The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-28 00:00:00

I MORNING SUN sifters, giving an account of the state of manufacturing, ,dis , tress in the year 1835 ; and if such things can exist—if such a stimulus cin be elven to production as was the case--I fear the inevitable consequence will be, that when a check arises—when markets are encumbered with produce—when a war in Chinathe —a war in Syria—and disturbances in Europe affect the state of suppiies—then there must be a recurrence of that distress. general and individual, which has been depicted in such forci ble terms in the course of the present debate. But this is the account which Dr. Key, a gent'eman possessing the confidence of her Majesty's Government, and holding, I believe, at present an office of great influence, but who was employed on the Poor law Commission—this is the interesting and extraordinary ac , count which he gives of the state of manufacturing industry in 1835, and I recommend the whole document to the attention of Hon. Members. He sass, " Within two years 7,507-horse • . pow( r have been brought into operation." He says the ieldi tional outlay upon mills would amount to 3,754,0001. And in viewing the universal demand for labour at the time, he asks, from whence must the population required by manulactures be derived? And what is the remedy which he suggeoe? Esta blished agents must, he says, be stationed at Manche, tut to encourage emigration. Ho then makes this astounding statement with respect to the increase of population in a single • . township in 31anchester. In 1801 the population was 1,805, ' in 1811 the populotion was 1,806, in 1821 it was ;3,335, and in 1831 it was 7,132. Dr. Key asks how is this to be ac counted for, and tells us that of the 7,000, • 5,600 must be (migrants into that one township. In June, 1835, Messrs. H. and C. Ashworth stated that it was calcu lated that nearly twenty thousand persons would be required . fort one of our manufacturing cities alo e —Staley Bridge. ' See when yni have g , t this populaticn what takes place—a • populaticn width you cannot prevent without drying the n Along rest urces, and without interfering with the invent on o' mach nor r. Who n you have thus got five thousand new hands and a new population at Staney Bride, and when agents at Manchester have called this population into existence, extraordinary ingenuity devises • some mode of curtailing labour, prices fail, and the cpnse quenee is extreme poverty and suffe ing. Now, is not that a natural state of things? And may not such things occureven 1 ' &ter an alteration in the Corn -laws, or their total repeal ? What I do deprecate is that extravagant view which you take ' of the remedies and advantages to be derived from a repeal of ' those laws. It had been said that there was no demand for manufactures on account of the Corn-laws, and that our trade could not prosper, inasmuch as we could not exchange t our goods for foreign corn. But' during the four years which had preceded that extraordinary development of m nufactir ng pros' eri y, the whole amount of corn im , 1 ported into this country was merely 400,000 quarters. I must ' also observe, that I have no doubt but the unwise and impro vident exteosiou of credit was another source of the evil com plain. d of. You must bear in mind all these things, and look upon the question in a philosophic point of view. You must 1 ' remember there are other causes besides the Corn -lags which - , account for the pressor eon our manufactures ; and you must not unwisely attribute this-evil to the existing Corn-laws.— ( Hear, hear. 1 I have entered at some length into this subject, and I am s • r.. that its deep importance will justify me in the eyes of the House.--t Cheers. ) But I shall no N pats to other topics. I cannot, I must say, acquiesce in the Address moved by her Majesty's Ministers. If I implied my approbation of the specific measures involved in the Budget from which I had form , ply expressed my dissent, 'should be implying ae. nfidenee in Ministry which 1 do not feel.—(Opposition cheers.) I do not think the Noble Lord can quarrel with me as to the proceeding which I adopt. I think the Noble Lord will feel that it is far I more fair and more just, after the appeal which had been I ' made to the people, to come at once to the issue, whether her Majesty's Government have or have not the confidence of the country, than to permit the Noble Lord to remain in ignorance upon that point, and take the ordinary course of thwarting him in his future operation. An Hon. Gentleman who spoke last night, the Hon. Member for Finsbury, who does some time ', seem to me affected with the most extraordinary and senti -1 mental oratory— (Laughter)—and who appears to suffer more from a feeling of romant c and chivalrous loyalty than any I . other Gentleman in this House—(Ronewed laughter)—but be says that we are acting in opposition to the Queen's wishes, and moving an amendment to the address. ,Strange doe ' trine this on the part of a Whig or even of a Radical.— • ' (Hear, hear, and laughter.) That we are to be pre vented from performing a duty in respectfully submitting an opinion to the Sovereign, for fear of contravening her pri vate wishes ! The Hon. Gentleman contrasted the course which I am now pursuing with that which was pursed by my opponents in 1835. The Hon. Member has spoken of the generous treatment which I then experienced—( Laughter on the Opposition benches)—the forbearance which was mani fested towards me, and the earnest desire that was evinced to permit me deliberately and fairly to lac before the House those - measures for the public good which flied prepared ; and the Hon. Gentleman added that all this ought to prevent me from taking so indecent and so hostile a step as to declare a want of confidence in Ministers upon the first day of the session. But I cannot but remember the opposition I received en the choice of a Speaker, and the declaration of the Right Hon. , . Gentleman opposite (Sir J. C. Hobbouse) that having been defeated on the question of the Speakership, I ought at trice to have resigned.—(Loud cheers.) But there I, was more in store on the succeeding day, for an 1 ' amendment was moved upon the Address, which censured me in direct tenor:TEO t having advised the Crown to dissolve the Parliament What affectation of the Hon. Gentleman now to come forward and say, " True, there was an attempt to cen sure you, but no want of confidence was implied.—( Hear. ) That was but the abstract, dispassionate, and impartial view of gnat patriots of the single measure of a dissolution, and you, the unhappy object of their censure, are to continue in power, not e3esideriny. the motion as an indication of the slightest disgr -c ."--(Cheers and laughter.) Now, I can destroy that 1 il:u ion by t e authority of the Right Hon. Gentleman him self, b c use last year, speaking of this very question of a watt of confidence, he made use of these words :—" He i (...( a. in; S r Robert Peel) advised the King to dissolve the Parliament. I do not deny his right to give that advice; but it was the right of the next Parliament to give their opinion upon that advice. We know what that opinion was —it condemned the advice given by the Ri g ht Hon. Gentleman in that moat es sential p articular. The House of Commons, by a majority of seven, pronounced a verdict against the Right Hon. Gentle - man •, a veriitt which amounted to a vote of want of confi --., dence—(C her rs: --as much as any vote could do." Now, 1 be lieve that WAS the right construction of the matter: it was meant as a vote of want of confidence, and a perfectly legitimate n ode it was ( f tr;ing the question.—(Cheers.) It was but a short. trial, I must say. I sin proud, however, to say, that I retained ~. power until I found that the sense of the House was against ~, ...,,,,, me; hut, on the first great defeat I experienced I instantly gave way. I fought the battle of the Speakership, and the battles, and I did not think that, upon the first indication of ' dissent and distrurt upon the part of the House, a Minister should resign office.—(Cheers.) No, he owes obliga tions to the Crown, which must be reconciled with the obi gation he owes ,the House and the country. I knew soon after that the fate of my Government. I was de. termined, and I had always resolved upon the first obstruction to my measures, to take inevitable course of resignation. At the same rimes did not think it was unfit that I should con tinue in power as long I could entertain a hope of support from the House. But, I must add, that my course was entirely differs& from that lately pursued by her Majesty's Govern meat. It is now upwards of two years since the Government declared their opinion that they did sufficiently possess the • confidence of this House to enable them satisfactorily to dis charge the public duties.—( Hear, hear.) Ido believe that their subsequent retention of power, in defiance of constitu tional principles, has weighed more with the constituent body —(Oppos:tion cheers) —than any other misdeeds !Ton the part of her Majesty's Government. The Noble Lord at the head of the Government declined that the worst Government was an inefficient. one, and the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies had stated that the interests of the country were exposed to hazard by a Government attempting to continue in office after they had the confidence of this House Those words made an impression en the public mind and their conduct was in any opinion an indication of that just constitutional principle, a principle which every friend of popular Government, ind of the repre sentative system ought to hold in honour, namely, that the favour and support of the Sovereign ought not to maintain for a long and indefinite period a Government in existence against the will of the repre sentatives of the people.—(Cheers.) .It does compromise the prerogatives of monarchy so to retain a Ministry, because it exhibits the prerogative of :the monarch without its just in fluence, when disregarded by the people, and it does exhibit the House of Commons as wanting its just influence when it can thwart the measures and obstruct the acts, but cannot de cide ou the fate of a Ministry.--( Cheers.) And When you appealed to the constituency, to that constituency composed . if the middling class, selected as being less liable to undue influence. When you m ide your appeal to them, . that in your opinion you were maintaining your power at the hazard of great interests, when you found their representatives declaring whether, right or wrong, that lou did not possess their confidence. When you then appealed to the people what did they ds? They vindicated they consti tutional principle, and confirmed the decision of the House of Commons. Sir, that opinion I firmly believe is unfavourable • to the Government. You say the opinion of the people is un stable and fastidious. Why these are unjust reflections, I must consider, on public opinion, and those whom we consider as its depositories. I cannot beleve these accounts of the consti tuency of England. I cannot believe they are so disqualified to form a judgment on the conduct, character, and acts of public men, but this is certain, that their judgment must be decisive if you. mean to maintain the popular principle of Go vernment. Why might not I have said in 1835, I have pro posed no measures, it is very hard to condemn me without a trial? What would have been your reply—" The people have ~.t decided against you, and in deference to the opinion of the le, people you ought not to remain holding office and public trust. ' ‘ Submit to public opinion." That is the constitutional doctrine , , and it is in deference to that principle that I have moved this amendment On the consequences that may be supposed to re sult from your resignation it is not for me to speculate. Others • have speculated on it. I contemplate with calmness, ''. isithout anxiety, but with cenfidenee, whatever may be that result. If power does not devolve on me I make tea complaint. If power does devolve on me I shall ac . 'eept it,with the consc i ousness that I gained it by direct and constitutional means.—(Loud cheers) But that I owe . tto the voice of the people of this country, and to tt.e favour of the Sovereign.—(Cheers.) I am told that in exercisng that pow er 1 must b e t h e instrument of maintaining opinions . • I myself am supposed to consider as erroneous. tiir, with my views of power, of the obligations it entails, and ofit imposes, of the duties the sacrifices it involves, I amlittle inclined to add to those sacrifices by , submissions. —( Cheers .) I am told I must be the instrument accepting with it discreditable . of effecting in Ireland the ob'ects of certain parties, and particularly of my friend, asso j ciate, and partizan, as he was called, who was said t o h ave offered insult to the religious feelings of his fellow countrymen, by some appendix to a p ublic work. lam not afraid to exp ress my opinions on an act life that. I say there is no man in th e House—that there is no Roman Catholic in the House —who heard with deeper pain that a gratuitous and unprovoked and unnecessary insult had been offered to the religious feelings of a great body of my countrymen. If I cannot retain power, and if I must forfeit place by avowing such sentiments—if I cannot retain it except by deferring to such feelings, I say at once that the clay on which I relinquish power rather than defer to such feelings will be a ten times prouder day than that oh my access'on to it. —(Cheers.) If Ido accept office it shall be by no intrieue— (Cheers)—by no unworthy concessions of constitutionalaprin -ples—(Cheers)—by no unnatural and factious combinations of those men—honest men as I believe, but who entertain ex treme opinions from which I dissent.—(Cheers). If I accept power it shall 1)6 by w.:lk ng in the open light and direct path of the Constitution; if I exercise power it shall be on my oven conception, perhaps imperfect, perhaps mistaken, hut my s o, sere anception of public duty.--(Cheers.) That power I will not hold sinless I ran hod it consistently with the maintenance of my own opinions and that power. I will relinquish the mo• went I am satisfied that I am not supported by the confidence of this House, and of the people of this country.—Cheers. ) Lord J. RUSSELL—Sir, if I have to request the attention of the House at this late hour, and after a late debate, I must beg to say remember that it was not until a late hour in the fourth night's debate that any leader of the party opposed to her Ma jesty's Government rose to justify a vote expressing want of confidence in the Government.—( Cheers.) I complain not of the motion made. I think that the very first opportunity, on the meeting of a new Parliament, is the best opportunity for deciding the question as to whether the party sow in pesiession of power, or any other party, has the confidence of this nouse.—( Hear, and continued cheers.) But I say, with re- JP" to t h e n9use 0 c9mmone, kJ w ith regard to all the disposers of power in this ceuntry, that there must be some reason given for your proceedities—that you world think the Sovereign who placed at the head ' of the Goyerament persons not possessing in any way the confidence of the country, was not justified in such an act; and so. likewise, with regard to the House of Commons he ing met by a Ministry ie possession of the confidence of the Sovereign, that if they think it their duty to express their want of concert in that confidence—if they ex press an opinion that these Ministers should make way for others, they are bound to give their reasons, and to found on argurriente connected with the welfare of the state the conclu sions to which thsy come.—(Loud cheering.) And yet, Sir, I have • heard no argument on this subject except the one addressed to the House by the Hon Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire, who moved the amendment, by the Noble Lord who followed him, and the Right lion. Gentleman. who has spoken th . s night, arid I must say there was a re markable discrepancy between the line of arguments they pursued.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman stated that he felt it was incumbent upon him bringing forward a motion of such magnitude, and involving such vast consequences, to ground himself on the best reasons he could state for the neces sity of that motion. Ilis whole argument was lbunded on the conduct of the Government in past years, beginning with the Government of Lord Grey in IWO. The Right Hon. Gen aleman has made a speech te-nigle giving his opinion on the state of public affairs, and' the wholej of his arguments have been, vested on the Budget which was propos ed b y the Chan cellor ef the Exchequer. and the measures respeeting the Corn-laws I intended to have proposed in the last Session. Now, Sir, I beg first to address myself to the arguments of the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and I must say that, after the most careful review of the statements put forth by Hon. Members, there never was a case made out upon such meagre grounds.—( Hear, hear.) Whenever, upon former occa ions, the House of Commons has passed such cen sures as are now proposed to the House, some strong grounds have been alleged—( Hear, bear) —some great charge has ,been brought against the Governmont, and strong facts were brought forward to support them.— (Ilear. ) At the end of the American war the charge against Lord North's Government was that he had wasted the treasure and blood of the country, and that he had sacrificed thirteen colonies.—( hear, hear. ) In the case of Mr. Addington, the charges were equaly grave. The Hon. Member for West Yorkshire says that we arc pledged to peace. Sir, Ido not deny that we have pledged ourselves to maintain peace, as far as we could do so without provoking war.—( Cheer?.) With respect to Belgium, which has always been a source of war in Europe since the tine, of E izabeth— and since her time, from the reign ofWilliam the Third down wards—the contentions were amicably settled by Lord Grey having made the first arrangements, and Lis preliminaries being followed up by the present. Government.—(Cheers.) With respect to Spain and Portugal, I admit that the policy of the Government has been very much challengened; and I can say, Sir, that, at all events, it has been success ful.—( Great and continued cheering.) But, Sir, our policy in the East has been assailed. It was the opinion of all the that Mc hemet Ali should no longer retain Syria. We concurred in that opinion, erste ia.eonsetsueoce oftheit coo s: currence we took means which restored Syria to the driminion of the Porte.—(Hear.) In India an attempt was made to shake our power, and Dost Mohammed was put forward as the instrument by which it was to be overthrown. I cannot yet say what is the result of our policy in respect to China ; but this I can say, that wherever our operations have been con cluded our operations have been successful. , Much has been said of the inefficiency of our navy ; but I think, Sir, that there are living disproofs of that charge, in the persons of Admiral Stopford and another gallant officer, who is now a Member of this House.—( Cheers.) I think it is unnecessary to occupy the House by going into any details, I think that the result of cur policy has been, that we held up the name of England high amongst the nations of the world, and that under our administration, neither her honour nor her power has been diminished.—(Cheers.) With respect to the Colo nies, all I can say is, that they are in a state 01 increasing prosperity. With respect to one of them, Canada, which is connected with one of the questions before the House--which is, I mean, connected more especially with the timber duties, I must remind the House of the difficulties which we had from the first to contend with. We had given to a French population, unaccustomed to British habits, a constitutional form of Government, and the failure of all attempts to conciliate that population having failed, a rebellion brake out, which, however, we were enabled to suppress.—(Cheers.) That rebellion was put down by a General, whose military talents enabled him to suppress that insurrecti in. The minds of men were disturbed, and it was felt that without free institu tions in British possessions, no permanent peace or prosperity could be firmly established.—(Hear, hear.) Every thing in duces me to believe that those institutions will prosper as there is already, on many occasions, a desire manifest , el in favour of British connections, and a disposition aiid f. cling of loyalty en gendered towards this country.--(Cheers,) But I thought it necessary to state to the Governor-General that the whole question being taken into consideration, the extent of the Canadian frontiers, which is 1,200 miles, and viewing the nature of the population, the late excitement that took place—it was necessary to take means for the future defence of Canada by her Majesty's arms if necessary, and for the future improvement of the province by which its peaceful progress in prosperity may be promoted.—( Cheers.) That was the matter to which I alluded when I said to Lord Syden ham, that there was a measure through which I hoped the people of Canada would be reconciled to the alteration in the timber duties. He said the progress of Canada and its re sources, would be crippled in consequence of the debt of Ca nada. And when he (Lord Sydenhem) introduced that in the speech which lie made, he thought proper to give the Assembly the whole of the despatch, and read it on the oc casion. It know not if I should have thought it necessary to give that despatch, but in all probability he thbught it would give confidence to those who supported them at the lime; to show that these who had beenfaithful to the Crown would not be abandoned by the Crown—(Cheers)—that every means in the power of Parliament would be taken to prove we were inter ested in their prosperity, and ready to make common cause with them in all their contingencies.—(Cheers.) The Bight Hon. Gentleman did not say he disapproved that policy. 1 feel confident it was the only policy, that if you were determined as some philosophers advocated, and as a Noble Lord, a Member of the other House, upheld, to separate from Canada, you should do to at once, and if you are determined to defend Canada, you should do so effectually, and not suffer those who gave generous support to the loyal cause to suppose that a luke warm aid would be exerted in their defence, or to doubt' whether that ad would be continued to them. But, Sir, whe ther that policy be right or wrong, the present state of things is, that the colony is well affected to the mother country, and that it is improving in riches and strength, and that there is not, with respect to any other British colonies, except those external dangers with regard to Canada, any room for appre hension.—( Cheers ) I tow come to our domestic govern ment—(Cheers)—and I ask, with regard to our domestic go vernment—l ask, is there anything in the state of this country under our government that creates cause for apprehension, whether you take such measures as I will hereafter speak of, and which I think necessary for the well-being of tl.e country,? --(Cheers.) I will not speak at present of the distress of the people; but with regard to their disposition, I think I may fairly say that that disposition is a disposition of loyalty, of tranquillity, and of obedience to the law.—(Cheers. With respect to Ireland—whatever may be thought of the outrages and the crimes which had long existed there—l think with regard to political feelings, no disposition of aliena tion towards the Crown of this country was fo mented during the present Administration.—(Cheers.) Well then I say that the Hon. Member for Yorkshire has come. forward to propose a vote of want of confidence on those who had been successful in their transactions abroad—who had been successful in their goveromete. of the Colonies—who haul been successful in their Government of Great Britain and Ireland. --(Much cheering.) You may tell me you have succeeded. You may tell me that there are others to whom you are dis posed to transfer your confidence, but though this is an exer cise of the right of the House, it is an exescise of it in a case where you have not proved any want if an efficient adminis tration—(Opposition cheers, answered by loud cheers from the Ministerial Benches)—when you have not proved that any of , the great interests of the country have suffered in the hands of the present Administration—(Continued dicers.) Why, Sir, we had debates on this subject before, and We had the same debates in the course of these four n'ghts. I remem ber in the commencement of the year 18-10 one motion of want of confidence, and Honourable Gentlemen brought forward the gravest charges they could against the Government ; and one of the gravest charges was, that I made a speech at. Liverpool, at which no reporter was present, and of which a garbled account bad got into the papers, not half of it being given, and that half misstated.—(Laughter. ) An• other charge was in a speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that there was some person appointed by the Registrar-General who registered births and marriages at Birmingham, and who was by mistake selected because he turnedout to bee Socialist; and it was upon a charge of that kind—because in the Govern ment of a great county an erroneous appointment had been made—upon a crime of that extent the House Would be in duced to withdraw its confidence from them.—(Cheering.) We had another great debotc this Session, and the charge then was, that we had not been able to carry certain measures, and, among others, was one which has been freqnently re ferred to; and which, even at the risk of wearying the House, I must say a few words upon. I mean the Appropriation Clause.—)Hear, hear.) That was not a measure brought for ward to deprive the Right Hon. Gentleman office, for it was a vote frequently given by Hon. Members on this side of the House, who thought that the revenues of the Irish Church were too large, and that a portion might be given for the benefit of time whole community, Protestant and Roman Ca tholic. It so happened that Lord Wellesley had then recoin mended a measure with regard to tithes, and had also recom mended a Commission to inquire as to the number of each reli. gious persuasion. At the same time the Hon. Member for Lheffield brought forward a motion, which was agreed to by a great majority of this House; and the Right Hon. Gentleman, and the Noble Lord opposite, left office on accoudt of the mo tion. At this time Lord Spencer succeeded to the Peerage, and a new Ministry was formed. Were we to alter our opi nions on that account ; were we, who asserted those princi ples ; were we to say, because the Right Hon. Gentleman was in power, that we should forget, or give them up? No, Sir, and accordingly, (luring the administration of the flight Hon. Baronet I brought forward a resolution affirming the principles we had before asserted with regard to the rp prepriation of the revenues of the. Irish Church, and the con sequenne was his resignation of office. The Right lion. Gen tleman might have remained in office till there was some more decisive vote, but having tendered his resignation I then stated teat he had acted in accordance with the Constitution. We immediately proposed a Bill containing that chaise which was passed in this House, but was defeated in the House of Lords. We had there two courses to pursue. We might have gone on with the Appropriation Clause, and after the tithe question was unsettled ; but that would have expose — Ireland to to the evils of agitation on the subject of tithes. 1 , 1 7 7 were anxious that the Appropriation Clause should be carried, because we thought it would give contentment to the Irish people, and renovate them to the Established Church, but after being twice defeated in the House of Lords it would have looked like a hostile feeling to do so. When it mas said that having been unable to carry that clause it was our duty to resign. Now, sir, I think our duty was to consider what was best for Ireland, and with with respect to the administration of affairs of this country, nothing whatever but experience will convince me that there is the greatest difference between the party I act with and the tarty opposite. Notwithstanding all that that lion. Gentleman says of his intentions, he must l a ili d devolv becoming e ul poi a v place power in Ireland in the hands of an exasperated minority. The orders benevolent erin enat, b and impartial, n those who will execute them with malevolence and rancour ,— (Cheers.) i The \ e and b e may net ic b e t Go Right Hon. Baronet and the party opposite C h ee rs.) Ido not wonder at ti at , but I must —many of whom s hare his intentions—think 1 sin wrong in that opird'in.--e regard to the that the expressions made use of shy that all past exper ie nce has shown the truth of what I now iu sel; and I must fur ther say great majority of the people of Ireland—the mod e of spea ki n g of them and their clergy by the organs of the pa rty opposite—the mode of speaking even of a Member of that Housethe calling the people nothing but sa vages shows the spirit from which such lan g uage pro ceeds—(C r i es o f Hear")—and we are bound to suppos that the acts will proceed from the same source. With that opinion—holdin g such sentiments, it appeared to me that it was our duty still to remain in office although the Appropria tion clause was not carried, because, although we could not give the people of Ireland the benefit of that clause, still we could give them the benefit of a just administration of the laws which we thought they had not had before, nor were likely to receive from the party then in opposition. Now, Sir, with respect to the internal condition of the country—we haze been charged with getting up an agitation on the subject THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1841. of the Corn-laws. But, Sir, the tranquillity of the country has not been disturbed by our Reform Bill.--(Hear, hear.) '1 he Right Hon.llaron. t said our ,exports were now greater than before ; then I say that the great changes, of which we have been the authors, has not given rise to that hurtful agi tation which was predicted. But, on the other hand, we are assailed by the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath, because we, as be said, had not been true to the principles on which we set out ; and Ise said, that bad .we continued in the progres sive tract, we might stiil have continued iu power, backed. by the country,—(Hear.) I can only say, in inswer to that charge, that . I really hardly know how gentleman who sets up for so much political purity could ex pect us to pursue that course, which Was against our conscien tiousnpinians.—(Cheers. ) We were of opinion that conti .nnal change was dangerous, thereforewe were obliged to op pose the propositions of thej Hon. Alember for Finsbury, in - 1837; and - ciihers made by other Members since. Suppose I wire.to.,saythat if the Hon. Member Bath, that if he were to profess hlinself a thorough Consorvative, he might rise to a high station under •the Government about to be formed, he would tell me that he would not consistently approve of their opinions. 'That.-is my answer. and when he was told that litformers had become lukewarm in consequence cf such con • duet, I tell him that I was quite aware of the fact. I did not expect that ;ealous Reformers would remain in our favour when we timed it our duty to pause. If the Hon. Member Member for Bath csuld prove that we ought to have taken the coure he pointed out, if we be driven from office in conse quence of not doing so, as it would have been entirely against our conscience, then I say welcome the charge. We thought our opioions, if carried into effect, would prove beneficial to the country, and if we had a certainty of retaining power by entertainino opinions, or ncting upon them, which we thought dangerous to the country, it would have been unanimously re jected. Well, then, Sir, I come to the opposition of the Right . Honourable Baronet, anl . obsei ve that while he has gone gravely over the different subjects of the Budget he had no more committed himself then he did:before.—( Loud cheers and counter-cheers.) We have never asked him for the full developement of' his measures —we never asked for any details—we never proposed to him to go into - details—all they wanted was;to know the general prin ciples on which he proposed to act.—(Chew. s.) We say there is evidently a de — ciency in the revenue—there is manifest dis tress in trade. Poverty among the community, and we think that an approach to toe principles of free trade will tend to li quidate the deficiency, rnd dispel the gloom which hangs over trade. To this day, to this hour, the Right Hon, Gentleman has tievi-T made any declarstion on this subjec'. He tells us to qe sure that he is not expected to give any general opinion, but that there is one principle to which he will achere, namely, the sliding scale. Now, I reallo am at a loss to conceive by the Right Hon. Gentleman, taking every other matter ireo con , ideration, leaving himself quite open with resp:et to almost every other measure he should be to especially wedded to this sliding scale. It as though he had thus addressed his Sove. reign and his country, " To be sure with regard to the Roman Catholics, their admission to power I thought would be the destruction of the. Church and the ruin of the Coostitution ; theynit As to the Reform of Parliament, 1 thought it vvould have its to the entire destruction of the Monarchy, and the complete ruin of our institutions : it has passed, but still the institu tions somehow or other flourishes, arid none of those institu tines which were threatened have suffered the smallest injury ; and I am so perfectly satisfied witn this Reform Act, that I mean to make it the guide of my conduct, and to adhere liter ally to its p.ovisions. But these things are small matters. The admission of Roman Catholics to Parliament, the admis sion of Dissenters to civil and religious liberty, the de struction of some fifty or sixty rotten boroughs, and the admission of numerous classes to civilization—these, perhaps, are trifling matters, upon which changes of opi nion may be well admitted ; but the sliding scale is a principle which I will never give up. The sliding scale is so necessary, that come v hat will—be the change in the Corn laws what it will—l have not precluded myself from any change whatever, or that the sliding scale be kept inviolate ; to that sacred principle 1 devote myself, and I will never sacrifice it. (Hear, hear, and laughter, from the Liberal benches.) lam extrem.ly sorry to differ so much from the Right Hon. Gen tleman, but I must say that all the information I have acquired, , all that I have read in the writings of enlightened men on the subject of the Corn-laws, has only convinced me more and more that that graduated sliding scale, to which the Right Hon. Gentleman is so much attached, is the main cause of the evil which at present exists.—( Hear, hear.) If you have a fixed duty, no doubt you have a tax upon corn, but you may have a certainty in trade. If you have a moderate fixed duty, you will have a constant admission of corn, admitted at all times, with a constant market in this country.—(Hear, hear.) But if you have a sliding scale, you will have no such market. Now I take the liberty of asking, in the first place, how this sliding scale accords with the general notions of trade which the Right Hon. Gentleman proposes to hold? The Right Hon. Gentleman read the Speech from the Throne in 1825, which recommended to this House mea sures founded upon the principles of free trade, and he declared himself to have been one of the advisers of that speech. In the course of that year there was a comment upon that speech, not only by Mr. Huskisson but another great anthority, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer of that day, Mr. Robinson, who was very much attached at that time to the principles of free trade. He said, " The House, I am happy to say, has gone along with me in promoting this great object, and I trust that the country is by this time convinced of the good sense which dictates the policy of geAing rid both of positive prohibitions and prohibi tory duties. Much has already been done on this subject, but anuch remains to be done, and it is the intention of my Right Hon. Friend near me—(Mr. Huskisson)—to take an early opportunity of submitting to the House a plan for a moderate and reasonable reduction of the remaining prohibi tory duties, and thus to strike, as it were, from our recollec tion all those errors and prejudices which have so long restricted the industry of the world." Unhappily those prohibitory duties so far from being struck out from our recollection, are before us at this day.—( Hear, hear.) But that declaration of Lord Ripon was received with very great approbation in this House, and one Hon. Member (the Hon. Member for Wiltshire) de clared that these restrictions ought to be taken away; that there ought to be free trade in the world ; and that if there were free trade he was convinced the country would rise to a degree of prosperity which it had never before reached. Great changes had taken place since that period.—( Hear, hear.) it appeared that the Noble Lord to wham he had alluded was es pecially opposed to the doing away with prohibitoryiuties, whilst the lion. hart. had lately presided at a dinner at which he had strongly attacked the Ministers on the same ground.—(Hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that the prserit Corn law is founded upon that very recommendation. 1 think that law comes under the description which Lord Ripen then gave of prchibitory duties. During the years 1834, 1835, and 1836 the duty — was 47ii a quarter. - Now a duty of es. a quarter is nen her more nor less than a prohibitory duty. You may tell me it is right that there should be a prohibitory duty; that when corn is cheap it is right to have prohibitions. Yes, that may be, but do not tell me with one breath that you are going to do away with all prohibitory duties, and next impose a duty of 475. upon corn in the course of four years. It seems to me that. it is this prohibitory duty which destroys all regu lar commerce in corn. Speculators in corn are enabled, by fic titious sales, to lower the duty, and to raise the averages, as soon as they have entered, as in the present year 900,000 quarters, or, as in another year, one million of quarters at once. They th; n take an opposite course of pro ceeding ; they send bad and wet wheat into the market. By these means they raise the averages and lower the duties, and hating acted against the farmer in the first instance, they act against the consumer in the second. It is shown by the re 'turns made to the Board of Trade, that while the corn averages have been rising verp high at one time, and falling very low at another, the price, as between the farmer and his customer, did not vary to any perceptible degree. '1 her efore the result of this intricate and artificial scheme is clearly to promote job bing in the trade. I own that the evils of this system seem to me not to be corrected by any alteration in the averages, or by any new alteration in the sliding scale. It seems to me that we are proceeding upon a false system in endeavouring, by a false system, to defeat the natural ope rations of trade, and that we must abandon it altogether, and resort to a fixed duty, 'allowing persons who wish to deal in this article, to send their orders abroad, to bring it to this andcountry, and to dispose of it as they would dispose of any article of commerce. There are 900,000 quarters of corn in bond, which will be entered in the course of September. If a merchant were to send to America for corn, and it were to arrive after that period, the speculation would be ruinous He would be obliged to keep it mose than a year, and he must therefore be a great loser. Why, I say this is not only injurious to trade, but that it is evidently injurious to the great body of the people. Tell me if you will, that you wish to be independ ent of foreign supply. But that is at once shown to be an ab surdity, because in the last ten years you have been introducing, on an average, several millions of quarters a year, The notion of being independent of foreign supply is one which ought to be now obsolete. It is one which cannot be enter tained whether you have the prosent Corn-lags or any other Corn-laws which you may establish. [int you do not mean to ' be independent of foreign supply, end sf you say that a portion of your people must expect to subsist on foreigu corn, let them get that foreign corn at an equal and steady price. Let them not pay a larger addition of taxation than you profess to pay for it. With respect to a fixed duty, the Right Hon. Gentleman says, supposing you had a fixed duty, could you venture to keep it up when corn had risen to '2os. or 100 s. per quarter. I would say, that the remission of duty in that case would he advantageous to the merchant, ust as now the rise of Bs. or 9s. in the price is advantageous to the foreigner, and not to the consumer. That is my belief. At the same time, I would say, that if there was a real scarcity, you would not be able to preserve the duty at 18s. per quarter. But I think that the first answer to the Right Hon Gentleman is that which he himself suggested—that if you have a regular trade in corn, you would very seldom have any actual scarcity. That seems to me a priuciple which does not require argument, but which is almost self-evident, that in proportion as you restrict the price field from which your supplies are drawn, in that propor tion do you cause fluctuation in price. If you confine the supply of the people of this country to a single country, you wiil have a greater fluctuation than now, and, according to the same analogy, much greater fluctuation must occur in the present state of supply, than !if you allow corn to come in from Holland. Poland, America, &c. With the wealth and manu facturing industry of this country, with a people willing and anxious to exert themselves, I can scarcely believe you would incur any danger of scarcity. If that danger did occur you might then have a power in your Act of Parliament, which would not be a power dependent an averages, but giving the Queen ih Council the means of furnishing a cheap supply. If you say that the price of corn is to be 725. or 735. a quarter, you could then have a similar power to order that the corn be raised to the amount. That is a scheme that has been adopted with regard •„ to sugar, corn, and other commodities. I recol lect myself. for two or three years Mr. Huskisson produced a Bill, by which he proposed to have all corn in bond at a lower duty than Wa3 imported by the existing law, in order to pre vent scarcity. With regard to those averages, you may have corn for five years at 40s. per quarter, and the next five years at dos. per quarter, and you may state that the average price is 60s- ; but, with regard to the consumer, it is totally different. The raain object which I look to is net the additional cheapness of corn, but the additional trA ployment of the people. With respect to wages, it tins been said, if you change the Corn-laws wages will be lower. That is a complete fallacy. There would he such a demand for employment that wages would tic really higher and the men, which are now almost in a state of (testi ution, would then be able to get employment, and change the produce of their !:industry for the productions of other countries. With respect to the party opposite, there were various divisions among them. I have heard language, of the must contradic tory nature in this House, from Members of that party.-- ( Hear, hear, hear.) 'the Honourable Gentleman who moved the amendment, when addressing the electors o f the West Riding of Yorkshire said that his great object was to amend the Poor-laws. Confinement of the poor in the workhouses he held to be unnecessary. There is, in my opi nion, a total stiff , rence of language between the leaders and followers of that party on that subject. But, I say, Sir, that after all this, the Right Hon. Gentleman goes into the West Riding of Yorkshire, and raises a cry against Lord Morpeth, and on the cry has ejected the honest servant of the Crown—( Oh, oh)—and he now comes down to the House with a proposition containing not one word about that law, but only having for its object to put out of office the present Ministers, and to substitute for them a Noble Duke and the Right Hon. Member for Tamworth, who arc declared supporters of the Bill. It was by means of misrepresentation on that question, and fifty other misinterpretations against us, that a majority has been made up on the other side.—(Cheers.) We have carried a tithe law, by which the clergyman obtains a opt* income without the- unseemly contentions which he used to ba engaged. For ;my own part, I have los much of my popularity in consequence of the care with which we have regarded the interests of the Church. We have left to the Archbishop of Canterbury only the pen. pittance of 15,0001. a-year.— (Cheers and laughter.) We have reduced the Bishop of London to the wretched allowance of 10,000/. — (Great laughter)--and the paltry sum of 8,000/. alear was all that we could allow the Bishop of Durham. Ido not com plain of the course which has been taken in this House by the Right lion. Member for Tamworth, but I do complain that Gentlemen on the other side have had recourse to misrepre sentation and calumnies, which I never knew equalled.— (Loud cheers.) Sir HOBERT PEEL rose and made some observations across the table wlainh were not heard in the gallery. Lord JOHN RUSSELL—I think the Right Honour able Gentleman is more sensitive on this subject than he need be. (Cheers.) 1 must admit, however, that an absurd story respecting him has gone round the newspapers but I trust tl:at when t'ie Right. Hon. Hon. Gentleman and his party came into power there will be some cessation cit' those misrepresentations,' and that the Right 'Hon. Baronet will be able to say that I have been no more wronged than he has been. I believe, Sir, that whoever may be the Ministers this country must be prosperous arid grew, if you adopt large and liberal measures which sou have strength enough to en force. it is in our power to sustain the greatness of Engl.ind by your union, and to bless makind by your example.—( Re iterated cheering.p Strangers were then rrdered to withdraw, and the House di viced, when there appeared — For the amendment ... 360 For the Address Majority against Ministers —9l The announcement of the numbers was received with tre mendous cheering from the Opposition benches. The Addre ss as amended was then put and agreed to. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, a Committee consistia exclusively of Conservative Members was nominated to prepare the Address. 'MEETING OF THE HOUSE. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, he supposed the House would meet to morrowz He bad no motion to make on the subject, but he took it for granted the House would meet. It was ultimately arranged that the House shou'd n eet this day (Saturday) at Twelve o'Clock. On the motion of Mr. PIGOTT leave was given to bring in certain Dills relating to Public Works in Ireland, the introduc tion of which was rendered necessary by the Standing Orders. Some laughter was occasioned by Air Sergeant JACKSON refusintr to assent to introdueit.ts the Bill until he had seen it. The House adjourned at Half-past Three o'Clock.. MONEY and COM ✓iEtiCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. The Public Securities met a readier said to-day, and about A per cent. advance was obtained upon Consols, boll fur money and time. For immediate transfer they realized 894 to 891,, arid for October 892 to 89f,... Exchequer Bills have Stew dotaelopeistaillategt„.to 1:7 s. 7 pzotp,ond East India Bonds have improved to 4s. and 5 5. - prelif: — Bank" Stock likTbeen - dull at 168, and East India Stock at 247. The New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. have remained at 98% to 984, but the Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities have got up to 896 to 89%. Foreign Stocks, of which we have had so monotonous a tale to for some days past, were in more dem.ind to-day. The Active Spanish Bonds touched 20% 207, the Passives 5, but the Deferred were not higher than 10; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were at 29%; Mexican Stock continued at 28%; Chilli's was firm at 71, and Peruvian brought 16 to 164; Danish Bonds were at 79 to 794; French Three per Cents. were marked 77f. 75c. ; and Dutch New Fire per Cents. were rather flat at 984. Railway Shares were not very brisk, but they wore a firm appearance. The Great Westcra Old Shares were at 15%, the New at 5%, and the Fifths at 4% premium. The SoMb Western were at 14%, and the Gosport Junction at 1% to 2 premium. Brighton were to 5%, the Blackwall 9%, the Manchester and Leeds New 6, and Bristol and Exeter 28 discount. British North American Bank Shares were 6, and National Provincial Bank of England 1% discount. The Foreign Exchanges to-day were firm and buoyant. On the leading cities of the Continent the most current rates for 90 days' bills were these :—Paris 25f. 62%c. to 674 c., Am sterdam 12 44. Antwerp, 12 34. Hamburgh, 13. 94 to 10*. Frankfort 1494 4, and Trieste 9 59 to 52. The greatest im provement was on Germany and Italy. (From The Sun of Last Night. ) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 26.—The business done in the Cotton Market is to a very small extent, the sales do not amount to more than 2,500 bales, of which exporters have taken 200 bales American. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—The following are the transactions : —Grand Junction, 1001 ;- Great Western, New Shares, 551 ; 201. Shares, ditto, 71,- ,_ London and Birming ham, 15 , 3 ; Ditto, New Shares, 24 ; North Union, 78 ; Bank of Liverpool, 18i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 26.—Shares are still in considerable request, and an advance in price has been obtained on some of the heavier Stocks. The under mentioned are the transactions of the day.—London and Bir mingham, 1581 ex div. ; Ditto, New 321. Shares, 2.3/. 115.6 d.; Liverpool and Manchester, 195 ; M Bolton, Manchester, and Bury, 551 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 21 ; North Mid land, 651 ; Bank of Stockport, 3. Buenos Ayres papers to the 27th of June have been re ceived, which state that according to the late accounts from the interior the anticipation of a general engagement with the remains of the forces of Lavalle and La Madrid is not likely to be real.sed. As the divisions of General 0, obe advanced, the former dwindled away with increased rapidity, passing over to the ranks of the latter. Exchange on England was at 24. The number of merchant vessels in port on the 25th was 99. Both the English and Foreign Stock Markets opened firm this morning with a tendency to advance. Consols are now 89i / for Money, and 894 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89t1 ; Ditto Three-and-a-Half, 98 Spanish Active Stock has advanced to 20b I. Portuguese Five per Cents- ;29/ 30i ; Ditto Three per Cents., 174 18i. The English Stock Market continues firm. Consols are now 89i h for Money, and t-91- for the Account. Spanish Active Stock is tom at 20b Mexican, 26h ; Danish, 79h; Portuguese Five per Cents., 29i. There has been rather more business doing in Shares to-day, and the market is firmer. Great Westerns have advanced to 801, ; ditto New, 55h ; ditto Fifths, 8-1 ; Gosport Junction, 52; London and Brighton, 45h; ;South Western, 0. The Markets continue firrri;without alteration. The Corn Market still presents a flat appearance. and, as compared with Mondiy, pries are 2s. to 3s. lower for Wheat. The duty has fallen, however, this week, and must go down yet; sti 1 it reaches at least 6s 8 i., at which probably most of that in bond will be let out. The arrivals, in the face of much more favourable weather, continue large. Consols, Money, 894 ; O cto ber, 894 i; Colombian , 20?, ; Mexican, 26h ; Spanish, 20b A. Markets firm, with a decided tendency upwards. Money more plentiful, at a lower rate of interest than yesterday. _ CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bulk Stock l6B India Stock ...2.17 3 per Cent Red. B9i Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 896 Ditto Old Annuities ... 34 per Cent Red 99 iDitto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 9t.4 , 1- 'Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 17 pm New 5 per Cent , Ditto 5001 l7 pm Long Annuities toexpire I)itt Small l7 pm Jan. 18;0 .. 19 7 Bank Stock for Acct... -. Oct 1859 124 India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FO REIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent..., --.7Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — 'Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.......... !Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 'Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...... 71 !Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... !Spanish, 5 per cent 2OA Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred ... 10 Danish, 3 per cent. ' 791 !French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Creek, 1825, 5 per cent. 'Exchange —f. --c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 26A 'French, 3 per cent 77f. 75c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 21 per cent. ... Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. I Ditto, 5 per cent — SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) Ditto New Shares (7/ paid) ... 6i Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) ... ...... ... .. 32 Great Western Railway (65 paid) SO/ Ditto New Shares (50 paid ssi Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd) London and Brighton (50 paid) 44- T/ London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 15/ London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. Ditto New Shares (30 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam CF. 12 71:Gibraltar ~. ... ........... 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 9 'Genoa ~.... ........ ... 25 85 Antwerp l2 6/ Milan Hamburgh M B 13 13 (Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 50 Palermo, per oz 118/ Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 86 Rio Janeiro 27 Frankfort on Maine... 150 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37/ Buenos Ayres Berlin.... . Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 948 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 54 PRICES OF BULLION, PER. OZ, Madrid _ _— — .. . Cadiz Bilboa l3arcelona Seville Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 10i Silver in Bars 0 5 OA COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert en joyed a walk this morning on the Slopes and newly laid out grounds of the Park. Lord Melbourne took his departure from the Castle in the forenoons This afternoon her Majesty, attended by the Duchess of Sutherland and the Duchess of Bedford, left the Castle in a pony carriage and four, for a drive in the Park. His Royal Highness Prince Albert accompanied her Majesty on horseback, attended by Colonel Wylde. Equerry in Waiting. A second carriage and four followed her Majesty's carriage in the drive, containing the Lady Caro'ine Somers Cocks, Maid of Honour in Wait ing ; the Earl of Fingal], • Lord in Waiting ; and the Duke of Sutherland. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing in the afte. noon. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Prindess Augusta of Cambridge, and his Serene High ness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippthel, ho loured the regatta at Kew, on Thursday atteernoon with their presence. Prince Ernest retrained at Kew on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Comb , idge. The Committee on Education of her Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Council-office. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, and the first Commissioner of the Woods and Forests. Viscount Melbourne arrived in town yesterday afternoon from a visit to her Mak-sty at Windsor Castle. Mr. Mark Phillips and Mr. Ainsworth had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the home-office. The Earl of Glengall, Captain lions, M.P., Mr. March, and Mr. Pritchard had interviews with Lord John Russell yes terday at the Colonial-office. Mr. David Barclay had an interview with Vis co unt Mel bourne yesterday at his efficialresidence in Downing-street. Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, kad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street. The Lord Advocate and the Attorney-General had inter views with the Marquis of Normanby at the Home-office yes 7 terelay. Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were re ceived yesterday at the coluntal.otUee, LEVANT MAIL. . T UR r iE Y. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 7.—ln my letter of 23d June, I stated that it was the intention of the Porte to collect at , Con stantinople the militia of Roulnelia and Anatolia, for the pur pose of organizing them as an available force. Ido not know if the whole number inscribed for uniting at the capital will come If they do, we shall hive 92,192 men in addition to the troops of the line. Orders have been given to prepare for Tripoli or Barbary two regiments of infantry, 6,500; two regiments of cavalry, 1,200 ; and one regiment of artillery, 2,200 men, who are to be sent off as soon as possible. The expected change in the Ministry in England has ex cited sensation even here. The Turks have a very high opi • nion of Lord Palmerston, and almost adore Lord Ponsonby. Report says that Sir C. Begot is expected to be appointed to this embassy, and we have heard some true patriots rejoice that Lord Ponsonby may quit us, because they consider he has been here too long. Russia and Austria are not of this opi nion, and their diplomacy certainly does not suffer from the fact that their Ambassadors here grow old on a service on which they first entered in their youth. Turkey is so different from other countries, that it really requires years before the most astute can fully comprehend. A girl has died at Therapia of a disorder suspected to bs the plague, and Lord Ponsonby has put his palace in quarantine. (From the Alanzari Shark of the 7th. ) The Government steamer Peiki Sherket arrived here on the 29th ult., bringing the welcome intelligence of the termi nation of the Candian insurrection without further bloodshed. The rebels had accepted the amnesty offered to them by the Caudan Pacha, and had surrendered to his Excellency Aus tapha Pacha. Sonic of the must guilty had effected their escape by an outlet, perhaps designedly left open fur that pur pose, whilst the submission of the rest was unaccompanied by the slightest disorder. From the first the orte laboured to save and not to destroy the misguided perturbators of the public peace, and its success in this benevolent object will be a source of r'joicnig to every well-thinking man. By the submission of the insurgents, the Ottoman empire is restored to a state of tranquillity more complete than it has at any time enjoyed during the last two-and-twenty years. A measure of paramount importance has just been adopted. It. must long have been apparent to close observers that the grand clog upon the actiou of the Porte, which impeded its progress, and superinduced a semblance of weakness that in truth existed not, was the want of unity in the direction of affairs. In the latter part of the reign of the late Sultan, in particular, the Government became a complete oligarchy ; every high functionary being within his sphere an independent ruler, perfectly uncontrolled in the exercise of Ins office. He did just what he pleased, on a kind of understanding that he interfered not with the proceedings of his col leeesiie,. and the contusion that ensued was deplorable. This matter has for some time past been a subject of frequent and serious discussion, and we are most happy to be enabled to state that on Wednesday last the Sultan sent to the Porte a hatti-scheriff, addressed to the Grand Vizir, commanding him to take upon himself the control of affairs in general, at the same time ordering the other Ministers to consult him (the Vizir) on all transactions of importance appertaining to their respective departments, and to abide by his instructions. Thus the ruling power is, to a certain extent, collected and centered in one personage, who, by a proper exercise of wisdom, firm• tress, and justice, will undoubtedly be able to effect immense good. The Sultan frequently takes exercise. On Thursday he was up the Bosphorus ; on Friday, after going in state to the mosque at Defterdar Bournou, he paid a visit to his eldest sister, Salihe Sultan, the wife of Halil Pacha, and dined at her palace. Last week a circular was addressed to all the foreign mis• sions with regard to the sale by Franks of the wine anti spirits of the country, liable to duty and excise, which they (the franks) find the means of avoiding ; thus at once defrauding the revenue and inflicting injury on the rayah dealers. The shopkeepers here who have foreign protection may sell foreign wines and spirits without impediment, but they have no right to deal iu those of the country without conforming to the regulations under which Turkish subjects pursue this commerce. It will be difficult, hcia•t:er, to prevent their continuing the traffic, even with the best will on the part of the ambassadors, because there are hun dreds of Frank shops in Galata and Pera, and the police have not the right of searching them, or punishing offenders in any way. Sir John 111'Neill proceeded for Trebisond on the 26th ult., in the Polyphemus. Major Farrant, who arrived here a few days before to meet him, accompanied his Excellency. The second son of the late Sir Walter Scott, attached to the em bassy, was also of the party. Sir William Symonds went too, and after leaving Sir John M'Neill at Trebisond, he will repair to Odessa, there perform his quarantine, and subsequently visit the naval establishments of the Russian Government in the Black Sea. The Persian ambassador dined with Sir John on board the steamer on the day she set out. Colonel Barnett will shortly set sail for Egypt, whither he will be accompaaied by J. H. Drummond Hay, Esq. (an ac complish"d Arabic scholar) on behalf of the embassy here. On Friday las: Pera was thrown into a dreadful state of alarm by the news that a plague case had occurred at the con vent of Terra Santa, situate almost in its centre. Three Catholic priests lately arrived here from Beyrout—orie of them died in the quarantine, of a disorder supposed not to be plague : his companions, after the usual term of isolation, were admitted to pratique, and all was well ; but it appears that the quarantine guardians had neglected to purify the personal effects of the priests, and one of them was quickly seized by a malady which was pronounced to be pestilential. He was in the evening transported to I.eander's Tower, under proper care, and the severest sanitary precautions having been adopted at the convent of Terra Santa, the evil appears fortunately to have been nipped in the bud. We have, however, a foul bill to health for 15 days, and if nothing in the meantime happen of prolong it, there will be 15 days more of a suspected bill, after which, it is hoped, we shall once more be pure again. In the meanwhile, many travellers are stopped. This event has not in the slightest degree affected the personal comfort of resi dents, and social frequentation is as free and unreserved a/ever. An Armenian was last week taken up and lodged in prison for coining six piaster pieces. We had on Tuesday, in Fero., what has not been seen for many a day—viz., the execution of a culprit. An Armenian fireman, some time ago murdered one musician and wounded another, merely because they would not, at his order, leave off playing the clarionet in a tavern where he was drinking. He was a most violent character, and had killed several othrr persons at various times. After a proper trial, he was con demned to he beheaded at the door of the tavern where his last crime was committed. No professional headsman (Djellad) was to be found, and the execution was entrusted to a eavass, whose nerves so little fitted him for the task that the culprit was badly mangled before the operation was complete. This shows that such events are very rare here. Reports state that there has horn a great deal of fighting lately in Eavern Caucasus, between the Rus,ian army and the Cire:ssians under the celebrated Shatnil Boy, the chief of Daghestan, to whose forces were united those 'of Great Kabarda. The CircasAans here assert that their countrymen were completely victorious. Little Kabarda is now united with the Abazeks, and both have been unmolested this year. The `37th ult. was an oppressively hot day here. The ther mometer rote to 97 of Fahrenheit, and the wind which was from the S. W., was quite scorching. In the evening it fell calm, and lightning was playing about in el directions ; the air smelt as if it came from a heated charnel-house. About nine o'clock, without the slightest warning, a squall burst upon us like a clap of thunder, clouds of dust, stones, tiles, and the branches of trees, swept past with fearful rapidity, the houses were shaken to their foundations, and we had truly, to use an Eastern expression, " A sample of the last day." Most fortunately this took place at night, or the loss of human life would have been dreadful. The Magicienne and Polyphemus each lost an anchor, and the well known Seri Pervaz was, they say, damaged to the extent of near 6001. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Atm 6.—The Emmetjee packet schooner arrived from Beyrout on the 29th ult., but brought no news of much importance. The Powerful and Cambridge were there, makirrg the present force on the coast of Syria two ships of the line, cfrigate. a corvette, and two steamers. Discontent still prevailed in the mountains, and it was suspected a general out break, and a declaration of indeyendence, were prevented merely by the presence of the English s'tips of war. No respect whatever was paid to the Turkish authorities, who were entirely powerless amongst the mountaineers. The Rodney and Calcutta are still here; but, I understand, go to sea to-morrow, to cruise about for a few days, and will return about the 13th or 14th. Captain Maunsell has had several intervieWs with the Paeha during the short time he has been on the station, and, in fact, is now an old friend of his Highness, he having been here on several rather important oc casions. The Medea is still in port, and Colonel Napier still her • waiting instructions relative to the Syrians. The passengers by the Oriental arrived too late for the Suez steamer, owing entirely, it seems, to the badness of Hill and Co.'s transit horses for the desert. When they started front Cairo they were four hours a-head of the mail; but, from the inferiority of the horses, they were 36 hours in going 32 miles ; so of course the passengers are all complaining mast bitterly, as they have 117 alternative now but to wait for next steamer. The Nile continues to rise rapidly, and almost threatens an overflow like that of last. year. It has risen already 141 pikes, very little less than at the same time last year. Eight hundred artillery have been ordered from Cairo, and a new fortress has just. been commenced at that part of the Shouma called the catacombs. . _ There is •a report, but not yet fully confirmed, that an Eng lishman has just been found dead near the :liaison Carrie, on the banks of the canal, and partly devoured by dogs. The following may be relied on as a correct statement of the actual force of the Pacha at the hour I address you : IN AND ABOUT ALEXANDRIAS' Two regiments of guards men 6,400 One do. artillery do. 3,200 Irregulars (gunners) Sappers do. 1,000 Two regiments of national guards do. 6,000 DAMIETTA. One regiment infantry do. 1,800 ROSETTA. One regiment infantry do. 1,800 The amount of the whole army in Egypt is about -19 regiments infantry ... .. ...... ..men 50,000 Cavalry do. 8,000 Artillery do. 8,000 appers do. 4,500 National guards and irregulars do. 30,000 Total . 100,500 MALTA. LATEST NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Atm. 15.—Her Majesty's ship Thunderer, from Gibraltar, Commander Burridge, acting as captain until Captain Pring, appointed to her from the Inconstant, joins, arrived here on the 11 th inst. Shortly before her departure Captain Berkeley left for England to assume his Parliamentary duties, on which oc casion the officers gave him a sumptuous dinner, which was followed by a splendid ball in the evening to Lady Cluirlotte,at which upwards of :200 of the elite of the Rock were invited. In pa sing Algiers the Thunderer counted lying there twelve Prt nch sail-of-the.line, three of which were three-deckers, be sides ships-of-war of a smaller class and steamers. SM YRN A. THE GREAT FIRE. (From the Manzari Shark.) FURTHERPARTICULARS, AUG. 7.—On Friday last, Smyrna was again threatened by the breaking out of the fire in the scene of its first ravages, and for some time burnt furiously, destroying two or three large houses which had previously escaped the fate of others. Some French sailors of the Mei biade, and some Austrians left on the spot, succeeded in effec tually checking its further progress. It is a very pleasio ,, task for us to announce the heroic de votedness of Admiraeßandiera, and the officers and men com posing the division under his command, in assisting to save from destruction the remainder of our city. Our hop es , too, that a grateful public would demonstrate how far such con duct was appreciated, have been realised, for a letter addressed to the Admiral has been forwarded, a copy of which will be found below. His exertions since that time have not slackened, and many houseless beings are indebted to him for shelter ' • for he has ordered tents to be pitched for the accommodation of the per, in the place set apart in time of plague for person) compromised. Nor is the Admiral the only person whose generous feelings have been called into action on this distressing occasion. The nuns, or, as they are more aptly designated, the Sisters of Charity, have had a fine opportunity of proving what can be done where the disposition exists. Not only were they to be seen in the midst of the scene of desolation, bearing with them medicines to assist the faint, nourishment to succour the weary, and salves to allay the irritatin g pains of the wounded, but, since that period loads of bread have daily left their hos pitabie convent, and the aid of the pupils committed to their charge has been called in. although their holidays had com menced, to make up all sorts of clothinc , for the naked and forlorn men, women, and ehilaren, whose calls upon our sympathy are every where heard. This is, indeed, charity in all its pureness, and how can those devoted Christians be suffi ciently recompensed on earth? A Greek, during the lire, threw a quantity of goods into a deep well, and on descending to recover them a few days after, was killed by the foul air with which the well was filled. We have heard hundreds of anecdotes told of the Austrians, one of which we will here produce. A house was in flames, and no hope of saving . it existed, when a Turkish woman rushed out, and opening her breast, gave signs that her chid remained within. A sailor made his nay in, found the helpless infant, and returned it to its frantic mother. To his honour be it told, that when in her gratitude the mother poured the contents of her purse into her deliverer's hands, he pushed it indignantly away, saying, " My duty called upon me to save s our infant, and no pecuniary recompense is to be thought of." We hear with p:easure that the Admiral has received a visit on board from his Excellency the Governor of Smyrna, who was also charged to convey to him the warmest thanks of his Exc. lency said Pacha. The Armenians also sent a deputation on board for the same laudable purpose. The Officers of the Austrian division beg to announce that Fanshawe and Grey, of the British corvette Daphne, on leave of absence at Smyrna on the 29th ult., parti cipated in all the fatigue and dageis of that dreadful night.— Journal de Soil/rite. We were not aware that any English officers were present, the Daphne not being in the math ; and we feel pleasure in making known a fact which does so much honour to our own countrymen, and sill more to the generous Austrians so desi rousof making it public. The committee of charity still continue their benevolent ex ertions. It is c mposed of M. de Cramer, Treasurer; and Messrs. de Cadalvene Omer°, J. Langdon, J. Pincherle, Psika. N. Alexandrof, members; by whose exertions the sum of 120,000 piasters, or neatly, have been col:ected, or at least subscribed for. We trust that two gent'emen who have gone to Constanti nople to collect funds will be equally success ful, and we, our selves, are also empowered to receive any amount from the charitable public from abroad, and hope our appeal will not be unheeded. The application of the charity fund is as follows, and will convey a faint idea of the distress and misery which now reigns in Smyrna. At the Turkish barracks, which have been generowly thrown open to the sufferers, 1,600 loaves are daily distributed, and meat once a week, to its miserable occupants. Mr. Cohen, a missionary, distributes daily 630 loaves. At the Lazaretto St. Rock,- daily, 750 loaves, besides fruit, dives, anchovies, cheese, &c., are given. At the Lazaretto Greek, 300 loaves daily. Divers places, extending from the Caravan-bridge through out s he line of destruction, from 500 to 1,000 loaves. Parish of St. John, 200 to 303 loaves daily. The village of Sedicui, composed of poor villagers, has sent in to the Committee tour loads of flour, and some small sums of money collected among themselves. The collection made by the Franks, is, as we have said, about 120,000 p. Turkish currency. By Franks we mean persons of all sects, and the population may be reckoned at about ten thousand, of whis'h one-third is very poor, one third scarce able to support itself, and the remainder in cir cumstances of comfort and affluence. The meanest shopkeeper has, we feel proud in declaring, thrown in his mite to the relief of his suffering fellow creatures. As far as we have been ab!e to collect, the damage done is as follows; we cannot, however guarantee the statement as true : Turks' houses burst, 4,780 ; Jews', 1,794 ; Greeks', 273 ; Armenians', 17 ; Caravan Serais, 22 ; shops in the bazaar, 2,914; ditto elsewhere, 1,504 ; mosques, large, 10 ; ditto, small, 29 ; synagogues, 8 ; baths, 5 ; schools, public, 42 ; forming a total of buildings, 11,398; and if we allow one with another the value of each building to be 20,000 piasters (a sum moderate enough), we have a total of 227,960,000 piasters of the G. S., or upwards of 2,000,0001. sterling. LETTER. OF THANKS TO ADMIRAL BARON BANDIERA. " To Rear-Admiral Baron Ilandiera, commanding the division of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria in the Levant. " Admiral—Delivered from the dreadful scourge which has so heavily fallen upon this unfortunate city, our first duty is to express to you, in the name of the Frank population of Smyrna, the profound gratitude with which it is pen , trated, for the generous assistance you hive afforded, spite of every danger, under these deplorable circumstances. " Next to HEAVEN, Admiral, you and your division are the saviours of what remains of our city... Allow us then the li berty of begging you to become the interpreter of our senti ments of eternal gratitude to the commanders, officers, and crew of the frigate Venere, the corvette Leipsia, and the schooner Aurora. • " The remembrance of such honourable conduct, and such courageous devotedness will be perpetuated from age to age in the annals of our city, and our descendants will bless your name en learning that the Lalfof Smyrna was saved from the terrible fire of the 29th of July, IS4I, by the Austrian division under the orders of Admiral Bandiera. " Deign to accept, Admiral, the expression of admiration and respect of " Your very humble and obedient servants, [ Signed by several of the Consuls, the Treasurer and members of the Com mittee of Charity, and many of the principal inhabitants of Smyrna.] " Smyrna, 4th August, 1841." The Austrian steamer Crescent, which arrived on Wednes day evening from Constantinople, was placed in quarantine, owing to the case of plague, which we announce under our Constantinople intelligence. Independent of the magnificent donation of the Sultan, as announced above, we hear of 25,000 okes of flour having been forwarded by the Cretermt, and more is expected. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. FRANCE. PARIS, TilunsoAlt.—The Conseil d'Etat of Paris has decided in favour of the legality of the census. On his arrival at Caen, on the 23d, Monsieur Guizot became the object of a charivari from nearly 3,000 citizens of all classes. The tumult was so great, and the mob so violent, vociferating cries of " A has Guizot, a has 13 traitre de 1815, a has le Recensement, a has le complices du Demouricr," that it became necessary to call in the military. The mob dispersed and paraded the streets during a part of the evening, singing La Marsellaise. It is reported that M. Guizot, who had come to Caen to preside at the Council-General, had left the town. _ _ A ministerial explanation, says the Charivari, given as reported in the National, to M. Guizot, is consider ably exaggerated. This account states that the popular ebullition by the presence of a Deputy who had taken some part in the amusement and the public opposition was more directed against that measure than against M. Guizot. Paris Bourse.—Five per Cents., 116 f. 25c. ; Three per Cents., 77f, 20e.. Spanish Five per Cents. 218. SPAIN. Madr:d was perfectly quiet on the 13th, and by all account, such was the case throughout Spain. The Madrid Gazette publishes the new organization of the fiteros of Navarre as decreed by the COrtes. Madrid Bourse.-231 for case ; 24 60 days. GERMANY. According to a German paper, there will be no con ference held by the higher Powers on the affairs of Spain. The question of the Argau convents will, it is thought, be brought before the Swedish Diet early in October. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR. OWN CORRESTONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. AUGUST 21.—Janette schooner, Earl of Egremont, from th westward. 23.—Kestrel yawl, Commodore Earl of Yarborough, from Guernsey and Wc) mouth ; Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers Esq., from Cherbourg. 25.—Merlin schooner, William Lyon, Esq., from North Yarmouth and Portsmouth; Arrow cutter, Lord Godolphin, from Southampton. SAILINGS. AUGUST 19.—Ariel schooner, Almon Hill, Esq., for Guern sey ; Camilla schooner, Thomas Hallifax, jun., Esq , for Guern sey and western ports. 24.—Endora cutter, Richard W. Cooper, Esq., for Ply mouth and Ireland, 25.—Midge cutter, John Petre, Esq., for Portsmouth ; Aurora cutter, William B e ach, Esq., for Weym out h . YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. N H . awk. Schooners—Crusader, Brilliant, Gem, W Xarifa, Merlin, Norna, Janette, Bostellan, Flower of Yarrow. Yawls—Kestrel, Alarm, Wasp, Falcon, Breeze. Cutters—Ariel, Nautilus, Sparrowilawk. Lord of the Isles, Hebe, Petrel, Reindeer, Naiad, Forestily, Phebe, Arrow, Cyn thia, Talisman, Witch, Ariadne, Will-W-tlie-Wisp, Fanny. During the week many families have left, and as usual at this part of the season, the town is very thin of company, and the price of lodgings is reduced one-half. Sailing has g iven place to shooting, and the aptaroleli of the Ist of September draws the gentlemen from the yachts to their estates. The bathing season commences in Sep tember to enjoy w hich num bers of fresh visitors res or t to this Fort, ' and soon till up the houses which the sportsmen have quitted. The weather is beautifully fine, and the harvest getting in well. Bar 30.00. THE " TIM ES ,t 7,TEWSPAPE • R AND THE 1-N CON FERENCE. —We have on former occasions been obliged to expose the unprincipled misrepresentations of this notorious paper ; but th e contempt for truth arid disregard for decency which have ma r k e d i ts conduct , i n treating of the ministerial conference, ought reader who places a due value on hon est y and moralit y . The Times s ent arepo to banish it from the p resence of ever y reporter to the conference, who was courteously accommodated during the whole procee din g s. The first da y 's busines s was given in a brig and garbled shape. The fo'low ing day, under the head •of Manchester Conference, Lot one word of the speeches was. reported, the space being occupied with an account of the proceedings of some Socialists, and a copy of doggrel verses ! The solemn and interesting discussions of the two following days were wholly suppressed. Whilst the Times has excluded the speeches and business of the conference from its columns, it has devoted several pages to the daily vitupera tion of its pious and excellent members, in the vain endeavour to affix Thi s me its own native filth upon their persons, shirts, and coals ! resort to vulgar slander, in the destitution of sound argument, stamps the Times as the bully of the diur nal press. We hail its hAtility as the best tribute to the v• tue and respectability of the conference. To sit down to answer such an assailant 11 , 31.11 d be as derogatory as to enter the lists with a scavenger or chimney sweep.—The Anti-Bread tax Circular. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—It was mentioned to the Lord Mayor yesterday, that notwithstanding all the noise about Bartholomew Fair, application had been made to the Markets' Committee for no more ground than one booth will cover, and that that ground was to be occupied by Mr. Womb well's wild beasts. There will, therefore, be very little differ ence between what Smithfield was yesterday morning and what it will be after the proclamation of the fair. The Committee are said to be convinced, from the appearance of matters since the celebrated Report was published, that after the present year the fair will be, what is called by the frequenters of such places, , " no go." MORNING SUN FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUG. 2.3, 1841. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint Alfred Markes, Esq., one of her Alajesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Charnock, retired. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Aun. 27. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Thomas de Grenier de Fonblanque, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul. General in Servia. FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUGUST 25. Her Majesty has been pleased ta'appoint John Samo, Esq., to be her Majesty's Commissary Judge in the British and Brazilian Court of Mixed Commission established at Rio de Janeiro, under the Convention concluded at Rio de Janeiro, on the •23d November 1826, betwoen Great Britain and Brazil for the abolition of the slave. trade. FOREIGN OFFICE, AUGUST 25. Hor Majesty has been pleased to appoint Sir George Jack son to be her Majesty's Judge in the firiti,h and Netherlands Mixed Court of Justice established at Surinam, under the Treaty conduied at the Hague, on the 4th May, 1818, be tw•een Great Britain and the Netherlands for the 'prevention of the slave-trade. DOWNING-STREET, Aun. 27. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., K. C. 8., and Lieutenant-General Sir Lionel Smith, Bart., K. C. 8., Governor of the Alauritius, to be Knights Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Vac Bath. DOWNING-STREET, AUGUST 26. The Qucea hay been pleased to appoint Captain George Pontett Cameron, of the 40th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry, Lieutenant-Colonel in Persia, to be a Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. DOWNING-STREET,AusT 27. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John Mantel!, Esq., to be Qaeen's Advocate and Police Magistrate for her Majesty's settlements on the Gambia. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint James Fitz gibbon, Esq., to be Clerk of the Legislative Council of tho Province of Canada. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Joseph Cary, Esq., to be Deputy-Inspector •General of Public Accounts in the Province of Canada. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint John Davidson, Esq., to be Commissioner of Cruwn Lauds in the Province of Canada. The Queen has also been 'leased to appoint Hamilton H. Killaly, Esq., to be President of th?. 'bard of Works in the Province of Canada. The Queen has also been p - cased to appoint R. B. Sullivan, Esq. to be PnOdent of the Committee of the Executive Council in the Province of Canada. . _ The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Thomas Parke, Esq., to be Surveyor-General of the Province of Canada. The Queen has also teen pleased to appoint R. A. Tucker, Esq., to be liegistrar of the Province of Lauada. I he Queen has also been pleased to appoint Francis Jackson, Esq., to be Provost Marshal General of the Island of Grenada and its 'dependencies. WAR-OFFICE, AuG. 27. 21 Regiment of Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon J. Wedder burn, from the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Monro, who exchanges, Aug. 27. 13th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Lieut.E. R. Read to be Captain, by purchase, vice Byng, who retires; Cornet C. Deacon, to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Read, Aug. :17 ; Ensign W. Greenhorn, from 33d Foot, to be „Cornet, by pur chase, vice Deacon, Aug. 28. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Assistant-Surgeon .1.:llonro, M.D.. from the 2d Dragoons, to be Assistant-Sur geon, vice Wedderburn, who exchanges, Aug. 27. Ist Regiment of Foot—J. Wasp, tient., to be Ensign, with out purchase, vice Turner, whose appointment has been can celled, Aug. 27. _ _ 3d Foot - --Ensign F. F. Maude to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Daniel, who retires ; R. W. Woods, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Maude, Aug. 27. 33d Foot—Major J. M. Harty to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Knight, deceased; itrevet Major G. Whannell to be Major, vice Harty, July 22; Lieutenant T. J. Smith, to be Captain, vice Whannell ; Ensign R. G. Wale to be Lieutenant, vice Smith; Sergeant-Major W. Greenham, from the 13th Light Dragoons, to be Ensign, vice Wale, Aug. 27. 37th Foot—Brevet Colonel Win. Balvaird, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice W. Smelt, who exchanges ; Major J. Bradshaw to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice lialvaird, who retires ; Captain G. W. Franck lyn to be Major, by purchase, vice Bradshaw, Aug. 27; Lieutenant J. Grignou to be Captain, by purchase, vice Francklyn ; Ensign H. J. Curtis to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Grignon ; G. A. J. M'Clintock, Gent., to be Ea sign, by purchase, vice Curteis, Aug. 27. 40th Foot.—Lieut. J. Watson, from half-pay 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Miller, provnoted ; Ensign E. H. Eagar to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Watson ' who retires; J. Comick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase ; Assistant-Surgeon J. H. Brummell, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, rice Hadley, appointed to the Ride Brigade, Aug. 27. 54th Foot—Lieut. B. Moffat to be Captain, by purchase, tine Parr, who retires, Aug. 27; Lieut. E. Peel, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieut. , vice U. Boyd, who exchanges, Aug. 26. Ensign J. A. Skurray to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Moffat; F. Fane, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Skurray, Aug. 27, 1841. 60th Foot—Second Lieutenant the Honourable Augustus Charles L. Fitzroy to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Levett, who retires ; W. P. Salmon, • Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzroy, August 27. 68th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon D. Lucas, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Suageon vice Leslie, who exchanges, August 27. 62d Foot—Lieut. J. Mockler, from the 57th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Samuel Holdsworth, who has retired upon half-pay, Aug. '27. 93d Foot—Captain R. W. Shinkwin, from half-pay 31st Foot, to be Captain, vice T. Williamson, who exchanges ; Lieut. Lord C. G.. Russell to be Captain by purchase, vice Shinkwin, who retires ; Ensign T. M. Crawturd to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Lord C. G. Russell ; A. A. Duncan, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Crawfurd, Aug. 27. Rifle Brigade—Lieut.- Col. B. J. Smith, from half-pay un attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice J. C. Hope, who ex changes ; Major G. Buller to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by pur chase, vice Smith, who retires ; Capt. W. Sullivan to be Ma jor, by purchase, vice Buller ; I.ieut. W. H. Bradford to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sullivan ; Second Lieutenant Sir T. Munro, Bart. tobe First Lieutenant; by purchase, vice Brad ford ; A. Lautour, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by FlT chase, vice Sir 'l'. Munro. August 27 . .11.)iral Canadian Regiment-:Assistant Surgeon Alexander M‘Gligor from the 32d Regiment, no be Assistant-Surgeon; Assistant-Surgeon James Millar, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Aug. 27. HosrvrAt STAFF.—to be Assistant •Surgeans to the Forces —Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Leslie, from the 68th Foot, vice Lucas, who exchanges; R. J. Cole, M.D., vice Millar, appointed to the Royal Canadian Regiment ; R. De Lisle, Gent., vice Brummell, appointed to the 40th Foot, Aug. 27. MEMORANDUM.—The name of the Lieutenant removed from the 16th to the 50th Regiment, on the 18th June, 1841, is O'Alnlony, and not O'Maloney, as previously stated. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire. Queen's Own Royal Yeomanry—Joseph Roberts, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Fleetwood, resigned, Aug. 21. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JAMES BONNER and CHARLES GIBBONS, furni ture brokers, Thome, Oxfordshire (as far as regards Charles Gibbons only.) BANKRUPTS. GEORGE MUIRHEAD, tailor, Oxford-street, to surren der, Sept. 3, at one, and Oct. 8, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official auignce; Huson, Old Jewry. THOMAS BURGON, merchant, Walbrook-buildings, City, Sept. 6, at eleven, and Oct. 8, at half. past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Kirkman, King William-street, City. ELLIS JOHN TROUGHTON, merchant, St. Michael's alley, Cornhill, Sept. 23, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 8, at one, at the ',curt of Bankruptcy. Carman, Finsbury-square, official assignee ; Freshfields, New Bank-buildings. JAMES LEWIS WILhON and WILLIAM ALLEN TURNER, warehousemen, Wood-street, Cheapside, Sept. 3, at two, and Oct. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, Finsbury-square, official assignee ; Reed and Shaw. Friday-street, Cheapside ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, joiner, King s t on - u pon-Hull, Sept. 10 and Oct. 8, at ten, at the George Inn, Kingston upon-Hull. Rosser and Son, Warwiek-court, Gray's Inn, London ; England and Shackles, Hull. HENRY THOMPSON, corn miller, near Driffield, York shire, Sept. 8, at half-past ten, and Oct. 8, at one, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Acilingt°", Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Taylor and t Westmorland,estrland, Wakefield. JOSEPH BAYNTON WILLIA 3 I S, ironmon g er, Bristol, Sept.ol . end Hicks Bartlett t o r, „ m b e u r i c i C o mmercial-rooms, .- a r s o , o ms, Holborn, Bris O lu c ld t. B B, ra a i t k tz r e i l d v ;z e e , at ,li t London ; Wellington, Bristol. at l a Lucasown-ha Oxford. Sept. 17 and Oct. 8, at one, a I Load n JAMES MOKRIS JUBBER, wine , merchant , , Oxford, Turner and Hensman, /lasing- ane, o ; Looker s ,Oxford WILLIAM INGHAM LAW, chemist, Manchester, Sept. Johnston, and Mayhew, Sept. 4 and Oct. chester. Mayhew , Headl N 16 and Oct. 8, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man chester. MORRIS, draper, Tredrgar, Mon- DAVID WIL en, at the hing snn, ort. 4 and Oct. 8, at the King's tread Inn, New port.S 1 B borough and oung, )se- ane, uc • er , hin y, Lon o and 'Tow good, Newport, Monmouthshire. Prot er Lon don; DIVIDENDS. Brnoautthelsehvi Sept. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Bwinghall-street. J. Andrews, school master, llarden Ash, Essex, Sept. 17, at eleven—NV. and T. Day, oilmen, Gracechurch-street, Sept. Is, at t,%0. In the Country. T. Vinor, jtin., coach builder Sheffield, Sept. 24, at o ne , at the Town-hall, Sheffield — W. Rodgers. licensed victualler, Sheffield, Sept. 23, at one, at the Town-hall, Shef f ield—C. Drury, timber merchant, Sheffield, Sept. 22, at otte, at the Town-hall, Sheffield—T. Trafford, innkeeper, Halton. Lin colnshire, Sept. 17, at one, at the White Lion Hotel, Clam ford Briggs—G. Wootton, coal dealer, Redbourne, Lincoln shire, Sept. 17, at two, at the Lion Hotel, Glamford Bt iggs J. Hicklin, printer, Nottingham, Sept. 24, at twelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—J. Nicholson, brewer, ' Cheltenham, Oct. 5, at four, at the [loyal Hotel, Cheltenham —C. Taprell, grocer, Bristol, Sept. 21, at twelve, at the Com mercial-rooms, Bristol—J. Shaw, land surveyor, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Sept. 20, at one, at the Sessions-house, Wakefield. CERTIFICATES— 17 • J. Scowcroft, scrivener, Haverfordwest-:W. Key, linen draper, Bread-street, Cheapside—J. Stainthorpe, common brewer, Hexham, Northumberland—T. Hebblewhite, wine merchant, Liverpool—J. Chettle, linen draper, Warminster, Wiltshire—J. I3eardsworth, timber merchant, Wrexham, Den bighshire—E. and J. F. Bennett, wine merchants, Canterbury —.W. W. Crowder, woolstapler, Birmingham. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. and G. J. Mo:ant, house decorators, New Bond-street— L. Hevworth, y J. Crabtreet, R. Ak e d, A. C ra b tree , E . F enton, 0. G. Adamson, and J. Elliott, merchants, Liverpool—G. Burrow, T. H. Higgin, and R. Farrer, cotton spinners, Lan casters—G. Burrow and T. H. Higgin, cotton spinners, Lan caster—J. Chapman, S. Targett, and E. R. Hall, linen drapers, Reading, Berkshire—J. Chapman and E. R. Hall, Ltus n drapers, Reading, Berkshire—E. and E. Heely, coal dealers, Birmingham—T. Robii.son and R. Woodgate, pawnbrokers, Somerstown —J. Tomlinson and J. R. Bennett, lace ware hou3emen, Wood -street, Cheapsicle—M. and G. Catlin, stable keepers, Blackman -street, Southwark—ll. Bidwell and H. Keymer, wholesale drapers, Norwich—W. Walton and W. Brown, ego. merchants, Islington—R. Hart and J. F. Acey, corn merchants, Preston, Yorkshire—W. ill. Wilkinson,, J. Wilkinson, and W. Davies, general merchants. Manchester (so far as reffards .f. Wiikinson)—C. and S. Bucknill, surgeons, Warwiekthire —W. Fox, T. P. Hawkins, and C. Hickling, wire drawers, Birmingham (so far as regards W. F ox ) —C. Smith and B. Peers, ship builders, Liverpool —rs A. Kendall and G. J. Young, patent windlass manufacturers, R o stock-street, Old Gravel-lane—T. E. Wells, W. Bradshaw, and J. Platts, manufacturers of joiners' tools, Sheffield ( so f ar as regards J. Platts)—J. Fryer, E. Andrews, W. R. Fryer, and F. W. Fryer, bankers, Wimborne Minster, Dorsetsbire—R. 11, Barton and T. W, Atkinson ? swims, Ulverston, LOW.