The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

P/lORNING SUN. , ....I. ......." ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. UND BR ;THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Grand net icentration of attraction, and no advance in the price. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 9, W Will be acted Lord Byron's Spec tacle, called THE ILD — HORSE; OR, MAZEPPO, THE CHILD OF THE DESERT. intro& ng Mr. Duerow's Magnificent Stud of Forty Horses, ained P a lf rs ys, Fairy Peneys, the Equestrians, and Corp,, al' es (itf lio_th Theatres. After which, T HE 'SPLENDID SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the/ Largest Arena in the World. , orW th Madatise'Ducrow, Signor Hillier, the Great Ameri can Ri df ,r, the British Horseman, Signor Felix Carlo, and the First t lr tistra in Bitrope will appear. To e,o+ ode with the Nautical Drama of BEN THE BOATSWAIN. Supported by the strength of the Company. ' ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. ONDEI I THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON. First woe Tk of "Mary Clifford !" increased attraction of " Wo man''s Love !" three more nights of " Black Eyed Susan !" and nit week of " The Wood Demon ! --- THIS EVENING, AUGUST 9, fertnanees will commence with the Ne w Domestic Drama in Three Acts, called MARY CLIFFORD; THY; FOUNDLING APPRENTICE GIRL! Wi; Base' Cliron, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Bowlirg, Mr. Paul,; Aobbj r D enham, Mr. Gardner: Sarah, Mrs. W. West; anal )tart If d, Miss . Vincent, the acknowit dgctl Heroine of Domt all After which, the Nantical Drama cf -RLACIc. EYED SUSAN. Of i llis in, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Gnatbrain, Mr. Gardner ; Me.lol` wig, Mr. Paul ; Doggrass, Mr. James; Susan, Mrs. :W. Wk. . _ . To conclude with, THE WOOD DEMON. Har‘ 7 .3 knutc, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Willikind, Mr. Gardner ; 14a, fid rs. W. Weq. ioit as , N.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, Stl. Half-price to the Boxes 011 7, fialf-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPFIL LAST. 'WEEK BUT ONE of the GREAT WIZARD of Vts':l`;i:OßTl - I'S performing in the British Metropoits. L'os Six 'Nights of the HARMONIOUS YOUTHS. It ix et- ith deep regret that the Wizard puts forth the above anaortxPkAncnt, but as preparations are about to be made on an !get", Sive scale for the opening of the Adelphi Theatre for itsv trical Season, the Wizard is compelled prematurely to finish I Li s seasen of wonderment ; therefore those who wish to yCo theWaixia. and his mighty doings, must not new " stand ce-the lettliweAf going," but "go at onee." During the con tbalirO' tivvelve nights the Wizard will display all his peculiar power 6 .mortal and superhuman, which are without parallel in this m • any other ~.ountry. Th y„e who with to hear the " sweet melody" of the " Bell Ring er v a i nust remember that their Engagement finishes on Sato: s. ntlat 14th instant. • • s Laelaa second announcement of " Last Week." I,lP(.7ixe 41:21;:v6d.; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price a. ' I4. :A/i'-past Nine cich,ck. Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. for the Boxes may be taken from 111 r. Swinburn, at Boi -dice, between Eleven and Fonr. 1 arts :s'are respectfully informed, that as the Dress Circle is nigl r' crowded, an early application is requisite. Frikxte Boxes, containing six persons, I/. ss. Doors open', Hay-past Seven ; the Wizard appears at Eight o'clock trecist c Half-price at Half-past Nine. Aftetr the conclusion of the Wizard's London Engage- Inc rn, lie ur.il appear in Brighton and Southampton. enanomk., THE RAILWAY SUN IS NOW PUBLISHING, PT ICE ONLY SIXPENCE. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Havir ; intended to insert the letter of Civis, we said no ;Ling of it. HI OH WATER AT LONDON PRIDGE TO-MORROW 4lrrn 3 minutes after 5. I Evening 22 minutes after 5. titt o§utt, LONDON: MONDAY, AUGUST 9, Is4l. It has escaped no Journalist's observation, we !V(hCh !, that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S difficulties will be ine reased or lessened as the harvest is scanty or al►u ndant. It is a proper punishment for him that I its fate should depend on the unjust law he has s ,old himself to defend. The following pas sage from the Spectator places the matter in a grap hie light : TI is weather-glass is the magic mirror of the states man. Every morning does Sir Robert Peel, " the pilot that is to weather the storm"—that is to take the helm of the-e rank, ill-found vessel, with sealed instructions, in the fl ;xi: of the blackest clouds—every morning, before his pilc.tage begins, does he consult the lowering sky and the r eiLrograde finger on his barometer ; his counte nance reflecting the sombre aspect of the heavens, his sighs of future trouble echoing the wind that beats again' ;e, his window and tells of the bleak corn-fields and t heir spoiled abundance. The first week in August sets i n like the last in November, with gusty winds and drifting rains : consolatory people in the country send in wu )rd that all is right with the plentiful crops, if there be plenty of ripening sun ; and a glance at the leaden_ sky betrays all the mockery of the " if." The glance. may well unnerve the boldest heart. The Whigs leave office with the cry of " cheap bread" in their mouths ; the Tories come into office with dear bread threatened in the weather. The antithesis, however ac cidental, however little to be imputed to them in the way of blame, is startling, practical, undeniable. But the praise or blame of the matter is of secondary mo ment—the consequences are the thing to be dreaded. To have driven out the Whigs, in order to devise mea sures of relief for a distressed and discontented people, was a victory sufficiently thankless ; but to encounter—with a deficient revenue, taxes failing in productiveness, and trade suspended in many places where those dependent on trade crowd the thickest—in such circumstances to encounter a war with the elements, and to front the ad vances of a hungry people, is a fearful complication of evils. Such is the prospect offered to Sir Robert Peel by the summer sky. There is only one chance left for him—and surely he is not the man to shrink from a des perate recourse justified by desperate circumstances ? He might as well withstand the rush of man and beast to the water after a march in the desert, as stand by the Corn-laws in the face of the people pressed on by hun ger; he would be trampled down without hope or mercy. lie must abandon what he could not keep though he perished in the struggle—slidin g scale, details, and all. He will find no help but in repeating the expedient to which the Ministry of 1826, including his faithful col league, the Duke of Wellington, and himself, resorted— suspcnding the Corn-laws; leaving their ultimate fate to be decided by and by. Our Contemporary pushes the matter too far, probably, when. 'he suggests that Sir ROBERT may, as in 18'26, suspend the law ; but that was done when the Parliament was not sitting, and Sir ROBERT will, probzbly, be as we ll aware of the necessity of taking some measure before the Parliament separates, as when it again meets in January or February. At the same time, the state of the weather must, at this moment, harass any and every Minister who has any wish to see the country peacefUl and prosperous. When we are told so continually of the na tional independence caused by the Corn-laws, it seems proper to remind the Tories that those laws make the Government dependent on the weather, which is proverbial for fluctuations. Sack is the consequence of interfering with the food of the people, by which all the responsi bility of providing for them is assumed by the Legislature, and its organ the Executive Govern ment. What folly ! what madness! Man is horn to trouble, doomed to labour and poverty, and, by interfering with his food, the stupid, but ambitious law-maker, makes himself re £ponsiblc for "all the ills that flesh is heir to." The word "independence" does not mean a com plete freedom, and perfect unrestrained latitude of action. A man cannot fly like a bird; nor could a Tory Government, though clothed with the most absolute power, tansport all our people to France or the United States. Tudependeree, therefore, implies a restrained freedom, accord, ing to which individu a l s an d nat i ons walk wisely within limits strictly imposed on them. To us it seems clear that the Corn-law, instead of ex , tending these limits, creates a new and arbitrary boundary, narrowing both the national freedom and the Government's sphere of action very much ; and thus, in the proper sense of the word, increases the dependence both of the na, tion and the Government. Of the nation,—because it continually a ply of food obtain e d f rom our s the rule, restrains and limit s our peono " .e to the sup rAvn soil, o f course keeps th em always pin - ched. for food, and when the harvest fails, as of late it has been scanty, finds them 'without any surplus to fall back on, and redilces them, as at preset , * state of almost desper. famine. to a e can it get f:on i , • P.dy other country iNO supplies dependent on it to tal(e the corn which that country and tliereafoiraerge it grows, and offer c ompelled to go a begcrin gold to those who are in g nowise depend, n s t arn in on it for the means of saving ita u n d er _ fed an pplied Population from all far from the horror s of an Bind. ostaii fa mine. The co_rn- tionai freedom, impossiesgotnnei't s art i The:regny ad trhenua b One of the results of the Census, already well ascertained, is a deterioration of the condition of our people. Badly off as are the manufacturing population, the agricultural population in most of the southern and western counties is worse off; but lower than them there is a lower depth oc cupied by the Irish peasantry, who flock over to England and Scotland, and beat down the popu lation of Great Britain to their level. It is stated of Glasgow, of Paisley, and of Manchester, that the people are now worse lodged than they were ten years ago. The influx of Irish into those towns has had a disastrous effect on the condition of the English and Scotch. Is this a just retri- , bution? Let us see. What places the Irish in so low a condition, economically speaking? The appropriation of the land amongst a comparatively small body of Protestant landowners, who have no sympathy or friendly connection with the bulk of the people. The further appropriation of the tithes to a priesthood who do not teach the people, and who have as little sympathy with them as the landowners. Poor and degraded, without any possible means of bettering their condition, the bulk of the Irish peasantry cling with an at tachment almost unexampled to the priesthood of their own faith and their fathers' faith. Re duced to a state of compulsory slavery by the Protestant landlords and the Protestant priest hood, they have submitted to a species of volun tary slavery to their own priesthood, and are doubly enthralled. Certainly, the blower-fed Irish, the two millions of paupers mentioned by Mr. O'CONNELL, are economically, if not morally —for their warm-hearted affections have kept them from being utterly debased --the most de graded people of civilized Europe. But it is clear that the few tyrant landowners and the usurping priesthood could not have in flicted, and could not now inflict, this sad de gradation on the Irish, were they not supported by the people of Great. Britain. In fact, it is their power which maintains the compulsory slavery of the Irish, and is the parent of their voluntary slavery. Now, however, they are degrading our population to their level, and thus are the people of Great Britain justly punished for their conduct towards Ireland. At present the course of the retribution is plain. The English and Scotch enable the Pro testant landlords of Ireland to clear their estates, and the people, whom the landlords by their aid thrust off the land, come hither to swell the mass of our own poverty. We incite the cupi dity of those landlords, by giving them an ex clusive possession of our markets for grain. We tax our people's bread to enhance the Irish land lords' rent ; to obtain as much of that enhance ment as possible, they try to consolidate farms, and to produce as large a net surplus as possible. On the one hand, the price of the people's bread is raised by the landlords' tax, and, on the other, the wages of their labour is beat down by the competition of the expatriated Irish, whom the said landlords have excluded from their estates, to get as large a share as possible of the tax. The support, therefore , which the people of Great Britain give to the oppressions of the Trish landlords —the sanction they give, by th , -; , un resisting passiveneg.A, to the Bread-tax, do now much contribute to produce that poverty and dictrosq _.of which our peuptt: complain, They suffer by their own fault, and it may be doubted whether either individuals or nations suffer, in the majority of The le eases, without richly-d eserv i ng it. Peop 'sf Great Britain uphold the oppres sion of the Irish, they tolerate the Corn-la 7 and they hav e their reward „ 5, in deterio'r.ition a a d decay. Bow-street law wifl p- ---- j ust;.ee, :a j become as notorious as Jedburgli case of Mr. 7v-"IonT3tAN, n tikkr paper rustices' justices 176(... , pztittett has very a station-house on Satr:rda.y, to which a c el P s t ,: r . teci an authority illustration properly called public .atzt:storeis on-house, of this. A polietnati authority to drag a resptetable citizen off to and, because he objects to go, h e • 's fined 5s That is Bow-street law. The poli ce , like other.. servants whom we hire and appoint to protect us ar:, becoming our masters; and the Magistrates, who should check their usurpations, compel us to submit, by fine or imprisonment. Such rim e _ tices have a tendency to correct themselves, but they first inflict a great deal of discomfort On th e public. The whole of the French journals of Thursday have reached us. They are still oceuPiP ° the affair of Toulouse, upon which throw no new light. P. - , our Paris CorrP%, accompa--- ' trs- with nowever, they following letter from -eundent, and the extracts which it, include whatever is of the least in ...est in these papers : (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Rims, AUGUST s. —The rumoured negotiations for a Customs' Union between France and Belgium occupy the Thublic m i n d, and seem to be not altogether unfounded. at overtures have been made long ago is certain, but what progress has been effected in the conducting of them is not so clear. The design of France is avowed, and can deceive no one. It is that of indirectly extending her frontier to the limits of demarcation between Hol land and Belgium, with the facility of seizing on th e whole territories. aeKing Leopold th e moment an Euro pean war should present a fa voura bl e Opportunity. It is possible, too, that this design may be considered as, an indirect method of regainiDg: swan of the influence lost . 1 ) • ft/ 1 4 1- • : -, i 1 ":1;t1 , :1 1 ' - - Moo • narrow restriction; as if the lawgiver should de cree, because his subjects cannot fiy like birds , neither shall they walk like animals. Of the Government,-using that term in its largest sense, as including both the Legislative and Executive powers,—because it burdens both with the onerous duty of providing for the nou rishment of the people. Hence the destitute men of Wrexham justly and properly appealed to the Magistrates to find them food. Surely they have a better right to be fed than the landowner has to receive rent, which must come from their la bour, and which the law is passed to provide. They have a better right to be fed than the par son has to his tithes, which are the produce of their toil. Hence, too, the Chartists have pro perly and justly demanded a thorough revision of the Constitution, because they do not get well paid. Their right to make such a demand arises from an interference with their food and indus try, so that the Corn-law narrows and limits the freedom of the Legislature, and compels it to do many things it might otherwise abstain from doing. Threatened as it now is by the opposition of a half-starved people, what liberty of ac tion has it either in respect to them or in respect to foreign nations ? What could it do were the Americans to hang WLEop, and half the people demanding repeal or a republic? What can it do but devote its attention, and tremble while it devotes it, to the commercial distress and the state of the harvest ? A. few days more cold weather—an angry storm—would leave it no option, but compel it to abrogate its own laws, or involve the nation in a bloody con vulsion. Even a lowering cloud makes the Members of the Legislature and the Executive Government tremble. All that dependence is the consequence of the Corn-laws, for if there were no such laws the Legislature and the Executive would say— " Storms are the breath of GOD, he gives or he withholds as it seems good to him an abund ance to the earth ; and we, like you, suffer from his dispensations." But now they cannot say so, for the want of food, at which the people repine, and for which alone they look with anxiety to the weather, is caused by the law, and the dearth which pinches them en riches the law-maker. He takes on himself, as we have repeatedly observed, the awful respon_ sibility of providing for the subsistence of the people; and under that responsibility, at this moment, the Prime Minister-expectant totters with fear and dread, and to no other subject but that one can the Legislature attend. If this be not sad and sorry dependence language has no meaning; and this dependence, of the nation on other nations, and of the Government on the people it pretends to rule, is caused by the law which is defended by the Tories, because it makes the nation independent. in Europe by France, from her conduct on the Eastern Question. The opportunity for pushing on such a negotiation is considered by the French Ministry .as not a bad one, when England, the most jealous of the neighboUrs of France, is likely to be distracted by a change of Ministry ; and when Holland, amused with the projected marriage of the Prince de Joinville to the Princess Sophia of Orange, will not take alarm at seeing the French Custom-house officers replace those of Belgium under her very nose. It !is possible, too, that France may have received some inadvertent marks of amity from Prussia and Austria which may have en couraged her to try the effect of a coup de diplornatigue ; and that on the whole she may expect to succeed in wheedling the Belgians into this pretended alliance. On the other hand, the interested opposition of certain classes of French manufacturers, coal owners, iron masters, &c., is thwarting the proposed scheme ; and it is not unlikely may adjourn any further steps in it until the next Session of the Chambers. The German States are doing all in their power to prevent any union of the kind from taking place ; and strong representa tions, as we have every reason to believe, have already been made to the French Cabinet on the subject. The strenuous opposition of England, Russia, and perhaps Austria, will, it is to be hoped, nip this scheme in the bud, or else France will, with a single stroke of the pen, gain practical possession of the whole of Belgium. How the 13e1- : gians can deliberately, and with their eyes open, wish for any closer union with a despotic Government like that of Louis Philippe, or with a generation of notoriously colt- rupt statesmen, such as now alone compose the Cabinet of the Tuileries, is inconceivable ; for the very first effects of the Customs' Union would be the paralysing of their own manufacturing industry and the annihila tion of that good will in Eastern and Central Europe , upon which the prosperity of Belgium so much depends. On all these accounts the arrival of King Leopold at Pa ris is looked forward to with anxiety. It is commonly believed that the Government has not ordered the arrest of' the late Mayor of Toulouse and his deputies, as has been rumoured by the journals, though it would no doubt do so, if it dared, and a great deal more. The Mcssager, which is the Ministerial evening paper, and the Moniteur, continue to publish daily tele graphic despatches from Toulouse, as if it was a place of the utmost importance, and they thus show the alarm felt by the Government at the late disturbances. The last accounts from Algiers show that General La mmiciare's column was rather roughly handled on its return to Oran from Mascara, the Arab enemy closing with the men in good style, and when not attacking them in due form, harassing them excessively from the rear. The proportion of 800 sick out of about 4,000 men (the total force) is enormously large, and shows the ravaging effects of the climate on European consti tutions. The Governor-General, in aklressing the 17th light infantry just before it embarked the other day for France, observed that in Africa the corps had been " a column of glory"—it was now going to be " a column of order." A nice warning to the Parisians, that in case of an emeute this regiment, which is to be quartered at Courbevoie, near Neuilly, will be ready to show what a razia is, in the true African fashion. The reign of for tifications, Bastilles, and bayonets, is beginning here with a vengeance ! The number of the families now at the waters of Wiesbaden, is said by the Frankfort Journal to be 2,150 ; of whom 1,652 are Germans, and 498 foreigners. The latter comprise 244 English, and 77 French families. A shock of earthquake was felt at Holbeck, in Den mark, on the 15th ult., accompanied by a loud noise in the air, similar to the discharge of artillery. The formation of a new series of galleries at•Ver sallies is talked of. They are to occupy the attic above the Queen's apartments, facing the orangery, and will be a continuation of rooms lately opened above the Ga lerie des Batailles. A woman named Marie Gervais died, a few days ago, in the hospital at Montpellier, at the age of 110. She was admitted there as a sempstress, in 1762, being then 32 years old, and remained an inmate , from that time till her death. During the last mouth the number of passengers on the Paris and Corbeil Railroad amounted to 86,285, car riages 62, horses 74, and the receipts 116,365 fr, On the 15th inst., the 71st anniversary :of the birth of Napoleon, the dome of the Inv slides is to be com pletely- illuminated. The ilgrain Gazette gives us the following some what astonishing story :—" A short time since a Turk, who was known to have gone to bathe in the Danube, near Belgrade, did not return, and was missing for three days. At the end of this time his body was discovered among the rushes on the bank, and clinging by the arms to the trunk of a tree, while his lower limbs were fast in the throat of an enormous fish, the silurus glanis, weigh ing three quintals (rather more than 500 weight) !" The Company of the Messageries Royales has just been condemned by the tribunal of Pontoise to pay 25,000 fr. damages to a traveller, who was obliged to have his right arm amputated last May, in consequence of injuries from the overturning of one of its diligences in that town. The accident was proved to have been owing to the imprudence of the postilion and conductor. The Havre Journal publishes the reports deli vered to the legal authorities of Leghorn and Naples, by the captains of the Pollux and Montegibello re spectively, concerning the unfortunate shock, which ended in the sinking of the former vessel. The re ports state positively that each captain saw the light of the other long before, and that they were, with a proper number of their crew, on the decks, endeavouring to steer clear of each other. The captain of the Pollux, however, states that when, after the shock, he leaped on board the Montegibello, ho 'build no one on deck except the steersman, and he was obliged to get the passengers from one ahlp to the other by means of his own crew, there being none of the Montegibello's men to aid him. Ile attributes all the fault to the Captain of that vessel. This Journal states that the plan for raising the Pollux has been suggested by a sailor, who has contracted to carry it into execution, and consists in letting down chain-cables, forming an oblong round the hull of the vessel, and then warping them tight, by means of run ning -knots and capstans, worked on board a sufficient number of lighters.. It is expected that, by this method, the ship will be readily got up. We learn from the Journal tle let Metertize, that on Saturday last the depot of powder at Liverdun, kept there for blasting works in fotniing t 1 canal, blew up, killed five men, wounded many more, and did consider able damage, The cause of the accident is not stated. A peasant of Romeyer, in the Drome, being ena moured of a young girl of the village, and driven to des peration by her refusal of him, and engaging herself to be married to another, followed her into the fields a few days ago, and there murdered her with his gun. Her body was found nearly half consumed, the gun having . been dis c h arge d so c l ose t h at t h e fi re o f t h e wadding had caught her clothes. The man hiinBtli Wttg found soon after, a lifeless corps,. in a Vrood, half a league off, where he had committed cuitide with the same instrument. A eaeo which has been for some time before the Nets Tribunal of Correctional Police, in which Messrs. Monnier, Latte, and Baptiste, were prosecuted by M. Victor Hugo—M. Monmer for writing, M. Latte for publishing, and M. Baptiste, who is the Di rec t or o f th e theatres of Mete and Nancy, for performing an opera in Italian, in four acts, called Lucrecc Borgia, which was an Imitation, and in great part a translation, from Lu crece Borgia, a drama in three nets, by M. Victor Hugo, was decided yesterday. An exception made to the com petency of the tribunal, as regards M. Baptiste, was allowed ; but judgment was given as follows against the other two defendants, viz., each to pay a fine of 100 fr., their work to be confiscated, and all future sale prohi. bited. In the course of the trial it: Victor Hugo stated that he laid no claim for damages: After the trial Of the ti'd.lie§ Alt the publication of the letters ascribed li it to the King, M. Johannet, one of the eiditort, republished from that journal the report of the trial, in the form of a pamphlet unstamped. This was regarded by the Stamp-office authorities as a viola tion of the law, the republication being, in their opinion, identified with the journal, and the whole of the edition was immediately netted. An action was brought by M. Johannet against the Stamp-office department for this reiture, and was decided yesterday by the Tribunal Civil of Paris, which declared that the pamphlet was a separate work from the journal, and not liable to stamp-duty ; and it therefore ordered the restitution of the copies seized, anti the rt....J..1 of all the restrictions upon the sale of the work. The costs were thrown on the Btattp-office. A report has been circulated 'on Change today (says Le Commerce) that the city of Toulouse had been declared in a state of siege. We think that the Mind ary will contradict this improbable n3- ece of news. The camp at CIA , - : de s. The ...,inpeigne is to be put off' for ten y t _nops are to be assem bl e d t h ere ott t h e t at ,of eptember, instead of the 20th of August, The la bours of the harvest wilt by that time be completely ended.—Le Centitwtionttet The itioniteat says e— , -" On aefttint of the state of the atmosphere no neWs t6iiitt lC received by the tele gaph during the atty, but a despatch received this morn ilk announces that tranquillity continued to prevail." • - The Emancipator, of Toulouse, of the :.Id, makes no meition of troubles, which it was feared might take Place oh Sunday or Monday. The authorities, however, contintoct'o take measures of precaution. The j , nrnal de Cherbourg says, " It seems certain that orders h,„ O been received at Cherbourg to forward with the neate- , diligence the completion of all the ships of war building b 1. the dockyards." The Germat. Journals endeavour to conceal as much as possible ta, critical state of the Austrian finances, but we learn limn good authority that cenlmerce is completely at a stand . . 1 t h e p ititw f a o tr ip g prninces the — ch of Austria, in consequence ,f the numerous hankruPtelea which have taken place at V , ,,p a , Trieqp,re4th Yenlee . ? . 7 and Prague, work, because the oefst:-bollikshmineop47l,,,.„.„, without.. th . o s ti c find it impossible to pay them, in i employed merce, financial crisis or which Vienna is 0;2 11 . se .q ue ne e '‘. 'I tile c'-tre.—Le , ..... , NconDiTs.--It is said that Sir Robert Pet to neg o ti ate a concordat with the Pope for the , vern , ment of th e C atholic Church in England and i l an d, Before h e b eg i ns such a negotiation, he will have r fr '. ,o cure the repeal of some laws, of which repeal his 4 n elL the Chu rc h men may not approve. nroposes RETORT COURTEOUE.__A llussiat lady being engaged to dinner with M, de Talleyrand, ,it that time Minister f ur Foreign Allairs, was detaint,i a full hour uests - by some unexpect e d accident, 'l'"'l'" famished g grumbled, and looked at the; . watches, On the lady's entrance, one of the corz,pany observed to his neighbour in Greek, " Wh et ' woman is neither young nor handsome, she ought e Arrive betimes." The lady, turning round sharpl , :‘,..:osted the satirist in the same language, "Whey ~ woman," said she, " has the misfor tune to dine with , Avages, she always arrives too soon," DINNER TO THE HoN. Mit. MOSTYN.— On Tuesday last a public dinner was given to the Hon. Member for Flint, at tha Town-hall, at which about Uu ~ b Q ntlenion sat clown; gip evening passed otf with great ,Conviviality. THE SUN, LOND D k I', AUGUST 9 1-41. find and wear, suited to the Queen's taste, before he cal sit easily as her Minister." -- The Dublin Evening Post observes that " Sir Ro bert Peel may talk moderation, and possibly may be dis posed to practice it, but as well might he essay the tam ing of a herd of tigers or hyenas as to attempt the im possible task of reducing the Ultras, who form the bone and sinew of the faction which he leads, into habits of quietness and forbearance. No—that faction pant for the restoration of Toryism as much for the means of exer cising unbridled power, as for the pelf and patronage belonging to office." " The real qualities of the quack doctor," says the Coventry Herald, "are completely betrayed by his late words ; but the most engaging part of the whole is the mysterious silence of the man of specifics, about the medi cine and treatment suitable to the case ; while he never theless points to the box of physic which he has carried at his back ever since 1835, and hints that the cure and cordial are both surely there." AGRICULTURAL. Accounts from Ireland state, that at Newry the crop is abundant. The oat crops at Tipperary are in full produce. Though the rains have damaged the hay, yet barley and oats have thriven from it. A Correspondent from an extensive corn district in the north-west of England, states that the appearance of the wheat crop is very promising. LAW AND POLICE. A man at Wootton Bassett was lately taken into custody for threatening to beat a woman. Whether acting under Magistrate's advice or not is unknown, but he was unceremoniously put into the Blind-house, and from the Saturday to the ensuing Thursday confined there. After an undecisive examination, he was again thrust into this miserable hole—unallovved . to breathe fresh air, or obey the calls of nature. He has since been dismissed. Surely investigation is required here. Dame Fanny Parker, commonly called Lady Hyde Parker, appeared on Friday before the Commissioners it the Insolvent Debtors' Court, to obtain release, she hav ing three detainers still lodged against her. Her bail, however, was found faultyand refused, and her Ladyship was conducted back to prison. TREAT CAL. The Concerts d'Ete, at Drury-lane, were on Friday night honoured by the presence of the Duke, Duchess, Princess Augusta, and Prince George of Cambridge. -- - not be ministerially trifled with. Such a rebuff as Sir COURT CIRCULAR. Robert met in 1839, will not be forgotten, on either I Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of side, for years to come. The Duke of Wellington says, Cambridge, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of that Peel has no manners for Court. M a n ne r s h e mus t Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, Baron i Knesebeck, and Colonel Jones. left town on Saturday evening, for their residence at Kew. The _Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Baron Brunow, the Russian Ambassador, and M. Tri coupi, the Grecian Minister, transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at his official residence in Downing-street The Marquis of Normanby arrived in town on Satur day from Ryde, Isle of Wight. The Earl of Albemarle arrived in town yesterday from Brighton. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has returned to town from Portsmouth. Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and also from the Governor of St. Helena, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. DUTCh MAIL. THE HAGUE, AUG. 4.—His Majesty has been pleased to pardon M. Meeter, formerly a writer in. the Tolk der Vryheid, who was condemned to four years' imprison ment. Mrs. Elizabeth Fry arrived at the Hague yester day with relatives and attendants. THE HAGUE, AUG. s.—The statue of De Ruyter is to be inaugurated at Flushing on the 18th. It is hoped that his Majesty will be present at the ceremony. NIZeEGUEN, AUG. I.—To-day at noon a most tremen dous storm of hail and rain passed over this city ; the hailstones were of extraordinary size. It is to be feared that it has done great damage to the str nding crops. The heavy rains have already done great injury to the crops ill most parts of our country. Some public works have also suffered severely. _ KAMPE;q, Atm. 3.—Ail the accounts from the bank: of the Rhine hold out very unfavourable prospects of the vintage. The last hurricane has destroyed all hopes of even a moderate vintage. DUTCH FUNDS.—AiusTEIOAM, AUG. 6 Alone!. Elds. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Jilt°, ditto S per cent. Amen SI ndic, 4% per cent Ol% 91% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 74 75% Commercial Company, 4 , 4 per cent lss!i 55% Ditto (1t135 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per cant. Exchange on London, One month l2 02% Two months Hamburgh, One month 95 81 1 4 Two months 35 sti AUSTRIAN Fti N DS. —VIENNA, Atio. 2 five per Conte. Metall iques ........ ........ ......... ..... iO5 LA Four per Cents. 97 Three per Cents. Bank Shares ... ...... ........... ............. —. ..... ..... THE " LADY THIEF" AT LINCOLN.—As was anticipated and predicted, the " lady thief." has been permitted to escape ; she has quitted Lincoln, it is stated. Several fresh cases of daring theft on her part are now freely spoken of, showing whatever place she visited she plundered if possible—taking jewellery, fancy wools, or anything portable that came in her way. Many tradesmen have missed articles of great value. During the latter pait of last week the lady called several times at the shops from which she was positively known to have stolen, to endeavour to compromise matters by paying for the goods. One party refused until she had not only returned all they had seen her take, but every thing she had taken ; she went away, returned, and de livered up a bundle of fancy wools and worsteds. Not content with compounding crime (an indictable offence, by-the-bye), and defeating justice to the public, parties are, framing excuses for the thief worth 4001. a-year. • Her disorder is tenderly ascribed to a morbid and irre pressible propensity, or monomania. And it is sought to palliate her offence by the representation that she did `not intend harm in taking what belonged to others. 7-- Zi;zeoln Mercury. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND' SUICIDE..-04 Thursday morning(29th ), about nine o'clock, the in habitants of Langrove , c9Hininon v , in the parish of Llan garren, in this county, alarmed by the cries of " Murder," proceeding, TrOiti the cottage of Jonathan Strong, a shoemaker, aged 52 4 He had been a sick cripple, and confined to his cottage between five and six years, and latterly had been in an excited state of mind. The cries of murder were made by his wife, Ann Strong, who was found leaning against the cottage door, fainting, with her throat cut, and bleeding profusely. She subsequently stated, that her husband, on coming down stairs to breakfast, asked her how she was. She answered, " Very poorly." He then produced a razor, and said, " This will make you better," threw her across the table, and begin ning at the fleshy part of the neck, which he cut to the spine, drew the razor across her throat. In the scuffle for life she pushed her hand to her throat, and thus saved the main blood-vessel, two of her fingers being cut to the bone. On her escaping from him to the door of the cottage, he inflicted'a deep wound across his own throat, which reached into the back of his mouth. Surgical aid was immediately procured, and Mr. Millard found them both faint from the loss of blood. He took up six or eight blood-vessels in each throat. As the man appeared still bent on self-destruction, he, with the sanction of Jonathan Strong's family, left him under re straint. His wife was removed to her son's cottage, a few yards from her husband's. At eight in the evening they were both alive, but there is little hope of their re covery.—Hereford Paper. WALSALL. —On Wednesday afternoon, about one hundred and fifty electors met Mr. Scott, the Mem ber for the Borough, at dinner, Mr. R. A. Kettle in the chair. THE MOORS.—During the present week the passage of the distinguished company towards the north has been considerable, and the increase is daily ob servable as the 12th approaches. The meeting of Parliament on the 19th will, however, interfere ma terially with the motions of many sportsmen, par ticularly those to the northern counties ' • and we understand the mo s t urgen t appea l s have been made to members of both parties for their personal attend ance on the very first day of the session. The pros pects of the game are plentiful, although the cold weather and drought early in July is represented as having been prejudicial in some grounds. The stations in this county are this year to be occupied as follows :—Earl of Mansfield, Glenfernate ; Earl of Lauderdale and party, Grandtully and Strathbran ; Earl of Mexborough at Auchnafree ; Lord Grantley, Rannoch ; Lord J. Scott, Dirnanean ; Sir P. M. Threiplaud and Sir J. Mackenzie, Dalnaspidal ; Sir D. Dundas, Glenlednock ; Right Hon. Fox Manic, Kinlock ; Mr. Labouchere, Glenquaich ; C. Gray, Esq., Glasgow, Aldvonline, and Clunes ; H. W. des Voaux, Kyrachan and Glencrombie ; Mr. Brown and party, Glenbruar • Colonel Pat erson , o f C ast l e h unt l y, Logie-almond Lodge ; Mr. Atkinson, Mount Alexander; Mr. Russell, Strathtummell ; Mr. Haig, Corriemuck loch ; Captain Teesdale, Auchleeks ; Mr. Rogers, from Lincolnshire, Ochtertyre Hills ; Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Bunrannoch ,• Mr. Muir Ferguson, Staloeh ; Mr. Irvine, Finatrlen ; Mr. Clark, Aberuchill ; Mr. Small, Dalnacarnocii and Garrabruich ; Mr. Murray, Loch Valigan ; Mr. Colquhoun, Balnaguard and Logierait.— Perth Courier. Her Majesty is expected to return to Bucking am Palace this day week from Windsor Castle, al though no day i s y et pos i t i ve i y fi xe d. Th e D uc h ess o f Kent's birth-d a y w ill b e celebrated fa' the following day. It is p 7obable h e r M a j esty w ill open t h e ew Parliament in person ; and, on Wedn es d a y, th c 25th nil taut, her Majeaty is ex pee, ;:d to hold a Co ur t, a t w hi c h the arch- Q bishop of Canterburyend the Convocation of th e Bi s ho l l's will be present, THE BISHOP or LowDoN.—A certain aged Rector, in Middlesex; has lately been summoned to attend his Lordship to give an account of his couduct on the following charges :—That he is in the habit of opening Me window, and converting himself into what the Ame ricans call a trollop, viz., sitting in an arm chair and giv ing the passera-by a view of the soles of his shoes—that, in such unclerical posture, he has been seen reading a newspaper on the Loren" day—and last, but not least in the Bishop's eyes, that his reverence has a cask of ale (canon ale of course) on his drawing-room sofa ! The old gentleman, not a little annoyed at being brought from a distance to answer such paltry charges, told the Bishop that he WWI not aware thtx,---n-no anything very hoinoue in any of the charges, supposing they were all true, but pleaded not giiilty to the Sunday newspaper reading. It is really pitiful to find a learned man like Dr. Blomfield listening to the tittle-tattle of every busy fool. If a cler gyman is guilty of any immorality, it is a Bishop's duty to interfere, but the eccentricities of seventy may surely be passed oler. It is too late at such an age to study Chesterfield or the dancing-master.—Sunday Times. PETITION FOR A SECOND DRAMATIC PA TCNT FOR LIVERPOOL.--A petition has lately been pre ea:maid to the Queen, signed by no less than eleven thou sand of the inhabitants of this great and improving town, praying for a second dramatic patent. There has been but one Theatre Royal there for the last seventy years, for which a patent was granted when the population was only 30,000; now we believe ii is upwards of 300,000. There is, we think, every reason to believe that her Ma jesty will comply. The Marquis of Normanby has taken the opinion of the Town Council of Liverpool on the subject, and the measure has been approved of there by a large majority, An attempt to oppose the grant has been made by the proprietors of the old Theatre Royal, who have reaped a rich harvest from it for years ; but Ottesition emanating from a few interested parties can Vial little effect when weighed against the united voices tfrt eleven thousand inhabitants of the second town - '-n Britigt Impire. We believe it is intended to sp in "- -'ected new patent to the present Liver The ply the ex t .. ' a intiot popular place of entertainment, titre in Liverpoo, • Lard Malone Raymond, a gentle ciondnated by dr. - a most popular manager. friary of family end eonnectioa, harvest makes but 't fit 1-lAftirEgf.The ha, . elom—the rainy jog ffoete. this Pet Of the king.- - , erations of weather orier s eilff,tieqUent ob'stiadal to the La- - e have the labourer. Ma 4 yet 11 . 13 ` ‘ -' 11 th been somewhat improved mo - 19% .. the ; bet the ' return will be " light." 'IR' 64th eil,ePa . ge genera.. . neral are locate:" hope for at) iiWerage favourable weather ensue, well since the late rill& and shoilld we may inuch within . the :Nil harvest. Oats have grown . ' Barley looks well ; and few weeks, and look promising though on cold lands there may be a want of straw. wheat, though thin, is well alltded, and appears healthy. Turnips got in at prober season look promising with the rain. ; and the later have imlrioved abundant crop. The Pota toes, we are afraid, a littlebut, from late winds may have shaken corn ; not be an what we . have seen, the roots are not generally much loosened.—Durham Chronicle. The Hon , Cap tain Maurice Berkele y has pub lished I),n address of thanks to the electors of Gloucester, , Majesty's ship off Gib- ,4 twit. on board her a'altar, in which he declares that subject of the all-engrossing of the porn - laws h e shall give his most cordial support to her Majesty's present Ministers." " _ His creed, he says, is, " Live and let live"—" u nto others you would they should do unto you. I • OF N£ ':-S AND PUbltr 1 4) ptrtion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Levant Mail brings the important intelligence that the insurrection in Candia is nearly at an end. What no force at the disposal of the Porte could accom plish has been effected by conciliation. The Divan lis tened to the advice of the Great Powers, and by pro mising the immediate redress of the evils complained of by the Cretan Christians brought them to lay down their arms. 'We trust that England and France will take care to see the pledges made by the Porte fully redeemed. Three rather important rumours were circulated at Constantinople—first, that the old Emir Beschir was about to be re-instated in command of the Mountains in Syria ; second, that Ahmed Fethi I'acha, brother-in-law of the Sultan, was about to be appointed Ambassador at the Court of London ; and, third, that Mr. Ongley, British Consul at Candia, had been ordered by Lord Ponsonby to proceed to Constantinople, to account for his conduct relative to the insurrection in that island. What truth there may be in these rumours we know not. The Shah of Persia is playing the despot to admi ration. According to a military correspondent of the Constitutionnel, he amuses himself by cutting off from thirty to forty heads daily. This is a luxury in which only Oriental despots can indulge. By the theory of the Ottoman Constitution, as inter preted by the Sheik -ul-Islam; the Sultan mt y pith his own hand cut off the heads of fiFteen of the Faithful daily without assigning any cause for such an extraordinary mark of Imperial condescension ; but as Abd-ul-Mejid's tastes, and the progress of European ideas, are opposed to such Royal pastimes, this branch of the prerogative of the Khalifat is likely to fall into desuetude. What bitter satires upon Monarchical Governments are many of the prerogatives of Kings. . The latest accounts &Om French Africa represent the progress of disease among the troops as really alarming. In a column of 4,000 strong, 800 are reported sick. The Arabs have fought well of late. The French, in fact, are teaching them to become their masters in the art of war. The French Minister of Commerce, M. Gridaine, and the ex-Empress of Morocco, have been interchaug ing.civilities and presents at Marseilles, where her Ma jesty is performing quarantine. M. Gridaine presented himself before the Lady as Vizier of the Sultan of the French, upon which she presented him with a cake and two boxes of pastiles. Not to be out done in acts of munificence, the French Minister made her Majesty an offering of pastry which she accepted, and relished amazingly. Her Majesty is quite an Afri can beauty, weighing a couple of tons and upwards. She is very anxious to visit the harem of the Sultan of the French. PUULIC OPMTEOZT. The Morning Herald remarks, in an article suggested by Dr. APllale's recent denunciation of the Irish : teetotal_ lers—" Disgusting and degrading as intoxication is in all men of all ranks and all nations, it is in none so maddening, so reckless, so- desperate as intliat kection of the Irish people among whom the mission of I'ather Mathew has been carried. On this account we have never demurred to the praise which has been heaped upon him for his perseverance and his success. If that success have been but one-half as signal as we are as sured by the Irish papers that it has been, no eulogy of ours, no tribute from his own countrymen, can approach his deserts." The Chronicle says, in referring to a remark on Sir Robert Peel's presumed policy, that appeared in the Times of Friday :—" We are gravely told by the Times that 4 tha question of finance is nearly, if not absolutely, the sole great question of Government on which Sir Robert Peel has not already, on more than one occasion, ex plained his views.' That is to say, the State Doctor has given his opinions on all subjects, except the disease of his patient and its cure. That is the only point on which he has. said nothing ; and is prepared to say nothing. It is also the very point on which his imputations and contrivances have occasioned the removal of his predecessor. And further, it is the point on which his manoeuvres have been tried to the ut most, not without some success, for preventing the full ex position to the public of the views which that prede cessor entertained, and was ready to act upon . Physician. of Tamworth, is this professional ?" The tactics of the thorough-bred Quack Doctor are fully manifested in this conduct of Sir E. Peel. He has got a remedy for all the ailments of his patient ; but for the one dangerous disease that is slowly arid surely under mining his health, he has none at all. In dismissing Doctor Whig, and sending for Doctor Tory to prescribe for him, the valetudinarian John Bull will lind that he has retarded his cure for many a long year. Lucky if he do not expire under the copious system of bleeding that will no doubt be practised on him by his new physician ! The Post again warns its readers of " the political danger and the practical hopelessness of depending upon a great extension of the manufacturing and commercial system in this country." This is a hint in season, and should not be lost sight of. We grant that it is perfectly hopeless to expect an extension of trade and commerce under existing circumstances—that is to say, with a Tory Monopoly Government hanging over our heads. Our Contemporary, with great tact, is gradually preparing the mind of the country for this disheartening conviction. " Each day furnishes new proof," says the Adver tiser, " of the little estimation in which Sir Robert Peel is held by the party who find it convenient to follow him, but who evidently yield themselves with reluctance to his command, Iteconect, Sir,' says one of these gentlemen who addresses him by the name of Pit teens, ' what Pitt would bane done in your place, and blush if you have a feeling of fear or a tenktiov to compromise.' The star of the proximate and plebeian Premier is apparently already on the wane. The aris tocratic driver of the Derby Dilly is evidently the favour ite, and political jockeys, who a few days ago backed Peel at long odds, are now ready to lay the evens on Stanley or Aberdeen." If Sir R. reel be out of favour with his party, as the Advertiser insinuates, it is be cause they suspect him of undue liberality, which is the best thing we have yet heard of him. As for a Stanley or Aberdeen Administration, the thing is impossible. Such a Government could not hold together for a week. rimes reads along lecture to Sir H. Peel on the sub ject of the New Poor-law Bill, observing—" The admi nistration of the Poor-laws throughout England must no longer be committed to the discretion of three individuals residing in London, and holding office during the plea sure of the Crown. Difficult as it may be, a definite law, framed upon principles agreeable to our fun damental institutions in Church and State, and em bodying in its provisions the experience as well of the last seven years as of the two preceding cen turies, must shortly supersede the present arbi trary experiment.• The Poor-law Commission, if left to itself, would naturally expire before the end of the pre sent year , saha, hh.5,, 8 4, it is possible that reasons of convenience, and the necessity ~f procooding with dpli beratim iq aIP settlement of - so iiiiportant a question, may induce OLT goinrt I*l to postpone the period of its dissolution, yet we trust that such a postpolletlictif, if determined upon, will be for the shortest practicable tint% and fieenuipatiled by a distinct announcement of its merely provisional intention." It is easier for the Times to give adviee than for Sir Robert tel to act upon it, tor his hands are tied up, as respects the New Poor-law Bill; and indeed on most great points of policy, he will have little power to act according to his own no ti ons o f w h at i s j ust an d necessa ry. With the High Church party tuggin g away at one of his coat skirts, and the crotchetty Stanleyites at the other, he will hardly be able to take one step forward, without taking two backward. The Leicestershire Mercury thus comments on the Tamworth remedial measures ;—" Sir Robert will not prescribe for the patient till be is regularly called in.' Cer, 4 inly not ; such conduct would be reprehensible in an Ut li "doe!er—in a State physician and Premier expec tardf!l4 H• he tolerated, Like Dr. Early, Dr. Sol omon , an , " Morrison, he has his secret nostrum: but unlike thcf se b Aefactild of mankind, he fig.y v list of cares. r V hV, ay' not the slightest wish to know tne Cvu "'very as 'tin-y[OIIAI C,rtria - Alc , On. State quack..... eas nit h . , but ye love the patient ! She and her - 0 " 1 : 1 : er tny coast of weeret remedies as any o i.,.ildren are ' 'y, dear to us some of them are at death's d'°" and 1114 arc like the Manchester miners, who, 1 34v i n g e d,c days without food, died by being placed in a bed That the Tf. ,and fed with ohiolcea broth,' 1 tworth Baronet can proscribe a remedy for to 'patient i s bare l y poss ibl e —f or which ability ai. xhole former life furnishes no proof, his recei Cc iuct no probability, Enough of such solemn trit., -T when, on the v like the forth coming, the leads of 0 „ a great party can indulge in r i. ! evef Thin o p; f s a are conflict like come to a crisis feeble jokes, and ntless witticisms. The people are looking for a b "—this pseudo statesman talks of physic." . . -- The Durham t e oor cour tier suggests th a t Sir Robert tier ;—" At any rate, her rmeaejlest will Majesty s e n e l a n k: d b e t . i t ' d,- if - needs must be, to let - ou t the Whigs gently, a: tiously. sir lowa 14 0 take in the T or i es mos t eau that he must be the l ea d er o f his party—that hit l an. ..L , be led by them. O ne t r i a l has already h 111 ays i wi_v u t; a t.,,,, ill, that the Queeu will MO SUMMARY SP onTnvG., A sailing-match took place at Wroxham, the be ginning of this past week. The cup was well contested by Norwich cutters. The long anticipated match between the Windsor and Eton, and the Bramshill Cricket Clubs took place on Friday in the Brocas. At present the Windsor and Eton are 32 a-head of their opponents. The game is to be played out on some future day. COURT-PASHIONABLES. Her Majesty's accouchement is not expected to take place before quite the middle, or the end of October. • It is expected that his Royal Highness, the Here ditary Duke of Lucca will shortly visit this country. The Marquisof Lansdowne is expected'home fr4rn Germany at the close'of this week. —Sir Robert'Peel-and family are expected in town on the lath 1014ZSCELLA.NEOUS. It is stated that a brother of Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P. for Mayo, is appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate. The decision of Mr. Wood's will, of Gloucester, is expected to be made by the Judges of the Privy Council on the 16th instant. The national anthem of " Chid save the King" was first sung at an entertainment given by the Merchant Tailors' Company to James the First, in 1607. Preparations are going forward for the opening of the entire Green-park in the Regent's-park to the public. An elegant suspension chain bridge is being erected over the ornamental waters near Hanover-terrace. ILTIMOURS or THE 1211. Y. It is stated that a most influential Member of the House of Commons intends to move, as soon as possible; for a Select Committee to inquire into the state of Ire land, and to collect a mass of evidence relative to the outrages that were committed, in violation of law and the freedom of election, throughout Ireland, with a view to statutable enactment. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) LIVEr.I.OOI. COTTON MAIIKT, AUG. 6.—The de pressed state of trade in Manchester, from whence each successive account appears more gloomy, has had its due influence upon our Cotton Market, and the pretty gene ral opinion that manufacturers will be again obliged to adopt the system of working only four days per week has induced holders to submit to a further decline of id. per lb. in most descriptions, with some anxiety to realise. Speculators have taken 1,000 bales and exporters 2,000 bales of American. Bales. Imports this week Stock on hand, August 6, 1841 Stock on hand, August 6, 1840 LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 6.—There has been only one transaction done in the Share Market to day; viz. :—London and Birmingham, 1601. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 6.—We have nothing material to notice respecting the state of our Share Market to-day :—London and Birmingham, 160 161 ; Ditto, Quarter-Shares, 224 ; Ditto, New, 321., 24 244 ; North Midland, Halves, 321 ; Midland Counties, Quarters, 214 ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 201 ; Manchester Assurance, 9i. Ship letters have been received this morning from Te neriffe, Antigua, Valparaiso, Jamaica, South Australia, Sydney, and New York, none of which are, however, of so late a date as the previous advices. Both . the English and Foreign Stock Markets opened firm this morning. Consols are 89i for Money, and 894 for Account ; Bank Stock, 168. 1691 ; Three per C ents. Reduced, 94 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Re duced, 98,1 96 ; Exche q uer Bills, 14 16 p rem. Spanish" ,stock, 19i 20 ; Portuguese Five per ActivT Three per Cents., 17; 181. Cents. 29i 30/ ; Ditto - the . T F , oreign Exchanges There was no alteration it: yesterday, with the exception a aris ' which was a shade lower. : - the Consols for money are not quite so good as early part of the morning at which time they were 891, but are now 89k and 89/ g for the Account ; Three per Cent. Ruluced, 90; and Three and Half, 991; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. No business doing worthy of notice in foreign securities. Mexican Bonds, 26; Danish, 79; Belgian, 104, The ►ransactions in the Produce Markets this week have not generally been favourable to the sellers, though an average business has been done. Sugar has fallen, which, indeed, it may well do if the poorer classes (we might almost include those of the middling sphere too) are to have any of the comforts of life at all. The con sumption of the article has been decreasing this year, another proof of the loss entailed on the revenue by the high prices. Then, again, while the community at large are suffering, and will suffer still more yet, by the advance in corn, the national income does not benefit, as most of the foreign wheat will come in at a lower rate, no doubt, than that proposed by Ministers as a permanent duty, viz., Bs. per quarter. Tea has been steadier this week, anti or the sake of the consumers, we are glad -to-sec that the advance has gone no further. -Tal low, ss the season advances, excites more attention, and Cotton is falling, both here and at Liverpool, owing to the stagnation in our manufactures. COhitligj Ageoutit i 89# ; Colombian, 20* 4 ; Mexican, 25 12 6* ; Spanish 19i Not the least business titling. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stock Bank Stock — 3 per Cent Red. 9O I Ditto Bonds - pm 3 per Cent Cons B9& 'Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 984 Ditto New Annuities... New 34 per Cent 9B* 'Bs. Bills, 1,000/....21d 16 pm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l7 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto guts& ... Jan. 1860 l2 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct.., ..... Oct 1859 l2i 'lndia Stock for Opg. .., ......_ 1 Jan. WOO, - • --- , Consols for Acct - - 89 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent .= Dtttigpese, 5 per cent. - Belgian; 6 p „': cent 1024 IMA Ale* 1t0.........- Brazilian 80nd5.... - 'Prussian, b per oitt: ,i, - ..... 2ussian, spr cent../.1; = Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent ~ Chillitti, 6 per cent.., - Ditto, a....:.!a11ic Colotnbianj 6 pet cent:. .-Spanish, 5 per cen..; 2O DitlO, 1824, . 24 Ditto, Deferred ... ...-* Danish, 3 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent. -f. -c. Greeks 1825, sper cent - Exchange -.f. -c. Mexitafi, 5 per Befit:... = French, 3 per cent -f. -a "!!!ii, 0 pief einti SHA 152(1. z- Dtittli,.2i per cent. ... 52 Peruvian, 18;.'.6, C fief a. M UN idi 6 Pei .ceni • - • • - 102 .. • - . • Railway (65 paid) .........0 , ^,id Great Western Ditto New Shares (str Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 15z London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 1 60 London and South Western North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 78 d ' Saturday an alarm. of fire was raise , in ti. House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, when it was dis covered to proceed from the wash-house of the female prison, but.was speedily extinguished by the timely as sistance of the prison engines and the help of the officers of the prison. The Governor being on the spot at the time, zealously assisted, and humanely ordered every prisoner in the Female prison to be unlocked in the event of danger. The amount of damage is considerable in gap machinery of that department. No blame is attached ;, 9 any one, the fire originating accidentally. SUDDEN DEATH.—On the night of Wednes, day week a nurse girl, Mary Ann Stanley, in the service of Mr. Laxton, Darlington-street, expired very sullenly whilquiking the. children to,l?4,—SkiffordshireExamin& MORN INS SUN- NAVAL IN TE LLiGENCE, (From the _Hampshire Telegraph.) - ail d PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 7.—The Cornwall tram port. on Tuesday for the eastward. The Melville, 72, Hon. Capt. R. S. Dundas, arr. -`rte this afternoon from China. She brings no news, a; / 1 1 3 : knew of her having quitted for England, by the over Is nu mail. The Samarang, 28, Captain Scott, is also on bar way home ; she arrived at Mauritius on the 29th Ju and would leave in a few days. The Oriental steam-ship, Capt. Soy, arrived here lr 10 Wednesday last, from Alexandria. She has made ave rS quick passage, being only 14 days from Alexand is to Falmouth, where she landed the India and 3la mails on Tuesday afternoon, and then proccei ed to this place to perform her quarantine. The play 11 0 is fast subsiding in the city of Alexandria, an , i a case but occasionally occurring ; she has but thirt !en passengers—viz., 12 from Alexandria, and one fr .013 Malta. Names of the passengers are—Mr. and 3 frs• Waghorn, Mr. Innis, Capt. Yule, Mr. Dudgeon, Cal ) t' f i n Morris, Mr. Wilbraham, Mr. Eggue, Major Han eY , ha ' and Mrs. Greene, Mr. Bird, and Mr. Nigroponte. from Alexandria 20th July, Malta 24th, and Gi 29th. We cannot help- remarking that the abo slip was at the Motherbank 24 hours before her ma a 0) S: menced delivering in this town. We say corm tienee'' for from want of sufficient strength in the Fa knout li Post-office, or from some detention on the road, t b livery in these towns occupied three days. This .ou g h6 not to be. West By the arrival of the Crane packet, fronr the Indies, we learn that Captain Leith, of the S ?rinl apa tam, was at Barbadoes on June 17, expecting ord( rs . „ — tO leave Carlisle Bay to take command of the ..;:s.l station, Commodore Douglas having sailed on J onle 3 for Halifax, in her Majesty's brig Pilot, Captai a 3-la -111 say, taking with him also the officers and shit - pany, late of the Skipjack schooner, to inquire into „be she recent loss of that vessel on the Caymanas, wl iere was left by the Hornet kperfect wreck. The officers and crew of the Hecla steamer, continued to beeL tvemely afflicted ; in June the clerk in charge di efi..-L i r Rover, Capt. Keele, sailed from Carlisle Bay, Jul y 39 l' 3l. Para, to spend the hurricane months. The leadi n g_ . topic of cooversation in the way of news, is, the el isting dreadful disease among the troops at Ja me ica, by which a considerable nt:mber of our soldiers are' perish ing daily. A correspondent writes,—" The :iick ness Fort Augusta, we regret to say, still conti.tu€ s• °3 Sunday no less than five bu,-ials took place. An order for the removal of the detach tient arrived d ving th e day, but an officer was the only person who cc aid ear ply, all the rest of the detachmen.t being alre: say in the hospital." The Thunderer and Jaseur were a t Gibraltr - on til l ! 22d ult. The Espoir arrived at Lisbcn: on the :11 stb; r t'4 Jascur sailed thence for a cruise on the . 201 b. is th " American frigate Brandywine arrived aC Lisboa i on 24th, in 24 days from New York. rt. The Illustrious, 72, will be commissioned :at P on Monday, for Sir Charles Adam's Flag. Cal }Mi n ? , I r , E. Erskine will command her, Lieut. W. Houst( It T. Bedford, mate, and Mr. Henry Boys, mid si are appointed to her. on The Indus, 78, Captain Sir James Stirling, k 8 fled Wednesday for the Mediterranean. • The Vernon, frigate, was at Cadiz on the 2t ith having arrived there in eight days from this port. The Lily, 16, was at Mauritius on the 28th Ma) r , The Lizard steamer was at Gibraltar on the 17 tIL The Heron, yacht, Captain Ponsonby, was 'also th( tir e. The Hindostan, 78, was launched from Ply al ° ' Dock-yard oti Monday last. Rear-Admiral Sir John Ommanney will hoist hi 's in the Powerful, as she is fitted for a flag, and the I 313 ... : 5 tannia will come to England forthwith. There so but little doubt that Admiral Sir George Ceckburu ' be entrusted with the Mediterranean command. PROMOTIONS AND ,APPOINTMENTS. I"IIOMOTION6.—The following Mates to the ran I; IL Stevens (1830, Medea) ; Alston (1835) ; C. !Clavell (1836, Winchester) ; dull (1831 7 , BenboW). - APPOINTMENTS.--Captains--Alexander Ellice, t Ore. Packet Station at Falmouth • David T. ) :ing, to the rice. ful ; F. T. Mitchell, to the Inconstant ; E. L. Warr 3iif t° the Magicienne. Commanders—J. Fulford to Benbow ; John Br 4 5- to Ardent. burn , Lieutenants—Philip Hast, to Benbow •J. F" C a l ass to Ocean •, W. Stanbury, to be Chief Officer c * the: Co Guard ; E. H. Alston, to the Cambridge. Mates—E. Lacey, to the Hastings. Second Master—James Laffer, to the Calcu Vlt• Clerk-in-Charge—J. J. Winsom, to the Spy • brig h • lin ; Clerks-4'. P. Pearce, supernumerary, to thi 9 R. Landwell, additional Clerk's Assistant, to th Thomas Hockings, to the Vanguard. Gunner—Edward Sawyer, to the Thunder. Engineers—John Saunders, to Hecate ; Wn t• l er* to Alecto. Royal Marine Artillery—Second Lieutenant L L hence, to Gorgon. ) an d Mr. Charles Bromley (late Princess Charlotte i s on N. Sharp (late Wolverine), passed for Lioute nni the 4th instant, on board the Queen ; and 31-r• J ward, on the same day, for Purser. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON 3 YEOMANRY Lord " When we stated last week that - w . e had heard e t Francis Egerton's intention to raise a troop .r we said we had no reason to doubt the truth of o Qr Ill" formant. We had, however, a faint thope that it imigh t prove he had been misinformed ; for in the presen C stat e of the country, and with the recollection of wh at the Manchester Yeomanry Corps was, we could no ; look , without apprehension, to the irritation which mil ;It t b e created by the formation of, a new military force, con` " posed of hot-headed partisans. Our hope 'has been pelled by the Manchester Chronicle of ti etinel 3day, wh L- 0 not only acknowledges the truth of the sts tement, a. doubt from instructions received, but gives s uch an planation of the reason for raising the n, rm . force greatly to strengthen our suspicions of a conspirt; amongst the 'great Tory landowners, to o rganiz e means of repressing the expression of pub lic °pint% upon the great monopoly which is rapidly reds tcing g rey masses of the community to starvation.":. f O llOll An extract from the Manchester Chronic, 'e which has already appe.ared in The Sun, and then a l b _ Manchester Times continues :—" The whole st, lry is e viously a fabrication, especially when we cen .5 ider th e .c, coincidence of his Lordship's determin a tion wit 1 I th e i rt y suits of the elections. Lord Francis saw that .11 IS rn . g. would be in office, and that consequently the Ra sent, without which a military force cannot be • ral n. would be obtained. The determination was ex - aci c ; t 11 temporaneous with the ascertainment of Tory i en, be in the House of Commons. Had the elections ell in e favour of Reformers—had they secured the con 11ti— i s in office of men pledged against injurious monop o un i id there any man besotted enough to believe that we ho have seen a Tory Nobleman raising yeomanry in nour of the Queen?' rton '" The truth seems to be, that Lord Francis E 5 1 ' o to expects that the people will not peaceably lie de '?' ti die for want of food ; that he f ea r s th a t a. starving i ) I s t lation may become a despe r at e popul a ti on ; and t knowing that disaffection in Ir e l an d ma y occas ion a .e 1 3 ,3 `draft of the regular army t o th a t un h a ppy islaniA , has determined to be prepared for his o wn defe.nee,' been in DUCROW AT THE SURREY.—We are heart "; glad to see that Messrs. Davidge and Jones, the er. prising managers of the Surrey Theatre, have eat 3 . - . l 5 into an engagement with Mr. Ducrow, who, with his equestrian feats and fine stud of forty horses, is dest 4 :o re-appear before the public at this theatre to-night hi s own original and splendid spectacle of Mazeppa. order 1,0 construct a sufficiently large circle for th equestrian exhibitions, Messrs. Davidge and Jones h been at very g: eat expense in constructing a new F P ; s much more capacious circle, upon the base iof the ginal one, known some years back as the Royal Circ vs, besides, at a large outlay, forming moveable platfor which shift by machinery for the express dramas. 2 1 . 1 , 1 ; Pa dame Ducrow, as well as Le Petit Ducrow, enhance "- equestrian performances, all which are in addition to tl original corps and resources of the theatre. Taking sul obvious pains to administer to the pleasure of the pubt ict the efforts of the spirited proprietors cannot tNil to t 3 Rlll . O to themselves success_ A CHEAP VOTE.—During an election, a CEO vasser got hold of a voter who did not like the ide d giving his vote. The former worthy followed him, 11. taking him aside, asked him " What do you want _qt.° 47 3 our vote ?" " Three pounds," was the reply. " %-1: I'll give you two." " No, three will be the low , " Well, come along, then, to the booth." On arri yips there, he slipped the cash into the voter's hand, telling to put it into his pocket, as " yond chap is watching us' The voter recorded his most independent vote, and o: i re: tiring to a corner, highly pleased with his bargain, he tooi. out the money to see if all was r i g ht, w hen to bisdes( xvea mortification and chagrin, he found he had sold his vote for three new farthings ! ! ! L OVE AT FIRST SIGHT.—A Philadelph ia correspondent writes us as follows :—A very amusiag in; cident occurre,l. in this city a few days since, which must communicee for your paper. A venerable- plitie• man, of respectable appearance, under a sudden ins p 1 flan of the tender passion, stopped, on Wec;_ne sdaf morning, at the corner of Walnut and Broad-stroets, an elderly lady, and, without the formality of an introd ucti° l3 ' ten dered his hand in marriage. It must be mention.ld that they were strangers to each other, never having D iet be fore, and both o respectability. A bystander, who over heard the conversation, thus relates the dialogue A.—This is a very warm morning, madam. Are you not fatigued? Miss G. (in a pensive tone) ---The day is warm, Sir; but lam not fatigued. Mr. A.,--3 1 mY I a sk if you are married ? Miss G.—l am not, Sir. Mr. A 57 Would you like to h a v e a house of your own? Miss • if Ivv l w uhl o ae u 3; e l p d— rdeos v u e jm r ,o y eu m tur u ea c si h sdk . e? M lsr r. li A ss .— G W .— li m at is i s s your na e, Mr. have a friend who would G.—ln you, and wants an establishment' see him ? Miss G.—l would. Mr. A.-1 am the gen, o;ulmd,obueldpl:eiaosuedijkle to. , i nnan. I have seen you before, ant admired you r, . .! When ca wish to make you comfortable. wont, ottim on you ? Miss G.—(With maiden . e t ss a ) ,, e snt n n... l ly. Mr. A.—lt is too long--' is afcaT3t, ; t A ice will ou eall at that boor . .—wake nam bu e tihissvialiftsernoon. t ir o :L . 1 1 : o trow after _ — n fo b r l on a l i m i at e fi n il r e a , gtre i o le e b ; o : f,in or a n is in u_ g u . va : n i i a s Y he 3 d aceou ri i t as it actually °eel:live'', alolisfiedthlitsn happy.--'os g n ul y aii.i f ac a Nar t es e e . goif G v e:in.ncly wooing' SUDDEN DEATH.— . Freda - last. A pens ion er , y th or at Horncastle on F , a ne aynodrkasHsuerrectid,o.o that it is not romance, but reality.- New took place " when he was seize , n his brother's on the Wo and got down from the load, but dizziness in the head l b d be "s 3 d e immure Lso before medical assistance cou corpse. g ull i y iay su . dden named Dicey was assisting Ainnloaadw: s e e u(.l....eaLthi,sicoofn l m us er f c a u th ry er . gild sister weie ' equally