The Sun. — London, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

MORNING SUN ear en, Jed ied her I ital :%q the oki ke; • di* I and • seaii. ist!opP , Tlent. I n truth England is in a state of rival empi 41 'atInn and is mad e dependent for food on one re b; the Corn-laws. WI 0 " 4 = 4 Y and CoMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The re w kss buoyancy in the -Stock Market to-day, and althoughsligh t s the transactions were not considerable, the of Stock offered did not go off freely, unless at a te zusi ,,PO:etfitag e in favour of - the buyer. It is difficult liess ° further reason f o r the symptoms of heavi ;-!',V.than th a t o f t h e preparat i ons f or the settl e itT lglp : t , : h p e present week. For Money, Consols rro,§ 394 to 89-1- ' • and for time, 894- to 89 ,5 g. The Ira Exclieque r ' Bills was 15s. to 16s. ; the Re -991 to :ulree-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities brought St„ ek ; the Th ree per Cents. were at 89- 7 ,- to _ Bank I )ei n , "ilt 1691 t o 17 0, an d E ast I n di a St oc k at 249, is tivtm ee on each. The prospect for the crops eto.k h " e ginhinn• to be watched with some anxiety by of ( the oldera a-.4ohrbers, owing to the unfavourable state d epre ss l. 1 1 4,, r. Some of 'the speculators would fain failures 'hie Market by a ttac hi ng un d ue i m portance to Wer e 0f ,,Z1 .witic,,yhtytro were reported to-day. They As to u 0 11 1 0 .Ment,,, "" )1.6 1411 stocks, after what has been said in so Jo Alie!t:tatir pr ev i ous reports, i t w ill surpr i se no one b4l7l‘4l.state.thatthey are again lower. The same re -6,41: fid IT 7we regret to state, to a much more il % ; e sPe6ii's Of investment—we allude to British *tock - I . 7 .,fhafes. "The . New Five per Cent Portuguese tte l 'l l f 4 t o :k to 30 being a decline of a half to -111 1 '11 i t f , Nuf4 .Ae;ive Bonds were . at a reduction t t ,:to '2O/,- and ; Mexican dropped to ibiau to 191. Brazilian were still at ti a nd Chilian at GO. French Three per Cents. were 61 4 ) 5 4 3 . ok"tand Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at It i tetit, \ l t s 41 ,..0ught tliat sales, even to a moderate ex led tr , -.°111 (4: , in tho present state of the Foreign Market, tettp,-dat2ttrious whatever Stock they might be at- Th t , - ri s`r t ; i;o ' one bangs the market at present. eke th '"`l!;t4''Western Railway Shares were 22 to 19:1 ; b l4 l t o % VF.qi ;' the Fifths, 57 ; the South Western, Igl it4 ;q•;.a.iul the York and North Midland 25 prem. miDkha 'to - 7 g ; Blackwall, 10 to 11 ; Croydon, 3 9 ), ; Eastern Counties, 15 ; and Ihr- S;ktand-Derby - 40 dis. Australian Agricultural 14 e LatiZ .° 1 9 1 ! premium. There was nothing done in ,ti v ,,, (From The Situ of Last Night.) ttlari,,,,l"oet• COTTO N M A ILE ET, JULY 10.—The Cotton ,1 11te - h t ''''oav has been exceedingly depressed, .not more that . , ''''',e(l, ha '''' ha hue been sold to the trade. Prices are not re on T h "tit the advance of hd. per lb., which were noticed . kr, are r, is scarcely maintained. Exporters and specula- L lv e . Lot in the market. on e t 'RPoot. Sna ILF Mar KET, JULY Io.—We have only Sl,,,,,rartsaction to notice—London and Birmingham 321. Ili j , ' 53i. Business is extremely languid. ''Port CO "TEs. STOUR. EXCHANGE, JULY 10.—We cannot Inctii."): improvement in our Market to-day. Manchester i,lew bat,!,rl"cghain, 23 ; Manchester anil Leeds, kid '"'lr ; London and Birmingham (32), 54; 5 111Lhester tri4L:lfLer.d W ater -works, 54 ; Manchester Assurance, 9i. '4414 Lisbon mail has arrived, brought by the Braga , n 2 za . I.l s h n r : the sailed from 'Gibraltar July 1 ; Cadiz, July , liav e j:' J uly 5 ; Oporto; Jill 6 • and Vigo, July 7. Letters `s n, eeri received by the above ' packet, of the sth July, from al t he P -a ro'j,% ta t : i n.g that . the Committee,.. to whose consideration y et of the Finance Commission was referred, .has not bast wP'esented their report, and the Cortes having, during the tp ,, eek, been occupied with subjects of domestic interest, the : e ars that the G m t have given great umbrage to the by by deprivin a ., v e e v r e n ral e o n fficers of their commands. On the old' ul timo, a q g ua ‘ ntity of Exchequer Bills and notes of 4,4001 Paper currency, amounting together to 194 contos,or farth e ' r r were cancelled and destroyed at the Treasury. (For pape,.., re.rtitulars, we refer our readers to another part of our , Th e ' ' 6 4 I N l: u .tov ship England has passed Holyhead, and will Ate ou :' lurk papers two days later. Of the kip frorn Berlin of the 2d July state that the journey eePti or , I , e g of Prussia has been countermanded, with the ex- Se nt ° I that to Silesia, which will take place in the month raskruyerriber, when the King will command in person the *ll Ol p re ' of a ccrps of from forty to fifty thousand men.. The bell! russian Court, with several monarchs will assist, as wdesiseveral foreign generals, ' Russian, Austrian, and English. yttilave received the Antwerp papers of yesterday's date. ea t6 i '''NA, JULv 2.--The New Loan has made its appearance cOtii urge, and has been done at 104 i. tisr. or AMSTE ILI/Alll, JULY 9.—Yesterday, after lei: n t lge hours, it was known that the English Funds had be t ,t This caused our National Funds to recede, which did tb, t o - clay get up. The Action s of the Society of Commerce ''''"ed;at 162, and fell to 161 y 11 • • _4. ki s British Funds are again inaninaetive state, and Con k,. poened at the leaving off price of Saturday, b9a . 4, both 'i it - wwlev and the Account ; 'lhree-per-Gents. Reduced, 90 ; tettee•aUd-aHalf per Cents. Reduced, 99* 4 ; New Three kie'Llialf per Cents., 984 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 pre lieits; 41361:pnrketaS.tock, 169 170 ; India Stock, 248 249 ; India to se the l'oreien Market Spanish Active is very heavy, owing 41 at al sellers appearing in the Market ; it left off on Satur -15#1.t!2,1i - 4, at present may be quoted 204 21 ; Deferred, i Vir: e ' ,assive, 44 5 ; Portuguese same as it left off, 30 , i 0 - . ; ust eh II: Cents. 181; Brazilian, 67* 68; Colombian, 1204;; ICtOi i. 4w0 -and- a-Half per Cents., 51*; Five per c „St. .11 itc,sts.--.Great Western, 214 221 prem. ; Ditto, New r ,• 01 1 1 ? air ; e n'i l ; irm Lond hon anti Brighton, 64 6 dis. ; Blackoa 1, 70 prem. ; Southampton, 55 56 kr share ; Cro i ln am' l 6 3 14 per - share ; Greenwich, 7i 8 Irib; Manekester and Birmingham, 17A 16A dis. Crest e E . S Gl' SHARES TilIS DAY Al ONE. ti t w Ai.s. Paid. Per Share. ~ estern I ,.tt c , N , ..................... 65 / ult tn ~ew . ........ ... 50 ••op ti - rifil is ............ 4 ,tosd`e'l' tridllrigi.iio-n. ............... 50 - to 43i ,0 4 0rt,,, ' ' attd blaeltwall << h wo r i‘rel Croydon ( Trunk) .. 13;4 134 i k , h z, s land ... .................. IOU We t , • a current report of the failure of a North American , 4 , 4 A t i,, isitte extent. tii ter e tloed ao 4 . ( , , cr , unts have been received of a large fire at 011ie Air : . t that, a disturbance was expected at Dublin, try vto th e it Act ins been read t wi t h Present hour the British Market remains station ];tlnT'tit a feature • • r , d "4:113 a, worth notieni„. ll ' , ell . Present may be quoted 89i- 4, have beets 891 ; 1,4 11 4 1 1ce,i' ~,„'N, have been 89; • Three-and-a-Half per Cent. ha t,., 9 q 1 _44 ; New Three-and-a-Half 98 • 4' Bank ti';'• Ib9;-xelieqtrer Bills, rather lower, 16 15 prem. , per Cents., tWee p n 1 P l O ; India Sto ' ck, 249. 11 1 '41, l eu gn Market continues very heavy. Spanish Ac.. e v ki e 4: aave been 21 • Portuguese, 30k, have been isr . t . * : le Pe ''''''i ; Dutch ' Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 50 % e }% he l'sterlis., 100 h. , a t legal A N l ‘ ici e_ a ina r l e a,ti A d iar kei is also very heavy, with little doing. ti ) ,,I•row i te rn, 87 ; Ditto, New Shares, 58i ; Ditto, Fifths, the e Itl,, ,1 Brighton, 431 ; London and Blackwall, la ; V,,,i "'ri ta f ue looking in the course of three or four days for r Op i' l 4l l3j a, 0 , 1 : very late accounts from America by the steame 0• r ', 4 ,, , t i 1,, \v ` li( h has been about nine days out from Halifax, cite Fro k h tt h ome to Liverpool. 11„,,tttsf routroad there is nothing important to-day. The_a_c la I held L isho r ever and not likely to please. The est. errs here, ho ,_e n ,. u ,' l 4 is ser ,_ s.. are ' in better spirits, as Lord Pal 41exi"..s ls, m o " . !_a ly interfering for them. . 0 AugSearust 89; 90 ; ely Spanish, 204 21. any' business doing worthy of remark II CLOSING PRICES. a"k Lock, BRITISH FUNDS. _249 I P i t e r r kelit k r t " ( i ....... ... 170 ' India Stock —pm filPer t n n l Con . ......... 8 8 1 DDitt°o Bonds Annuities ••• 88 4 y e * ati gt Red,. ....... 994 9 Ditto itt New Annuities — ' " 'W 5 ii'vrt Cent ......... 98A Ex. Bills, 1,0001...2}d 16 . pas It Antijrit. ......... -- Ditto 5001 1 1 6 6 Pm t jah. 18Golestoexpire 1 I)itto Small•••• •• pm da p' q 16 59 ..... ••• 1 0 f Bank Stock for Acct — Is,ft: ......... -...- India Stock for Opg• ••• — 893 A ll "" ........ 12 4 Consols for Opg 11 011, 44 °, 5 FOREIGN FUNDS. e r ,l, 5 peer cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 11,,`ziliatt Jcent .... Ditto, New Ditto (;},! ll (is 4 . ' al as. ...... 6 - 1 Prussian, 5 per cent — , ili,„ yr es ~, ..... , ,‘ , ll ;;, b i ,,,,,''' Per vent — u ,Russian, 5 per cent — liit t ' '' o lar t r,' "nt...... 60 Ditto, Metallic AJ ,l ' " CrP (tent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2Ol tkl t tal i, 4 4 . ...... ... . Ditto, Deferred . 41. :'•", Isr r sent ........... — 79 French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. b i ai,,,,, ~), 5 per tent ,' Exchange —f. c. l'. tt 'i e ' " Per cent "'vi ari r -., i 5.,,.. 25 ' 4 Dutch, 23i per cent. cent. 7 . 6 . f.. 25c5 ' -82, 6 Per et !Mtt°, 5 ` per cent 1001 1 E - " n gb SHARES 60 as ter alli and Derby Railway (1 0 9 Pd) 8 Ditto n Counti es R a il way (423 paid)••• •• 64 Debentures Gr eat w ( 4 paid) 7 ..• • .... 841 Ditto ~,,stern Railway (65 paid) Dist ~'.ew Shares (50 paid „,,,,. i i) ~ (4 paid) 1,4°0 and lghton (50 _paid) 434 Lon °r ` and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 15 London arid Birmingham Railway (9 0 1,4) 1601 Ditto .r1(1 Greenwich Railway ( 20 pd) —4i '^tid,,, - iP• (4 paid) IN* 1 and South Western on , 13 Nos.% 1 .0d Croydon Railway (Trunk) y ui. , • lidland Railway (100 paid) y„. 41 :t0 New Shares (40 paid) bi tt. 44 North Midland Railway (50 pd' 75 0 New Shares (10 paid).. . • A S- of ce , of R o, at for Of rgi CiT of 4,f , fe Les ,ct be L 3 Su ;/ ;0 11 . 4 lij N.lll 11411E1( THEATRE. r, Druveln.4ll3 named Graham, an actor consider heit-1.141-111114e0inal.tcealiebrity,made his first appearance. in (..! i_i. this theatre last evening fine 14 ' t rso 4Nter o? - 12 -e ( 11 : 1 t Mr. Graham possesses a of b e - k 4l i kt il t.11%.414431.;)(1ae ' t % l ioi s c c e, el and an amore. His action i s energetic, ,. iiall gcneral, . s i p erm p - :ealthough occasionally expressive countenance, ghat littrecient inol-)g- ra°-•riaThis is a defect, however, which So_ r a portion.sau: Ill icli rurt her 1 I.. t .e c c. will soon remedy, The banquet. 11kt,1.4), itttliZalibtelarttibi attributed to the nervousness neces upon a first appearance. . ttliti);ltia.,.cerY (T•trectively given, and e e l t i i c e ite a d nd co eff ns e i e d ti e l r .e - D i 'le l a ," •• lie was also very energ . 11Z4113 n i" scene and the curtain fell amidst the loud ap- G r eye d ---) 1 1° ° I the most crowded houses weha e v f e t e h v e er p ‘ l v a i;: 4 • _ r at `va se t h Surrey. At the conclusion the illi eli 444111 called for to receive the plaudits of . I%ry et and the. tragedy was announced for repetition . ..4 4 _.,v. , i{.., itur Isl)l4lly.:thuitit,\‘re of th tompt of the ing this week. The management f the has ),,,q iii. a ~_ „k‘neatre, give the us th t} ll l4 , s 4 ',i , - %ye have never beforepatent A,, kti•N -crtainly never been surpassed by the heard o lg re n ti:l a oa l it l li c e d o c , ohnh1:1 ~tellitt ..-il their most iyilmy days. "'N sie • ()I' Mltth e ; ' le is given ti ll 'and I), the c 1% . Loc_ . _ . . . d our readers . i t Y 1 0 ,14 .. style in which it is execute Thweitlivetleenorftatliite tii,•ltc,, 1 s.iine idea, from th e fact that Mr. Leffler is „ i i s ls tl e i l e i and Mr. 0 1iti1,,:•411. Uiss %Mier, Mrs. Serle, d old ''li -- " -I Pill Si] fr. 't' i *A 11 loreiS o f goo . th , li .... .. ibing whe,ies. ..... 1 4 l'il4'4l-I,sle, should visit the Surrey Theat . re vn d i u o r f i e nf_ aolvizakti, :iitol.vt(,h4leficilci‘bieits/is. The opera of Fra Dia . wil otansbury :.!usotnlai7e, ___________ (It2 l = E lllt ',4lltl,`U,shtLsi-1-"Ty fin King and Queen ctr li':,ta'N'l4ll'j, !,t brabainLt - and -- suite, l a e re expected ,e sb ri o o r o tly wi a l t i tolllt A ti p .. is announced that the camp at Be% to it, in a d g , after the visit which th e King will make o , q.44,4Fet,gnianicd, it is sa;d by Prince .Albert C 4.l)f A 4 Elaud. • t p . , DS - rt a ;SUMMARY OF NEWS AND, ipublir Opt:atoll, " Who runs may read." ABROAD roiazzGN—COMONXILI., The Villa da Praia at Terceira has been utterly destroyed by a series of earthquakes, which shook it tremendously for three or four days. So the Ando rinha cutter of war brings intelligence. The appointment of M. Al ahul to the Prefecture of the Upper Garonne led to a slight emeute at Toulouse on the 6th instant. Fortunately no lives were lost. The particulars will be found in another column. The dis 4urbance originated in what Lord Castlereagh called " an ignorant impatience of taxation"—a popular disease at this moment very generally prevalent in other countries as well as in France. The French Committee of the Holy Land and Syria have issued a proclamation inviting Christians of all nations to co-operate in the emancipation of the Christian inhabitants of the East. To this document is attached the names of several distinguished legitimists. A letter from Vienna of the 2d inst. states that the Porte was so pleased with the promptitude with which Mehemet Ali had forwarded the first instalment of the tribute, that orders had been given for forwarding a new firman to the Pacha, reducing the annual. tribute for Egypt from 80,000 purses (400,0001.) to 50,000 purses (250,0001.) —lt was reported at Vienna on the 2d instant that Lord Ponsonby, now that the Eastern question is virtually settled, may be shortly expected in Eng land. There are noblemen whom, for the most opposite reasons, we.never wish to part with, and Lord ponsonby is one of them. Some we would retain among us because they do more good at home than elsewhere ; others, because they are less mischievous. Lord Pon sonby belongs to the latter class. The Spanish Government has ordered 10,000 troops . _ to be in readiness at Malaga, to embark for Africa, to punish :the insurgent garrison at Alhucemas. Such energy is praiseworthy. The Portuguese Government is about to increase the import duty on foreign goods and manufactures, with the absurd view of protecting native industry. The increase on the present duties will vary from 33 to 11 per cent. By this notable scheme Portugal hopes to rid herself of English woollen goods, Scotch shawls, and Irish butter. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. The Portuguese Legislature will but increase the smuggler's gain at the expense of the honest trader. The smug gler's best friend is the monopolist. The Portuguese war cutter Andorinha, sent to the Azores to look for the President, has heard nothing of that ill-fated vessel. The steamer supposed by the Captain of the Conde de Palma to be the President, has turned out to be the French war steamer Tonnerre, which arrived at Fayal on the Ist of May. —ln the Canton of Tessino, in Switzerland, a riot took place on the Ist inst., in which ten peasants were killed and several wounded. The object of the rioters was to dissolve the present Government of the Canton. The brother of the King of Prussia was so severely injured by the closing of a window, by a gust of wind, against his shoulder, that it was found necessary to bleed him tivice ; a severe fever ensued, from which his Royal Highness is now recovering.. The number of passengers landed at Ostend, from England, by the steam-packets, during the last month, was 714, and the number of those who sailed for Eng land, from the same port, 597. ;. P IL r 5 ; • , 41 ) • I 11.41.,i1 ✓.,- 1 AT NOME-MISCELLANEOUS. The Devonport Independent states that the popula tion of Plymouth has increased 5,443 in the last ten years. Alluding to the Tory prospects, the Devonport In dependent observes, " We shall not in the least regret to find the Liberals acting in opposition ; necessity will unite them firmly, and they will derive energy from the aroused feeling of the country, another appeal to which must speedily be made." The Aberdeen Herald, speculating on the nature of Sir B. Peel's budget, says, "We should infer that he will either raise the postage to the uniform rate of two pence per half-ounce, or, following the old Tory policy, contract for a loan. Intelligent men will be at no loss to predict what will be the state of matters twelve months hence." We learn by the Glasgow Herald that it is intended shortly to invite Mr. Dickens to a public dinner at Glas- gow. The Scotsman. alluding to the prospects of the Tory party, justly observes :—" The important practical re sult which every individual of the Liberal interest throughout the empire should lay to heart is this—that even if Peel be compelled by his party to attempt the reins of power, he cannot possibly, with the present Par liament, retain power for a twelvemonth. Let every man therefore register without delay." . . A Birmingham Paper states that the population of that town has increased 25 per cent. on the census of 1831. A dreadful fire took place on Saturday, near the Deptford terminus of the Greenwich railway. Four houses were destroyed, and many others damaged. All the Norfolk and East county papers state that the rains have wonderfully improved the wheat and bar ley crops. The Norwich Mercury says, "An agricultur ist on whom we can rely, assures us that his barleys hhve risen twelve inches in ten days!" Mr. Gomorde, at the Cheltenham dinner, thus sen tentially delivered himself :—" Talk of the distress brought on by Liberal measures. Look back on Tory times. Remember the distress among the agriculturists in 1817, and the representations then made. Remember how the Blanketeers were about to march to London, with a view to redress their grievances. Remember the burnings of 1830." Lord Segrave, speaking at the late Berkely dinner, at Cheltenham, said that the Tories resisted every in quiry into the necessity of, or the application of, Church rates, and related the following humourous circum stance, which filled him with a strong impression that some inquiry into these rates was necessary. " A friend of mine," said his Lordship in the House of Commons, " requested me to present a petition to the House of Lords, from a parish in the neighbourhood, against Church-rates, and, among other allegations in the peti tion, they stated that one year one of the items in the Churchwardens' account was, twenty pounds for killing sparrows ! " It is a singular fact," says the Brighton Herald, " that all the chimney-sweepers at Brighton voted for the Tory"—Toryism must be highly flattered at having supporters with hands as clean as its own, and who deal, as largely as itself, in smoke! LAW AND POLICE. The deposition of Mr. Dyer from the bench of Magistrates, appears from the Lord Chancellor's and Mr. Edmond's letters, to be solely on the score of indiscre tion. The explicit answer of the latter gentleman sets Mr. Dyer before the public in a clear light. " I have no ob jection to state (Nyrites Mr. Edmond) that on the occasion alluded to in your letter (viz. the private investigation). nothing occurred injurious to your honour or character, nor did I infer that you were to derive any advantage or emolument from the transaction ; my impression was that your motives were those of humanity." A boy, fifteen years of age, apprentice to a chemist in the New-road, and the son of respectable parents was committed on Saturday, by Mr. Combe, the Police Ma gistrate, on a charge of purloining three halfpence. ELECTIONEERING. A reward of 1001. has been offered for the recovery of the poll-books of Aberystwyth which were stolen from a hotel in Cardigan. The excited state of Carlow is fearful. The Bruen ites bring up their freeholders to the poll under guard of police and lancers. Flintshire election does not promise to come off without riot. The 68th Foot are out, and on the spot Several carriages have been destroyed, and the windows of the Lion Hotel smashed to atoms. Strong parties of miners and colliers are parading the town of Mold, armed with heavy bludgeons. Everything in excitement. The Liberals have carried the county of Renfrew, which was represented in the last Parliament by Mr. Houston, a Tory. Mr. O'Connell, late Member for Dublin, has been returned with H. Grattan, Esq., for the county of Meath. THEATILICII.I"... Mdlle. Taglioni takes her farewell benefit on Thurs day, the 15th inst. The opera on the occasion is Bellini's I Puritan I. Mr. Macready appeared on Saturday at the Hay market in his favourite character of Werner. C OURT-ras HXONAIMES. The third and last tlorticultural Fete for the sea son took place on Saturday last at Chiswick. Nearly ten thousand persons were present. The yachting season has commenced at the Isle of Wight, and a general meeting of the Squadron was held on Saturday at the Club-house, Cowes, when several new Members were balloted for. We understand that the Queen and Prince Albert have accepted an invitation from the Duke and Duchess of Bedford to pass a few days at Woburn Abbey. It is said also that the Marquis and Marchioness of West minster will be shortly honoured by the presence of her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort at Moor Park. r-1t is definitely aryanged that the marriage Oldies reel, eldest daughter of Sir R. Peel, to Viscount Villiers is to be solemnized to-morrow. Uumouns Or TZE Mt PAT . It is said that some of the unfortunate men impri soned by the Bruenites have committed suicide. Certain however, it is that one Byrne threatened to hang himself if not let out, which he accordingly was. He states that the freeholders are confined in various places in the county : chiefly at the Tory landlords' residences, and very - few are allowed to keep together. The Duke of Buckingham insists upon being made First Lord of the Admiralty, and Mr. Goulburn looks forward to the Speakership, as he cannot be so easily disposed of in any other way. Mr. D'lsraeli is to be appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Peter Borthwick, Whip per-in. Sir Wm. Follett gets the seals, and Lord Lyndhurst goes to Paris to replace Lord Grenville. THE WEATHER.--Noon, JULY 12. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADEL A T DE-STREET Barometer Thermometer... 89 I Highest 67 Lowest ......... Wind N.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. TnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY; JVLY 13, 1841. physical, poems." Mr. Talfourd concludes his speech by an impassioned appeal to the Jury, wherein he warns them of the danger of establishing a precedent \ which will beset the course of every bookseller, very librarian, throughout the country, with perpetual fears, and make our Criminal Courts the arenas for. a savage warfare of literary prosecutions !" The precedent, indeed, is one full of danger ; and as regards Religion, strikes at its very foundation, for what are all attempts to suppress speculative opinions on the subject, but so many indi rect confessions that it will not bear discussion—that it cannot stand on the broad, solid basis of truth and rea son, so requires to be buttressed up by law ? It is not the sturdy oak, but the weakly sapling that we fence round with props. To our thinking, prosecutions for blas phemy evince a sort of infidelity on the part of those who get them up, and of the Juries who countenance them by their verdicts, evincing, as they do, their doubts — fears—distrusts--and abject abandonment of c onfidence in the sublime truths of Christianity. Impressed with this persuasion, we consider that Mr. Moxon has con ferred a great benefit on the community, by his 'republi cation of a Speech which so ably points out the folly and. danger of such prosecutions...Jr; SPAS of ENGLAND—SOUTHERN DIVISION. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1841. The two former volumes of this work were de voted to a consideration of the Northern Spas of England, and the author (Dr. Granville) has here brought it to a close with a minute and par ticular notice of the Southern Spas. His book undoubtedly contains much serviceable local in formation—ttie result of his own active personal inquiries; but this information is conveyed in such a heavy, lumbering, verbose style, that the perusal of the volumes becomes a task of no or dinary difficulty. Of that celebrated watering place, Torquay, the Doctor expresses himself in but qualified terms o f a pp ro b a ti o n; observing its cli mate the registers of m or t a lity s how that cli mate has not much served the purpose of pro longing life in cases of consumption. He also remarks on the frequent tolling of the funeral bell at Torquay—a particularly enlivening sound to those who have come to this South Devon shire Montpelier, in the confident expectation of regaining health and spirits ! The account of Teignmouth and its locality is perfectly just, with the single exception of the allusion to the "lofty, aspiring Ness, itself a sublime object, placed like a giant warder at the mouth of the Teign." Now the rock, or hill, thus magn il oq uently described, is scarcely a hundred feet in height; and as for thei e being anything "sublime" about it—never was there a more erroneous notion. It is simply a bold, bluff headland, but a mere pigmy com pared to Beachey Head. We have stood on it many a time, and viewed it from at least a dozen different points, but were never impressed with a sense of its grandeur. Of Southampton, the Doctor thinks highly, and says that " it offers to people having delicate lungs, or irritable trachea, a retreat preferable almost to those found on the south-western coast." The most readable portion of the volumes is that devoted to an account of Bristol, and its pieturesque.neighbour, Clifton— which is certainly one of the loveliest spots in the three kingdoms. JOURNEY BOOK OF ENGLAND. C. Knight, London, 1841. The object of this 'work is to give a detailed account of the situation, boundaries, extent, phy sical topography, history, and antiquities, geo logy, &c., of the different counties of England. The present Part is confined to Derbyshire— perhaps, as a whole, the most picturesque of our English counties, not excepting even the Lake districts—and enters into full particulars respect ing all that is worthy of note in it. The descrip tion of Chatsworth, and the plates in illustration of this magnificent baronial estate, are exceed ingly interesting. CANADIAN SCENERY, Part 17. Virtue, London, 1841. The most attractive features of this periodical work are decidedly the - embellishments, of which each Part contains four. The views in the Part before us are chiefly of the city of Montreal, and, as works of art, are creditable to the engra ver's skill. KNIGHT'S STORE OF KNOWLEDGE Nos. I. and 11. Shahspere and his Writings. Nos. 111. and IV. Life qf Napoleon Bonaparte. Mr. Knight proposes, in this Store of Know ledge," to bring together, in a cheap and limited shape, a series of papers on the most important topics of science, art, and history. He has opened this campaign in the last department, and his compressed account of " Shakspere and his Writings" forms a light, pleasant congeries of interesting detail. The " Life of Napoleon " is as close-wedged as condensation can possibly make it. At embellishment there is no attempt, but the bare, nude facts are ably collocated, and the precision of the dates makes it good for a guide oi• reference. EXPENSE OF _IMPORTING CORN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l would now request your attention to an ex pense on the introduction of foreign corn of 3s. or 4s. per quarter, that I have never seen quoted in Parlia ment, or out of it, or by any merchant. If you refer to any policies of insurance of the underwriters on foreign shipments, you will find a clause at foot declaring that seeds, corn, tobacco, salt fish, hides, &c. &c., are not liable to average, but only insured against total loss. Now, every tenth cargo of corn imported is averaged , and damaged. Now, as the underwriters do not pay for this average, it must be laid on the price of the sound and good. corn. So that this is a still further protecting duty above any I have ever seen quoted. I am, Sir, respectfully and obliged, EDMUND TAUNTON. 2, Crescent, Birmingham, July 10, 1841. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MoNDAy.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning for some time in the new grounds of the Home Park. In the afternoon his Majesty the King of the Belgians rode out on horseback. Her Majesty, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttel ton, and the Viscountess Palmerston, rode out in a car riage and four. The Hon. Misses Pitt and Cavendish followed in another carriage, and the Earl of Fingal and Colonel Buckley occupied another carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert accompanied her Majesty on horseback, attended by Colonel Bouverie and Mr. George Edward Anson. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing with her attendants. The Duke and Duchess, of Sutherland and the Lady E. Leveson Gqwer, and Le Baron de Bourpwney, French Charge d'Affaires, left the Castle this morning. The Earl and ComaeSs of Surrey and Lady Mary Howard, the Right Hon. F. T. and the Lady Arabella Baring, and Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn arrit•ed on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget, will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party this evening. The Band of the Royal Regiment - of Horse Guards and her Ma jesty's Private Band will be in attendance. Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda came to town yesterday from her residence on Blackheath. Her Royal Highness, attended by the Hon. Lady Alicia Gordon, did Mr. Hayter the honour to sit to him for the picture of her Majesty's marriage. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cam bridge House. The Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Countess of Jersey with her company yesterday evening, at her resi dence in Berkeley-square. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and' tho Lady Ara bella Baring. left town yesterday afternoon, for 'Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. _ Despatches from the Governor of Sierra Leone, and also from the Governor of Gibraltar, were received at the Colonial-office, yesterday. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The Moniteur announces that the, attempts at dis order, which took place at Toulouse, on the evening of the 6th inst., were renewed on the following evening. They were, however, easily repressed. On the Bth there was still some rioting, but on the 9th order was com pletely restored, and the operation of the assessment of lease property, suspended by the former Prefect, was resumed and proceeded without opposition. The Emancipation states that eight or ten persons were more or less dangerously wounded, and about sixty arrested. _ _ _ _ The Moniteur publishes the law of the Budget for 1842, in which the expenditures are fixed at 1,276,338,067 francs, and the receipts are valued at 1,160,683,143 francs. The same Journal promulgates another law, appropri ating seventy-five millions to the execution of extraor dinary works in 1842, which sum is to be taken out of the proceeds of the loan of 450 millions of francs. The Toulonnais of the 7th instant mentions that the squadron commanded by Admiral Hugon was hourly expected in Toulon. It was believed there that Captain Leray's division was gone to the Levant, and that this officer had been charged with the mission which was to have been intrusted to Admiral La,ssusse. The Presse announces that Count de Flahaut was ap pointed Ambassador of France in Madrid. The Univers quotes letters from Candia of the 18th ult., stating that the reported advantages of the Turks over the insurgents were mere inventions of a French physician named Caponal, who is attached to Tahir Pacha's household. According to advices from Semlin of the 29th ult., Mehemet's Ali's influence is daily increasing at Con stantinople, and the appointment of Sami Bey, his de voted friend, to the Department of Trade, was con sidered to assure the Pacha the complete success of his ulterior views. On the 15th, a ship of the line, two corvettes, and a brig, having on board 3,000 regular troops, sailed for Candia, and 3,000 Albanians had been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to be embarked immediately for the same destination. It was reported at Peri that the Archduchess Maria Louise of Parma had forwarded 10,000 stand of arms to the Can diot insurgents. The Augsburgh Gazette of the Bth states that Russia was concentrating considerable forces•in Bessarabia. Poli tical men in that country considered the dismemberment of the Ottoman empire to be imminent, and entertained an idea of the possibility of forming an independent kingdom on its ruins, under the sway of the Duke of Leuchtenberg The Swabian Mercury announces, under date Vienna, 4th instant, that the definitive ratification of the new loan had taken place, and that the certificates were to be delivered to the contractors at 104, but without com mission. LITERATURE. SP.EECII FOR THE DEFENDANT, IN THE PROSECUTION OF THE QUEEN v. 111-OX ON, FOR THE PUBLICATION OF SHEL LEY'S WORKS.—Moxon, London, 1841. The circumstances that gave rise to this most absurd prosecution—which, strange to say, was successful—are somewhat curious. In the April of last year, Mr. Hetherington, the. well-known bookseller, was indicted for selling certain numbers of a work entitled " Haslam's Letters to the Clergy of all Denonlinations," and being found Guilty, was sentenced to an imprisonment of four months. Wishing, we presume, to show the folly of prosecutions—persecutions, rather—of this nature, he determined, in his turn to proceed against Mr. Moxon for publishing Shelley's " Queen Mab ;" and the case came on for trial the other day in . the Court of Queen's Bench, when the defendant was convicted—not a little, we suspect, to the surprise of all who were present in Court, and heard the eloquent and argumentative—not to say, unanswerable—defence made for him by his Counsel, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. The Learned Gentle-• man's speech on this occasion was indeed, most convinc ing, and Mr. Moxon's eagerness for its republication does credit to his judgment. After showing that Shel ley's crude speculative opinions on the subject of religion could not by any unprejudiced mind be considered blas phemous, but should rather be regarded as curious and interesting revelations of the progress of a superior, but as yet unripened intellect, the Learned Sergeant pro ceeded to observe that if " Queen Mab" was a fit sub ject for prosecution, " Paradise Lost" was infinitely more so, adding, " Shelley fancies himself irreligious, and everywhere falters or trembles into piety ; Milton believing himself engaged in a most pious work, is led by the tendencies of his imagination to individualize—to adorn-:-to enthrone—the Enemy of God ; and to invest his struggles against Omnipotence with all the nobleness of a patriotic resistance to tyranny, and his suffering from Almighty justice with the graces of fortitude. Let it not be urged that the language which his Satan utters is merely to be regarded with reference to dramatic proprieties—it is attri buted to the being in whom the interest of his poem centres ; and on whom admiration and sympathy attend, as on a sufferer in the eternal struggle of right against power. Omnipotence becomes tyranny in the poet's vision, and resistance to its re quisitions appears the more generous, even because hopelessly vain. Such is the force of the 1 net's enthusiastic sympathy with Satan, that the reader almost thinks Omnipotence doubt ful ; or if that is impossible, admires the more the courage that can resist it. I will not ask you whether you agree with me in the defence which might be made for Milton ; but 1 will Ask, do you not feel with me that these are matters for another tri bunal? Do you not feel with me that, except that the hold !less of Milton's thoughts come softened to the ears by the ex quisite beauty of Milton's language. I may find parallels in the passages I have quoted from • Paradise LoA,' for those selected for prosecution from Queen Mab ?' Do you not feel with me that as, without a knowledge of the Paradise Lwt,' you could not absolve the publisher of Milton from the prosecutions of , some' mute, inglorious' Hetherington ; so neither can you— dare you—convict Mr. Moxon of a libel on. God and religion, in publishing the works of Shelley, without having read and studied them all ? If rashly you assail the mighty masters of thought and fantasy, you will, indeed, assail them in vain for the purpose of suppression, though not for the purpose of tor ture ; all you car do, is to make them suffer, as, being human, they are liable to corporal suffering ; but, like the wounded sprits in Mflton, 'they wig soon close,' confounded though immortal.' " This argument is forcibly and ingeniously put, and is recommended by the Learned Sergeant's usual grace of language. Equally adroit is he in his cursory reference to Gibbon, whose immortal " History," he observes, contains two celebrated chapters " full of polished sarcasm against infant Christianity, which if published at a penny each, would do more mischief tha4 thousands. of. 13190.- CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The following letter has been addressed to Sir Robert Peel, by Alexander Dunlop. Esq., Advocate, in refer ence to the letter of Sir Robert Peel to the Duke of Argyll; on the question of Non-Intrusion. We wish the Duke and Sir Robert joy of their attempts to conciliate Mr. Dunlop and his party in the Church. Edinburgh July 5, 1841. Sir,—l have seen in the Edi n b urg h newspapers of Friday last, a letter addressed by you to the Duke of Argyll, with reference to an interview recently had with you on the subject of his Grace's Bill, in which you allude to certain extracts from Scottish newspapers that had been sent to you, as containing " very gross misrepresentations of sentiments " expressed by you at that meeting. Whether these extracts contained a letter of *nine to a private individual, which appeared in the newspapers, I of course cannot know ; but as my letter undoubtedly formed the groundwork of the remarks in the various journals on the subject, I think it necessary for me to advert to your statement. • My account of the sentiments expressed by you, as given in that letter, was, that these " were in substance, to the effect that no such Bill as the Duke's could be al. itWed to pass, and that any settlement must employ pro visions for securing the submission of the Church to the Civil Courts generally, and in particular for the re storation of the deposed ministers of Strathbogie " to office and benefice. Your statement of the sentiments then expressed by you is, as to these essential points, " that you (lid not think the House mf Lords would consent merely to legiSlate for the. future, if the General Assembly should persist •in its claim of authority to depose ministers of the Church upon this ground, that the ? ) , had .obeyed the law," as interpreted by the civil tri bunals ; that as civil consequences, you presumed, would from such deposition, " the authority of the Church over' the statute law and civil tribunals of the country- would be paramount, even in matters of a civil and temporal Datum" if such claim were enforced ; and that this claim " would greatly diminish, if not alto gether destroy,- any advantage that might have been hoped for:from merely prospective legislation, and that new causes of difference, and new conflicts of authority, not provided, for. by such legislation, would very soon occur." I remark, in passing, that I have no recollection of your singling out the " House of Lords," as interposing any special obstacle to legislation ; and I feel certain that you referred to the " Legislature " generally ; but what I chiefly wish to notice in rega rd t o your statement are these points 1. It is obvious from your own account of the senti ments expressed by you, that, in your opinion, no mea sure that was'" merely prospective" (which the Duke's Bill was) ought to be allowed to pass, or could pass. 2. Any measure which was also retrospective, must necessarily have had for' its object the Settlement of the past cases, and especially those of the Strathbogie mi nisters. Then, looking to the terms in which you ex press vburself as to the deposition of ministers, for what you call "obeying the law, no one, I think, can doubt that the only settlement of these cases that would bo in accordance with your sentiments must be their re storation. 3. It is further evident that you deem some legis lative provision necessary for securing against " new causes of difference, and new conflicts of authority." The Duke's Bill proceeded on the assumption, that, by withdrawing the existing cause of collision, all conflict in future would be avoid ed. You require some different security. But what different provision for effecting this object in accordance with your own views, you can..contemplate, other than securing sub - , mission by the Church to the Civil Courts, I cannot imagine. Even, therefore, according to the exposition given a gross o t .the b i n y t e y n o . i u e r v, s , e , lsfoo far t r h f a ro s m e n t m i m y e a n c t s c e u x n p t r b e s e s i n e d g b a y y voell; misrepresentation" of these, the substance of it seems to me to be contained—though very muc h diluted—in your own statement. And I the mere, readily, therefore, assume that those terms were not ap plied to that account, but to comments that may have been made upon it. Neither my account, however, nor that given by you, though more extended than mine, give more than the general result of what took place ; nor i n - any statement within such confined limits can there be - re lated the full conversation, and the terms employed. In . my - con*tiori - of - t,fre accuracy o f my ori.linpra,sisai4. however, I feel myself confirmed by a reconsideration, so.far as I can recal them to my mind, of the particulars of the interview, some of which I shall now endeavour to recapitulate. The occasion of the interview was a request by the Duke of Argyll to Dr. Buchanan of Glasgow and my self; who were in London as a deputation from the General Assembly's Non-Intrusion Committee, that we should" have a conference with you on the subject of his Grace's Bill. His Grace arranged the meeting' and Dr. Keith, who happened to be then in town, was invited to accompany us, which he did. The Confer ence commenced by Dr. Buchanan pressing on you the importance of the Duke's Bill being passed into a law. You stated that the Legislature could not be expected to pass such a Bill, for reasons which you at once proceeded to mention ; not, however, qualifying, your statement by the considerations mentioned in your letter as to the periodsOf the session, &c. for, although remarks were made as to this matter, they were made at the conclusion of the interview, and with reference to an observation of the Duke's as to his intention of with drawing his Bill, and the proper time for reintroducing it. Your objections were, that the Bill, on the one hand, did not provide for the settlement of past cases, particularly those of the Strathbogie ministers ; and, on the other hand, that it did not secure against the recurrence of similar cases in future, or against other conflicts that might arise from new and different causes of collision, which you seemed to apprehend, although we failed in our attempts to ascertain from you what you deemed most likely to be. A good deal of conversation ensued on these points, the whole tenour of which tended to impress the deputation with the conviction that it was your opinion that no measure could pass. or ought to pass, which did not, on the other hand, settle the Strathbogie cases by the restoration of the deposed ministers, and did not provide against the recurrence of similar cases of new conflicts in future, by securing the submission of The Church to the Civil Courts. Of this impression on our part you were made aware at the time, but you gave us no hint that we had misap prehended yon. With reference to the restoration of the Strathbogie ministers, I stated that if it were confined to the bene fices, very little objection comparatively would be made to this in Scotland, the Church being always most ready to submit implicitly to the disposal of her temporalities by the civic authorities ; but that the attempted en forcement of a recognition of these parties as ministers of the gospel, would be treated by her with utter and absolute disregard. You did not, however, on this ex plain that I had misunderstood you, but left me under the impression which I then had, and which I carried with me. Again, Dr. Keith and Dr. Buchanan evinced their understanding of your views as to the provisions re quired in any measure. to be passed, by pressing on you, not in a mere remark " made in the course of conversation," but in an earnest and anxious repre sentation, commenced by Dr. Buchanan, continued by 1)r. Keith, and again resumed by 1)r. Buchanan ; the consideration that these views, if acted upon, would lead to a separation of the Church from the State, or at least would drive a large body of the clergy out of it, and this not as a result that " might ultimately," but as one that, in their opinion, would certainly happen ; and your reply necessarily confirmed their impression, being to the effect that legislation must proceed on general principles, . and not with a view to conjectural possible contingencies: My conviction of the accuracy of my own recollec tion of this part of the conversation, as contrasted with yours, which represents the calamitous result contemplated, as apprehended " if the present state of things were to continue," and so gives a totally different tone to the whole, is irresistibly strengthened by the consideration that no such result is, or could be anticipated from thing 3 remaining in their present state, and consequently that the observation could not have been what you imagine. . _ The conference ended by the repetition of your ex pression of regard for the Church of Scotland men tioned in your letter, and the deputation left you under the impression that your sentiments were those which I have ascribed to you. On my return to Scotland, though, as Dr. Buchanan was still in Eng land, without communicating with him, I imparted my impressions freely to various parties, not certainly pith a view to any objects of political partisanship, liaving always carried my disregard of considerations of secular polities rather to excess, but because I felt that I would not have been justified, especially under existing circum stances, in withholding the knowledge of the sentiments of a statesman, in all apparent probability, soon to be at the head of the Government, given to a deputation of a public body, on a great public measure then depending in Parliament,. of such vital importance to the interests of the Church. Should our impressions have been erroneous, and should you not truly hold the sentiments we had sup posed that you entertained, no one will rejoice more sincerely than I, as I have ever sought a satisfactory settlement of our question for its own sake and not in order to promote the interests of. a party. I can not but think, however, that the sentiments I ascribed to you are still involved in your recent statement, which does not repudiate the sentiments themselves, but only the having made a frank and explicit avowal of them. Still, I would fain hope that a statesman of your in . _ telligence will, on a more thorough consideration of our question, come to be satisfied that the Church's claims are neither of dangerous tendency to the commonwealth, unjust or unreasonable in themselves, nor without the clearest and most explicit recognition in the statutes and constitution of the country.' - I have only, in conclusion, to add, that having communicated to Dr. Buchanan that part of my pre sent statement which relates to what passed at our. interview with you, he concurs generally in the ac curacy of my impressions regarding it. The distance of Dr. Keith's residence prevent. me submitting the same statement to him, without greater delay than I am willing to incur. I hare the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, A. DUNLOP. To the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., 111. P., &c. &e. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A shocking and fatal accident occurred yesterday, at the corner of Rupert street, Haymarket, by which a girl of about fourteen was killed in an instant. The poor child, whose name did not transpire, had been down with two of her relatives to Cranbourne-alley, to make purchase of a bonnq, and on returning towards Regent-street, was knocked down by a dust-cart, and killed on the spot. The wheel of the cart, which was nearly full, passed over her head, and produced such an extensive fracture of the skull that on subsequent examination by Mr. French, the surgeon of St. James's parish, a portion of the brain was found to have been forced out through the right ear. Strange as it may appear, the instant the wheel had passed over her she got up upon her legs, the blood streaming from her eyes, nose, and ears, but the next moment fell dead to the ground. The body was taken to St. James's work house in Poland-street, where it awaits a Coroner's in- quest. AUCHTERARDER CASE.—The Perth Courier states that the Presbytery of Auchterarder have all and severally been summoned in this case. In the summons the minority who formerly moved that the presentee be taken on trials, are now ordered to go on with his trials with a view to his ordination. The majority in their summons prohibited from giving the minority any mo lestation or obstruction in their duty, under the penalty of 1,0001. The Presbytery took no step in the matter when they met on Wednesday. LORD STANLEY ON THE CORN-LAWS.—In order to give his arguments two faces—one to frighten the manufacturers, and the other the agriculturists—he assumes that the reduction in price compared to the last ten years, will not be more than 3s. per quarter, and yet this is to " sacrifice the agricultural interest of the country." Although he disclaims being the author of these calculations, he has adopted them, reasoned from them, and clearly wished his hearers to believe that they were true. It is here as explicit as words can express. " The advantage to be derived to the consumer of corn, from removing this protection, and adopting the princi pies and the plan of Government, whileyou throw the agri cultural labourers out of employment, while you ruin the farmers, while you injure the landlords and diminish the employment they are able to afford—the advantages to the consumer is somewhere about 3s. a quarter, as compared with the average price of corn in this country for the , last few years. And that is the advantage which the con sumer is toobtain from.the sacrifices of the agricultural interests of this country." I boldly ask, is this an example of ingenuous, honest argument? Either he believes that the - reduction will be more than 3s. per quarter, or he cannot be 4inecre in his alarm for the destruction of the agricultural interest. If this be not " thimble rigging" in argument, I.know not where to look for it.—Letter in the Preston Chronicle. Miss Delcy has been offered very tempting terms to proceed to New York, but is not disposed to quit England at her early age, before she has the oppor tunity of further developing her powers in some new operas. Mr. ➢lacready, we hear, has also made her very liberal proposals to be the Prima Donna of Drury-lane next season, but it seems the negotiation has not ended favourably, from the manager not pledging himself to produce musical pieces of a strictly operatic character. TILE NEW PARLIAMENT—There are two rumours afloat upon this subject. One is, that Peel will, upon getting into office, proceed at once to prorogue the new Parliament to an early day in January, without bringing forward any specific measures upon corn, cur rency, limber, or sugar ; the other is, that he will not, after all the money that has been expended in the cor ruption of voters, have a working majority ; and, in consequence, that another dissolution of Parliament will be the result in the early part of next year. Nous verrons. In the mean time, let every one pay his rates and taxes, and Register. That is now the duty of every Liberal.—British Queen. REFUGEES. --It appears from a return printed by order of the late House of Commons, that the total amount of money issued towards the relief of Spanish refugees from the year 1827 to 1840 was 131,498/., and that the total amount issued towards the relief of Polish refugees from the year 1834 to 1840, inclusive, was 7 , 1,7421. We understand that Sir Frederick Smith, the Inspector-General of Railways has inspected the Brighton .R a il w ay, and made a most satisfactory report to the Board of Trade on the construction of the line and the state of the works generally, and gave his entire appro bation to its being opened yesterday, which, of course, took place, and the train from Brighton started at seven o'clock in the morning with about 100 passengers, and arrived at the station at London-bridge at eleven, having performed their first j o urney with great ease, safety, and rylnrcti,s, ; no doubt that the whole of the line ;he opened by the mfdile of August... HYDROPHOBIA. We quote the following strange story (for it does not appear like truth) from the Perth Advertiser : About a month ago a dog belonging to Mr. Fenwick, George-street, gave pretty strong symptoms of being iri a rabid state, by biting three or four of its own spe cies, without anything like provocation, and immedi ately thereafter fastening on a horse belonging to James Rollo ' a licensed carter in Brigend. The aggressor, as well as those he • had attacked, with the exception of the more noble animal, were drowned or other wise killed, with all convenient speed, to save pro bable consequences. The horse (a fine stallion) was bit on the upper lip, but the wound, which seemed trivial, soon healed, and was quickly forgotten. On the evening of Sabbath last, his owner, on going into the stable, found him in rather a feverish state, froth ing at the mouth, and perspiring copiously. This cir cumstance, however, did not at the time bring to mind any recollection of the injury done by the dog, as natural causes might account in some measure for these mani festations of excitement. On Monday morning Rollo rose about four o'clock, to cart a quantity of clothes to the North Inch for bleaching. On entering the stable, he was immediately struck by the horse, and on essaying to put on the harness, the enraged animal caught hold of his left shoulder with his teeth. By dint of su perior strength and fortitude, however, he succeeded in extricating himself and adjusting the harness ; but no sooner had they cleared the stable door, when the infuriated animal again rushed upon its master—seized him by the arm, and, throwing him down, trampled and tore at him alternately, and would have made him a mangled corpse in a short time, had not a house-car penter and a policeman run to his assistance, and, striking the maddened brute a blow on the head with a hammer, forced him off the prostrate man. The horse was now yoked by the assistance of the carter's son, and the clothes taken to the Inch. On returning he was driven knee-deep into the river, but, though showing no marked repugnance to water, he refused to drink. Without taking off the harness, he was again placed in the stable. In about three hours afterwards, the young man, thinking the animal would now be somewhat cooled, re-entered the stable, but found him wilder than ever—striking out furiously, and making every imaginable effort to bite. After great risk and exertions, however, he succeeded in taking off the har ness, with the exception of the collar. Throughout the dav, every succeeding hour added to the inten sity of the animal's fury, and by evening his contor tions of rage and agony were absolutely terrific. By that time the door was strongly barricaded, in the fear lie should make his escape. Two or three individuals, anxious to see the animal in the heat of his paroxysms, made way into the loft above him. The scene was appalling in the extreme. Below them was the infuriated brute, dimly seen through a cloud of steam fed by the fires that raged through and dis tended his nostrils. Every vein and muscle was fright fully swollen. He had broken his binding, torn his collar to tatters, and was kicking and stamping furiously through the stable. Now he would neigh, now heave groans of the deepest agony, then, shaking as with an ague-fit, would gather himself up, and maidenly. with a scream, : spring aloft, making the very house shake with his fall. Then he would groan again, or, gnashing his teeth, roll his eyes wildly and savagely around. He ever and anon tore with his teeth the flesh from his breast, would shake for a mo ment the quivering carrion, aad then dash it from him, as if he found relief in the intensity of his sufferings. The walls of the stable were now literally covered with froth and blood ; and in this dreadful state the animal continued till exhausted nature gave way. The poor brute died about two o'clock on the following morning. On examination, the carter's arm was found to be dread fully lacerated, and other parts of his body seriously in jured. However, we are happy to state, that his wounds, as yet, give no symptom of danger, but bear every appearance of healing much sooner than could have been expected. THE TRADING AND LANDED INTERESTS. — It is a lamentable fact, but it is true, that the friends to the bread tax act more cordially together in the agricul tural district than the enemies of that tax act in the mann facturinc, districts, as the returns at the present West Riding election sufficiently show. The bread eaters are inadequately represented in Parliament, while the corn growers in that assembly outnumber the manufac turers and merchants in the proportion of ten to one. No wonder if, in such a state of things, the people of England should be condemned for many years to come, to eat dear bread—to endure the inflictions of monopoly—to see their trade and manufactures pass to other nations, and their workpeople suffer under the troubles incident to an increasing deficiency of labour. All this might have been reversed if the ma nufacturing and commercial interests had supported their friens as unitedly as the bread taxers have sup ported theirs. It is impossible to hear a shout in a ma nufacturing town over a Tory triumph at an election without exclaiming " they know not what they do." The returns show that the Tory majority in the agricultural districts amounts in round numbers to 3,000 ' • and the majority for the Liberal candidates in the trading dis tricts to 2,000, Though there are nearly twice as many voters in the trading as in the farming districts, tholat ter adhere to their monopoly for keeping up the price of grain, and act with more union than the former for securing the advantages of cheap food and better em ployment.—Leeds Mercury. , A picture, by David, representing the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon, one of two ordered, (this at the price of 75,000 francs), by the Emperor himself, the first for the Louvre (which is now at Versailles), and the second for the Milan Museum, was, last week, brought to the hammer in Paris, and knocked down at 2,300 francs. The picture in question, not having been paid for, remained in the artist's possession at his death, and bears au inscription and signature in his own hand writing. We may mention, too, that the picture by our countrymen, Mr. 'l'. J. Robins, representing the Veloce in her situation of peril last year, at Dunkirk, with the Icing of the French on board, and which the artist ex hibited at the Louvre, has been purchased by Louis Philippe, for the Historical Museum at Versailles.— Athenceum. We understand that the marriage of Lord John Russell, and the daughter of the Earl of Minto, takes place at •Minto House about the 20th of the present month. Orders for tne bridal-cake have been received by Mr. Blair, of the Ita lian Warehouse, South Bridge. —Edinburgh paper. --„ LAUNCH OF THE CAMBRIAN.—On Monday evening last, was launched from Pembroke-yard an exceedingly large and splendid frigate, of 36 guns. She is about the ton nage of the 74 gun ships, admeasuring 1,622 tons. Her guns will be of a calibre equal to her tonnage, viz., on the main deck long 32 pounders, nine feet six inches ; weight of gun and car riage 53 cwt. On the quarter deck and forecastle also 32 pounders ; length of each, seven feet six inches. She went off the stocks in the finest style imaginable, precisely at seven o'clock. Lady Philipps, the lady of Sir R. B. Philipps, of Pic ton Castle, gave her the name of Cambrian. She has a fine Druid head. A great number of fashionables had assembled to witness this grand and imposing sight, and all went off well. The Collingwood, an 84 gun ship, is to be launched next month. Cambrian. PRICE OF CRABS:—Last week a fishmonger sold two crab-pots for 101.—a circumstance sufficiently ex plained by the tact that he was a borough voter, and had always previously voted for the Liberal party, but at the last election r ;ted for Beckett. and Jocelyn.—Leeds Times. LARGE CUCUMBER.—Mr. Wm. Hume, gar dener to S. W. Cattley, Esq., of Clapham, exhibited two cu cumbers at the Chiswick Horticultural Show on Saturday, grown on a new principle, and measuring each twenty-four inches in length. These cucumbers were grown in the ex tremely short space of six days. TRIESTE, JUNE 28.—Accounts from Corfu say that. shortly before the departure of the Lord High Com mtssioner Sir Howard Douglas (who arrived at Vienna on the 25th of June), several persons were arrested charged with causing and keeping up the excitement of the people. SWAMPING OF A STEAM-VESSEL—On Sun day a.fternoon, between three and four o'clock, the utmost censternation and alarm was manifested by the numerous pas sengers on board the Aurora steam-vessel, which plied be t Ween London and Battersea Bridges, in consequence of infor mation that the vessel had sprung a leak, which in a f ew seconds was discovered to be too true, as the water wa s pour ing fast into her hold from a hole in her bottom. It was low ater at the time, and with assistance the whole of the pas sengers, notwithstanding their numbers, were safely landed without a single accident. It appeared that the vessel passed over an anchor, which injured her bottom. On' the return of the tide nothing was to he seen of her but a small portion of her funnel appearing above the water. The occurrence took place between 'Vauxhall and Westminster Bridges on the south of the river. R. Cootes, the pedestrian, cotimeneed his great match of walking 1,000 half miles in 1.,000 successive half hours, on Wednesday, June 30th, at the Green Hills Gardens, Augustine's.gates. The match excites intense interest, the gardens having been thronged with visitors every day since the commencement, and it was calculated that on one occa sion not less than eight or ten thousand persons were pre sent. The books of the umpires and referee show, that up to the present time, this extraordinary task has been correctly performed. Cootes is in good health, and appears confident of accomplishing the feat; he eats heartily and sleeps well during the very short intervals of rest allowed by this undertaking.— Norwich Mercury. THE BENCH.---The Scottish Pilot of yesterday says, " A rumour has been current in Leith for the last two days, that Mr. Rutherford will be immediately raised to the bench in room the bench. In ant. r. o ni f iatobi L noen o a r h d leobf Jeffrey, whose declining health has rendered hi to busy th p i perform the Tory'the duties ha ngbe hangers on and canvassers ha t v u e l for whom they cannot, or will not, not sy tell s . n " lei Wre g havevnte votes, good reason for believing that the firs ' t p art of this statement is y unfounded. It may be true that the prospect of Lord Jet' - ftey's tetiremeut h as se t the Tory canvas s ers in motion t but even though the country were to lose the services of tha excellent Judge, it is extremely improbable that Mr. Ruttier; urd woull he his successor.— Scotsman. THE VERY LATEST.—" Don't you wish you may.get it ?" as Chubb's lock said to the shop-boy, when he .vvantvd to open the cash-box. . REFORM AND REGISTRATION SOCIETY.— , -A. very numerously attended meeting was held on Wed nesday evening last, in Mr. Livesay's large room, in Church-street ; Win. A insworth, Esq., in the chair, to form a Reform and Registration Society. A committee was appointed to carry out the object of the meeting, and several subscriptions and donations were announced. — Preston Chronicle. THE WEATHER.—The weather during the ear ly pert of the 'week was wet, cold , an d ungenial, and the quantity of rain that fell on Monday night, and Tues day morning, was so heavy that the low lands on the Margin of the river Lostock, in the neighbourhood of I.4land, Ulnes Walton, Eccluston, and Croston, were Rw e d ; and also the meadow lands in the neighbour hood of Sowerby and that district were under water, and m uch damage in both districts has been done to thehay raSS. We are .happy to state that since Thursday the wc4l4q 1 been more genial.-;-Preston Chronicle. MORNING SUN. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—The Maitland, Baker, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed Feb. 15, St. Helena, May 10 ; William Lockerby, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed Feb. 3, St. Helena, May 8 ; Hindoo, Mawson, from Bengal at Liverpool, sailed March 8, St. Helena, May 27 ; Ophelie and Anne, Barker, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed Feb. 6, St. Helena, May 10 ; Alexander Robertson, Brown, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed Feb. 23, Cape, May 1 ; Valleyfield, Joble, from Singapore, in the Downs, sailed March 3, St. Helena, May 16 ; Orator, Jerry, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed February 17, St. Helena, May 15 ; Jupiter, Sed man, from Singapore, off Portland, sailed 26th January, Cape, April 23, St. Helena, 14 ; Caleb Angus, Poole, from Manilla, off Cork, and proceeded for London, sailed, Feb. 17, St. Helena, May 10. Arrivals at St. Helena.—The Meteor, Walker, May 16, from Manilla, and sailed 17th, to Cork ; Caroline, Hawkes, 16th, from Calcutta, and sailed, 19th, to Lon don ; her Majesty's ship Southampton, Hillyer, from the Cape, and sailed, 19th, to Rio ; Woolsington, Pearson, 19th, from Ceylon, and sailed, 20th, to London ; Perse verance, Nicholson, 25, from whaling to London ; John Bagshaw, Reddington, 26th, from Mauritius, and sailed, 27th, to London ; Shakspere, Henderson, 27th, from Bombay, and sailed, 27th, to Liverpool ; her Majesty's ship Wizard, Lieutenant Somerville, 27th, from the west coast of Africa to Rio Janeiro ; the French barque Paris passed on the 16th of May. Arrival at Madeira—The Sarah, Heidrich, from Lon don to Bombay. Arrivals at Batavia—The John Horrocks. from Liver pool; Prins Frederick der Nederlanden, from Rotterdam. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Hebe, Manilla to London, in the Straits of Sunda; Janet, Gibral.'er to Rio Janeiro, lat. 5, N., lon. 23, W.; Dutch barque Aldermassher, lat. 9, lon. 23; Lady Katharine Barham, London to Jamaica, 23d ult.., lat. 24, lon 36, by the Caleb Angus, arrived at Cork. Baboo, of Greenock, for Bombay, lah May, lat. 20, S., lon. 23, W., by the Regulus, arrived off Weymouth. George Champlen, 26th Sept., with NO blls; Brixton, of London, 21st April, with 500 blls.; Indian, of Lindon, 13th June, with 400 blls.; Martha, of ditto, 6th July, with 1,600 blls. A FACT FOR THE NATURALIST.A lady near Torquay had, during the past week, two hen ca naries sitting in the same nest, side by side, each on her own eggs, and living very quietly together.— Western Times. EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE.—On Friday, the 11th ult., Mr. H. Smarhige, jun., in the purish of Halwell, had a swarm of bees at seven A.M., about three P.m. he had another from the same hive, and three days after he had another, making three stocks from one in the small space of four days—an incident never before known to have happened in that neighbourhood.— We. - tern Times. A Flsit BOOKED."—There are various ways, it seems from the following fact, of capturing fish. with out having resort to rod, net, spear, or gun. On Tues day evening last as the Waterwitch packet, No. 2, was coming from Lancaster, near Farleton, and the mate, James Dixon, was sitting in the bow of the boat read ing, a trout about a pound weight leaped from the water upon the book which he was engaged in perusing, perhaps being curious along with him to pry into its contents ; we have " learned pigs" and many other ani mals in the world now-a-days, why may there not be learned fish also ? However this may be, the finny biblio pole fell a sacrifice to this thirst for matter out of its pro per element • no sooner was it upon the book, th an th e mate pressed both together to his breast and secured the prisoner, taking it below to exhibit to the passengers alive as it was. Seeing was believing in this case, al though such things are not to be seen every day. GLASS-CLOTH.—We have had submitted to our inspection about a couple of yards of this new spe cies of cloth, woven entirely of glass, by a Mr. Richard Baker, a glass-maker, and a more extraordinary and beautiful production of the loom it has never been our lot to witness. Our readers, who have never seen a spe cimen, may be apt to suppose that glass-cloth must be a plain white glossy fabric, but we assure them they are much mistaken if they think so ; the specimen we have seen is partly composed of a beautiful diamond pattern, and partly in stripes and colours of the most delicate hues. It seems to us, if the texture were a little lighter (which we are assured it can be made), that the cloth is admirably adapted for waistcoats for the dashing young gentlemen about town, and for ladies' reticules ; and we trust, for the benefit of the ingenious individual who is exhihiting it, that not a few will take the hint, and order some pieces immediately. Mr. Baker, three years ago, had the honour of presenting her Majesty with a pair of glass-cloth slippers, and an apron made of the same ma terial, with which she was pleased to express her unqua lified approbation, and to order a sum of money to be paid to him. He has likewise had interviews with Lord John Russell, and other distinguished individuals at the Home-office, on the subject. He informs us that he is the only individual in the kingdom who can produce this material. This ingenious man (notwithstanding the royal and distinguished patronage he has received), is, we are sorry to say, in very embarrassed circumstances. He very recently lost the whole of his money (amounting to about 901.) by the failure of his employer, in whose hands he had lodged it, and having a wife and a family of six children, he is under the necessity of exhibiting the pro cess of spinning the silk and weaving the cloth for a sus tenance. We are assured the exhibition will well repay a visit.—Hull Advertiser. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION AND THE PHCENIX COMPANIES.-The law proceedings which have being going on in the French Courts have ter minated. It will be recollected that the Britannia steamer, belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company, came in collision with the Plurnix steam-ship, belonging to a Company at Havre, and that the latter was sunk off Margate in deep water mid totally lost. The Steam Navigation Company having had two deci sions against them in the French Courts have resolved not to prosecute the matter further, as they do not expect to have justice f& some time. The Directors, have, therefore, given up the Britannia steam-ship to the Havre Company. The Britannia is, we hear, worth from 26,0001. to 29,000/. and that the law costs which the former will have to pay, amount to about 4,000/. or 5,0001. Had the case been tried before persons competent to judge upon such a matter as " a collision at sea," in which much nautical skill is absolutely necessary, the result would, we confidently believe, be in favour of the General Steam Navigation Company.—British Queen. - - YORKSHIRE GENEALOGIES. —Family' genea logies are kept by the enumeration of the given, or, as they are called, the Christian, names of the ancestors. " Jack o' Dick o' Bob, top o' t' hill ." that is, Jack is the son of Dick, and grandson of Bob, who resides on the top of the hill. Surnames are little used in the dis tricts where this registration serves. " Olive o' Susan's o' Mary's o' Bill's o' Matthew's o' t' Mount :" " she wed Robert o' Bob's, at Foster Clough, Far Lane Ends, near Midley."—Rev. R. W. Hamilton's Prose and Verse. AN A WFUL EXPLOSION.-FOUR PERSONS KILLED.—A dreadful explosion of carburetted hydrogen gas occurred in one of the pits of Rhodes Bank Col liery, near Oldham, on the forenoon of Friday, the 2d inst. Eleven miners were in the pit at the time, of whom six were in the part of the mine w here the explosion oc curred. The noise of the explosion was tremendous, and the earthworks of the shafts were much disordered in consequence. CRIMINAL OFFENDERS.—We extract the following statistical information relative to criminal offenders, &c., from a return moved for in the last Par liament by Mr. Joseph Hume. From this return it ap pears that the total number of persons committed for 22tr34i:a0419443f0_2r (i v fi a N ri vl o v u ohn s olm o l ff 7l e ,6B n ,3 c 72 e B s sl , ve b; Ne. t e h tr.coi a l g velo a cn i t n edi s . je t t; p ed er:on and pro perty, in England and Wales, amounted in 1838 to 27,187—0 f whom 19,q 9 7 were col • • meted• The nuMber of persons committed ' for trial in Scotland in 1 1 a 8 1 3 1 8 outlawed 2 . in 1839 to 3,409 , —of who m 2 -' 6 .- 2 in amounted to 3,418--of whom 2,679 were convicted con d . . and 18391840 to vieted and outlawed ; and in 1840 to 3 1 , 2,945. were convicted and outlawed.da 1838 to 17,723—0 f 8 11 5 Ireland lso'f number of committals anfoup n t whom 9,609 were convicted ; . 1 1840 to 23,892—af whom 12,049 were convieted ; . e 1839 to 26,392 --of whom 11,194 were convicted. , (AT fined to his bed for the native candidate, tonactonin. r. IA est, the Conser- We regret to s l ta h t pt e last three days, %t er at the hustings and in the booths, the care of Mr. Kirby, having caught a severe co . to inquiries this day, ,however, and chest. The answer accompanied by very' . serious inflammation of the throat blip Erening Mail. The greater part of my property • . is s i tuated . in a Nhvia..tstetrh._atphiez had a good night a nd was considera b l y district (the Carse ofeGnonev)n,eacznasindde,reodwipnegeutoliatrill3 favourable to t he g roe, great variation in the price of corn, I found it impossible either for ,a tenant or landlord to calculate the fair amount of rent. I therefore adopted the plan previously tried by a neighbouring proprietor, of a grain rent, which has since been extensively resorted to in Scot land), to be calculated according to the market prices, so that I can speak from experience as to the great fluctuations to which the farmer is subject under the present Corn-laws." " I have also found, during an experience of 14 years, that the value of rich land has deteriorated considerably, whilst that of the poorer soils, up to within the last two or three years, since when trade has been ou the decline, has risen in value, and a greater quantity . of that description of land has been taken into cultivation, not certainly for the produc tion of wheat, the quantity of which grown in the district which I speak of is much diminished, but to be farmed on what we term in Scotland, the green crop system. Some of my tenants, who have signed a peti tion against the Corn-laws, can give practical evidence of the fact, which seems to be overlooked by agricultu rists, that the land can give a return with greater ad vantage to itself, and consequently to the cultivator. of other produce than grain, as, when they grew wheat, they were always in arrears of rent, whereas now they are able to pay punctually, deriving at least half their profit from their stock, and consequently the cry of poor land being thrown out of cultivatic n is quite a fallacy., Lord Kinnaird's Letter to the Anti-Corn-law Association.. On Saturday morning last, as Mr. Jame s Groves, a market gardener from Pinvin, was proceeding down Red-hill, on the London-road, with a cart load of vegetables . and fruit, the back chain broke, which caused the shafts of the cart to fall considerably, and the horse took fright and started off at full speed towards Worcester ' which threw p oor G roves from the fore part of the cart where he was sitting. It appears he held by the c a in r k t i.unn f e o s r ts, t w w a st e n o dh r t l h av r e e or e nd t s t e ht c e o o f n b tls o.,d , y w . to fall head first, and, the wheel passing over his head, he died instantly. An Carpenter'sAu returned. Groves vraaa very steady man, tbirtv-eight year of Death' returned. * age, and has left a wife sad city - .- • Accidentaltiibe s h a seen