhaps, have done too much, and might not have been prudent in his communications with the Government ; but no apprehension could be enter tained of any difficulties between the Ministry and an Admiral who could be removed at pleasure, but who ought most certainly not to be removed with every change of Ministry. At present, not only the first Lord, but all the Board, are political partisans ; and just as they begin to know their business, they are replaced by a fresh set, who have their lessons to learn, and inva riably entertain different notions from their predecessors. Hence arise the constant changes that take place, ruinous to the discipline and; the well-being of the service, and expensive to the country. " It may be thought great presumption in so humble an irdividual as myself; makin g suggestions to a Prime Minister .about to form his Administration ; but I do it from a conviction that, if things are allowed to continuo in their preseat state, a great catastrophe will befal this country. " You, Sir, are placed in a position supported by a very large majority ; you may almost do what you please, and I venture to say, if you adopt the suggestions I have proposed, you will give satisfaction to llle country, and to the Navy. They are a poworttul body, almost all on the Conservative side, and their Opinions ought not to be disregarded. I know, Sir,‘ :a. Minister may hesitate to adopt my views, fearing to lose tha patronage of th e navy ; he may also have difficulties with his political friends, who aspire to the place of the first Lord of the Ad miralty ; but, Sir, Mr. Canning broke through all these difficulties, and I see no reason why Sir Robert Peel should not follow his example. There is no difficulty, sir, in choosing the man ;* the whole service could lay their finger on him ; he is one of your own politics, and no one will find fault if you choose them all from the same school. It would cer tainly be better if it was not so , but I am not unreason- • We believe the Gallant Commodore pc4nts to Sir G. Cock burn. able enough to expect, on the first experiment, that you should trust that power to men of a different political creed from yourself." We are reluctant to offer any opinion on a question which we perhaps are not compeient to judge of, but what we have of late seen of the management of the Army in the case of the Earl of CARDIGAN, compels us to say that the most gross partiality, the most flagrant injustice, the saddest perversion of an arm of national de fence to the gratification of titled arrogance and malevolence, can be practised as well by a dis tinguished officer solely responsible for the ful filment of the duties of Commander-in-Chief, as by a Cabinet Minister, with a Board to shelter him. We do not say that the same would take place under an Admiral, but we have shrewd suspicions that a man bred up as Admirals gene . rally are in the exercise of ♦ery arbitrary pow ers, might make a most capricious governor of the navy. Though a Cabinet Minister might pervert appointments to political purposes, and fail to reward merit, we are inclined to think that thelpresence of a civilian at the head of the Navy has a beneficial effect in tempering the some what arbitrary dispositions which are created by the kingship conferred on every Captain. We are not very well acquainted with the history of the Navy, but we have an impression that the rule of Lord ANsoN, Lord HAWKE, and Lord St. VINCENT was neither very successful nor very agreeable to naval officers. Lord BAR HAM was successful—we know not indeed that he was originally a naval man— but it he were he had been so long in the civil service that he had acquired the habits of a civilian. We re peat, however, that we do not profess ourselves competent to form an opinion on the Gallant Officer's suggestion, and we have no doubt that the whole navy will thank him for making it, and provoking a diatcussion into the condition of the service. We shall, in conclusion, quote an opinion unfavourable to the present condition of the Navy, which, we are taught to believe by the Gallant Officer's own achievements is rather the result of the recollections of his youth, when every thing was painted more rose-coloured than - what actually exists. We know for certain that a complaint like that made by the ; Commodore is at least as old as the time of SMOLLETT and B.ODERICK RANDOM. " In gun exercise we have improved, and so have other nations, but in everything else we have gone back ; and our ships, froin being ill-manned and ill found, are very little superior to the French. Our su perior officers are all old, theirs are all young. And Parliamentary influence has not the same weight either in France or America as it has with us. No man who knows anything about his profession can view our pre smt position with indifference ; and when we see a French fleet of twenty sail of the line sailing about the Mediterranean, and Russian fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas, M'Leod in prison for obeying the order of his Go vernment, and the Boundary Question still unsettled, no man can tell how long we may be allowed to remain at peace, and no naval officer who served during the last war, and has served in the peace, can look forward to a struggle with perfect confidence. Lord Collingwond (and he ;as no bad authority) complained in his letters of line-of-battle !ships not having more than two or three officers who knew their duty. If that was the case in war, how much worse must it be in peace. The generality of the young men of the present Clay who ob tain promotion through powerful interest, consider them selves quite perfect, and the old officers are broken heurted and disappointed, and almost without the hope of promotion." One of the stock arguments hitherto used by the Bread-taxers is, that if the bread-tax be abolished, the country will be inundated with foreign wheat, the soil will go out of cultivation, the agricultural labourers will be thrown out of employment, and the country will be ruined. But suddenly a new light has broken in on them, and those bread-taxing journals, the Herald and Standard, have found out, as Mr JACOB found out long ago, and as every person of common-sense has long known, without the help of statistical spectacles and Consular Reports, for all the land on the Continent is already occupied, and much time and prepara tion are required, before a system of agriculture can be altered by a foreign demand—the bread taxing journals have suddenly found out that the notion of being inundated by foreign wheat, should the Corn-law be repealed, is a pure in vention of their own, intended to frighten the credulous people into their harsh toils. Hear the Herald itself : A paper has just been laid before Parliament which throws some light, though of an imperfect description, on this part of the subject. It is entitled " Correspondence relative to the price at which foreign grain could be im ported into England," and contains the replies of the British Consuls of the ports of northern Europe, the Black Sea, the Elbe, and Sicily, to questions from the Foreign-office, intended to make out an Anti-Corn-law case. From these documents the probabilities of a greatly increased production of grain in the countries to which they refer may be reasonably doubted ; and, at all events, that production would be chiefly confined to those countries whence the smallest reciprocity is scarcely to be anticipated. _ _ _ Our contemporary then quotes a considerable number of specimens of the Consular Reports, of which these are examples : Our present supplies of foreign corn are chiefly de rived from Dantzic. The grain exported thence is prin cipally the produce of Poland, and, says our Consul at Dantzic, " The effect a change in the British Corn-laws might produce among the corn-growers of that country would, in some measure, depend upon what way of Government it may in future experience on the part of Russia." " But," adds Mr. Plaw, "as regards this part of Prussia, it is considered to be at present in such an advanced state of cultivation, that a larger shipment could not be expected ; at least not to any greater extent than the last three years have supplied." From Konigsberg, the Vice-Consul writes, " The quan tity of corn produced in this part of Prussia, and the adjoining districts, is not likely to be materially increased, as most farmers produce but a certain quantity of grain, which they cannot well exceed, and they have been a good many years since accustomed to turn and devote their ex ertion more towards breeding sheep, horses, and cattle, which, particularly by producing wool, it appears answers them better than growing corn." From Stettin a reply of the same nature is received : " The production of all kinds of grain and corn has these two or three years been extended to a considerable degree ; it is therefore not expected the landholders can much augment the same, the cultivating of additional soil not being in their system of agriculture." Irom Memel we have the like answer :—" The qua lity of the land in this district would for some time prevent the sowing of more wheat than is at present the case." Odessa is, after Dantzic, the next important port whence we receive foreign corn, and the answer of Mr. Consul-General Yeames is very remarkable and decisive as to the increased exports to be derived thence in conse quence of the modification of our Corn-laws. " There would," writes that gentleman, "be no ma- terial increase, and certainly notin a short space of time, Ist. Because in Podolia and Kievy, whence Odessa de . rives its principal supplies, the greatest quantity possible of grain is at all times produced without regard to price. 2dly. Because the plains called steppes, adja cent to the Black Sea and Asoph, are thinly peopled, so that in years when crops are abundant they are seen suffering on the ground for want of reapers. idly. Be cause on these steppes crops are exceedingly precarious, by reason of drought, the common calamity of this climate, &c. From Riga Mr. Consul Baker says, "There are causes which would prob a bly o p era t e against any very considerable increase of exportation." From Liebau Mr. Consul Keintitz writes—" Thz., quantity of grain could not be materially increased" for exportation. Colonel Barnett, from Warsaw, states that " the deficiency of manure, the scarcity of hands, and the want of skill in the cultivation of land, would operate against any large immediate increase from the interior of Poland.' From Hamburgh, Mr. Consul-General Canning, whose services are now lost to the country, considers the ex portation of corn could not be increased : "Because as much land is already appropriated in this district to the growth of corn, as the system of hus bandry established in these duchies and the encourage ment given to grazing in them will admit of." The total quantity of wheat which the port 3 before mentioned could, with the most favourable harvests, annually export, concludes our Contemporary, is ABOUT TWO MILLION OF QUARTERS. Of course, as our people must still be fed, and no person for one moment supposes that their number will be diminished by abolishing the Corn-laws, the absurdity of supposing that the importation of every grain of wheat the Conti tinent can supply us with would put our land out of cultivation, is palpable , and when we know that it is made the basis of maintaining a system which starves the people, it is shocking. On the strength, however, of the possible im portation of 2,000,000 quarters of wheat, a Lord Cosmo RUSSELL has been quoted as an authority for the astounding assertion that the abolition of the Corn-liws would throw 2,000,000 acres of 1 land out of cultivation. But the reasoning of the bread-taxers will appear still more shocking for its absurdity, on account of the Cruel purpose . , ~ ...t74 t 0,,.......:i . ) \„ t 4 I, ,) ' , ~" " u ',. ...<-: 4 a /0 1, ,, , & ~,,%' jr. ,:-.., -; r:-Ia i C' 4 N_ ' • ' '. Ztt ,§un, THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, it serves, when we state that in 1840, 2,020,214 quarters of foreign wheat, and in 1839, 2,521,494 quarters, and in 1838, 1,728,452 quarters were imported, being in the three years an averege of 2,090,063 quarters a year (Parliamentary paper No. 455). It appears, therefore, that in the three years we have im ported from the Continent all the wheat it could possibly spare, and the result is that instead of our country being inundated with foreign corn, and the land gone out of cultivation, a greater breadth of wheat, it is said, was sown last year than ever before, and the price of good bread corn is at the present moment nearer 80s. than 70s. the quarter. Is not that a con clusive proof that all the tales of the bread-tax about land going out of cultivation from an inundation of foreign corn, are pure fabrications, no better than wilful lies to bolster up a great system of heartless fraud and cruelty. For our part, we will honestly say that we place no faith in these returns, so far as they concern the future produce either of the Con tinent or of England. We hope and believe that with free trade we might import ten mil lions of quarters. No man, however, knows that, and we repeat for the twentieth time that prices at home and abroad, the expense of cultivation in different countries, the possible quantity of food other lands might supply us with, are not proper elements for legislation. It must have a munch simpler and firmer basis, or it will be full of error, and. error in legislation is iniquity. The Legislature is bound to mete out equal justice and equal protection to all the people; but when it taxes the poor man's loaf to swell the rich man's rent, when the protec tion it pretends to bestow on the grower of bread corn is a prohibition on the consumer to buy his bread where he pleases ; the legislature departs from its duty, it violates the consumer's right of property, it plunders hint instead of pre venting him from being plundered, and it in fringes on that liberty of action it is constituted and obliged to secure. On these grounds we condemn the Corn-law : on these grounds we de _L. and a total and immediate repeal ; and not merely on the supposition that repealing it would multiply our food, increase our trade, extend the cultivation of our soil, and tend to make the nation prosperous, contented, and moral, though we know that such are invariably the fruits of doing justice, and we are thoroughly convinced that such would be the consequences of imme diately and totally abolishing the Bread-tax. Under a host of similar false pretexts to that which the Herald has so naively exposed, the bread of the industrious and honest poor is taxed ;o increase the wealth of the idle, opulent, worth .ess, and even mischievous owners of rent. It was well observed by Mr. WAKLEY ()n Thursday, that the Commons cheered when the people were starving. That is a tolerably accu rate description of the relation which exists be- .ween the suffering community and the Legisla ture. That the people are starving in many places does not admit of a doubt; and that the Legislature is proud of its own work is equally certain. That it should exult and be vociferously joyous, and that the people should, under bad laws, pine and die of anguish and hunger, are in the order of nature. They are co-existing facts, which reflect no credit on the sagacity of the people, or on the humanity of the Legislature. On the following day the present Prime Minister spoke—the man who takes office to • continue the system which starves the people. What said he ? He knows the people are starving. Deputations have waited on him to make him acquainted with the great dis tress which prevails. He referred, in the debate, to the fact of families dyinc , of hunger, which h as been brought before the House. What did his sagacity recommend ? What did his humanity prompt? What may we expect from his power? Taking hold of some statistical returns he de- monstrated at great length that there had been fluctuations in the price of corn in New York and St. Petersburgh. That is the sort of bread with which he is to fill the mouths of the famishing multitude. " Good, patient people," he said, if his language meant any thing, "your sufferings are not at all caused by any acts of mine, or by the acts of the gentlemen who cheered when the people were starving, and who will undoubtedly again cheer if I turn round and ask them they are caused by a natural defi ciency of food, and by natural fluctuations in its price, which I will prove to you by showing that deficiency and fluctuations are sometimes very great in the United States, and in Russia, where there are no laws preventing the importation of corn. Be patient, therefore, good people. Starve on—starvation is the result of laws of Na ture or of GOD. I cannot help you ; therefore _ . starve in patience, starving people." And then to prove to them that this was the case, and to bring home to Nature and to Nature's GOD—whether with piety or Atheism let the Archbishop of CANTERBURY decide—he quoted the account of fluctuations in prices at St. Petersburgh and New York. Whether the people will continue to starve in patience at his recommendation will probably depend on the credit they bestow on his theology. For our parts, we have no hesita tion in saying that fluctuations in price in Ame rica and Russia do not furnish the shadow of a proof that the present deficiency of food in Eng land, and its present high price, are natural, and are not wholly caused by the law made and up held by Sir R. PEEL and the exulting cheerers. What is the principle of commerce ? To buy cheap and sell dear—to bring things needful for man's use from where they are abundant to where they are scarce. What is the result? A compare ratively equal distribution amongst all the chil dren of men of all that they require, and a com parative steadiness of price. The result of mer chants buying when and where commodities are cheap, in order to sell them when and where they are dear, is, though they do not in tend it, to equalize prices through the whole republic of commerce. Whenever and where ever there is no commerce, men are exposed to all the fluctuations and vicissitudes of the sea sons; commerce neutralizes them, and spreads not only average, but great abundance throughout the earth. Hence, as commerce, " the golden girdle of the globe," has extended, those great vicissitudes, to which mankind when isolated were exposed, have become almost unknown, and seasons of absolute famine and of riotous abundance, such as were too frequent in the early ages, have not been witnessed in modern Europe. Where there is now most commerce, therefore, there should be the least fluctuation, and where there is least commerce, fluctuation must be greatest. To make the fluctuations in Russia and th e United States apply'to England, it must be shown that the circumstances of all three countries as to commerce arc the same. Are they ? Both these countries form parts of great continents, and are comparatively thinly peopled. They in general grow more food than they can consume, and they export corn or flour. In proportion to the numbtr of their people, and the number of our people, their trade, particularly that of Russia, is extremely scanty. England is pre eminent fur her commerce. She trades with the whole globe, wherever useful things are found cheap and plentiful, her merchants go or send for them, and carry them wherever they are scarce and dear. Thus America and Russia arc no test for England. Thus, too, there ought not to be the same fluctuations in the price of any article, and particularly in an article of such universal produce and consumption as wheat, in England as in Russia and in America. We may also safely assert that +•hatever fluctuations in price, are known here, are much increased, if they be not wholly caused, by those restraints which such ignorant law-makers as Sir ROBERT PEEL have imposed on commerce, in order to prevent the continual equalization of prices, by prohibiting men, under certain circumstances, frdm buying commodities when and where they are cheap, and selling them when and where they are dear. But the great man and new Prime Minister who is to feed the hungry people by sermons on fluctu ation, also remarked that it was not possible to ensure the same kind of steadiness of price for agricultural as for manufacturing pro duce. He is a wise man, no doubt, this cotton spinner's son, now Prime Minister, who assumes the government of the country to starve other cotton-spinners; but he might reflect that as agricultural produce is exchanged for manufac turing produce, the stability of price in one ele ment of the exchange lessens by a half the chances of fluctuation. Oxen may have the mur rain and wheat the fly, and if they be exchanged for one another, their is a double fluctuation, half of which the certainty of the price of manufac turing produce when exchanged for wheat puts an end to. It should also be considered, that as the pro duce of the manufacturer is subject to none of the variations of the seasons—and - he could in a state of perfect freedom send that wherever he pleased to buy wheat—what he purchased would, in reality, be little more subject to fluctuation than the commodity he purchased with. In other words,with free trade the manufacturer, who can always make an article of a certain price, will always be sure of getting pretty nearly the same quantity of corn for it, or for him price will not fluctuate. Such ought to be the case in England. If this very ignorant cotton-spinner's son, turned national quack, would take these and other similar matters into consideration, he would probably be aware that he had not yet sounded the depths of all philosophy. He might then become humble, and cease, in time Legislature of the empire—by as cribing the woes of our suffering people to any thing rather than his own wretched and arro gant law-making—to blaspheme Nature and God. 'The French Journals of Monday have been received with Madrid Papers of the ‘23d ult., b u t the news they bring was anticipated in yester day's Extraordinary Express from Paris. Their abuse of M. GUIZoT we have sufficiently noticed in our Summary of Public Opinion. The fol lowing paragraphs, which we extract from them, arc not without interest : The German Journal of Frankfort states that M. Thiers arrived in that city on the evening of the 26th instant, and left the following morning by railway for Mayence. The illness of Mme. had induced him to relin- quish for the present his intended visit to Vienna. V lie intends going first to Ems. It is related, says the Augsburg Gazette, that a lady of Weimar, who deals in prophecy, has read in the hand of M. Thiers that he will be again Minister at the end of a year and a day. A letter from Trieste, 18th inst., in the Frankfort Journal, states that the King of Wurtemberg had visited the theatre Mauroner incognito, on the previous even ing Ilis Majesty took his scat in the pit and converse d, with the greatest affability, with those around him. Next morning he proceeded on his journey into Ger- many. A letter from Athens, of 12th inst., in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" The Greek mail brings new de tails relative to the insurrection in Candia. It ap pears that the rebels were betrayed by a certain, Roussot Bourdoumbant, who had assumed the com mand of the Sphakiotes. This person was bribed by the Turks, and opened a passage to them into the interior. Upon this, a portion of the insurgents rook refuge on board the English ships, and the rest divided themselves into small bands, in the hope of still being able to resist the Turks. The Chief of the late Provi sional Government has declared that his intention, and that of his colleagues, was, not to abandon the Candians, and that the English had conveyed them to the Pincus against their will, after touching at several places to spread the news of their defeat, and injure their cause." The following is what the Globe says of the measure which the United States of North America are going to adopt against our wines and our silk manufacturers : " France exports a great quantity of wines and silks to the United States ; the productions of our southern departments are therefore in danger of being seriously affected. The Bill will be a terrible blow to the manu- facturers of Lyons ;,it will likewise have a fatal influ ence on Bordeaux, for an inerease of duties in any arti cle always diminishes the consumption. " When the commercial interests of a country are not defended by a strong Government, they are necessarily everywhere sacrificed."—La Gazette de France. The two ships of the line, the Marengo and Triton, which have sailed from Toulon for Africa, have taken on board two battalions of the 33d regiment, which consist of no more than 1,546 men. _ . To-day at noon Marshal Soult received the Commit tee of the Fortifications, who meet every day with accu mulating embarrassment. The news that it is intended to erect the see of Cambray into an Archbishopric is confirmed. We are assured that Cardinal Lulour d'Au verque has accepted this see. The Bishop of Arras, in the letter which he has written to the Government, at taches, however, some conditions to his acceptance. One of them is said to be that he shall have the choice of his successor in the see of Arras. The Obse vateur des Pyrenees , of the 29th, says : " We this moment learn that the General Council of the Upper Pyrenees has refused to give its approbation to the census."—Le Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, AUGUST 30. Brat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pries.. Price French 5 per COWS ll6 21 ... lid 25 ... 1 6 10 ... 116 25 4 per Cents 99 60 ... 99 60 ... 99 r 0 ... 99 60 3 per Cents. ex. dlv 77 15 77 20 ... 76 10 ... 77 20 Bank oi france Lattitte Batik 1,0001. Stares 1030 ...IMO ...1125 ...1025 5.0001. Shares 5110 ...5110 ...n 10 ...5110 Rolgian hank Belgian 5 per Cents. New Loan 103% ... 1.3% ... 103% ... 10.3% inanish Active ........ 1:1.4 ... 211 ... 21 ... 21 Portugueses per Cents. 26% . 26% ... 26% ... 26% Neapolunz Roman .... 102;i ... 102% ...102% ...10'2 RAILWAY SHARES .. 3t. Germain ...; 739 ---..... 732 50 ... 730 ... 730 Versailles. L. 8..... .... 210 ... 210 ... 210 ... 210 L B 327 50 ... 327 50 ... 327 50 ... 327 50 louan 4:2 :0 ... 452 50 ... 4.:2 50 ... 45.! 50 Orlean .. 4BO ... 480 ... 480 ... 480 Strasburt to Bair, shares red. 227 50 ... 537 50 ... 237 50 .. 237 LO DUTCH FUNDS. .AMSTERDAM, Am. 30 Money. Bids. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. A 'nett 15vndic,44 per cent 0 1 3,, 111% Ditto; ditto, 334 per cent 7 5 34 75 Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent 155 156 Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per ccI.L. 1W )4 102 Loan 1837, 5 per ................. 94% P 5 Exchange on London, One month l2 0714 Twomontha 11 97 Hamburgh, One month 35 8734 Two months 35 5234 Dutch Papers, Aug. 31. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, AUG. 23 Five per Cents. Bletalliques Fonr per Cents. 97% Three p a Cents. Bank arcs 2592 Allymetne Zeilung, Aug. 27 OVERLAND MAIL. CHINA. The India mail arrived at Marseilles the 31st of August, and at Malta the 27th, at two in the afternoon. The Great Liverpool arrived at Malta on the 26th, in the morning with the Indian mail. Left Bombay on the 19th of July. The intelligence from China is down to the 20th of May. Everythingremained as before. The Emperor was still determined to resist, and was concen trating a large force which was to be commanded by his brother in person. Admiral Parker and Sir Henry Pot tinger sailed from Bombay for China, on the 7th of July, in the Sesostris. FRANCE. Baron de Barente, the French Ambassador, took leave of the Emperor Nicholas on the 3d, and was to embark for France on the 20th. The three Belgian Commissioners for conducting the commercial negotiations between France and Belgium, had arrived in Paris. Mr. Wells, the head of the American house of that name, died in Paris on Tuesday. It was reported that the soldiers of the French army, whose term of service would expire on the 31st of De cember, 1842, will be provisionally discharged the mo ment when the conscripts of 1841 shall have passed through their first drills. Each of these contingents may be estimated at 60,000 men. The Emperor and Empress of Russia arrived at Gratz on the 18th. GREECE. The Leipsic Gazette, of the 28th inst., publishes the text of a communication, from the French Govern ment to the Powers of Europe, on the internal affairs of Greece. This document, dated the 11 th ult., begins by stating that the attention of the Cabinets of Eu rope, and that of London in particular, had been re cently turned to circumstances of an unpleasant na ture connected with Greece, which gave rise to apprehensions that her Government was not suffi ciently strong to command respect from its subjects. This, it says, is the more to 'be deplored, since the increase of the Greek population. the improvement of agriculture, and the augmentation of the public reve nue, show the country to be possessed of vital energies, which could. only be compromised by the faiths of its administrative system. France, consequently, calls on the protecting Powers, and on those who subsequently to the treaty of 1827 have entered into relations of amity with it, to address friendly representations to King Otho on this subject. France does not consider Greece suffi ciently ripe for the establishment of a constitutional Go vernment, but she suggests that the attributes of the Council of State might be extended and provincial and municipal councils be instituted. This system would both strengthen and regulate the Royal authority, and would have the advantage of being in unison with the national tradition. The document then concludes with an appeal to the Cabinets of Europe to save a kingdom which they had founded from all evils of sufficient gravity to compro mise their common work, and all the interests connected with it. Letters from Athens state that Adm. tasusse arrived there on the 20th of August with the Inflexible and Santi Petro. 13 rf Ft V 0 S AND Vubitt fa Onion. " Who runs may read." FOR,EXC-N. The India Mail arrived at Malta on the 27th, and at Marseilles on the 31st of August, with news from Bombay to the 19th of July, and from China to the 20th of May. His Celestial Majesty, the Emperor, was con centrating a large force, commanded by his brother in person, to " utterly cut off and exterminate the English barbarians ;" but whether like the King of Ava he has commanded his pig -tailed warriors to march upon and burn London, is not recorded. Admiral Parker and Sir Henry Pottinger sailed from Bombay for China on the 7th of July, on board the Sesostris steamer. The re inforcements had preceded them, so that on their ar rival in the Chinese waters hostilities would at once be resumed. A circular addressed by France to the Courts of Lon don, Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh, dated the 11th ult., on the internal Government of Greece, appears in the Leipsic Gazette of the 28th instant. France sug gests that all the Powers in amity with Greece, and par ticularly the protecting Powers, shall address represen tations to King Otho on the subject of his misgovern ment of that country, and calling upon him to extend the attributes of the Council of State, and to institute provincial and municipal councils, in order to prepare Greece for the orderly establishment of a representative constitutional Government. We rejoice to see France take the initiative in a work so worthy of her civiliza tion, her recollections, and her glory ; and we rejoice still more heartily to find her stating in this document that England was the most urgent in recommending her to make this appeal to the public justice of Europe. Lord Palmerston has not quitted office without bequeathing the rich legacy of independence to Greece. The Paris Journals continue to shower abuse upon M. Guizot for the praises bestowed upon him by the British press. The National says :—" It is really quite delectable to.witness the tender sympathy which binds the British press to M. Guizot. A unanimous concert of praise is sounded by the London Journals ; no doubt to drown the effects of the discordant charivari of Caen. We are anxious to take note of this success of our Fo reign Minister, as nothing can better prove from whence he comes, where he is leading us, and who are his masters." The Commerce sings to the same tune. "M. Guizot, the object of a Gharivari in France," exclaims M. Mau ginn's Oracle, " is comforted by the English papers of every party. This is as it should be." In ninety-nine cases out of every hundred, the concluding observation of the Commerce is pretty correct. He would be a shal low politician who would suspect the patriotism of a French statesman on the evidence of a charivari in the usual French fashion. The Courrier Francais is equally bitter. It says : " The London Journals are unanimous in support of M. Guizot. This support looks suspicious, for it is an.in terested one, and France, we fear, will in the end be the sufferer by it. Our interests are decidedly opposed to those of allied Europe. A man cannot be popular both in London and in Paris. He must, perforce, make an option between France and England. It seems that M. Guizot has made his choice. Ours is not the same. As for the English papers, since they find M. Guizot so excellent a statesman, such a perfect Minister, why do they not make place for him in the British Cabinet ? France would be too happy to be rid of him." With all due deference for the opinion of the Courrier Francais, we take leave to observe that France does not so abound in great men that she can afford to lose the services of the greatest of which she can at present boast. Were M. Guizot to choose another country France could not fill up the blank made by his absence. England would be proud to see M. Guizot enrolled among the number of her citizens. The Legitimist Journal Quotidienne remarks :—" M. Guizot ought to feel completely- happy. He seeks to be unpopular in France, and no Minister ever enjoyed more unpopularity than he does. His aim is to attract the admiration of England, and lo ! every English paper eulogises the policy of our Foreign Minister as the most noble and the most courageous. A Radical Evening Paper (The Sun), even treats as vile and base the adversaries of our great doctrinaire." M. Guizot takes his stand on the principle of maintain= ing the peace of Europe. His adversaries are the ene mies of peace and the progress of civilization. Regard ing them, as we do, in that light, no reprobation is too severe for them. The Constitutionnd and the Courrier Francais, not withstanding their condemnation of the Whigs, have al ready taken the alarm at the accession of the Tories to office. The former journal says :—" We have, as re gards foreign policy, still less confidence in the Tories than the Whigs. Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aberdeen will, as far as France is concerned, adopt the conduct of Lord Palmerston ; or if they modify it, it will be in the way of aggravation." The Courrier Francais, in allud ing to a report that Lord Londonderry would succeed Earl Granville in Paris, observes:—" This will be the first insult of the Tories to France, and without doubt they will not stop there." , Admiral Lasusse arrived at Athens on the 20th of August with the Inflexible and Santir Petro ships of war. PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Chronicle, alluding to the meagre reve lations as to his intended course of policy, lately made by Sir Robert Peel in Parliament, • says—" The whole debate on the Address showed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Sir Robert Peel had no clear and distinct line of policy, based upon principle, and firmly settled in his own mind ;' and as plainly did Sir Robert's own speech declare, that even if he had such a line of po licy,' he was not prepared to carry it into action with resolute decision.' He gently pushed the Duke of Richmond on one side ; he threw the Orangemen over board ; he avowed his fears of being able to carry on the Government, in the intimation that he would throw up office if he was not efficiently supported; and Lord Stan ley, in the absence of Sir Robert, declared that they had turned out an honest man and able Minister because— his place was wanted! In short, Sir Robert Peel has been made Prime Minister by the landed interest, in order to maintain the existing Corn-laws ; and yet Sir Robert has declared that he is not ' quite' pre pared to maintain the details of the existing law! " The time is fast approaching when Sir Robert Peel will find in this infirmity of purpose his deadliest enemy. Caution and vacillation, and a truckling to expediency, may do well enough in sunny weather, but when clouds darken the political horizon, their utter folly and useless ness are at once seen and appreciated. The Right Hon. Baronet takes office at a season full of peril, and when nothing but promptitude, decision, and energy can rescue the country from its present distresses. Never theless, he seems inclined to play over again his favourite game of " fast and loose ;" to hold out specious pro mises to all parties, and stick manfully by none. It was not by such timid, milk-and-water policy as this, that his great idol, Pitt, ruled with a high hand the destinies of England for upwards of twenty years. While avoid ing his faults Sir Robert Peel may at least imitate his energy with advantage. The Herald thus expatiates on the deserts of Sir Ro bert Peel :—" We have lightly touched upon what we deem the good fortune' of Sir Robert Peel, and we hope that we may not be misunderstood in the employ ment of that phrase. Need we remark, that we employ it in no disparaging or illiberal sense. So far from that being in our contemplation, we rather intend to do justice to the forbearance and self-restraint which have been powerful enough to withhold him from realising, as he might have done, his political triumph at a much earlier period. His prudence and fore sight have been signally manifested in this course of action. Their reward will be proportionally permanent." Our Contemporary is perfectly correct in applying the term " good fortune" to Sir Robert Peel's success as a public man. He has been pre-eminently lucky through life—indeed luck has been the chief secret of his eleva tion. He was lucky in the accident of enormous wealth —lucky in the period at which he entered public life, and in the party to which he attached himself—lucky in the turn of his mind, which keeps him for ever within " the decencies" of politics—and, above all, lucky in the pos session of just that sort of cunning which, in the eyes of the superficial, passes for uncommon sagacity. We know no statesman of modern times who owes so much to luck, and so little to strong intellectual capacity. The Post has at length the candour to confess—the Times having previously set the example—that an enor mous deal of bribery and corruption was manifested during the late elections. With his wonted effrontery, however, our Contemporary adds, that the delinquents in this respect were chiefly the defeated party, and that the Tories were returned, in spite of this illegal and powerful influence, solely because the country had faith in their inherent wisdom and integrity. "We do not deny," observes the Post, "that much money may have been improperly used on both sides, but no man of common sense but must entertain the conviction that the great preponderance of this delinquency was on the side of the defeated Whig-Radical party." Our Contemporary has been constantly taunting the Whig-Radicals with their poverty ; yet now he insists that it was these poor men who bribed, and their rich adversaries who refrained, from doing so. The Advertiser observes—" Sir Robert Peel's whole life and habits forbid the hope of his during to shake off the fetters of faction in this most important crisis of his country's fate, even though the glory of such an act would annihilate the odium of all his previouN apos tacies, and immortalize him as the most illustrious states man of his age, who, having been taught by experience the futility and danger of resisting the just claims of an enlightened people, conceded in good time what, might otherwise be wrested from him by forcible appliances, and consolidated an equitable and harmonious system of government, where the bitter conflicts of industry and aristocracy had previously threatened revolution." The Times concludes a lengthy article on Lord John Russell, with the following passage :—" It is curious that Lord J. Russell should have taken leave of office almost in the words used by a former eminent Whig Minister—Lord North. Both N o bl e L or d s, we have no doubt, were equally sincere ; both meant well by their country ; both were men of abilities, both possessed and deserved a considerable share of personal respect. The policy of the one, as well as of the other, has been con demned by the nation ; and in the one case, as well as in the other, that condemnation will be ratified by pos terity." This is not the case, and our Contemporary knows well that it is not so. Lord North's policy, as re gards the American war, was indeed condemned by the nation ; but Lord John Russell's policy has been con demned only by the monopolists, and thwarted only by the operation of the Chandos Clause. We quote the following from the Brighton Guardian : —" As to the deficiency of revenue, the Tories have approved of all the measures—such as the war in Syria, Ilindostan, and Canada, which have occasioned -it--except, and the exception is worth the public notice, those measures, such as the reduction of the postage. which have been granted to the prayers of the people. They demanded incessantly a great increase in the navy and army, and were parries to every expense and every extravagance. They acquiesced in the plan of providing for an increase of the revenue, should that be required, suggested by Mr. Rice ; and they cordially supported and praised the plan for that purpose brought forward in 1840 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer." The Tyne Mercury thus glances at Sir Robert Peel's present position :—" The manner in which the ultras have been turned aside, as it is stated, by Sir Robert, would seem to signify that his course would be with the moderates ; but this will be considered as a declaration of war against the ultras, so that in the very commence ment there will be such a jarring and clashing of inte rests, that the Baronet will probably wish himself out. of office before he has well taken his seat." The Dublin Pilot, speaking of the amendment to the Address, remarks as follows:—" One thing is daringly avowed by the Tory amendment—that although her Ma jesty is the first personage in the State—although her Majesty constitutes one of the three estates of the realm —neither in her personal nor functional capacity is her Majesty to dare to think for herielf or others—in'fact, that the Queen is tho only one in her dominions who is not entitled to an opinion." MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. It is announced by a letter from Christiania that a Treaty of Commerce, founded on a basis of reciprocity, has been concluded between Sweden and Norway and the Republic of Venezuela. The railway on the bank of the Rhine is proceeding with great activity. A great section is expected to be ready for opening as far as Carlsruhe about the end of 1843. AGnxC ULT i.7l2.fiL. The accounts from Ireland of the state of the weather and crops are very favourable. The wheat crop is quite safe. Oats and potatoes, the main dependence of the poor, " are the finest," says one correspondent, " that I ever saw." NAVAL AND MILITARY. On Tuesday last there was a field day and sham fight in the Home Park, Windsor, by the regiment of the 72d Highlanders, under the command of Colonel Arbuthnot. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and suite, viewed the move ments from the Victoria Tower. LAW AND , POLICE. A deputation from tiTeijoroigEsoTicianchester, ,iSal ford, and Stockport, had an int view at Liverpool on Tuesday with Lord Denman and r. eTn-tice Wightman, in reference to the removal of th :e.si s, so' far as re gards the business of the Salford hug ed from Liver-' pool to Manchester, on the ground of the inconvenience and expense of the present practice. Lord Denman ob served, that although he could not say that the only re medy that could be adopted for the grievancet com plained of must necessarily be the adjournment of the Assizes from Liverpool to Manchester, yet: their state ments should have the serious consideration of the Judges: At Marlborough-street police-office yesterday, a man of the name of Glasscock, driver of the omnibus No. 659, was fined 165., and 45., on a charge of ill-treating one of the horses. It appeared from the evidence Of Mr. Thomas that the horse was in a very unfit state for work, and so galled by the collar, that the blood flowed profusely from it. At the Central Criminal Court yesterday John Mor gan was convicted of obtaining 961. from Wm. Sankey, under false pretences. The unfortunate prosecutor was the driver of an omnibus belonging to Mr. Chancellor, of Kensington, by which the prisoner frequently travelled to town, and had been induced to lend him the money on the promise of receiving the lease of a public-house as security. He never saw the money again, and the prisoner, on being applied to for the lease or payment, told him he might do his best.—Sentence seven years transportation. SPORTING. The doleful story of the moor-game this year being afflicted with " tape-worm" is supposed to have origi nated with some tyro, who has not succeeded in throw ing salt on their tails. In Ayrshire they were never more numerous, or so strong on the wing, but the preva lence of wet weather has driven them into packs, so that though the sportsman sees plenty, he cannot get even " within cry of them." TF3~ATRIC2rb. Mr. Balfe is at present in Paris, busily engaged in the completion of a new three act opera for the Theatre Italien. COURT-PASIIXONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland leave Sion House to-morrow for Wynnstay. The Duke of Montrose left town for Scotland on Sunday. Viscount Beresford is going on favourably. Count Capo d'lstrias is expected to arrive at Mivart's Hotel, on Monday next. The Marquis of Northampton left town on Monday for Italy. ivaxscmx.mil - anous. Last evening an inquest was held at the London Hos pital, on the body of William Walker, aged 13, who died on Sunday last, in consequence of two shot wounds received in the abdomen from a brass cannon, four inches in length. It was discharged in the street by a lad of the name of Radford, aged 16, and incautiously placed by him in a position to cause the fatal accident. The Jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter" against Rad ford, who is in custody. _ _ Hops, which are now acknowledged to possess many valuable medicinal qualities, were in the year 1428 peti tioned against in Parliament as a wicked weed. The Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park yester day received a valuable addition, in the purchase of a fine male and female chimpanzee, in addition to a fine male procured last week. The Courrier de Lyon states that the King of Sardinia is busy with a project of boring a tunnel through the Alps, in order to facilitate the communications between France and Italy. This must be a greater bore than even Peter Borthwick himself ! Lord Morpeth was at the House of Commons on Mon day afternoon. On quitting the House and riding among the crowd assembled round the door, he was graciously received and greeted with loud and continued cheering. A gentleman of Hull, in good circumstances, is said have been silly enough to walk about the streets the whole of the night before the returns Were to be made of those who had slept in each house, that he might deceive the Government. A lady, of the name of Joanna Forest, who accompa nied Mr. Green in his late balloon excursion, represents the appearance of the river Thames as that of " ani mated reptile, of ponderous growth, serpentining along. As the lights sprung up in rapid succession like glow worms in the twilight, the object became more compact, and the bridges bore the semblance of sparkling fillets encircling spaces of gloom, while the roads looked white and riband-like, the inlets and outlets of the great city." At a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Brighton, held in the Town-hall on Monday. it was unanimously resolved to invite the Directors of the London and Brigh ton Railway to a public dinner on the 14th September. The Advertiser observes :—" It is rumoured that the Lords and Gentlemen in waiting' (for office) are so numerous and troublesome in their solicitations from Sir Robert, that he already almost wishes for the re-Peal of the vote recently come to by both Houses of Parlia ment." These cormorants will not rest satisfied till they have picked Sir R. Peel clean to the bone. The Shareholders of the Leeds Zoological Gardens lately passed, by a great majority, a resolution in favour of the partial opening of the Gardens on Sundays. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) Charles Thompson. a person very fashionably dressed, .was placed at the bar before Mr. Maltby, the presiding Magistrate, charged with the following unprovoked as sault :—His Excellency Count Dewits, of No. 15, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square, stated that between two and three o'clock this morning. he was walking up the Haymarket arm-and-arm with two friends, when he received a most violent blow on the back of the neck, which nearly stunned him, and on turning round saw the defendant close behind him. Police-constable No. 141, of the C division, stated that he saw the defendant running across Piccadilly, and on coming up with Count Dewits, he struck him with all his might in the manner described. Mr. MALTBY inquired whether any provocation had been given to the defendant ? His Excellency said— Not-the slightest ;ho had never seen or spoken to the defendant before to hisknowledge. The defendant said that he was returning home from a party when, as he was crossing Piccadilly, he was struck by some person, and although he could not tell by whom, he thought he had a right to return the blow to some one. Mr. MALTBY—Pray, in what station of life are you ? Defendant—l am a medical man. Mr. MALTBY—Then, I shall fine you 31., and in de fault commit.you to prison for one month. The defendant immediately paid the fine and was dis charged. THE MAII1;-• CORN EXCHANGE. T S --- --TII.IS DAY. The arrivals of English Grain this week have been mode rate, but of Foreign Wheat considerable. The fine weather keeps the Market very dull. For Wheat Monday's prices were asked, but scarcely any sales could be made. In other Grain no alteration. Flour met a heavy trade. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Meat was in good supply ; trade extremely dull, in conse • quence of the close weather, and prices merely nominal. All kinds of Poultry were in good supply. The trade brisk, and prices rather high. Grouse, ss. to Bs. per brace ; Pigeons, 6s. to is. per dozen ; Tame Rabbits, Is. to Is. 6d. ; Wild do. 6d. to 10d. each ; Leveret, 3s, to 6s. each ; Geese, 4s to 6s. ; Fowl., 2s. 6d. to 4s. ; Ducks, 2s. to 2s. 6d. ; Turkey Poults, 4s. to 6s. ; Chickens, Is. to 2s. 6d. cash; Eggs heavy of sale at Saturday's prices. COLONIAL MARKET. The transactions were on a small scale, but holders were arm, and former rates were fully supported. The imports were fair. TEA MARKET. The-e was an active demand, and a large business transacted, at 2d. ver lb. advance. Company's Congou fetched 2s. 4id. cash, and the market looks healthy. TALLOW MARKET. _ . Prices were firm, and a fair demand existed. P. Y. Candle on the spot at 493 and 48s. 9d. for delivery in the last three months. Arrivals from Russia have begun to come in freely. • ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Such was the attach ment of the officers and men of the Royal Artillery to Lord Vivian, that when he left the mess-rocm on Satur day evening, on paying his last visit 'to the distinguished corps over which he has so long presided, a number of officers followed him to the door, with cries of " God bless you, my Lord ; God bless you." Several of the more homely of the men saluted him as ho departed with shouts of " Good luck to you, my Lord ; good luck to you.' kle had always been the friend of the soldier. EVENING SUN THE CABINET. The Times and Morning Post, now jealous rivals for priority of information respecting the movements in the Tory camp, give different ver sions of the new list of Cabinet Ministers. The former journal states that the Duke of Welling' ton is to be President of the Council and the Duke of Buckingham Privy Seal, while our more polite Contemporary gives the first of these ap pointments to the Duke of Buckingham, and the second to the Duke of Richmond. Besides the list in the first journal is very defective. One of the parties, of course, must be in error ; and though - the Times yesterday de clared that they would not, •by adopting any rumour, however plausible, lend thein selves to the dissemination of a report which may ultimately prove to be incorrect, we confess we have more confidence in the intelligence fur nished by the favourite of the fair sex in . high life, which is thus published in magnificent type this mornino - :—. Ministerial Leader of the House of Lords, without office, the Duke of Wellington. Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst. President of the Council, the Duke of Buckingham. First Lord of the Treasury, Sir Hobert Peel. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Aberdeen. Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Stanley. Secretary of State for the Home Department, Sir James Graham. Bart. First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Haddingion. Privy Seal, the Duke of Richmond. President of the Board of Trade, the Earl of Ripon. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Wharn clitre. Little doubt is entertained as to the three last-men tioned offices being filled by the three Peers we have named, but there is some discrepancy in the statements we have heard as to the specific distribution. The, stronger current of information seems to be in favour 0 1 the arrangement as we have given it. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Goulburn. Secretary at War, Sir H. Hardinge. NOT IN THE CABINET. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Earl De Grey. Irish Secretary, Lord Eliot. Master-General of the. Ordnance, Sir George Murray It had been generally supposed that, in conformity with. tile arrangements of the last Conservative Adminis' tralion, Sir Robert Peel would hold, as Mr. Pitt, 10 Perceval, and Mr. Canning did, the united offices of Firs t Lord of the .Treasury and Chancellor-of_tha _Exchpauer , We believe it is now felt that the duties of the Finance, Minister, and the minute acquaintance with the details 0' financial accounts which it is expedient he should F os' sess, render it politic to leave that department to the 10 1 " divided attention of one Minister. Mr. Goulburn, there' fore it is understood, will be appointe4 to that office. Since the above was composed, the Times has admitted that the list published in the mornia was incorrect, and has put forth in a third editiou the following new exhibition, which we suppose is the real Simon Pure — The Times Office, 12 o'Clock. In confirmation of the announcement we ventured , • lay before the public this morning, we are now enable d to give'the following authentic list of the new Ministrl . .l which Sir Robert Peel has probably by this time sub' mitted for her Majesty's approbation. It will be observed that in assigning to the Duke Wellington the Presidency of the Council we were raisbr i formed. The Noble Duke would not, indeed, withho m* from his friends the aid of his great name, but with 00 absence of self-interest for which he has always beel l remarkable, he will only occupy a seat in the Cabinet/ without office, and of course, without emolument. Sir R. Peel, First Lord of the Treasury. Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Chancellor of theExchecrier* Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council. Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor. Duke of Buckingham, Privy Seal. Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary. Lord Stanley, Colonial Secretary. Sir James Graham, Home Secretary. The Duke of Wellington, in the Cabinet without offic e ' Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control, The Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Admiral t P The Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Toxic' Sir F. Pollock, Attorney-General. Sir W. Follett, Solicitor-General. Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General. , Sir H. Hardinge, Secretary at War. Sir E. Knatchbull, Paymaster-General. Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord Eliot, Secretary for Ireland. W. E. Gladstone, Vi ce -P res id en t o f th e Bo a rd of TY lid e ' The remaining appointments are not yet finall - I f ir : ranged, but there is no doubt that the following 1•1; men and Gentlemen will hold office in the Ministr rl Lord Mahon, Lord Liverpool, Lord G. Somerset, • E s of Chesterfield, Lord F. Egerton, Sir G. Clerk, Si r Rae; Sir E. Sugden, &c. It affords us much gratification to hear that his I Highness Prince Albert, in conjunction with her .1 1 ' jesty, manifested an earnest desire to act in strict cordance with the spirit of the Constitution, and to ford to Sir R. Peel every facility in the formation of Government. The reception which the Right,Hon. B i'a„„ net met with from her Majesty was most gracious and k If* Her Majesty expressed her determination to extend to a R. Peel's Government her most implicit confidence support, under the firm belief that no measures would: . 0 proposed to Parliament that would not tend to maint*,/ the dignity of the Crown, to conserve the institutions.", the country, and promote the happiness and prospee o,l of the people. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NENV'' CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK; LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. ;31.—This bee n Tuesday, and market day at Manchester, the attendso(o and buyers were extremely thin, and the business P d not amount to more than 2,500 bales, with scarcely gi l ) alteration iu prices, excepting in some instances a slig t ; reduction for inferior American exporters and spe c lators, altogether inactive. LIVERPOO' S M btOff _HARE -ARKET, AUG. 01.- no particular feature in the Share Market to notice' day. The following are the transactions ;—Eas te, ; Counties, 8 ; Debentures, 8/ ; Grand Junction, 2 0 . :0 Ditto Half shares, 100 ; Chester and Crewe, 50 ; G P . Western Half, Hi ; North Midland Thirds, 934. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 31. — Market is still improving, and Stock is scarce. kr Chester and Bi rm i ng ham, 21-1 • Manchester and Lee i, " Halves, 25 ; N or th Midl a nd, 66; ; Ditto, Halves, 3 5 ' Manchester Assurance, There was a fair amount of business transacted terday in the Continental Exchanges, at higher rates. The Great Liverpool steamer has arrived at 3. 1 , 1 ' o f with the I n di a n Mail ; s h e l e f t B om b ay on t h e 190 ; July. The dates from Chin a are th e 20 t h o f May; . „, which time things remained in the same stat e . The t-' l ; s peror is still decided on resisting, and he h a d or dered numerous muster of troops, which are to b e comm ana by his brother in person. THE FUNDS. 10 The English Stock Market op ene d ra th er flat fir morning. Consols are 89i 1 , i l for Money, and 90 I. 4 J; j e the Account. Exchequer 13111 s, 14 16. Spanish Ac' ir Stock, 21k i ; Passive, 5* ; D e f erre d, 10i i ; 1 9 ° 14 . guese Five per Cents., 301 i ; Ditt o Three p er C en ts. 1' PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New SO London andßrighton London and Birmingham ... 90 159 - North Midland - . Ditto Thirds South Eastern and Dover COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY)., Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibraltar ... ........ ...... 49 i Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8 Genoa • 2O Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 IVenice • Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 P a l ermo, per of ... 11 i, Ditto, 3 months ........ . 25 75 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 85 R io J ane i ro Frankfort on M a i ne ... 1491 ' Bahia v Pe ie t n er n s a b , urgh, 3Us ... 37 36955 i.Buenosft Portugali czs A or y Berlin. Philadelphia........ ........ . 3 1 4: 0 7 New York, Gold r2l: dayslsUCL. . L o . Corn : sigh t . N .. . Trieste, ditto Madrid " e ' ffee. 3. 3 31 950 PFhorileadi Cadiz 36 tv c. Bilboa - .. Doubloons g c: i 1-0 New ... 36 Nr Barcelona ............. !Silver Dollars... 0 Of Seville HALF-PAST OSP•i e cl Till the news from China appears in a more det ail form than it at present does in the telegraphic desP g r r - e 0 which is announced as being received in Paris, the 'di speculatoa - s feel much disinclined to operate, althe ti t So some of the more hardy in these matters look upen, statement that th e E mperor i s determined to resist "-dof prelude t o th e stoppage of the supplies of Tea. Tbis course:is a mere matter of opinion. As it is, the sr p er lative zrtiele, Comp any ' s C ongous, i s quoted at 2s.3e'first lb. cash. w hi c h i s an advance of to upon the prices o f th e d ay. ,t ell The Batavi a s t eamer h as j ust arr i ve d , w i t h letters,,,teli papers from Rotterdam of yesterd a y' s date. The I 'lo' Five Half per per C Cents. cair 13e1.0161ths -. Two - a n 6ths., and the Two - a n fer There has been but little busine doing in the lish Stock Market. Consols are now for Yr c l , and 90* f or t h e A ccount. Th ree per Cents. Be°109; 90 ; Litt() Three-and-a-Half, 99-4- ; Bank :St o ck, o r India Bonds have receded to I dis. to par ; Exell e g Bills are 14 16 prem. ree There has been more business doing in the Fe , o cit Market than for some days past. Spanish Active r i o rr has ad vance d to 211 ; B raz ili an B on d s are 661 ; nal ; bian, 214-, ; Mexican 26i ; Portuguese Five per Cents' l pr Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents: 52 ; Ditto Fiv es acr il Very little business doini in Shares. Great W e ii; New are 564 cx. div. ; London and Brighton, ls odf Ditto and Birmingham, 159 ex. div. ; North Mt' New, 10 ; South Eastern and Dover, 17i. .S 0 °' QUARTER TO Tl l -• R A O' The accounts by the Overland Express, if as re' in detail as the outline furnished by the telegraP i port, are not likely to give much satisfaction. (1.00 Tea jobbers have derived more confidence o f A the news, as they think it in favour to y - protracted contest. Prices, therefore, are like!eset go up again, but cannot be correctly quoted at pr ,I0talL! as parties are indisposed to operate till further '0; are received. As the British had not begun t . ( ! th what they' can do, the preparation f t he being unquestionable, the worst part v.., Ow business, there is ev e ry reas on to hope, deZ tot e assertions to the contrary, that our troops will brig the nativett" when they do commence, and. soon