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SPIRIT. of the PUBLIC JOURNALS , FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF TUESDAY. CHRONICIZ—The business of Parliament com mences to-day ; but whatever interest is directed towards its proceedings rather bears the character of mere curiosity than that of a sense of the importance of its probable decisions, or a disposition to abide by them practically or permanently. 'People are on the look-out to see how 'Sir Robert Peel will wriggle out of the diffi culties of his position, or to mark the conduct of diffe rent sections 'of the heterogeneous majority in the use of its newly-acquired preponderance. For such curiosity there is indeed abundant stimulus. The elections have conferred ascendancy upon a single class of Members —there for the English counties ; the great question at issue being one in which their interests are presumed to be in collision with those of the rest of the community. The majority Of Scotch Members, of Irish Members, and of the representatives of English boroughs, are, together with her Majesty's Government, opposed to the continuance of the Corn monopoly. The English county Members, leagued with the several minorities of those sections of the representation, overpower them all. They are the ruling power ; and the public waits to see 'now they will use their preponderance. It behoves them to coraiaer well their position. The mastery they have acquired should, of itself, make them pause before they affirm the perpetuity of monopoly, and " shut the gates of moray on mankind." They are judges in their own cause. There is no tribunal to which they and their opponents make their pleas. Their advocacy is to them selves. Their will may supersede reason. The question whether law shall keep up rents at the Cost of the labourer's diminished loaf, is in their hands ; and they are the rent-receiving class. Nothing hinders their adjudicating in their own favour. They can un questionably, with all constitutional forms, award them selves the profits which must be wrung from the toil and the privations of millions. On this matter they are law and sovereignty. The nation waits and watches ; the world looks on ; that is all. Parliamentary resistance is at their feet ; the spoil is before them ; what will it do, this landlords' House of Commons ? Corn-laws are the landlords' interest ; but the full means of legally se curing it may, perhaps, induce some reflection upon the sort of interest thus constituted. Human interests are of various sorts, from the simple transfer of coin from one pouch into another, up to that interest which exists in the kindly and approving hearts of our fellow creatures, only to be attained by the semblance of moral justice, or that yet higher approval which is only to be se cured by its reality. The landlords' interest in the corn rnoaopoly is not that humane interest which consults the rights of all who toil, by promoting such interchange of • th e, products of their labour as must needs benefit the in dustrious every where. It is not the patriotic interest which binds itself up with the prosperity of an entire nation, and opposes no class objects to the well being of the whole. Nor is it an equal class interest as to agriculture. It keeps the farmer in a state of degrading dependence and demoralizing uncertainty ; the labourer in one of semi-starvation. Even the permanent value of land is injured by the monopoly. The measure of that value is only to be found in the prosperity of manu facture. Acres of houses are worth more than acres of wheat, and they enhance the worth of all acres near there And what acres are not, or will not soon, by more rapid means of communltation, be brought near them ? The landlord's interest in the monopoly is only the lowest, dirtiest, most evanescent interest of his class; taking that class as distinguished, not only from the com mercial classes, but from the rest of the agricultural. TIMES.—A meeting of the principal leaders of the Conservative party was held on Sunday, at which the course to be pursued on the opening of this first Session of the new Parliament, and the communication on the lent of the Crown, was discussed and settled. The re sult of this conference is, we understand, that an amend ment to the Address will be moved in both Houses—in the Lords by the Earl of Ripon. and in the Commons by Mr. Wortley, seconded by Lord Bruce. " Now, mark Low a plain tale will (in both cases) put the Addresses down." Want of confidence—want of confidence is a sufficient answer. How long a Government can go on —whatever projects they may conceive, or whatever proposals they may have to make—without the con fidence of either Peers r Commons, it is not difficult to Conjecture. Each House will express its opinion ; and her Majesty, with the true constitutional principles which have ever belonged to the Sovereigns of her fa mily, will turn to her people and listen to their voice, expressed from the only legitimate organs, her two limes of Parliament. According to the plan laid down in what may be.called Lord John Russell's programme, Ministers will go out ; and this first event of a con stitutional change in this great country will probably take place before the end of the week. Sir Robert Peel has had time to arrange his plans, and to fix upon his persons. The great Duke—whatever may be his own situation, is comparatively of little im port—will diffuse the lustre of his name over the whole body. Lord Aberdeen, it is understood, will resume the station fhr which •he is alike qualified by natural talents and preceding experience—namely, that of Foreign Se- , cretary. Lord Stanley goes to the Colonialoffice in the place of Lord J. Russell. Lord Lyndhurst will of course take the Great Seal. The other offices, without . difficulty, find possessors fitted for the discharge of their functions, into the detail of which, if we should .enter, we might, perhaps commit some trivial errors. It is not expected that Ministers can or will at tempt to make any resistance. They have, in- I deed, themselves pointed out the course they mean to adopt—they will go out. Lord John Russell has stated, ' that their duties will then be, to watch the proceedings of their successors, and prevent them from doing 'ins c.!hief,•or committing' extravagance. If he and his col leag”.ca had not been so watched and guarded themselves and * prevented from committing mischief, perplexing and unliaeny as the state of the country is, it would have been much worse. We do not object to an opposition, belied upon good old constitutional principles, watching the proceedings of the men in power. Perhaps we owe some of the worst laws on our statute-books to the ae aordance of those parties. HERALI).—Few questions are more frequently put ; just now by party quidnuncs, than, " What will Lord Brougham do during the Session about to open ?" " Heaven knows," is the almost universal reply ; " but there will he some fun now that he will be again in the House of Lords." This answer discloses a truth, which is worthy of the serious consideration of Lord Brougham. However much his Lordship's studied eloquence may be admired ; however much a " mute Senate" may atten tively and even sympathetically listen to his fierce invectives, his coarse and excruciating irony, and his elaborate and ingenious special pleading ; how ever much new friends may flatter, and old friends denounce his Lordship, yet is Lord Brougham devoid of moral influence in the country. In ntellect;:al powers, in information, and in high designs Lord Brougham is as far superior to any of his Former contemporary labourers in Whiggery, as the noon-day sun is in brightness to a farthing rushlieht. _Lord Brougham has undoubtedly, in his past career, done much harm ; during the greater portion of his life he has given up to " party what was meant for mankind ;" but he is a man of genius, and to such men redemption for the past can always be achieved. For upwards of a quarter of a century Lord Brougham " Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought" in the ranks of Whiggery ; he alone preserved the Whiffs, discomfited and in dismay, together as a political body; lie ultimately secured for his party place aid power, for himself rank and pension; but, even when their hold of office seen:ed strongest—when to all appearance the desti nies of the country were in their hands for the next twenty y e ars, Lord'Brougham renounced his party, withdrew him self from the - friendship of his early associates, disclaimed all participation in their views, ridiculed their ability, held up to scorn their motives, and opposed with all his might their measures. In thus acting we willingly accord to Lord Brougham political honesty and personal integrity. Di sa ppointed his Lordship may have been at the treatment he met with from his former colleagues :tad ungrateful associates ; but he was more disgusted by their genetal conduct , than b y their meanness towards haneelf. 'He did not rush into the arms of the opposi tion ; rejoicing in his release from his former party, h e 'quietly surveyed for a time those whom he had so long and s(3 bitterly oppOsed ;' he became slow l y aware that lie had, while in the bonds of faction and under the in fluence of those who admit of no merit beyond their own narrow circle, underrated the pure and lofty pur poses, the patriotic ambition,. the stern integrity, and the matchless good sense of the foremost man of his age—the Duke of Wellington. At the Cinque Ports' fes tival Lord Brougham nobly and eloquently recanted his ;past errors, and his subsequent conduct has demon mtrated that he now understands and appreciates the ex cellence and greatness of the most modest and most able of British statesmen. For this political regeneration we believe Lord Brougham to be much indebted to the friendship of a Peer who thoroughly knows, and now heartily despises, Lord Melbourne and his colleagues — we moan the venerable Marquis Wellesley. Both these noble persons—Lord Wellesley, from his extreme age, necessarily, so far is e the public is concerned, in silence —have for some yeara, beheld in their former political associates,— " An impious crew Of men conspiring to uphold their state, By worse than hostile deeds, violating the ends For which our country is a name so dear ;" both now rejoice at the approaching downfall o 7 tl e Whig-lZadical Administration. POST.—The journals of the beaten Ministerial party anaeunce, cvith their accustomed accuracy, that there are such. divisions in the Conservative ranks as must prove to the Conservative leader the impossibility that he should cal ry on the Government. This information, upon which the Whig-Eledicals appear to pride themselves not a little, is uo doubt derived from the very same source which enabled that careful and veracious journal the Giu:;;T to assure its numerous readers, on the 25th June, •.he general election, then just about co commence, would give an excellent working majority to Lord John L jnsseli ; that the Conservative majority in the H ouse of Loris would then " eat their leek " in calm arisyscratie dudgeon, while Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley would quietly take their seats as Opposi tion I,)fah.-rs. in the house of Commons, well pleased to be relieved from the importunities of those who had fancied them strong enough in the country to take office. The minuteness of this information made it, no doubt, very interesting at the time ; and it was, indeed, everything that could be wished, except for this trifling circumstance, that it happened to be altogether a mis take. The same admirable organ of Whig-Radical truth announced at the same time, that the citizens of London would within a very few days record their opinion of the :benefit; wl i h Whig-Radical policy held out to the corn 3nercial world, by rejecting every one of the Conserva tive candidates who so absurdly aspired to represent the itycn in P ar li ament, and by triumphantly return- Lord John Russell at the head of the poll. This too, was extrem e ly i n t erest i ng ; b ut, un luckily, like tho, e general in formation tobe as to the elec tion results it turned ou t ti k i4te a mis take. . The a w oe 'Whig-Radicals did not g et mg majority nor any liylo7tNl'NG SUN majority at all, but were very signally defeated, and the majority was all the other way. The Conservative candi dates were not all rejected in London, but on the con trary they gained two seats formerly held by Whig- Radicals, and were witbin ten vows of gaining a third, Lord John Russell was not returned at the head of the poll, but at the tail, and the first place was gained by a Conservative. Encouraged by this success in prophecy, and priding itself (for the reasons above-stated) in the accliracy of its information,.the Whig-Radical press now acquaints the public with the divisions which exist in the Conservative ranks, and the total impossibility (owing to these`divisions) that Sir Robert Peel should be able to carry on the' Government. We have no doubt that the prophecies of the Whig Journals as to the impossibilities of Sir R. Peel's Government will be confirmed by the event, in quite as marked a manner as their election prophecies have been. ADVERTISER.—" To, facilitate the operations of trade, and to provide for the necessities of the public ser vice in the manner least burdensome to the community," says the Times, "are objects which recommend them selves so plainly to the ordinary sense of mankind, that no Minister, however stupid, could avoid appreciating them, or however dishonest, could have any motive for disre garding them." This proposition seems to be so self evident, that no one could attempt to dispute it; and yet the whole and every part of our fiscal system is in utter contradiction to it. To facilitate the operations of trade, taxes have been levied upon every commodity re quired for manufacturing purposes ; to provide for the necessities of the public service in a manner least burdensome to the community, a system of taxation has been adopted which falls with a crushing weight upon the great mass of the people, and requires a most complicated and costly machinery to carry it out ! The proposed revision of the duties upon corn, sugar, and timber, has once more turned public attention to this subject ; but much as the mischievous incidence of these and other duties may . have been talked about, and loudly as the aristocratic spirit of the whole of our fiscal system may have been condemned, there is scarcely one person in a thousand who has a just conception of their real character and tendency. There are few, indeed, who have any notion of the real amount of thel taxes levied upon the British public. " Of the fifty nalions of taxes imposed upon the British public," says a Manchester Contemporary, " at least forty millions are paid by the poor ; ' as though the sum of fifty millions—enormous as it is—were to be deemed a fair representation of the amount of taxes levied in the United Kingdom. The last published finance accounts give the net receipt, within the year ending the sth of January, 1841, at 51,693,510/. 7s. 91d. But it must not be imagined that these figures represent the gross amount of British taxation. They represent scarcely one-half of it, as the following summary will show : Net income, as per finance account £51,693,510 Poor rates, county rates, highway rates, - - church rates - 7,542,703 Revenues of the Churches of England, Ire land, and Scotland 11,500,000 Total amount of taxes £70,736,213 But to these must be added the artificial price of com modities. occasioned by the Corn-laws, and other du ties levied, not to raise a public revenue, but to favour certain classes of society. The following may be taken, upon the authority of the beat judges, as a fair re]re • sentation of the cost of the monopolies of the United Kingdom, as paid for out of the pockets of the people : Wheat and other corn Other articles of food 5,000,000 Colonial products Bank of England Total cost of monopolies £42,000,000 Making the grand total of direct and indirect taxes, 112,736.213/. This is as near an approximation to the truth as the data within reach will enable us to come at. That it is not an exaggerated view of the subject, in any ' single item, we are prepared to demonstrate ; and not less so, that enormous as is the sum thus annually taken out of the pockets of the public, for the service of the State, and the aggrandisement of particular interests, there is a sum, almost equal to it in amount, lost to the public by the process through which our present taxes are levied. The evils of the whole system are, in fact, almost incredible. Had it been devised for the express purpose of working injury to the public, it could not have been more skilfully framed to answer that pur pose. It is complicated, costly, and detrimental to the best interests of commerce ; it presses with a crushing weight upon the poor, without exempting the rich ; and it exposes the Government to obloquy and reproach, without adequately providing for the exigencies of the country. We purpose, as occasion offers, to exhibit and illustrate these propositions. Whoever may be intrusted with the administration of public affairs will find this to be a topic with which he must very speedily grapple, and it will be as well to familiarise the public with some of its details, that they may be the better prepared to pass judgment upon any reform proposed for its amendment. GLOBE.—The ceremonial of opening the New Parlia ment this day, to which public expectation has been directed with an intensity unequalled since the assembling of the first Parliament under the Reform Bill, was unac companied by the presence of the Sovereign. The Speech delivered by the Lords Commissioners is, however, emphatically the Queen's Speech. It contains (so far as the forms of the Constitution will allow them to be conveyed to Parliament in such a document) the senti ments of the Sovereign on the important questions which constitute the points of disagreement between the mono polists and the masses—between the Tories and the Go vernment. The former, as the price of their pledged adhesion to the monopolists, have been borne to the threshhold of office on their shoulders. The Govern ment, which is about to relinquish office, because unable, against the combined influences of the class interests, to carry out its measures for the relief of the masses from the accumulated evils of monopoly, retires possessed of the unabated confidence of the Sovereign. The Queen has invariable identified herself with her people— and never more so than now, when accumulated suf fering presses upon thousands of her poorer subjects— when the branches of industry on which they depend for subsistence are withered by the blighting influence of an " insane and selfish policy," which, under pretence of " protecting" one class, plunders the great body of the nation. If there were cot found sufficient reasons in the present delicate and interesting condition of the Queen for her Majesty's absence from the opening of Parliament, it would be 'by no means difficult to suggest others, the probability of which would give them the semblance of truth. Her Majesty might well, even in the best possible health, and if not in a condition which would render strong emotions peri lous—under any circumstances, her Majesty would be desirous of avoiding the pain of knowing that measures which are essential to the prosperity of the empire, and which are, therefore, pressed on the consideration of Par liament as matters of the highest concern to the people, and, therefore, of paramount interest to the Sovereign. and as such recommended by her to the earnest con sideration of Parliament—that those measures have been condemned by a majority of the representatives of the na tion at the hustings—that pledges to prevent such mea sures becoming law, so far as their votes against them in the Commons' House could prevent their enactment, were the conditions on which they obtained the support of the class-interests, by whose combined influences they were sent -thither—that, consequently, the intro duction of those important topics in the Royal Speech would prove abortive for any practical relief to the country. Such an allusion to the distresses of the people, their causes, and the means of removing them, could only be of value, as it would enable her Ma jesty's Ministers to obtain a discussion of such measures; and also set before the country the interesting and instructive fact, that the Queen's heart is not with her people ; and that, if their sufferings are not relieved, it is because the combined influence of the monopolists, which have made common cause with the Tories for the preservation of their Mammon interests, have proved too strong for the Queen and the people,—that the former must, therefore, submit to have a Ministry forced upon her, in which she can have no confidence , and the in terests of the latter must, for a time, at least, be postponed. _ . STANDARD.—The Queen's Message will be de livered to-day. At the time of writing we are neces sarily ignorant of its details ; and as the document itself will probably be in our readers' hands in company with our remarks, it must be rash and idle to attempt to anti cipate these details. One essential and very striking difference must, however, distinguish this Address from all openinc, sessional addresses th a t h ave been delivered since the Revolution. This difference pa rt at least, th the Crown reproachful.to the Such Parliament results from the anoma l ous p o: i t i on o f t h e Mi n i stry. Th e Address must b e apologet i cal, argumentat i ve, and, in a declaration the o peoplef hosti lities is without prec e d ent in any age of British liberty, and it i 3 directly opposed to the fundamental principles of the British Constitution ; but it is the un avoidable consequence of the crime of Ministers, in retaining office in defiance of a vote of Parliament, and presuming to meet a notoriously adverse Parlia ment still in the capacity of Ministers. According to constitutional usage, the Royal Address is confined to a succinct report of the state of the nation in its fo reign and domest ic relatio ns , and to an e x p os i t i on o f t h e measures to be supported by the aut h or i ty of the w hich Ministers design afterw ar d s to propose, as measures Go vernment ; but a Ministry that appears upon the stage only to withdraw f rom it cannot deliv er such a message.A Ministry so c ircumstanced can on l y compromise the honour a nddignityofthe Crown by a ll uding at all to a future over which it has no control, or prosp ect of con trol. This is a more serious matter than may at first sight appear. It is very true that the Royal Address is only the Address of the Ministers ; but it must be understood as conveying in some degree tae im mediate or the mediate wishes of the Sovereig n _ the immediate wishes where the Ministry possesses the full confidence of the Sovereign—the mediate wishe s where the Sovereign submits to retain a Ministry not pos sessing that confidence, in compliance with the desire of the Parliament. In the one case the Sovereign expresses wishes actually entertained ; in the other wishes adopted in a spirit of conciliation. A wise and loyal Ministry will be slow to make the Sovereign solemnly' express wishes, however sincerely entertained, if they are not likely to be complied with ; because a refusal to comply always carries more or less an indignity, and the honour of the Crown is always impaired by a want of cordial support from the Parliament and people. But none except the most stupid or disloyal of advisers will ever place in the mouth of the Sovereign demands in which that Sovereign takes no interest ; which it is known must be refused ; and which can therefore have no other effect than to create an appearance of disunion between the Sove reign and the Parliament. This is in effect wantonly to drag the Crown through the mire of a defeat wan tonly courted. Still no other course is open to the Queen's advisers in their present position: they must make, in the Queeu's name, demands which they know will be refused, and which they know will be firmly opposed by the Queen's future Government. This is not, surely, to support the Queen's crown and dignity. TILE SUN', LONDON, TITITRSDAY, ArGUST 20, 1841.. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—There is a sympathy due to the Sovereign, when placed- in circumstances such as those in which our beloved Queen is now placed, and which her sub jects of every gaade, and of every party, whose feel ings are not rendered callous by faction, will render to the woman, if they cannot constitutionally express it toward the Queen. The change of Government will in volve a removal from personal attendance upon her Majesty of those with whom she has been in the habit of social intercourse ; whom habit has rendered familiar with her tastes, and who have found their duty to anticipate her wishes, and to conform their whole lives to her ascertained inclinations, their delight. At such a .time, and in the near prospect of a crisis, when the presence of attached friends and attendants is essential to fortify the mind of the most courageous female against the " peril .and danger," and to console and en courage under the severity of anguish attendant on an event to which we need not allude in terms more distinct—at a time, when the Queen of England will be called upon to consent that her chosen Ladies be removed from their attendance on her person, and that others, strangers to her and to her habits, destitute of the sympathies which association only can inspire, shall be introduced. All this, we are told, is necessary to show that the Queen has confidence. in the Cabinet. It may be so in the estimation of such a Government as that which is about to be formed. But we cannot but lament that our beloved Queen should be compelled to submit to a change so painful at such a time. We trust that when the proximate Premier comes to that part of the business in which these changes will be involved, the introduction to it will be somewhat different than— " And now, Madam, as to your Ladies." But we will not pursue the subject. - STANDARD.—Lord Melbourne declared that the amendment came upon him " like a thunder clap." It is easy to believe that, living as he has lived for six years, in a kind of Epicurian security from care and the apprehension .of danger, the poco curante Premier has been awakened from his luxurious dream with feelings of surprize, as well as horror ; but he is probably the only man in the empire who did not see the coming storm with equal certainty and distinctness. Under the influences of the thuuderstroke, the Noble Lord made of course a very feeble speech. He was replied to by the Duke of Wellington, who complained with a just indignation of the attempt of the Ministers to identify the Sovereign with their falling cause. The Duke of Rich mond supported the amendment, and ably though briefly defended the Corn-laws. Lord Lansdowne apolo gised at some length for the course pursued by the Mi nisters. Lord Brougham closed the debate in one of the most characteristic and amusing speeches ever deli vered by the Learned and wayward Lord. He supported the Address, but gave among his reasons for supporting it, such an account of the recent conduct of Ministers as must show, that their proper abode at this moment would be in her Majesty's rower of London, not on the Minis terial benches of the _House of Parliament. COURIER.—The work commenced yesterday in good earnest, and one House of Parliament has formally re corded j udgment upou that Speech from the Throne, in the concoction of which Ministers did not shrink from carry ing out to the last moment of official existence their foul . and long-practised policy of profaning the name of Ma jesty by insolently parading it in the vanguard of their own selfish party. Happily the Sovereign, with true nobility of sentiment, refused to lend the imposing sanction of her own august presence to the delivery of an Address designingly constructed to place her in apparent conflict with a Legislature returned by the voice of the people, and so the plot will recoil, has recoiled, upon its mis chievous authors in both Houses of Parliament. Lord Melbourne, it will be seen, attempted to justify the gross innovation on the privileges of the Commons, involved in the recommendation of special fiscal measures besides generally representing the Sovereign as entertain ing strong feelings on certain party questions, by the precedent of George 111. on the dissolution of the legis lature engaged in a factious opposition to Mr. Pitt. But he was promptly put down by the Great Duke, who quoted the language of that wise Monarch on the occa sion referred to, in which there can be found no more than that general reference to the state of affairs which is indispensable in all such circumstances, but with out the indication of any special opinion of his own or consequent attempt to dictate them to the constituency. That was moreover the case of a dissolution merely, but here we have a reckless Government not only daring to issue a manifesto and raise the standard of appeal to the country on party questions in her Ma;esty's name against the deci sion of one Parliament, but, with more desperate treachery still, inaugurating a new Parliament with the same un principled profanation and perversion of that exalted name, by abusing it into a vehicle and watchword for the sordid purposes of expiring Administration. Mild and courteous as was the rebuke administered to Lord Mel bourne by the Duke of Wellington, and infinitely short of his deserts, we should be loath to believe that it was not keenly felt. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TUESDAY. TIMES.—The returns lately published by order of the House of Commons relative to the public debt of this country, state that the unredeemed capital of the public funded debt on the sth ofJanuary, 1828, was 777,476,8921.; in 1831, 757,486,9961.; and in 1841, 766,371,7251.; that the amount of Exchequer Bills outstanding in the same years was respectively 27,546,8501., 27,271,6501., and 22,271,0501., the second amount including the issue under the Act of 11 George IV., cap. 26, to pay off the proprietors of 4 per Cent. Annuities, amounting on the sth of January, 1831, to 1,662,0001.; that the amount of terminable Annuities, whether for lives or years, was for these years respectively. 2,610,7541., 3,297,375/., and 4,114,0211. ; that the sums required to defray the charge of the interest and management of the permanent public debt during these periods were 25,779,1151., 24,377,379/., and 24,442,303/. ; and that the sums paid or required to defray the interest on Exchequer Bills for these years were 873,246/. ; 675,0004, and 818,046/. The amount of all payments made out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, other than on account of in terest and management of the national debt and the Civil List was, for the year ending the sth of January, 1828, 1,853,172/.; for the year ending the same month in 1831, 1,625,941/. ; and for the year ending 1841, 2,552,79;1. POST.—The circumstance incidentally mentionei by the supporters of Ministers in their free trade crotchets, as a cause of the cheapness of foreign bills of exchange just now is also a favourable feature. The exchanges have been kept up, they say, in consequence of the nego tiation of quantities of American paper on France, con sisting of bills drawn for flour sent to that country. A want of activity in our manufacturing towns is complained of. Many of the American bills drawn against flour ship ments to Havre may be remitted to London to provide for state and other dividends falling due ; some may be to discharge old debts standing unliquidated on the books of our merchants ; but the principal portion, it is likely, accompany orders for goods for the ensuing fall; as remittances from hence to Dantzic and Ham burgh accompany orders for grain. More work may, therefore, be expected from the operatives of Manchester, Glasgow, and other places. When the reins of power shall be resigned into the hands of a party worthy to be called a Government, and the effects of the errors of the present incompetent dab blers in statesmanship can be in some measure counter acted by the wiser course of administration that may be looked for, the country will, in our humble opinion, have nothing whatever to fear for the future, but every thing to hope, and this, it is gratifying to know, must now be soon. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER,—AIthough the market for yarn continues much depressed, there has been a tolerable amount of business done this week, and some kinds, particularly the lower counts of mule yarn, which are relatively scarce, command rather better prices than last week; whilst water twist, especially of good quality, is rather more difficult of sale. In goods there is little change from last week ; perhaps a little more business has been done in 27-inch printing cloth, but at wretchedly low prices. All other kinds of cloth continue greatly depressed, and without any prospect of amendment until some check is applied to the production. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, AUG. 23.—We have had a steady demand for flannels to-day, without any change in the prices. The wool market has been heavy, and prices about the same as those of the preceding Monday. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, AUG. 24.—0 n the whole this was a busy market day—as good a one as any this year. The demand is chiefly . for fancy woollens, and other descriptions of fancy goods, which have now became the staple trade of this district. In plain superfines there was little done. Business in the warehouses is decidedly better, and prices are looking up.—Msucchester Guardian. 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Their Voice Conductors extend the most effectual relief in cases of Deafness, and additional satisfaction is derived from the fact that they are worn entirly unseen. In consequence of the mistakes arising from a similarity of names, the PATENTEES' address should be particularly noted, 86, Old 20nd-street, and 1, Old Jewry, City. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Emma Walmsley, aged 18, was indicted for feloniously stealing three bank-notes of the value of 201., and one sovereign, the property of Victoire Givry, in the dwel ling-house of Harriet Young. Mr. C. Phillips-defended the prisoner. The prosecutor lodged in the house of Mrs. Young, and the prisoner was her servant. The money was kept in a box in the prosecutor's room. The prisoner was suspected, as she had purchased a great quantity of things about the time the money was missed. These she stated she had from her relations, who, it appeared, were in very good circninstnnees:' As . soon as the loss was discovered, Mrs. Young went to the prisoner in the presence of the prosecutor, and told her it would be better for her to confess, and she said she knew nothing about it, but that she had taken a few ar ticles out of the box. This she afterwards denied, and said she had them from her grandmother. Mr. Titulars addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri soner, contending that the evidence tendered was not legal. The Learned RECORDER summed up the evidence, and told the Jury that the sat'est course for them to pursue would be to acquit the prisoner, as the course adopted towards the prisoner by the witnesses for the prosecu tion was not legal. The Jury then acquitted the prisoner. The RECORDER then addressed the prisoner, and said that had the witnesses been more discreet, and had the fact of his having gone to the box of the prosecutor been legally and satisfactorily proved, he should have felt it his duty to have sent 1 - re-r out of the country. He hoped her present situation would be a lesson to her for the future. Henry Crane, aged 22, shoemaker, was indicted fbr feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Edward Carruthers, and stealing one work-box, one teacaddy, and one watch, his property. The prosecutor lives at Brentford, and the prisoner was formerly his servant. On the 13th of August he missed the property named in the indictment, and gave information to the police. The prisoner was taken into custody, and on his being searched several pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon him, which on being taken to the pawnbrokers were found to be for the missing ar ticles. The pawnbroker proved that the prisoner pledged the articles which were sworn to by the prosecutor. The prisoner being called upon for his defence said, it was his first offence, and he begged his sentence would be a light one. _ The RECORDER having summed up the evidence the Jury immediately reatrncd a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to ten years' transporta tion, being the lightest punishment the law awards to this offence. Thomas Grant, aged 19, was indicted for feloniously stealing 29 silver spoon, two ladles, 12 forks, and four knife rests, value 301., the property of William Abbot, Esq., in his dwelling-house. Thomas Body stated that he was servant to the prose cutor, and had the care of the plate. On the 11th August he missed the plate, in question, and gave infor mation of the loss to the• police, and the prisoner was subsequently taken into custody. Edward Knight Maddox stated, that he was on a visit at the hOuse of Mr. Abbott, the prosecutor, and on the 11th August he saiv.the prisoner coming from the house, and saw him drop two spoons. Saw him in conversation with a boy, and pOrsued him ; and came up to a hedge where the prisoner hid himself. Did not succeed' in capturing him. It was close to the house of the pro secutor. The boy, has not been taken into custody. William Glabill, the police-officer who took the pri soner into custody, stated that he found several spoons and forks under the hedge where the prisoner hid him self, which place was pointed out to the witness by Mr. Maddox. Another officer, also deposed to having found several articles of plate in a lane near the hedge. This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. BALLANTINE add resse d th e J ury for the prisoner, and the Recorder having summed up, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to ten years' transportation. The prisoner had .been previously convicted, and sen tenced to two years' imprisonment. (Before Mr. Justice ERSKINE and Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) IVna. Beckwith, aged 19, and Harriet Foot, aged 21, were in dicted for feloniously counterfeiting the Queen's current coin. The fact was clearly ptpved against the male prisoner, but the Jury did not think the evidence sufficient against the female. Mr. Justice ERSKINE then sentenced the prisoner to 15 Years' transportation. John Errington, aged 34, was indicted for feloniously carnally knowing and abusing Susannah Heskins, under the age of ten years. Mr:BODKIN conducted the case for the prosecution. Susannah Heskins was called, and placed upon the table in the Court, and a thrill of horror ran through the Court, as she appeared to be under the age of five years. From questions the Learned Judge put to her he thought the Court could not proceed on her evidence. The poor little girl was still labouring under a loath some disease, the result of the cffence charged. The facts are totally unfit for publication. The prisoner was found guilty of the whole charge, and The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, said that he had been guilty of a most unnatural offence, by which he had forfeited his life to the laws of his country. He should be wasting the time of the Court by addressing many observations to him (the prsoner) who had proved himself of so abandoned a mind. Under all the circumstances 'of the case, the full penalty would not be carried intoeffeet, although judgment of death would be re. corded against him. But he must not expect to be spared his life but by the sevi rzst punishment the law could inflict , short of death, and it was not fit that he should remain in the country. Enough had transpired to make the Court believe that that was not the first time he had been guilty, of such a crime, and the language he had used, in reply to the language of indignation addressed to him by the friends of the poor child, showed that he felt no contri tion for what he had done, and . led the Court to believe that he was a man whose unnatural passions had led him to commit the offence. In this particular case there seemed to be an addition to this—a selfishness of purpose, common indeed to parties in the lower grades of life, who suppose that by having connection with a child of tender years they thereby free themselves from disease. He (the Learned Judge) never failed to make it public when cases of this description were brought before hint how mischievous and at the same time how perfectly groundless that notion was. He (the prisoner)' had contracted a loathsome disorder, which he had no objection to cast upon the poor child, and, as far as her age was capable, contaminated her mind. He must rest assured that he would leave his native laud for the rest of his days. The prisoner, who pbssessed the most forbidding and ferocious ountenance, was tben removed from the bar. t,. II 17. E INTELLIGENCE. YIE CIRCUIT=-Croydon, August 25. usinea of this Assize did riot terminate until late last /rafter most. unexampled duration. The Court has been occupied for thirteen days, nearly ten hours per day, and Lord Chief Justice Tindal has disposed of upwards of a hundred cases during that period. PITCHER A. PARSER V. G. W. ROBERTS, ESQ. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who sued in forma pauperis, against the defendant, a Magistrate for the County of Surrey, to recover compensation from him for an alleged false imprisonment. The case possessed no other interest than this, that, through some informality or legal technicality, the pauper was defeated by the Magistrate—a matter of every day occurrence. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. An old man, named John ChailesThorn, was charged by his wife with having refused to maintain her, and also with having offended against the law in other re spects. The examination was the third, and the follow ing account contains the substance of the three, on this very odd case : Mrs. Thorn, who appeared to . be a very mild but reso lute person, aged between 60 and 70 years, said that her husband had cruelly refused her maintenance, and she was therefore determined to bring him to justice. They had been 35 years married, and had lived together in one place for 20 years, and a better or kinder fellow never breathed until he took to drink, and then he never stopped. The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean that he never re frained from drinking ? Mrs. Thorn—l do, please your Lordship. For 22 years he has never been once sober. —(Laughter.) Prisoner—Hollow, stay, stay. Please you, my Lord, I never was so sorry for anything in my life as marrying this here body. She to as the impudence to complain now that I refuse to support her when she never brought me a mag in her life ; and, besides, the moment we were married, she began to run sich a rig that old Harry himself, God bless us, c , mld'nt live with her, and how could I ? Besides, she has a freehold that's quite enough to keep the life in'her, and I have got nothing, God bless me. The LORD MAYOR—Is it not better for you to come together again at your your advanced years ? . Mrs. Thorn—No, no, my Lord ; I tried him long enough. Besides, he has another wife, and he manages to maintain her like a good 'un, for it was only the other day I went in to look arter him, and I sees 'um both together a feed ing upon the tail of a salmon and some cucumbers and a pot of half-and-half. The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean to charge him se riously with bigamy ? Mrs. Thorn—Certainly I do, and I'll stick to it. I've fount'', out all about it. Prisoner—Tut s tut, where are the witnesses ? You can't move a step without witnesses. Besides, if I did marry another, I thought you was no more.—(Laughter.) Mrs. Thorn—No, no, John, you knowed very well I was alive. I a'nt dead yet. Prisoner—No, Lord help me, I see now you ain't.— (A laugh.) My Lord 'she's been to me the most tor menting wife as man ever was plagued with. Her tongue is for ever on the move, so that no man could stand it a minute without drinking the first thing that came to his hand. However, if she ain't unreasonable, I'll make her an allowance. I'll give her five bob a week. Mrs. Thorn—No, no, I can't depend upon you, John, I've got you here now, and I'll keep you. You must go to the Bailey, John.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—Pray is the second wife a young woman ? Mrs. Thorn— No, she a'nt younger than me ; but it's my belief he's got a young wife too. On the second examination, Mrs Thorn said that her witnesses would be ready in a couple of days, and she was determined to give Sohn a taste of the Bailey, and yesterday she again appeared. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Mrs. Thorn, have you come to any arrangement with this old man ? Mrs. Thorn— No my Lord, I'd muc h ra th er go on against him. I' ve triad him long enough. Now I mean to have him for the bigamy. Thomas Wiggins, sexton at St. Mark's Church, Ken nington, deposed that he witnessed the man age of the prisoner to Maria Fraser on the 12th of October, 1840. William Easter, clerk of St. Mark's Church, also stated that he witnessed the marriage. He produced a copy from the register. The Prisoner—But she must prove that she was mar ried to me herself. Where is the proof of that I'd be glad to know ? The LORD MAYOR—Why, you have spoken of her all along as your wife. Mrs. Thorn —Oh, I have the witnesses. One of them is a clerk in the Bank, now on leave of absence, and the other is a near relation of his own. I'll match him with witnesses, I rather think. (A laugh.) The Prison er —W e ll I hope your Lordship will order her to give me my watch and other property, besides 7/ of mine which she has. You 'ain't going to let her rob me and try me at the Old Bailey too ? • The LORD MAYOR—I shall not tell her to give up any thing. You know you told her, when you married her, that "with all your earthly goods you (lid her endow," and I shall not attempt to deprive her of them. The prisoner—l know that, but I ain't the only one that's gone astray about women. There's one thing I can tell you. I'm heartily sorry I ever married her; i'or she's been my plague now for 35 years. Mrs. Thorn—Oh, then, I'll make you sorry that ever you married any body else, John.—(Laughter.) The prisoner was ordered to be brought, up again on Thursday next, when he will be committed for trial.o BA RTHOLOAIEW FAIR. —A deputation from the in habitants of Smithfield, all of whom, with the excep tion of three, who were not at home, signed the memo rial, came to the Justice-room to solicit the Lord Mayor's attention to a very important subject. Alderman WILSON, having sat for the Lord Mayor, read the memorial alluded to, of which the following is an abstract That the inhabitant householders of West Smithfield, sensi ble of the great injury which several of the neighbours had suffered from the partial abatement of St. Bartholomew Fair, which had been holden for several centuries, and was to be holden pursuant to the directions of one or more of the Char ters belonging to the Corporation of the City of London, ex pressed their conviction that the attempt at the abatement or discontinuance of it which t,ok place last year in no way les sened the inconvenience arising to the trade of the neighbour hood. That they also felt that as tke fair hung upon charters which conveyed many privileges to the inhabitants of the City, it would be wise to allow the fair to continue, subject to the same arrangements as to the standing show s , 8:c. as existed in 1839, and to the same description of police regulations as were at that period acted upon, and which conduced to lessen the inconveniences the respective trades of the inhabitants were suffering." The memorial concluded by praying " that the fair should be regulated by the plan of 1839, or discontinued altogether." The gentlemen of the deputation assured Alderman Wilson that the exclusion of the shows by the Markets' Committee last year prevented respectable persons from attending the fair, and that the only persons to be seen were idle boys and thieves,so that tbehouses of the inhabitants were more in danger of being plundered, and there was a more annoying interrup tion to business than ever. The standings were not filled up on account of the absence of the respectable people, so that the fair was a complete nuisance. Alderman WILSON said he understood the deputation to mean that the want of attraction prevented the decent people from attending, and that those persons who did attend laid out no money. He did not think the Lord Mayor could interfere, but he would send this memorial to the Lord Mayor, who will no doubt send it to the Markets' Committee, who will deal with it according to their judgment. GUILDHALL. On Monday Thomas Frog was brought before Sir James Duke, for final examination, charged with steal ing 250/. worth of lace, the property of Cyril Vidocq and Co., lace dealers at Paris, on the Ist of June last. Fulgue Pigache stated that he came to London as the agent of the house at Paris, and put up at Ryder's Hotel, in Salisbury-square. On the Ist of June he asked for the porter at the hotel for some person to carry his box of lace to various houses at the west end of the town. The porter brought the prisoner to him, vnd he received the box with directions to carry it to Mademoiselle Le Norman's in George-street, Hanover-square, and wait there till witness came to him. The prisoner, instead of conveying the box there, disappeared, and the witness did not see him again till he was taken into custody. The lace had not been recovered. Henry Gardner, a City policeman, said he apprehended the prisoner on Ascot race-course a week after the rob bery. The prisoner gave an account about the box. He sail that as he was going along Coventry-street a J ew hailed him, and asked if he had anything for sale. Pri soner told him he had not. The Jew persisted that he had, and said that he would give as good a price as any body. The Jew took him into a public-house and treated him, and afterwards invited him to a house in Coventry court, where prisoner sold him the whole of the lace for about 30s. Witness had been endeavouring to apprehend the Jew ever since, but had not been able to discover his retreat The prisoner offered no defence, and was committed for trial. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LONDON, AuG. 24.-LWind this day at noon N.W. DEAL, AUG. 23.—Arrived from the River the Ag,nes for Sydney, New South Wales ; Lord Goderich and Gilmour for Quebec. 'Barque, 3,402, 2d distinguishing pendant, Westward. Sailed the Ceylon, Jamaica; Julia, R. Gambia, and several others. LIVERPOOL, Auc. 23.—Wind 'N.N.W.—Arrived the Pandora, Cothay, from Ceylon, sailed 17th April ; Thomas Lee, Barbadoes ; S a r a h Jane Maitland, Ja maica ; Tyrian, Jackson, and Peruvian, Smith, New Orleans ; Canton, Quebec ; Silksworth, Meldrum, and George Toby, Montreal ; Pandora, Pictou; Mary Isabella, Miramichi; Minerva, Sydney, Cape Breton ; New York, Charleston ; Etelvina, Porto Rico ; Bride of Abydos, Smyrna. Sailed the Ebenezer, Malaga; Commodore, Batavia. Arrived off the Mars, Calcutta ; Isobel, Antigua; Republic, Virginia ; Parsee Merchant, Quebec; Peruvian, Africa. The Elizabeth from Quebec has' not arrived as reported. STANGATE CREEK, AUG. 22.—Arrived the Patriot, from Alexandria ; Sally, Ancona. DOVER, AUG. 23.—Arrived the Maria, from Swan River, sailed 7th March ; Elizabeth, Jansen, Ilamburgh, for Singapore ; Mary Stewart, do., for Batavia ; Maria, Bankes, Batavia, sailed 19th April ; Delta, Dordrecht, for Batavia ; Delft, Rotterdam, for do. ; Neva steamer, Havre, towed in with loss of rudder. PoßTsmouTu, Auc. 23.—Arrived the Granger, from Quebec. Arrived off, the Broxburnebury, Burnett, Cal cutta, she experienced a heavy gale at W. from the 3d to 6th May, between the equator and lat. 5 S. lon. 87 E. FALMOUTH, AUG. 22.—Wind S. to W.S.W., strong breezes.—Arrived the Jenne Justice, from Marams ; Tagus (steamer), Lothton, for Vigo. Sailed the Desire; to London. CORK, AUG. 21.—Arrived the Matthew Pearce, Braithwait, from Porto Rico ; Rosetta, do. ; Arrow, Gibraltar; Marquis, England, Leghorn. Sailed the Pont Aeiii, St. John's, New Brunswick; Louisa, Dawes, Quebec. Cotta, AuG. 21.—The mizen-mast of a very large ship, apparently broken off just above the deck, was passed in lat. 30. long. 40, by the Matthew Pearce, arrived here. The Gossipium is bound to Liverpool, not Quebec, as reported. BIDEFORD, AUG. 21.—The Napoleon, from Swanst a to London, has been brought in here in a sinking state. Sailed the Bellona, for Miramichi. HULL, AuG. 22.—Sailed the Delaware, for New York; Wortley, Lyra, and Lord Wenloch, St. John's, New Brunswick. LONDON, AUG. 25.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. DEAL, AUG. 24.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Ida, Wabbina, Amsterdam for Geneva. Arrived from the River, the Chamois, for Buenos Ayres ; John Oldham, Jamaica; Beaufort, Quebec ; Ide, Newfoundland; Enterprise, Madeira; Mary Ann, Malta; Sprightly, Gibraltar ; Ulysses, Cadiz. Sailed the Jacobus, Batavia. OFF MARGATE, Aix. 24 —The Crescent, from Black Sea. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 24.—Wind W.N. W., fresh.—Arrived the Mars, Roper, from Calcutta; Peruvian, Gwatkin, Bonny, sailed June 5; Isabel, Antigua, sailed 22d ult.; Republic, Thompson, Virginia; Parsee Merchant, Quebec. Sailed the Victoria, fur Newfonndland. Arrived off, the Frankfort, from New York. OFF HASTINGS, AUG. 23.—Arrived the Johanna Maria, Mal. vina, Schutt, Dorothea, Decker, and Due Marias, from Batavia, Himalaya, Paw,. Calcutta; Mark Palmer, Mauritius; Funchal, Cliff, Dominica; Susannah, King, St. Lucia; Pactolus, Berbice. PORTLAND Rosns, AUG. 24. Arrived the Pandora, from London for Bilbao ; Fanny, ditto, for Newfoundland ; Romeo, ditto, for Miramichi ; Gratitude, ditto for St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Ann, Metcalfe, Shields for Calcutta; Numa, London, for Jamaica GUERNSEY, AUG. 23.—Sailed the Joseph, for Corfu; Ace of Trumps, Malaga; Cluges, Malta. OFF DARTMOUTH, AUG. 23.—The Elizabeth, Hunter, from NLw. foundland. Sailed the Saucy Lass, for Gibraltar. Tottasv, AUG. 23.—Sailed the Sumatra, for Ceylon; Victoria, Valparaiso; Conqueror, Corfu. PLYMOU:I'II, AUG. 24.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Gazelle, for Alicant. OFF HASTINGS, Ann. 24.—The Tre Demer, from St. Croix Burguemeister, La Guayra for Bremen; Vriesland, Surinam for Amsterdam ; Leontine, for Bremen. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 24. Wind N. W., squally.—Arrived the Phi ladelphia, Hovey, from London, and sailed for New York; Duke of Argyll, London for Calcutta. COWES. AVG. 24. Arrived the Erne, M`Donald, from Matan. zas ; Swartwlck, Batavia. Sailed the Salas, to Port Phillip. FALMOUTH, AVG. 23.—Wind W. to N.W., fresh.—Arrived the Albert, from London for Newfoundland. Sailed the Tagus (steamer) to Vigo. Arrived off, the William Foster, Nassau, New Brunswick; Blackaller, Watson, Smyrna. JotsEr, AVG. 22.—Put back the Guernsey Lily, Gaspe, having sprung a leak W. of Scilly. V Essims SPOKEN WITH. —The Garrick, bound to New York, 12th inst., lat. 48, lon 11, by the Susan King, off Hastings. Alpine, bound to Havanna, 23d ult., lat. 34, lon. 71 ; Lavinia, Lisbon to Halifax, 9th instant, lat. 44, lon. 39 ; Ann Johnson, Liverpool to Newfoundland, 17th instant, lat. 47, lon. 20, by the Erin, arrived at Cowes. Engrch barque, No. 4,085, 14th May, lat. 33 S., lon. 52, by the Swartwith, arrived at Cowes. American packet-ship, No. 1,636, 21st in stant, by the Denmark, arrived off Cork. Albion, of Mary port, 17th instant, lon, 15 ; Gazelle, of Shields, 18th instant, lon. 12, by the Elizabeth, Hunter, arrived off Dartmouth Prince Albert, Charleston to London, 17th instant, lat. 49, lon. 24, by the Isabel, arrived at Liverpool. Cato, Plymouth to Quebec, 19th instant, lat. 50, lon. 17 ; Artemis, Liverpool to Cape of Good Hope, 22d instant, lat. 52, lon. 7, by the Pe ruvian arrived at Liverpool H.M.S. Apollo, bound to Que bec, 25th ult., by the Brown, arrived at Whitehaven. Caledo nia, Clyde to Quebec, 14th ult., lat. 50, lon. 27 ; barque Enter prise, lat. 24, lon. 52, by the Lively, arrived at Galway. Onyx, Ceylon to London, 18th ult., lat. 38, lon. 41, by the Hugo, Grotius, arrived off the Wight. Hearts of Oak, Cadiz to St. Andrews, 6th instant, lat. 46, lon. 50, by the Trusty, arrived io the River. Martha, Liverpool to Quebec, 12th instant, lat. 50, lon. 39 ; Menena, Liverpool to Quebec, 13th instant, lat. 50, lon. 25, by the Mary, arrived at Launceston. The " New Monthly Magazine," which for so many years past has continued the favourite periodical of all classes of readers, is about to receive the attraction of a new series of papers, from the pen of John Poole, Esq:, the popular author of " Paul Pry." Few men are better qualified to paint the scenes of many-coloured life existing in our day than this amusing writer ; and in the career of Phineas Qui , idy, which is the quaint title of Mr. Pool , a's work, we are:led to expect such delineations of character and society, in a narrative replete with the must irrp&:tible pleasantry, as must give to this ma• gazine increased claims to the attention of the admirers of genuine humour. One of the most singular works, both as to object and treatment, ever put forth in the garb of a novel, is about immediately to appear under the name of " Wed lock." Contrary to the time-hallowed practice of works of fiction, marriage, instead •f being held up as the grand de sideratum of young ladies, is shown to be oftener an unhappy than a happy state ; and old-maidism is accordingly elevated into enviable dignity. The Authoress's " living instances" of infelicitous marriages are very numerous and very striking, and she seems determined they should be held out as beacons. " This," says she, " shall be done for my fair countrywomen, and not before they want it• Are they not sacrificing them selves by myriads? Crying down single ladies, the queens of creation, who ought to be canonized as saints, and topping over them instead—a poor set of slaves, once as free to choose as themselves." The celebrated convent of San Felipe el Real, situated in one of the finest quarters of Madrid, and estimated at 4,278,703 reals, has been sold by auction for 16,600,000 reals, payable in Coupons, for deferred dividends on the consolidated debt MARKET INTELLIGENCE. CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh arrivals of English Grain since Monday have been small, Litt of Foreign Wheat considerable. The weather b..ing, wet, caused the Wheat trade to be firm, but there was not much doing. In other Grain no variation from Monday's prices. The millers settled thefsale price of Flour at fibs per sack. NEWGA VD: AND LEADENHAL:L. Their was a fair supply of Meat, the demand dull, and prices were nearly nominal. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 65. to 4s. 4d. ; Lamb, 4s. 6d. to ss. ; Veal, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. per stone of Sibs. Poultry in good supply, at declined prices, and the demand dull. Leveret, 3s. to 6t. each ; Grouse, ss. to Bs. per brace ; wild Rabbits, 6s. to 10s. ; tame, do. 12s. 18s. per dozen ; Geese, 4s. to 6s. 6d. ; Ducks, Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. ; Fowls, 2s. 6d. to 4s. ; Chi kens, Is. to 2s. 6d. ; Turkey l'oults, 4s. to 6s. ; Pigeons, 4d. to 7d. each. Eggs (lull at 4s. 9d. to 7s. 6d. per 120. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little done either for home consumption or ex port, and the public sales were of little moment. The at rivals keep small. TEA MARKET. The market was very dull, and prices were barely supported, and 2s. bid. was the value of Company's Congou cash ; for common Free Teade 2s. 4d. was the lowest point of the market. TALLOW MARKET. Prices were sustained, and the demand was steady. P. V. Candle on the spot produced 495. 3d., and 495. for dtlivrry in the last three months. SPIRIT A; Rum has met a fair demand, Leewards 2s. Id. to 2s. li j d. pci but the market inactive. COAL M. Ships arrived since 1 Dean's Primrose Li 6 I.lolywerlllla.n ;8 6 Original Windsor's Pontop 1 3 Ravensworlh's NV. Hartley 17 0 Stanhope Hartley Smttn's Pontop l5 0 Wylain Walls End Hedlcy l9 f Walls End Hotspur Walls End RiddelPs l9 1.) Walk rand Harwell. Wails End Hetton "_o C ARKET. ~ and prices were firm ; proof r gallon. Brandy not cheaper, ARKET. last market day, 43. _ . s. d. Walls End Latnldon W. E. North Helton Lyons IS 6 Walls End Pemberton is 3 Walls End Russell's lietton '2O 6 Walls End Stewart's lO 9 Walls End Whitwell l9 3 Walls End Hartlepool 6,0 6 Tennant's Hartlepool... l9 6 lees Hartley . 14 3 WWI:. End Seymour 'fees lB 6 Blythe l3 6 Hartley ( From the London New Price Current of August 24.) SUGAR.—To-day the market for West India exhibited a tranquil appearance, both grocers and refiners operated with caution. The private purchases amounted to only 100 hhds and trc, and prices must agaiu be qu,ited fully 6d lower, ex cepting for the best yellow sorts, which have brought former rates. At public sale 120 casks 29 trs Barbadoes, and 89 hhds 4 barrels Demerara were offered; the former principally found buyers, but the biddings were languid, and prices gave way 6d to Is per cwt, excepting for the best yellow sorts, which main tained former rates, fine yellow went at 67s to 67s 6d, good 64s 6d to 655, good middling 63s to 643, middling 60s to 6'.is 6d, low 58s 6d to 595, very ordinary heavy 57s 6d; the latter taken in above the value, good strong grey at 603 to 61s 6d, and middling 58s to 598 per cwt. The stock of British plantation Sugar is now 23,060 hhds and trcs, which is 7,413 more than last year at the same period. The Stock of Mauritius is 100,189 bags, being 84,727 more than last year. The stock of Bengal is 90,462 bags, which is 72,607 more than last year. The delivery of British Planta tion Sugar for the last week was 1,776 hhds and trcs, being 63 less than during the same time last year. The delivery of the Mauritius was 9,235 bags, which is 5,330 bags mote than last year. The delivery of Bengal was 5,692 bags, being 3,693 more than during the corresponding week last year. REFINED.—To-day the Grocers purchased with reluctance of Refined Goods, and lower rates were submitted to. Stan dard Lumps selling at 87s per cwt, the supply is increasing. Pieces and Bastards dull of sale, at the rates• quoted above. Treacle, however, met with a free sale, at 25s rid to 35s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar was taken sparingly at 30s for the finest quality. Loaves heavy of sale. MAURITIUS. —This afternoon there was no public sale, and by private contract little business was done ; former rates were barely supported. EAST INDIA. —This afternoon at public sale 3,120 bags 151 casks Bengal, and 4,263 Manilla, were offered ; the former only sold at rather lower rates--viz , fine white at 68s to 96s 6d, good mid and good 64s 6rl to 665, low to mid 603 6d to 63s 6d, low yellow 55s to 565, mid to good brown 44s to 48s, per cwt ; the latter went 6d cheaper, very low brown sold at I4s to 14s 6d, mid greyish yellow 18s to 18s 6d, and one lot 19s per cwt. FOREIOL—To-day the maket was quiet, there was no public sale, and privately few purchases were made ; holders appear ether snore disposed to realise. MOLASSES.—This afternoon some parcels of West India were sold at full rates. At public sale 199 casks Bengal Mo lasses, and 288 casks Syrup, were offered ; the former taken in at 21s, and the latter withdrawn. COFFEE —This afternoon there was less activity in the Cot fee market, and holders were more disposed to realise. The public sales consisted of 2030 bags Havannah, 1589 bags Cey lon, 201 bags Brazil, 903 bags Mysore, 36 casks 65 bags West India; Havannah nearly all taken in at full rates, viz. fine ordinary colory at 58s, fine ordinary pale at 52s to 555. good ordinary 43s to 475, a few lots were sold at 47s to 565, for good and fine ordinary ; Ceylon was only partly disposed of but former rates were supported, good ordinary pale went at 75s to 765, good and fine ordinary green 77s to 80s; Mysore taken in at 55s to 604 for ordinary and good ordinary ; Bri tish Plantation was all unclean and bought in, fine ordinary Demerara at 70s, Brazil fetched 39s to 4is for ordinary and good ordinary. By private contract, few purchases were made in any kind of Coffee. The stock of British Plantation Coffee is 876 casks 1025 bags, and of Ceylon 59 bags less than last year at this time ; but of Mocha it is 2627 bales, and of other East India and Cape descriptions 94,458 bags greater than in 1840 at this period. TEA.—Congou, ordinary low and rather musty, sold at 2s lid to 2s 2d, fair and good ordinary sound Congou 2, 44.1 to 2s sid, mid blackish leaf rather strong 2s 6d to 2s 7,d; Bohea 2s Id ; Souchong ordinary 23 3id, fair 2s 6Ad ; Hyson middling 2s 7id to 2s 9d, good m:d and good 23 10d to 3; SAd; Gunpowder, but. mid rather coarse, flat, and little old, 23 7d to 2s 8A , I; blackish leaf l't koe 2s (lid, impe sal ordinary 2s 64d per lb. Of the total quantity offered, arn,unting- to 16,755 packages, 8,100 have been disposed of, but 6,500 had been sold prior to the accounts alluded to above. Company's Congou, which fetched 2s 9d on Tuesday Kist, has been aisposed of cur rently at 2s stl cash ; but yesterday, at the close of the market, - - sellers could•not be fousd under 2s 51(1 per lb ; at existing rates some of the merchants, however, are not disposed to sell, csnsiderino• the accounts to be of a diversified and unsatisfactory nature, and that the truce concluded with the Chinese will ho of short duration ; at the same time, the trade have generally made up their minds to cease to operate until the arrival of the Overland Mail, which may be looked for towards the close of next week. The deliveries of Tea at this port have been 440,00011)s during the past week. To-day the market fur free trade Tea was in a dull state, and few purchases were made in either black or green sorts, but holders do not appear disposed to submit to any further re duction; 2s 4d is the value of ordinary sound Congou cash, 2s 4id to 2s 5d for good ordinary, and 2s 46 for common 'fwankay. The speculative market was inactive; Company's Congou at 2s 54d to 2s 51d cash, but on 'Change there were no sellers under the latter , price. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—There has been a brisk demand for Jamaica Ruin, and prices have further advanced Id per gallon ; the large quantity of 400 puns has been sold ; 30 to 32 per cent over proof at 5s 2d to Si Gd, 34 to 37 over 5s Btl to 6s, better quality 6s 2d to 6s 46, superior 6s 6d to 6s 10d, and very fine 7s per gallon. Demerara puns 30 to 34 per cent over proof at 4s to 4s 2d, 36 to 40 over 4s 4sl to 4s 6d. Lee wards proof to 2 per cent over at 2s Id to 2s 2d, 7 to 15 over 2s 4d to 2s 63, 16 to 20 over 2s 7d to 2s 9d. Calcutta Is 7d proof. Cognac, first brands, of the vintage of 1836, hhds 5s 7d and puns 5s 53. 1537, iihds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d. 1839, hhds 5s 2d, puns ss. 1839, hhds 4s Bd. puns 4s 6:I. 1840, ' hhds 3s 7d, puns 3s 61. Geneva 2s to 2s 26 per gallon. SPICES.—This afternoon at public sale 146 boxes Cassia Lignca and 84 bags shot Pepper were offered, the former sold at 96s 6d to 97s for middling rather coarse and foxy, and ordi nary coarse 91s, the latter fetched lid for good quality. HOPS.—The operations in Hops have been upon a small scale only, the favourable accounts from the Plantations caus ing buyers to purchase cautiously, and rather lower rates have been submitted to. The duty is estimated at 160,0004 with a prospect that it will advance. Cocoa.—For West India a fair demand has prevailed, and prices have been supported. At auction 360 bags, &e. Trinid :d were all sold, good red at 48s, low to good middling 42s to 46s Gd, good ordinary grey 4ls per cwt. 270 bags Grenada were taken in at 42s to 44s for good middling arid good red. Rice—This afternoon the market was in a dull state for East India, there was no public sale, and privately little .1. mand existed, lOs Gd is the value of mid white Bengal. Paovisiosis.—lrish Butter has attracted less attention, and the limited business transacted has been at rather lower rates ; we quote Carlow on board 92s to 95s ; Waterford, 90s to 92s ; Cork, 89s ; Limerick, 86s ; Landed, Carlow, 93s to 96s ; Wa terford, 91s to 945; Cork, 90s to 91s ; Limerick, 88s to 89s per cwt. The arrivals have been large during the past week, and have amounted to 10,300 firkins. Dutch has been in good request,fine ai 98s to 100 s per cwt. 10,7:30 casks arrived last week. Bacon has been in good request landed, and prices firm ; prime meat has fetched 62s to 645. and heavy 59s to 62s per cwt ; but on board there has been little business trans acted; the arrivals have been 2,150 bales during the past week. Middles have been in brisk request at full rates! Hams have been taken more freely, Irish at 51s to 70s per cwt. Lard has been in brisk request, and prices continue on the advance. Prime bladder has fetched 74s to 78s per cwt. In Mess and India Beef a fair business has been dine, but Pork has moved off slowly, and the demand for Foreign Pro visions still continues exceedingly dull. The supply of Bar rel Pork is very large, arid apparently no demand 'or exports. We quote Prime new India Beef £7 17s 61 to £B, and ditto Mess £6 7s 6d per tierce; prime new India Pork £7 15s per tierce, ditto Mess £4 5 4 to £4 6s Gd, and ditto Bacon £4 Is 6d to £4 2s 6il per barrel, other qualities ditto and second quality Mess £3 15s to £4 per barrel, prime old India in superior conditio's £6 17s 6d per tierce—Foreign and Hamburgh Provisions, in bond: New India Beef .£6 to £6 ss, ditto Mess:£4 lOs to £4 Its 6d per tierce ; .dit to India Pork.E6 2s 6d to £6 5s per tierce, ditto ditto Mess £3 to £3 5s per barrel. WooL.—Australian Sheep's have fetched Is 3id to 2s 24d, in the grease 6)rd to lld ; Lambs', clean ls 5d to 2s Id ; Van Diemen's Land Sheep is 2 1 / 2 d to 2s 2id, in the grease 8"cl to 93 ; Lambs', clean 9d to Is 91d ; South Australian Is 41d to is 5d ; Swan River, Sheep's Is. 21(.1 to Is 6(1, Lambs', is 3d to is 6d ; Cape is to is 9d, in the grease Girl to Bd. The arrivals of Wool -were 3000 bales last week. Ons.— Southern Oil has attracted less attention, and prices have given way 103 per tun ; at auction 240 tuns were, how ever all sold at 24/ lOs to 2915 s for ordinary to fine pale qua lity ; at those rates, however, some holders are not disposed to realise, and expect that the demand will revive shortly. Seal is held firmly, and a fair business has been transacted both for home consumption and export ; pale has realised 35/, yellow and straw colour 301 to 341, and brown 281 to 291 10s per tun. In Cod few purchases were made, holders, however, are firm. and obtained 281 to 28/ I Os. The stocks of common oilstLontz tinue rapidly on the decrease, and the quantity xy &wive this year is small. Sperm has been disposed e f t c ° ° are extent, fine British 92l to 931 per tun ; some arrivalsboth shortly expected. Linseed Oil has been in brisk request.,a fair for home consumption and export, at 31s 6 d . t .°, 5 3 t - 0 5 0 ; eila u l l i i ) is o ae n , s, vihich terms the crushers are by no means on account of the high rates current for see a l. n , xl ItaP ' e found ready buyers at firm rates; the as.u.l)l l • is small, and , t 3' sos to 50 ' s 6d likely so to continue ; pale has been 1 and brown 49s to 49s Gd per cwt. joeril?l7coa Nut al the de: advanced 6d to Is; dm n g d quality mand is on the increase, and p rice : h a al .:old oo lat public sales 156 casks 20 tanks werL d - at 40s for first good request, and buyers have at 331 sort. Palm has met with a fair 10t to 341. Olive has been in been compelled to pay higher rates, tlit_st6o,eils toeing sma ll . the last few Gallipoli has realised 71/ to 721, and Spant..h J pe tun. week, , and during TALLOW.—There has been a good demand for Russian Tal low on the spot since this day days prices have been steady at 49s dil to 41)s lid for Peters burgh yellow Candle, the trade however have not taken more than ample for their immediate wants. For delivery in the last three months a good many contracts have been entered into at 43s 93 to 49s per oN t. South Americhn is ; rather cheaper; at public sale 242 pipes, 112 hiAls &c. were . sold at 42s a 43s for ord to fine qu,dny. 'town T a ll ow h as b roug ht full rates. The stock of Foreign is mere than it was l as t fear at this time. The deliveries from Ist June lo this period have exceeded those of last season by nearly 5,000 casks. To-day ..N.I.OItNTTN(.I- StllsT the demand was limited for P. Y. at 49s 3d on the spot and 49s for d, IRISH MAR OUBLAN MARKET NOTE for Candle, but prices were firm Eelirery in laq three months. KETS. the Week ending AUG. II 0 14 3 IS 4 42 0 15 0 0 0 14 U From 30 0 13 6 0 11 6 Average. 413 Wheat,per barrel uttstooe 273 Pere ....... 16 sto (1 Barley l6 stmt 527 o:6c l4 5t0ne...... F:our, per cwt 8 stony.... 352 Oatmeal— f; Sold to Bakers only. 8,772 Cwt. riour..... ..... in 0 27 (1 124 3% Average pricC " Jl . Wheat and our 51. t3d per sack. R from 235. Od to Os ( Id eceipts of Flour, 13.104 hecon , ts from 18s. Od. to 1.2 s .0d 2ales of Do. 10,6i5 Tnirds from AO3. Od. r 0,161 Od I! 6 13 6 I 2 9 PM(' OF ;Hirai , . • Quarterr, bar 10.1. I Hall Qua/tern sd. COIIK MARKETS.—Aug. 21. Wheat (per40.:434e 0,1 w 414. 01.1 t hats !per 14st.',. 11 Od. to I3s. 9d. Barley (per 16 t ,) 13 0 in 0 lElo/•r (per cwt) ..11 n .6 0 Oatmeal (per ewt.)... ....... Ut! toffs 01 lieet; 4d. to 7d.—Mutton, sd. VI 6.l.—Veal, 4d to fd Pork, 41(1. to 5d —Fred) Bottet lod. lid per lb. PRICY ornurrilt. To the Merchants. To the Country. nrst Quality ••• •." 0000000 s.ot eeeee •••• 46..46. • •••• ..• Ito S is Second Third •...•.. eeeee •• Fourth Filth 00000000000 000000 7 a.... or. Sixth CLONAIILL Met rIKETS,....Aug. 21, Fe, l wt. d. s. d. d. f ;• chew Butter llB 0 tolo2 6 Hicks raw; t' Oatmeal... 000000000 ll 0 13 6 Baco t , 44 c .." Renderea Lard 0 52 '1 ..... • eleur. Second 6 1l lour, Thati......„ ° —!—Household...— 0 M 0I -- kutii the.... •19 0 Per Bartel —0 Barley 11 13 e 5 10 CAA! 4 " KILKENNY MARKETS. Wl.eat,Frbarrel)2B. Od.to 355. Od. Seet ' ,ber 0 , os. Barley 12 0 15 U 1144• ten....,,. 0 5 0 14Uats 0 15 1 1 Pork, Flour (per bag)....20 0 t.,8 0 Veal, 0 6 11 Butter(percwt.)...9o 0 100 0 Fresh 1,1)0! e t 0 0 1 Bacon Pigs 38 0 49 6 Salt Ditto 4 ' ili Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatoat a , er at.: I ) 9 v° Rapeseed. 20 0 8ere.•...« 000000 00000 MARKETS. AIN. Barley, Mecklenburgh I to tae -- Magdeburgh :722 to WS -- Holstein. ....... 1,0 to 528 5ummer......... li4. to la Openatsse,,Emidecerkien,„ ...... ,2580 : 1 1 0,5003 J0 1 : -- Mecklenburg 1:35 i s 14 4 -- Holstein „ .. , 135 to 14! -- Esst Frie . ,l ....... , 108 to 138 8ean5...... Buck Whe at ................ 108 to 195 Rape:,eed Hanover ..... ......... 4E6 to 62/ nuit .... : Tares ........... ' ****** 150 to 190 'ON. 111arrnham Medra4••... ******** .....«•• Surat;... Domingo ..... FEE. Domingo ............. La Guayra. Porto ttico Ilavannah 74 toll bipi S N; 4 % 5t4 U 4 u% tc 4% qg M I 7 S 4% 774 1 83 Discount.) Bahia, White 0% t 02.% Brown "iii .2% Pernambuco, White ...21i S Brown ...2 S 2% to 2% HAMBUR G R Woeat, Marks 4 91 to 546 ---- Magdeburg 06 to 552 : - Anhalt, white 418 to 552 red „ 4.',6 to 540 - -- Brunswick 360 to 450 - Mecklenburg 450 to 5;5 - Polish 415 to 564 - Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg - Dantzic - Elbing and Ko nigsburg 264 to 276 - Upland - ili ga con] Carolina and Tennessee 7 1 4 to 9% Georgia. Ist soft 7A 2d 7% 7( 3d and 4th ..n .. COt Mgeha II to 13% Batavia 3% 5% Sumatra — Rio 4 5% Bahia 4 5% SUGAR.— (Wit ] Havanna)), White 3 to 4 Brown 4 2% Rio, White 24 4 Brown 0 2 % Manilla. Brow THE WEATHER.—NooN, AUGUST 25. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 58 r Highest 6O 1 Lowest .... ... .. 4 10 Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. THE GOOD OLD PEEL DAYS.—THE MAN" CHESTER MASSACRE.—Monday was the twenty-second anniversary of the memorable and disgraceful massacre that took place at Manchester, on the 16th of August, !819, in the dispersion of a legally-assembled Re form meeting by the armed yeomanry of that town and which, down to the present hour, has never been investigated. Mr. (now Sir) John Cain 'Job" house, in his " supplicatory letter to Lord Viscount Castlereagh," written immediately after, giVes the fol lowing detail of the results of the slaughter The Manchester Committee have already relieved 300 persons and have a list amounting to 410 wounded and griev ously injured. Those who suffered from sabre wounds, amounting to 84 individuals (Lord Sidmouth in the debate said not one had been cut by a yeomanry man !), are by no moans such lamentable objects as those who were pressed under heaps of fugitives, and received in ternal injuries. All the avenues to Saint Peter's-fleld, except one, were blockaded, notwithstanding, t h e asser tions made in Parliament ! The 88th Regi men t bayo neteda._ several persons endeavouring to escape thr ou g h those passages said to be left open ; one woman was sabred nearly a mile from the place of meeting ! I lea rn ', through a respectable Manchester gentleman, himself to the Magistracy, and acting as one of the pecial constables on the 16th of August, that he is sure he saw two thousand down on the ground at once when the charge was made ! Ashworth, the special constable, was killed close to this gentleman—but not, as Lord Sidmouth said, by the mob—no—he was ridden over by the yeomanry. More than a hundred most re spectable witnesses might be brought—but what is the good to offer any proof ?"—Glasgow Chronic.e. HALF•A-DOZEN WORDS TO THE B R EAD' TAXE4.—Some time ago certain Noble Lords, in a c(= 1 " . tain place, amused themselves and the public by certain nightly colloquial exhibitions on the subject of the Corn laws. In this place it was asserted over and over, and it appears has been re-asserted since, nearer home, that the wages of the agricultural labourer always keep pace with the price of bread. Now, what is the factl In this county at least, the wages of the labourer are precisely the same as they .were six weeks ago, notwith• standing bread has advanced in price 25 per cent. The writer of this is acquainted with a family whose con sumption of bread is such, that they are at this mo ment actually paying two shillings and seven-pence more every week for this article alone, than they were two months ago, and that without having one farthing in crease in their weekly income ; and should the price ad vance but a trifle higher, they will be absolutely driven o the necessity of curtailing their present weekly al lowance of bread at least a third ! Retnembk:r, this is not a solitary case ; it is the case of hundreds and thou sands of our labourers and artizans in every part of the country at this moment.— Wiltshire Independent. We are sorry to have to record the death of Theodore Ilook, Esq., the accomplished author, who ex pired last night. Mr. Hook not only achieved a high station in the lighter walks of literature, but attained considerable eminence as a political writer.—Courier. • DENT'S LECTURES ON WATCHES , AND OTHER TIME-KEEPERS.—An Illustrated Abstract from TWO LECTURES on the Construction and Manage ment of Chronometers, 'Watches, and Clocks, delivered by Mr. DENT, in May, 1841, before the Members of the United Ser vice Institution has been arranged for the information of gene ral readers. The Abstract contains a statement of the relative merits of English and foreign workmanship, and an explanat ion of the different Escapements, with instructions for the cho ice, regulation, and managerr ent of all kinds of Time-keepers. The Pamphlet is published, by the Auth r, at No. 82, Strand, price One Shilling, but gratis to customers on application. PRIZE CUPS.—New and Second-band SI L VER PRIZE CUPS are offered at very REDUCED PRICES, and selection may be made from a great variety, both of Sizes and Patterns, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Goldsmith and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London, (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-greet). Drawings of Cups will be forwarded in answer to a post paid application. It is desirable Letters for Drawings should mention either the size or about the price of the Cup or Cups that may be required. A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR SILVER. —CATALOGUE WITH ENGRAVINGS, POSTAGE FREE.—The material is so like silver that it can only be told from it on reference to the stamp by persons well acquainted with it. MANY SPURIOUS IMITATIONS are being sold. The genuine metal, which we warrant more durable than silver, is only to be had at our Warehouse. It is the same colour throughout, and can be engraved the same as sheer. As a criterion, spoons and forks, full sized table, Its. desserts, 10s.; tea, ss. per dozen. The Catalogue contains the prices, with engravings, of every IRONMONGERY ARTICLE necessary to the furnishing a house of any size, 25 per cent. under any other old established house. ItIPPON and BURTON, 12, Wells-street, Oxford-street. Established 1820. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst., at Bad Ems , Nassau , Germany, the WY of Frederick Adam Catty, Esq., English medical attendant a Ems, uf a daughter. On the 15th inst., Mrs. J. Bench, at Dulvvich,of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at Sallymount, Kildare, the lady of Mar. maduke C. C. Roberts, Esq., of a son. On the 20th inst., the lady of Charles Gunning, Esq., o f Newton St. Lee, near Bath, of t'claughter, stM boro. On the 20th inst., at Elyndon, W a rwickshi:e , rs. S. Selfe, of a son. gt On the 20th inst.. at Leaminon Priors, the lady of All' Jer. hter. I General T. Stewart of a dau. pt - L ---- " ---- ----- - - " — ls. o qi t. tn,, oftEh :Lc, i. l v, 9 e o t r p l t i . °L i n ool a n, Li o : ntL t . ) 11 : G d: r a. e , I I G s s f ; e ß c r o d o i r second 17 daughtertthe Denbighshire, eA i a t o y t r ' , t h j b e o y h l a n t the Regan, James e ß ga e n , Esq., of Bath. the Rev. David Davies, i ll ga a n v , ies, Incumbent of On the 24th inst., a s'econd son of William Cook, Esq., eldest Henry O'Neile, I%i. A t . On the 10th inst., at the British Prot t t ~. es Cha pel, Lisboa, Francis 'se Surrey, to Clapham' ' • • ' Emily Martha, third daughter of R R. d Y a s u P a Y h t t tl e r C o e f n t h f Y e n 1a t e John Glover, Esq., of LuOcansllElel;:tifinLEsistsq.b,.oa'nt.Preston, near Weymouth, by the Rif. Octavius Piers, Vicar of that parish, Barrington Tristram, Esq., of Kensingtcn, to Susannah Isabella, widow of the late j Al asmnnnetriF s 'eal t tiv i °( c .e h tti a 't : i d nE' N tsq' o ' r a' m to l a fG n E , :€° ti T:nta.iYe : h Carolin e C' of John Angcrstc•in, o f Voodlands, Esq h :ikirinche,lital:eeldßeesvt.daCulgiahrtleers lED. At Beetles, Rebecca, the wife of the Rev. Stanley Miller. On the 19th inst., in Hyde-park-street, Lieutenant-General Skelton, of the lion. East India Company's service. On the 19th inst., Mrs. G. Sa), of Gartley House, Dartford. On the 50th inst., in Water-lane, Blackfriars, Ann, relict of Mr. G. Wheeler, aged 72. On the 20th inst., at Cl3pham, Sarah, the youngest daugh ter of Captain G. Feevor, age:l 14. On the 21st inst., in Park-street, Mrs. C. Mills, of Barron', Warwick, aged 82. On the 21st inst., at Queen's Elm, Chelsea, Mr. Robert Bancks, late of New Band-street, optician. • On the 21st inst., in Hulloway-place, Mrs. Henry Harvey, On the 17th inst., at Frankfort Lodge, near Dundrum, Dub:in, Eliza, the wife of William Booth, Esq. On the 18th inst., Jonathan Peel, Esq., of Culhain, near Abingdon, Berks, aged 53. On the 20:11 inst., Sarah Frances, the infant daughter of 6. Vincent, Esq., of Dartmouth -street, Westminster. On the 20th inst., at Heaton Hall, Cheshire, Sir 'I hostas Stanley Massey Stanley, Barcnet. London: Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG, :) 1 No. 112, Strand, at The Slue Oilice, No. 112, Strauci, its the eounty of Middlesex, Thursday, August 26, 1841. 1