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AFFAIRS of FRANCE and ROME. REPORT OF THE FRENCH COUNCIL OF STATE ON THE CONDUCT OF M. DE LESSEPS AT ROME. The Jioniteur publishes the following on the affair of M. de Lesseps ;—" Art. 99 of the Constitution de clares The National Assembly and the President of the Republic may in any case order an examination into the acts of any functionary, except the President of the Republic, by the Council of Stare, whose report shall be published:" The following report, adopted by the Council of State in its sittings of the 6th and Bth of August, is published in execution of the -above article : "Monsieur le President,—ln execution of Art. 99 of the Constitution, you have referred to the Council of State the examination of the acts of M. de Lesseps relative to the mission confided to him in Italy. [The report here recapitulates the circumstances which preceded the apponitment of M. de Lesseps, and then says:]—The twofold object of the mission of M. de Lesseps was—' First, to remove from the States of the Church the anarchy which desolates them.' M. de Lesseps, although charged' to enter into arrangements with the men invested with power at this moment, must ahstain from anything which would make them believe that we consider them as a regular government, or lend them a moral force of which they have hithet to been destitute. He can only enter into partial engagements with them.' In the second place, the mission tends to prevent the re-establishment of a regular power et Rome from being compromised in the future by a blind reaction. In preventing the development of the inter vention exercised by other powers animated with less moderate sentiments, a larger place must be preserved for our especial and direct influence. On the other hand must be avoided every word, every stipulation of a na ture to excite the susceptibilities of the Holy See and of the conference at Gaeta, which are too much disposed to believe that we are inclined to think too lightly of the Court of Rome. To attain these results, it is prescribed to the envoy to act in concert with MY!. d'Harcourt and de Rayneval on every subject of any gravity, on every thing which shall not require an absolutely immediate solu tion.' These instructions were formal. If they do not enter into all the details of what M. de Lesseps might do, they clearly point out what he was to avoid. To com plete them, the instructions addressed to our ministers at Gaeta were forwarded to M. de Lesseps on the fol lowing day. He knew, besides, that the Government was always resolved to have recourse to arms if the at tempts at arrangement should be without success. A telegraphic dispatch, addressed on the 10th of May to General Oudinot, was also communicated to M. ds Les seps. This dispatch terminated as follows:—' Endes your to enter Rome in accord with the inhabitants, or if you are forced to attack let it be with the most positive chances of success.' To endeavour to enter Rome with the consent of the inhabitants, without recognising the Roman authorities, without inspiring uneasiness in the Court of Gaeta, and without bringing its rights in ques tion; to foresee the eventuality of an attack, and not to compromise the chances, such was the object of the mission of M. de Lesseps. No uncertainty can exist on this head; the terms of the instructions are formal. The discussion in the National Assembly of the 7th of May had nothing to invalidate them. Besides, AL de Lesseps could not in any case avail himself of this discussion against the letter of his instructions, which is the sole basis of the examination into his conduct. The instruc tions of an agent of the Government can never be weakened, extended, or modified, by the aid of foreign circumstances, or of external comments which are no p-trt of them. All the rules of hierarchy and responsi bility would be confounded if this principle were not rigorously followed, and the Council of State would fail in its duty if it did not observe them with severity. How has M. de Lesseps conformed to his instructions? This is what the Council of State has sought to ascertain. The first act of M. de Lesseps, on his arrival at Rome on the 16th of May, was to pronounce in accord with Lien. Oudinot the suspension of hostilities. He could net ne gotiate without giving a pledge of his pacific intentions. Our army, however, was impatient to obtain reparation for the surprise of the 30,h of April. The season of fever was approaching and menaced our cantonments; the Austrians were marching; the Neapolitan ;troops had crossed the frontier, and a Spanish expedition was announced. It was necessary, therefore, that the sus pension of hostilities should not extend beyond the period necessary for the negotiation, and that it shotild cease as soon as a pacific solution could no longer be hoped for. It is not apparent that M. de Lesseps was sufficiently penetrated with this necessity. In tact, on the 19th of May, after a first attempt at arrangement, followed by a refusal on the part of the Triumvirs, M. de Lesseps and General Oudinot thought themselves authorised to sign a declaration of rupture. M. de Lesseps, instead of notifying it immediately, waited three days, and then. on his own responsibility, added a promise to notify the resumption of hostilities eight days beforehand. He thus substituted an indefinite de lay to a fixed term, and opened to the temporisations of the Romans a career they hastened to follow. It was only ten days after, on the 29tb, that he lent himself to a new ultimatum; he thus lost in useless measures a time which was every day becoming more precious. In fine, when on the 3lit May he signed the treaty, which will be spoken of hereafter, he again consented to a last de lay of a fortnight after the non-ratification. Thus, in stead of urging forward the solution, he deferred it; in stead of hastening the moment when our army should have freedom of action, he retarded it. He hoped to come to an arrangement, promises were made him which he believed, his confidence was excessive; there is no circumstance to cause suspicion of his intentions; but the event has proved that he neither formed a just opi nion of the state of affairs nor of the men with whom he had to treat. It is to the character and the nature of the negotiations themselves that the attention of the C. , tmeil of State has been principally directed in its examination. On his arrival at Rome, when M. de Lesseps had fresh in his mind his instructions, the con ewsations which he had had in France with the Minis ters, and the impressions of the sitting of the National Aisealbly of the 7th May, he showed himself, in form at least, faithful to his instructions. He soon struck against the shoals which he was ordered to avoid; the more his mission was prolonged the more he appeared to forget his instructions; once departed from the line traced out for him, he every day removed himself more and more from it. One deviation led to another; all his pre occupations were ceotered in B, rne, and his thoughts were never turned either to. the Government of which he was the agent, or on Gaeta, the negotiations with which he was to facilitate. We are authorised to con elude that it was not to bring back his instructions to their original object that he successively modified his conduct, and that it was at Rome its& that he was led away by influences which he was not able to resist. The examination of the Council of State proves that M. de Lesseps acted against his instructions in their principal points. 1. He did not confine himself to treat with the Roman authorities as the de facto power, but he lent himself to acts which gave them the moral force which ha was ordered not to give them. 2. He put himself in formal opposition to M. d'Harcourt and M. de Rayne val on the most fundamental questions, when his instruc tions ordered him to concert with them on every serious point. In fine, he was only authorised to make partial ar rangements; the general and definitive solution of the af fairs of Rome was not placed in his hands; he had only to concern himself with what related to the entry into Rome, and the special conventions necessary to secure that entry. He, however, took the whole question on him self, and in the arrangements, he made there is not one which does not contain some stipulation foreign to the defined object of his mission. In the first, he proposed to maintain a Provisional Government, up to the moment when the Roman people called on to make known their wishes should declare themselves on the form of government which was to rule them, and on the guarantees to be made in favour of Catholicism and of the Papacy.' In the second, he inserted a clause stating that the Roman people have a light to declare them selves freely on the form of government. He added that the Roman authorities will act according to their legal attributions.' At a later period, he proposed to the Triumvirs to declare that, 'The French Re public guaranteed the territory occupied by our troops against any foreign invasion.' Some of these stipuiatkons were in conformity to the idea of the French G.,verrtment ; but oti , .ers were directly opposed to them, sad none of them came into the terms of a partial ar rangement for they all implied a general solution. The act by which M. de Lesseps has terminated his mission is the most reprehensible of all. In form, it was con cluded in direct violation of his instructions, not only without a previcius concert established with M.M. d'llar court and de R-synevat, but against their reiterated pro tests, against the express wish of General Oudinot, with whom M. de Lesseps was bound to keep up intimate and confidential relations. In matter this treaty, which reproduces the principal provisions of all the projects, and adds others, contains stipulations, the perusal of which would almost suffice to set forth its gravity. Art. 1 is thus worded:—' The support of France is assured to the Roman States. They consider the French army as a friendly army which comes to aid in the defence of Their territory.' This article stipulates in express terms a defensive alliance. It places the forces of France at the disposal of the Romans. This engagement was entered into at the time when the troops of Austria, Spain, and Naples were only at some marches distant. At t. 2. 'ln accord with the Roman Government, and without in any way mixing itself' up in the administration of the country, the French army will take up exterior cantonments +lilted both for toe defence of the country and for the nealth of the troops; the communications are free. This article oontains two distinct stipulations: 1, it recognises theßoman Republic, although not named, in recognising the Government which represents it, and which stipu lates f or i t, and in maintaining to it the administration tohfethFerc,onucrlicv This recognition was accorded when in a government at Paris and Gaeta had pro nounced it se lf, sense directly contrary; it exposes its policy to the of dupli c i t y an d treason . 2. It prevents reproach the French f rom ou "l ts t i e d ring Rome, in reservin g to it cantonments on the mission t, tided to obt a i n that outside ' I r st i l h o e c a l l o d bj o '-e p t en of w i t t h h e . cut combat its gates to F rance. The entrance into not aware of that; the dispatch of May 10 c,jilaelds"Ps was any doubt on the subject. was for the Government, for the maintenance otFr t c o r n g I is thienc , : iii Italy , for our military •honour after‘ the eilair of April 30, a necessary condition, a n d w hi ch our Envoy ould sot give up in any case or on any c pre.exa A. 3, The French Republic guarantee s arainst all foreign Inv iston the territory occup i ed b . ) , its troops.' This declaration is puerile or insulting fur our army, in stipulating that France will not allow herself to be expelled from the places which she occupies, or it involves the question of peace or war. M. de Lesseps could only give it this last signification, when he pro posed it for the first time in his let ter of May 24 to the Triumvirs. Ile declared that he did not fear to compro mise his responsibility and future prospects.' Oa May 30 he used, in a letter to General Oudinot, a language which shows that in his ideas war could issue from that T ii E 8 T 1 clause. Art. 4. It is understood that the present ar rangement is to be submitted to the ratification of the French Republic.' Art. 5. 'ln no case can the effects 111 of the present arrangement cease until a fortnight after the official communication of the non-ratification.' This delay, in adding to it the time necessary for the reply of the French Government, prolonged about a month the inactivity of our army. It was accorded at the moment when our army was about to be exposed to the heats of a burning summer, when Bologna was taken, Ancona menaced, and when the foreign inter vention, of which M. de Lesseps was charged to prevent the development, could receive a new activity from the treaty on which the French Government was about to be called to pronounce. The Council of State cannot qualify too severely these conventions. Their smallest defect is to have been signed by M. de Lesseps against his instructions, against the opposition of all those whose co-operation was imposed on him. Interrogated as to the motives which had induced him to conclude them, M. de Lesseps replied that his only ot t ject was to prevent General Oudinot from attacking R , me; that he wished to have time to learn the definitive resolutions of the French Government, which always had a right not to ratify. M. de Lesseps thinks too lightly of a signature brought by a representative of France at the bottom of a treaty. Without doubt, the Government has always the right to refuse its ratification, but such a refusal is a resolution which may be attended with grave conse quences. The agent who signs a treaty, with the pro vision that the ratification will be refused, commits a fault ; he recognises implicitly in advance that his in structions on the policy of the Government do not au thorise him. Simply authorised to act with discretion, he places himself in opposition to the body from which he holds his mandate ; he creates difficulties for the Government which he exposes to the reproach of weakness or timidity, if the convention calls forth dis content out of doors. Such, Monsieur le President, is the result of the examination of the Council of State. Two principal facts have been proved by this examina tion— L The absolute opposition between the instruc tions of M. de Lesseps, and the application which he made of them. 2. The signature of a convention the stipulations of which were contrary to the interests of France and to her dignity. The Council of State ad mits that M. de Lesseps may, in extenuation, bring for ward the difficulty of circumstances, the gravity of the question to be resolved, the devotedness which made him accept a mission for which he was not prepared and all the complications of which he had not leisure to study, and, finally, his good faith, which nothing in the affair has put in doubt. But in making this allowance for personal considerations, the Council of State would fail in its mission, if, in the name of the Government, of which it is the depository and guardian, it did not pro claim aloud the strict duty which is imposed upon all the servants of the State, to confine themselves to the powers i w n i s t t h r u w c thi which hs they they are receive,inv e t e a d n , d t t o h e o s b e e r y i scrupulouslyous responsibility incurred by those who, representing France abroad,dare to e ngage her word against her known will, in arrange ments which may compromise her honour and the peace of the world. (Signed) " VIVIEN, Reporter. BOULAY DE LA MEURTHE, Vice- President of th, republic." RAILROAD ACCIDENT. At about a quarter past eight o'clock on Thursday morning, as the early train from Philadelphia to this city had reached Clarksville, about two miles the other side of Princeton, a terrible accident occurred, which has ere this carried mourning into many fa milies. The facts, as near as our reporter could learn them on the spot, were these :—At the place where the accident occurred there is a turn-out, leading to the bank of the Delaware and Raritan Canal. For the purpose of making this turnout available, there is, of course, a switch, which, when turned in the proper direction will not interfere with the direct progress of the cars, hut which, when occasion requires, will lead the car or cars off the direct track and conduct them of necessity to the brink of the canal. To guard this switch, and to prevent accidents, the company employ a man, who, with his family, live near the spot, and whose sole business is to see that the switch i 3 kept in a proper direction. As the cars were passing this spot yesterday morning the engineer perceived, when too late to avoid the accident, that the switch was turned the wrong way, and that the cars were fast making their way for the canal. The engine was im mediately reversed, but the impetus was too great —the speed being some thirty miles per hour—to prevent disaster. Shocking to relate, the engine plunged headlong into the canal, dragging after it the platform car, on which were the freight and baggage crates. A tremendous concussion ensued, and the first and second passenger cars came in violent contact. To use the expression of a wit ness to the terrific scene, they were dovetailed toge ther. The scene of horror that ensued may be imagined, but cannot be definitely described. Both cars were filled with passengers, and the bodies of those passengers, of course, interposed between the cracking and breaking parts of the cars. The engineer leaped from his perilous position and escaped unhurt; the forward breakman remained at his post until the very last moment, when seeing that he could do nothing to avert the catastrophe, he also leaped off, and was injured but slightly. When the concussion had taken place, and the passengers had time to recover their breath, their ears were assailed by the most piteous cries of distress and implored aid. The conductors of the train and the passengers im mediately set about the work of release and rescue, when a shocking picture presented itself to their view. Here a mangled corpse, there a wounded and writhing man, and again a helpless woman, shrieking with agony and covered with blood, met their view. The work of destruction having had its sway the work of mercy commenced, and in a com paratively short time all the surviving victims of this unfortunate accident were released from their position in the cars, and removed to places where their wants might be attended to and their wounds properly dressed. On casting about it was found that Mr. William Conover, of Trenton, superintendent of repairs on the canal, was killed, as was also an un known man, apparently an Irish - man who had taken passage in the second class cars. These are the only two persons who were ascertained to have been killed outright. There was a rumour of an infant having been crushed, but our reporter could not follow the rumour to what seemed to him fact. It is believed by many that the switch was turned the wrong way by some evil- disposed person, as the wife of the man whose office it is to attend to it states posi tively that she saw the switch at five o'clock in the morning, and that at that time it was turned in the right direction. But as the matter will no doubt he fully and fairly investigated, we will say nothing about the rumours. Several rumours in the form of letters and cards have reached us, but as the facts which we give are from the personal ob servations of our reporter, and from the information given to him by eye-witnesses on the ground at the time, we shall not give them. An incident occurred at the time of the accident, which is now told to every one who listens to the story of the lamentable affair at Princeton. It is as follows :—As the cars approached the canal, and when the catastrophe was beyond all doubt unavoidable, a mother, who had been seen fondling a beautiful infant, darted from her seat, and in an instant had tossed the smiling cherub clear from the cars upon the grass which grew at the road side. A thrill of terror, for the moment, seized the few spectators who witnessed the act of the mother, fearing that she might have frantically destroyed the life of her child—but it was otherwise. The child landed upon the grass and was unhurt, while the mother was considerably injured, though not i fatally. The chances are, however, that had she re tained her hold upon the infant, it would have been killed.--New York Herald, August 4. TAX ASSESSORS and COLLECTORS Taking these individuals as a body, they are an uneducated, pompous, overbearing set of officials, who, dressed in a little brief authority," entirely forget that their position with regard to the public is servile instead of authoritative. Their ignorance renders them totally unlit to be invested with the slightest power which they are of course at all seeming oppor tunities most anxious to display, and to which they add insolence. It is the manner in which people are treated by these Jacks in Office that renders taxation so detestable in the eyes of the public. Govern ment should be more careful to select these officers from the ranks of gentlemen who from misfortune may be reduced so as to be glad of the post, and would never forget that natural bearing, which, moving in good society, and education, makes a second nature. The public manner in which the income tax is collected is shameful, and entirely annihilates that feeling of independence which should inhabit the breast of an Englishman. When this tax was instituted the public were assured it would be an inviolable secret as to each other's affairs. How is it ? In the first place, from the class of people who are entrusted with the assessing and collecting, secresy is absurd—they are too pregnant with the imaginary importance of their knowledge to ab stain from tattling, and the consequence is that people's affairs are now as public as they were wont to be private. Papers with the amount are sent to estab lishments, not in an envelope, but open for the in spection of any one about the place ; and the collec tors not untrequently stalk into a gentleman's office, no matter who may be present, and ask aloud for the amount due for income-tax. The appeals, too, are quite public. how many people who have actually sustained heavy losses are compelled to pay an income tax to avoid exposure, or the inquisitorial curiosity of a collector or assessor? These parties, from pique or a desire to pry into a gentleman's affairs, may surcharge, which is at once accu,ing the person with perjury; for a form his to be signed declaring the return to be correct. This is far from what ought to be or what is intended. If a man has suffered lows, or his profits on a large bu,iness are small, why shoul.l he b e compelled to submit to interrogations,. and give explan a ti ons to a set of public menials Where is the utility o f his filling up a declaration if the belief of his statement i s optional? Everpyrdeceeiptf. for this tax should also emb o d y a printed le secresy, to be signed by the collect or w h o, we repeat,go should be a gentleman.—Sheffield Times. LONDO 14,1 _ TVE SnAY .... ..iVir ri NI N er., Ati G ti - $ T Th2,B 1.044 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before the RECOUDER.) . . - A considerable part of yesterday was occupied in disposing of cases the particulars of which are unfit for publication. Martin Hansell, the proprietor of the Satirist, who was acquitted on Saturday of a charge of feloniously endeavouring to extort money from Mr. Bevan, sur rendered to take his trial for misdemeanour in endeavouring to obtain money from the same gen• denim) by undertaking not topublish certain libellous matter concerning him in the newspaper above-men tioned. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Huddlestone were for the prosecution, and Mr. Parry and Mr. Thompson again appeared for the defendant. The facts were precisely the same as those which were proved on the former trial, and it will therefore be unnecessary to repeat them. The jury, after deliberating more than an hour, re turned a verdict of Guilty. The defendant was ordered to stand committed, and the RECORDER said he would consider what sentence should be pronounced upon him. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Elizabeth Griffith:, who refused to give her address, was brought up before S:r Peter Laurie, for further examination, on the charge of obtaining above 601. worth of goods under false pretences. In consequence of the report of the previous exami nation appearing in the newspapers, the court was crowded by tradesmen directly the prisoner was placed at the bar, a great portion of whom had been victimised. Mr. Davis, solicitor, defended the prisoner. Sir PETER LAURIE asked if there was any addi tional evidence ? Mr. Beard said that since the last examination he had ascertained that the prisoner's name was not Griffiths or Hemsley, but Bennett. Mr. Philip Kirke, of 19, Brompton-road, Brompton, auctioneer and house-agent, said a person who repre sented that his name was Iletnsley, came to his office in May last, and inquired about the house in Bromp ton-crescent which he had to let, for a Mr. Griffiths. After viewing the house, the man appeared perfectly s atisfied, and an agreement was entered into that it should let for a term of three years, at a rental of 80 guineas per annum. Sir PETER LAURIE—I suppose you had a refer ence? Mr. Kirke—l certainly had. One was Mr. Burdett, a retired publican, and the other a Mr. O uslow, a retired surgical-instrume n t ma k er , li v i ng in the Wandsworth-road. Sir PETER LAURIE—Did you have any security ? Mr. Kirke—Oh, yes; he gave me a bill for 551. Henry William Dubois, No. 14, a sergeant in the metropolitan police force, said that he knew the man who lived with the prisoner well. He was a carpenter by trade, and his real name was Francis Bennett. He had been after him, but had not succeeded in discover ing his place of residence. _ . Sir PETER LAURIE—Do you know anything of the referees ? Sergeant Dubois replied that one of them, named Burdett, he had been after, and wanted him very much. His real name was " Walker."—(A laugh.) Years agu he was taken into custody, and examined at the Thames Police Court, from whence he was committed to the Clerkenwell sessions, but fortunately got acquitted. The prisoner at the bar was convicted in July, 1847, in the name of Elizabeth Bennett. Mr. Davis here said that the charge against the prisoner only amounted to a debt, and she was per fectly willing to give up the furniture. The prosecutor said that he certainly should like to have the goods back again. Sir PETER LAURIE said that he would not consent to any such arrangement. It was quite evident to every one the sort of syst,matic work that was being carried on, and therefor© he intended hearing further evidence before saying what course he should decide upon pursuing. - Dlr. Henry Finch, of 21, High-road, Knightsbridge, and Mr. W. Nicholls, fishmonger, of No. 8, Queen's-buildings, Knightsbridge, deposed to other acts of victimization. Sir PETER LAURIE said the systematic plundering now carried on was of so serious a nature that he was determined to sift the wholit to the bottom. The prisoner's dress and appearance, coupled with the ap pearance of a butler and cook, who there could be no doubt were accomplices, was such as to deceive almost any tradesman. He should, therefore, remand the prisoner until Friday next, and would not take bail. The prisoner was conveyed to the Compter. MARLBOROUGH-ST RE ET. George Fitzroy . Campbell was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having plundered Maria Foster of a gold watch, a diamond ring, and other property, by the following means:— From the evidence of the complainant, who is a waitress at the West-End Dining Rooms, Oxf,rd street, the prisoner (who is a married man) pretended to pay his addresses to her, and after having made proposals of marriage, which were accepted, he bor rowed a diamond ring which was in her possession, in order, as he said, to get a wedding ring of the same size. A day or two after this, knowing that she had a valuable gold watch and chain, he borrowed them, under pretence of wearing them at a dinner party, to which he said he had been invited. Com plainant, when she next saw the prisoner, asked him for her watch. The prisoner said it had met with an accident, but promised to let her have it on the following day. Complainant saw the prisoner the next day, but did not get back her watch. Since that time, nearly twelve months ago, she had not seen the prisoner, and it was only the previous day he was met with again in Oxford-street, and given into custody. The prisoner wished to make it appear that the complainant had given him the property in question, in conseqnence of the intimacy which had existed between them: The complainant denied that any improper inti macy had taken place. The prisoner altogether had obtained in money about 801. from her. The prisoner was remanded until next Friday. CLERK - EA WELL. This court and its avenues were crowded to excess, in consequence of a report being industriously circu lated that Manning, .the murderer of Mr. Patrick O'Connor, had surrendered himself, and was in custody. It appeared that on Saturday night a man of re spectable exterior, and answering the description of Manning, made his appearance in Bagtigge- wells station house, and surrendered himself into the custody of the police, saying that he was the murderer of O'Connor, and he was too miserable to live. lie was locked up, and on, being searched, five 51 notes were found in his posseskion. He was very melan• choly, and refused to give hi 3 address. On being brought before Mr. Combe, he expressed his sorrow for his folly, and said he knew nothing whatever of the deceased O'Connor. His name was Frederic Charles Jackson, a hawker, Inspector Hardy, G, said that inquiries bad been made, and the prisoner was discovered to be a respect able man. Mr. COMBE, after a proper reprimand, discharged the piisoner. WORSHIP-STREET. Frederick George Menzies, who described himself ( as a compositor and pressman, was brought before Mr. Arnold on the charge of having given him self into custody under the name of Frederick George Manning, and falsely represented that he had taken an active part in the late atrocious murder at Bermondsey. In reply to questions from the magistrate, the pri soner intimated that he had been for some time an officer of Excise, but having recently lost his situation in consequence of a reduction in that department, he had resumed his original occupation of a compositor, in the service of a master printer in Philpot-lane, and was truly sorry for having conducted himself in the manner described upo n th e p resen t occas i on , w hi c h he attributed to intoxication. Mr. ARN OLD regre t te d t h at h e h a d no power to visit the foolish and mischievous conduct of the pri soner with an adequate punishment, as it was calcu lated most seriously to mislead the police, and to in duce a relaxation in their exertions for the apprehen sion of a murderer, upon the supposition that he was already in custody, but he should order him to pay the usual drunkard's penalty of five shillings, and re • quire him to enter into recognizances to be of good behaviour for the next six months. LAMBETH. John Stockley was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of embezzling various sums of money, the property of his employer, Mr. Samuel Daniel Ewins, bookseller, Ave Maria lane, City. A solicitor, who attended on bshalf of the prisoner, appli( d for the adjournment of the case to a future day, hut the magistrate said that, before complying with such a reqa , st, he must have some evidence be fure him to justify the remand. Mr. Ewins deposed to one case, in which prisoner had received 3/. on his account - , of which he had made no return, and the prisoner was remanded to a future day. BEARHAVEN (CASTLETOWN), AUG. 24.—The hull of a timber-1-6n vess.-1, bottom up, the keel n easuring sixl-tour teet, was towed into this hat bour ye,terday afternoon. _ ANGLING IN THE . I .%:TORTH.—His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, our sporting readers will he aware, closed the fishing of his rivers in Sutherlandshire last year in May, in order to try the effect upon the produce in the following season. The result has been a very great in crease in the humbers of salmon and grilse this year, Rnd since the Lammas rains, the po ils in the Shin river, in particular, are teeming with fish. This ought to enc,,urage the owners in other ricers to imitate occa sionally his Grace of Sutherland's example.—Perth Courier. UNROLLING OF MR. FEARGUS O'CONNOR. We lately recommended the unrolling of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, and are happy to have received from a correspondent the subjoined illustration of how it may be done, by a short and inexpensive process. We trust that the information we thus publish may be the means of obtaining justice for many poor hard working men who have been grossly defrauded by the notorious Land Scheme. NORTIIAMPTONB HIRE COUNTY COURT, AT NOR TIIAMPTON.—G ILIBBINS V. O'CONNOR.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a journeyman shoemaker at Northampton, against the Member for Nottingham, to recover the sum of 41 193.6 d., being the amount paid by the plaintiff for two shares in the Land Scheme ori ginated by &fondant. Mr. Broke, of Northampton, the plaintiff's attorney, relied upon the fact that the statute for regulating joint stock companies prohibited the de fendant from receiving more than one-half per cent, on fhe amount of the shares before complete registration; that this company had been provisionally registered under this Act; and that before complete registration plaintiff had taken two shares, on which defendant had received, through his aizeat at Northampton, the tuli amount of 21. 103 per share; whereas under the Act he was only entitled to receive) 3i To recover the dif ference, being 21. 93. 9d: on each share, the action was brought. " Mr. Roberts, of Manchester, appeared for defendant, anti contended, aliongst - other grounds, that the whole scheme was illegal; that the plaintiff, being a participator in an illegal scheme, could not recover back his money. " Mr. Becke argued that the receiving the money was prohibited by the statute, not the pay jug; and that it was quite clear that money peid'in contravention of the provisions of an Act of Parliameat could be recovered hack, unless the parties were both in pari delicto; that it could not be said both were equally guilty of an in fraction of law in this case, as it was not illegal for the plaintiff to pay, but only for the defendant to receive; and cited many cases in support of this proposition. " The case was fully heard, and argued at great length before J. W. Wing, Esq., the judge of this court, in ,lay last. In June the judgment of the Court was de livered in favour of the plaintiff ; and the defendant gave notice of a motion fora new trial. This motion was made by Mr. Roberts at the court held in July, when the Learned G.•ntleman argued at great length that the judgment was erroneous in law. The whole of the ar gument appears fully in the accompanying judgment, which was delivered at the court held on Monday the 20th of August. " ' In this case, Mr. Roberts, the advocate for the de fendant, has moved for a new trial, chiefly on the ground that the principle of law on which this case was decided (and hich is to be found in the notes to Smith's Lead- C , see, vol. 2, p. 298) is not borne out by the cases there cited Mr. Roberts contended that money paid in contravention of au Act of Parliament passed for the protection of the class to which the payer belongs against the class to which the receiver belongs, cannot be recovered back unless there was also actual extortion, fraud, or duress. This position, however, appears to me untenable, for to say nothing of the great authority of the late Mr. J. W. Smith, who laid down the rule almost in the very words in which I stated it, it is obvious that where as illegal payment has been obtained by extor • Lion, fraud, or duress, the money may be recovered back without reference to the object of the statute by which the payment is made illegal. The point is. as Mr. Becke correctly put it, Are the parties in pari delicto ? that is, have they been equally guilty of an infringement of the law? Without again going through the cases on which the judgment was founded, and which were commented on at great length at the hearing of this motion, I must say that it appears to me that they clearly show that the parties in such a case are not in pari delicto. Much re liance was plat, d on the stror:g language used by some of the judges who tried the cases cited, in speaking of the conduct of the several defendants. I am by no means sure that if Lord Mansfield had tried the present case he would not have used language equally strong. I have desired, so far as possible, to consider this as a mere question of laiv, but the defendant's advocate at the last court laid much stress on the grandeur and benevolence of the defendant's scheme, the perfect good faith with which all the proceedings hail been conducted, and the total absence of all pecuniary benefit either accrued or to accrue to the defeedant, and he founded on these con siderations an assertion that the reason of the community could not approve of &decision against the defendant. " Now, I must say that my own reason quite ap ipnropvoei s n t o ofdefendant myself boundat f the l a aw decisionto come.to whichr Ist, have findfi.:lt tempting to carry out this scheme in wilful defiance of the provisions of a most wholesome statute passed with express reference to such undertakings. That statute, j though it prohibits the receipt of more than 10s. on each 100/. before complete registration, imposes no penalty on those who violate this provision; so that, unless such an action as the present can be maintained, this most salu tary and wise restriction on the too hasty proceedings of speculators may be set at nought and disregarded with carried out, would be pro'cluctive of advantage, and th a t impunity. 2i. Admitting that the scheme, if leg a lly in all that relates to the expenditure of the moneys subscribed there has been perfect good faith as between the defendant and the subscribers, I must say that it ap pears to me that those who attempt in defiance of law to carry out schemes, however grand and benevolent, are bound (quite independently of all legal and political considerations) to do so at their own risk alene. " • The defendant was a person (compared with the body of the subscribers) of station and intelligence, largely trusted, and implicitly followed; he obtained this sum of money, small, perhaps etso!utely, yet rela tively large from the plaintiff, an ignorant and unlettered man, who was unaware, so far as it appears, that tho payment was prohibited by law, and who expected, and was justitied by the representations hell out to him in expecting, that in return for his money he would obtain a chanc at least, of acquiring a holding; his right and interest in which the law would recognise and prof: et. How diff-rent what he has really received is, I need not again point out, nor will I do more than allude to the multitude of difficulties and embarrassments which must beset this scheme and all connected with it, until it is placed on a footing recognised and sanctioned by the law of the land. It appears to me that th::: Clllltnen sense of the community wilt net disapprove of a decision by which those who have attempted to carry out s uc h sc h emes by a systematic and deliberate violation of those laws, and have thereby brought . the it.terests of othe rs i n t o jeopardy, are made to feel the co ns e quences o f so d o i ng. " Two other points not raised at the trial, and only now argued by consent, were material on behalf of the defendant, but were not much pressed. Ist. That 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110, F. 25, a. 7, shows that more than 103. per 1001. may be received before complet e reg i s t ra ti on ; b u t I think there is an obvious effect to be given to the words in question, pr without construing them as doing a w a y w i t h x baton s. 23; and if possible an A ct mus t be in, t s rp rh r i ted so as to give effect to every part of it. es p 2d. That the money was received by &fen hint as plain tiff's agent, and laid out by him for the purp.tses for which it was received ; but without entering into the question whether it was so laid out, I think the defendant cannot get rid of the liabilities which attach to him as promoter, under the 7 and 8 Vict., c. 110, on this ground. " The judgment, therefore, must stand, and I see no reason for giving further time for the payment of the debt and costs."'—Examiner. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.—Yester day the halt-yearly court ot the governors of this charity was held at the London Tavern, Capt. Nelson in the chair. From the report which was submitted by Mr. R. Geddes it appeared that the resources of the institu tion had suffered in common with others having the like charitable objects in view. The income during 1848 amounted to 5,3691., and by rigid economy on the part of the committee the expenditure had fallen short of that amount. There was at present the sum of 5,1611. 103, invested in the funds in the names of the trustees, and the building account was rapidly progressing. Several very handsome donations and legacies had been received during the past year. After the transaction of some routine business, the meeting proceeded to the election of ten boys and six girls, frem a list of 35 candidates for admission into the asyiuw. The poll closed at three o'clock, when the names of the successful candidates were called over. A considerable number ot the boys and girls of the asylum were in the room during the proceedings, and attracted much attention by their neat and orderly appearance. THE CONVICT O r nsoN.—The murderer in Kirk dale Gaol, even now that the dread sentence of death has been passed upon him, remains the same unconcerned being as before. He is as cheerful as he has been at any period since his committal ; and, restricted to the prison diet, he eats heartily, and sleeps well. At his request, the clothes that originally belonged to him (those in which the murders were perpetrated) have been obtained from Bridewell, and these he is per• mitted to wear. With singular perversity he still main• tains that he is innocent, and that the authorities have got the wrong man. The day after condemnation he dictated a letter to his father; but none of his family or I relatives have been to see him from the day that he was brought to prison up to the present time. Ile exhibits no symptom of repentance, and it is thought that the same obduracy will attend him to the last. There is a strong but morbid desire on the part of many of the public to see the prisoner, and with this object yester day morning several well dressed ladies and gentlemen applied at the gate for permission to attend the church in gaol. The application was of course refused. With the same vi ew , several of the magistrates are beseiged with appli cat i ons f or or d ers t o se e th roug h Ki r kd a l e Gaol; but even if admission be obtained, none of the visitors ar e a ll owe d to seo th e ca pit a l o ff en d er . Th e execution, which will take place in the usual course in three weeks, will, without doubt, be attended by thou sands ; ev en yester d ay, t h e l ane n ear t o th e gao l was thronged by parties who appeared to have no other ob ject in view than to loiter and gaze upon the place where tha scaffold will be erected.— Liverpool Albion, FItEAKS or A FURIOUS BULLOCK.—Yesterday afternoon one of a drove of oxen, being driven from Smithfield to Carnaby market, when near the end of Hatton-garden broke away from the herd, and made off at a rapid pace up Holborn and down Gray's Inn-lane. The beast solectqd the.footpath for its flight, greatly to the alarm of the numerous pedestrians and shopkeepers, knocking d own severa l p ers ons who were severe l y bruised an d contuse d ; an i mmense cr ow d o f b oys an d men, accompanied by d,,gs barking and yelinr. followed .at his heels. In the King's-road he knocked down a vendor of earthenware named Callum, residing in Agar town, St. Pancr as , w ho m he severely gored, tossing the poor fell ow ' s good?, which wore all destroyed. lie con tinued his flight through Brunswick-square and Judd• street ; in his em-eor several other persons were knocked down, and Mr. Tregoning, of Burton crescent, so sev, rely injured that no hopes are enteftained of his recovery. He pursued his flight to Tottenham-court-road, where he was secured and lodged in Richards's slaughter house. ► SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. CIIRONiCLE.—The great vestions connected with the working of free-trade are eminently questions of fact. The whole of the argument resolves itself into one leeonie formula, viz.—What is tae result? Is it true,. or is it not true, arithmetically, that we have more to do— that cotton is in greater demand—that mills are in mot e rapid motion—workmen hotter employed —ships in greater request—than they were before the late exten sive and momentous legislative changes? These are the perpetual interrogatories of a man anxious to judge for himself, and to judge truly. There is only one (plea cation to this test of figures—but a qualification so ob vious, that to omit or overlook it would indicate a total incompetence to pursue the simplest train of refFction, or to discriminate the moat obvious differences. In the first place, there can be no fair comparison where the conditions are manifestly unequal. Nobody believes that there can be any even competition between a man in lull health and spirits, and one who has just broken his leg • or lost his fortune. Nor would any one dream of' accusing ' of failure a man who is unable to move with as much celerity under a load of three hundred weight, as under a load of one. It is not only within the province of Euclid that things which are equal to the same are equal to each other. The law is universe!, and no where is it more palpably applicable than in the region of commer cial statistics. There, ac least, the similarity cf the • things and seasons compared is always the primitive element of any rational comparison. If you choose, you may make yourself at once miserable and ridiculous by insisting upon the melancholy differences between a bad year and a good one—between a time when wheat is 903. a quarter and a time when it is only 40 e—hetween a year of war and a year of peace—between a season of insurrection and a period of prosperous loyalty; but, for all fair comparative purposes, the result will be about as valuable as a parallel between a prize fighter and Tom 'rhumb—between Niagara and the fountains in Trafal gar-square—or between Mont Blanc and Holborn-hill. Plain, reasonable, and distinct as these canons of criticism must appear to all rational people, they are certainly beyond the compre h ens i on of the Country Party. Those most eccentric persons who endure the daily task of defending the figments of Protec tionism have the advantage, or the misfortune, of being remarkably singular in this respect. With them a difference is a difference—and there's an end: Certain figures are unlike certain other figures—atilt the case is settled. The whole of the problem is contained in two parallel columns, arid they fancy that they can read the solution in the totals—at least when these totals suit their own views—a Coincidence, by the way, which occurs so seldom as to amount to a luxury. Now, at all events, free-traders aspire to something better than this. The imposition which we reject is too gross to circuiete for an instant beyond the atmosphere of the nursery. And it so happens that at this moment we can very ap positely illustrate, by the same arithmetical method, the success of our free-era le legislation—while the proofs by which that success is rendered obvious are entirely un teinted by those clumsy devices and those tricks of ma nagement in which the statistical sterility of the country Party condemns them to seek a precarious and transi tory refuge. Returns have just been published, showing in detail the quantities and values of several descriptions of manufactured articles exported to the various countries of the world, during the half-yearly periods respectively ending on the 30th June, 1848, and the 30th June, 1849. These returns, although not formally official, are com piled under such auspices, and are issued under such authority, that they may be safely accepted as accurate statements of the facts which they profess to contain. It is not the less, however, a reflection on the statis tical department of the Government, that information so full of interest and importance cannot be collected under its supervision and issued with the certificate of its im primatur. Now, with reference to these returns, the facts are very striking. If we could permit ourselves to adopt the horn-book practice of our opponents, and to rest contented with a comparison of the strongest facts in the strongest places—proclaiming incessantly that we had achieved a triumph wherever we found a seem ing agreement with our own vi e ws — no thi ng cou ld ex cised the facility of our task. We should have simply to compare the figures of 1848 with those of 1849 leasing the adherents of Mr. Disraeli to exhibit their amazement. 43ut that would be a deceptive victory, to which neither our taste inclines, nor our cause compels us to resort. For the purpose in ques tion, the two years have little in common ; and it would be as futile to employ the com mercial statistics of these two years as fair exponents of the free-trade argument, as it would he to deduce the average beat of our summers from the recorded tempera tures of June and January. • We shell proceed, there fore, upon a more fearless plan, and work upon a surer foundation. We shall take the year 1846—that propi tious year, when, if we are to believe the rhetoric of the Country Party, the land flawed, or rather overflowed, with milk anti honey—when farmers sold their c )rn at 603.•—manufacturers enjoy. d protection —wages were regulated by the price of food—and the leaders of the Protectionists had not begun to feel the pressure of their mortgages. Everything, we are assured, is to be dated from 1846. That was the year before the flood—the last point of solid land above the whirlpool. Then what are the facts as regards this model year? We shall first of all select three descriptions of manufactured articles which are among the most important of our textile fabrics, and in all of which the Protectionists allege that we are daily succumbing before that lugubrious and universal nightmare which they call the " untaxed foreigner." The articles we speak of are plain calicoes, printed calicoes, and woollen and worsted stuffs. Now, as re gards these three commodities, the exports of the first six months of 1849 have been in the following propor tions more than those of the corresponding periods of 1846 and 1843—speaking in the only accurate language of per centuges:— and which Sir Robert Inglis loves to recite in his own oily wey over poor Mr. Roebuck—it begins " Quis talenit Gracchos ?" and M. Emile de Girardin, in his character of a peace-prophet, will not permit us to forget its force and application to modern times. We see in sortie of the reports of the last meeting that M. Cequerel opened its proceedings by producing a little book containing a scheme for universal peace, that had been ehtc ictect by the Quaker Penn some hundred and sixty years aeo. The scheme was as good a scheme as any of these devisers of airy nothings could have de sired. Hottest Penn, with his shovel-hat, had imagined something to the full as satisfactory as the famous arbitration idea" which is the leading characteristic of the pi event peace theory. Now, in spite of all the inge nuity that had been luvishA by poor Penn on his great plan for regenerating mankind, what has been the his tory of Europe since his day? Is it an) thing else than a record of wars—of Louis XIV. and Marlborough's wars—of Chatham's wars—of Frederick the Great's wars—of Napoleon's wars—and of we know not what wars beside ? What influence has a little collateral preaching from a set of harmless enthusiasts ex erted upon the pseaione, the prejudices, arid the follies of mankind ? Au Europ-an war is be coming every day more and more impossible, not through any peace preaching, but because by the natural development of society, a nation now-o'-dues would refuse to enter upon an armed con(est to carry out the mere views of its rulers. In tact, as we pointed out last week when writing upon this subject, interna tional wars—that is, the ware of nation against nation— are not the evil of the time. We are somewhat more modest of prophecy than Mr. Cobden, or we should say, looking at what has taken place in Europe since the Febra try days in Paris, and that the continental nations have passed through the fiery ordeal without a general war, that such an event appears now to be very remote indeed. Our friends of tile Peace Congress,' however, are firing their blank cartridges away at a delusive mark as merrily as a squad of raw recruits on practice days. If they would turn their attention' to composing internal differences and social anomalies, each man in his own country, they would be much more usefully and profitably employed. The strange inconsistency of choosing Paris as the place of session for the Congress appears to have struck at least one of the speakers. We spoke just now of the production of Penn's little book by M. Coquerel, and of the effsct it would must probably have produced on any one not blinded by prejudice, en.. thusiasm, or interest. But there was something before the eyes or every member of this precious peace meeting which should have been more convincing than even the practical exposition of a scheme such as their own, with its results. There was a monument before them more striking than the record of a Quaker's harmless folly; there was Paris itself, with its arches, its quays, and its bridges. The C egress was held in a vest city, every brick and stone or which gave a practical denial to every one of their assertions. It you enter Paris by that mag nificent arch dedicated to the recollection of Napoleon and his triumphs, or pass along the quays and bridges which bear the names of the great battles in which Frenchmen have triumphed; or enter the public galleries and look upon walls covered from the ceiling to the floor with painted representations of battle and slaughter —you will find the attention of the population, past and present, to have been busy with little else than the pomp, pride, and circumstance of the battle-field. Every little gamin you meet or see at hie play is in some way or other prepar ing himself - for burning cartridges at a future day. There is certainly a kind of propriety in holding a see sion of a Peace Congress at such a place, just us there would be just now in giving lectures upon the Asiatic cholera in Walworth or Bethnal green; or as there would have been two years back in delivering a series of discourses upon probity he the neighbourhood of Capel court. One word in conclusion. It is somewhat unfor tunate for Mr. Cobden that where foreign nations are concerned he never ventures upon a striking prediction without some event happening instantly afterwards to cover him with confusion. We all remember the time when Mr. Cobden, who had gone out from amongst us, like the dove, to report upon the condition of the troubled waters, came back, after a careful inves tigation, with a sprig of green in his mouth. No sooner, however, had he arrived than the windows of Heaven were opened in every-direction, and the flood begun in right earnest. That was the time when Mr. Cobden returned from his continental journey, to tell us that we were to have tranquillity in Europe for the next century. The prophecy was uttered in January, 1848, or thereabouts. We have now a pendant to that little prediction. Some three or four weeks ago Mr. Cobden, at a public meeting, crumpled up a sheet of paper in his hand, signifying thereby that he was prepared to serve the Emperor of Russia in the same way on the smallest provocation, and that the Emperor in question had no greater force of resistance than the sheet of Bath post so crumpled up. Well, telex, look at Hungary, and think of this second instance of Mr. Cobden's political sagacity and foresight! Mr. Cobden will do well to re. member a very homely proverb, and confine himself to those topics with which he is practically acquainted, and in discussing which he has earned the high reputation he has lately seemed anxious to destroy. More than 1848. Per cent. 40 More than 1846. Per cent. Printed .calicoes 34 Plain calicoes Stuffi 23 These facts certainly indicate none of those symptoms of supers..d, d industry of which u e have been compelled to hear so many prognostications from all sorts of pro phets. Nor must it be supposed that the above-namt d branches of trade are, in any sense, insignificant. The exports of plain calicoes are about 800 millions of yarns per annum—those of printed calicoes, about 500 millions of yards—and the value of the stuffs exported is not less than three millions of pounds sterling. But this is not all. The facts we have given refer to the total export of these articles during the periods specified. An examination of the details of that export places us in possession of re-ults equally striking and equally satisfactory. If we collect together the exports to the eight foreign countries upon which we depend most largely for the consumption of our cotton fabrics, and if we compare t'ae figures indicating the respnctive amount of these exports in 1846 and in 1849, w e shall arrive at some moat instructive facts. From the Ist of January to the 30th of June, 1846, for example, we exported to Holland, Russia, Pomp!, Gibraltar, 'Wafts, the United States, Brazil, and the Levant, 96 600,000 yards of plain calico —and, in the eorrevond ing six months of 1849, no less than 125.700,000 yards. To the same countries, in 1846, we export, d of printed calico, 52.300,000 yards, and in 1849 as many as 89,300 000 yards. And again, reducing these quantities to a p,r centage comparison, we haye the following figurea. The exports of 1849 have been more than those of 1846, in Plain calicoes by 3O per cent. Printed by , 71 " But not only are we prepared -to analyze the total exports of these articles into groups of countries— we are equally ready to decompose these groups into separate states. We should like it to be gene rally known, that, so far are the Manchester people from being ruined by free trade, they have sold to the Levant alone, during the first six months of the present year, 21,200,000 yards of plain calico, and 16,400,000 yards of printed calico, more than during the same period of 1846—that to the United States the sale of plain calico has increased 17 per cent., while the sale of printed calico has increased 'ourfold—and that in the Mediterranean markets of Gibraltar and Malta our trade in these cotton fabrics has been doubled. We have said little, thus far, of 1848, nor have we said anything of those countries which, during that year and the present, have been devastated by foreign or domestic war. These facts we reserve. But so far as we have gone we can scarcely be accused of timidity, or of having selected the topics and the time least favourable to those whose mis•• chievous hallucinations we would expose. Let it be borne in mind that 1849 has been, up to the present p !tied, a year of only partial revival—that the field open to our enterprise and industry is still encumbered with the huge and disorderly fragments of an epoch of almost universal anarchy e -and that we have not hesitated to challenge comparison between even the incipient pros perity of a free-trade year and the perfect and mature prosperity of a season which came as the climax of a long series. Let these circumstances be remembered, tied we can have no feeling but one of the utmost willing ness to leave. the facts to make their own way, and the argument to tell its o;vn story. TIMES.—If we return to the subject of the Peace Congress, whose meeting at Paris has just terminated, it is not that we are inclined to modify our opinion as to the utter absurdity of its proceedings from a more inti mate acquaintance with the sentiments of the speakers. The French press, we perceive—at least the more influ • ential and authoritative representative of public opinion in that country—has taken precisely the same view of the case as we have done in London. Their utmost eu logy has been to damn the Congress with the faintest praise that ever slipped from the pens of public writers. Not one single Frenchman of any weight in political affairs, with the single exception of M. Emile de Girar din, has by his presence countenanced the gathering. As for MM. Coverel and Victor Hugo, it is the sacred pro fession of the first of these gentlemen to preach "P e p e° on earth, and goodwill towards men,"—and we have not a word to say against his appearance in public on such an occasion; but with Victor Hugo, the poet and the novelist, it is a ditf-rent affair. How long ago is it since that gentleman favoured the world with a political dis sertation at the end of a work bearing for title Le Rhin in which all the nations of E'irope were offered up in a holocaust on the altar of Bellona, so that France should be reinstated in what the author was pleased to describe as her natural limits. We are csrtainly gratified at finding M. Victor liege g ing nad rather on the subject of peace than of war, Out we sadly fear for the stability of his impressions. Breerss from the sweet i south, impregnated with faint odo urs o f t h e tu b ero - e , the jessamine, and the Orange-bloom to•day—to mor row a gala that would do honour to the Bay of Biscay or the Cape of Good Hope —such are the conditions of the poetic temperament. We lo o k u p on M. Vi c t o r H peace speech at his la s t wor k— and a very f ee bl e onuegiot'ais—and there is an end of the matter. As fer M. Emile de Girardin, he is a very clever man • his worst en emy will not deny him that a tt r ib ute; aid the Peace Notoriety suits his purpose just now. There is a famous old passage, dear to of Roman midi; poetry, dent. On Saturday an inquest was held on vrecv) the remains before Major Herring, the Mayor 01 Saltash, when a verdict of " Accidentally drowned was returned. The interment of the body is to tsk e place in the family vault at Antony this day. It isi i remarkable circumsta nce th a t Li eu t enan t B o ys P` the Impregnable, had only on the previous day be e° speaking to the deceased and young Brownrigg abet learning to swim, and had given Mr. Brownrigg 0 9 e lesion in the art, and the deceased had consulted bi l father about learning to swim. As Mr. Brownrigg had got so much confidence by his single lesson as r swim a few strokes, it may be presumed that this some measure contibuted to his escaping the fate 0 hii young friend. SUNDAY, AUG. 26.—1 n honour of the birthday of l the Prince Consort, Prince Alb er t, th e Bor t Standard was hoisted at an early hour at all the tlav il l and military stations, at the R o y a l Western Yoc,h", Club, and at ether public est a bli s h men t s , an d 0 ," naval and merchant ships in p or t were pro fusel decorated with fligs. At one o'clock royal salut e were fired from the citadel at Plymouth, the platforo at Mount Wi'e, and the battery at Mount Edgecutrib e ,; and were promptly responded t o b y h er M a jesty' flag-ship Impregnable, 104, Captain Sir Tnotl o , Maitland, in Hamoaze, and by the steam blockse La Hogue, Captain Ni'Dougall, in Barn pool. Wind—N.W., light breeze and fine weather. WooLwrcw, AUG. 27.—The African steam vesse l was taken out of the inner basin t o -d a y, b e ing II ° gf again nearly ready for service. The Vivid steam-vessel, Captain Smithett, - h . g ! returned to Dover, and resumed h e r d u ti es as a 1 0 packet on that station. This vessel, when attending the Queen as one of the royal squadron, perforin t , her work remarkably well, a n d p rove d th e f a stest well as the most serviceabl e vesse l i n th e W l3°i; squadron. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. or The following is the official statement of the qua ntities corn, &c., received in the po r t o f L on d on f rom t h e port , l 9 Essex, from the 20th Aug., 1849, t o t h e 25th A u g., both inclusive:— • . - el) 74 g X 1 1 0 pci 0.1 Colchester 1 t 96 Harwich 384 Leigh . Mahlon - 37 ~....1 601 1 75' 48 0 10 0 731 • CHELMSFORD, AUG. 24.—W e h a d a l arge su pply of f b wheat in good condition at our market this Gay, and Int,, of it was sold at about the prices of last week. Last Ye' the crop is now almost unsaleable at any price, and . 0 u , samples are generally reje c t e d. All e l se w ith ou t varian . ,o Wheat, white, old 44s to 50 3 ; new 46 ; t o 52 5; red, lier 40; to 423 ; new, 40s to 46 s ; b ar l e y, — s t o — s ; ehe,le's4l —s to —s; grinding 22 s t o 28 s; oa t s 17 s t o 23 5; to to 565; chevalier 54s to 58s; peas, partridge, new 2 95 , 1 , ; 3ls ; old, 30s to 32; ; white, n ew , 28 s t o 30 1 ; o ld, 29s to 3 295 dun, new, 27s to 30s ; beans, tick, new 28; to 31s ; old, to 31s; harrow ticks, new 28s to 31s; old 30s to 323; zagan, new 24; to 26s ; old 26s to 28s per qr. 42. COLCHESTER, Atm 25.—Wheat, whit e 46 3 t o 525; r ed ddle to 46s ; barley 30s to 00 s; b eans , mazagan 26 ; to 28s; 01 and small 28s to 30s ; peas 26s to 30s per qr. "'ADDINGTON, AUG. 24.—The follo w i ng are th e p r ic es Of grain at our market to-day : Wheat. Barley. Oats. 932° 0' First 54s Od 28s Od 22; 03 343 0,1 Second ... 463 93 26s 8d kW 7d 323 od Third ... 403 63 24; 03 17s Od 3 13 la Total quantity of Wheat in market 296 qrs., 281 s° l 4 Do. Barley do. 51 qrs., 45 sold Do. Oats d o . 234 qrs ., 231 %la Do. Beans d o . 45 qrs ., 3 9 ',, s s KIRKALDY, Aua. 25.—The f o ll ow i ng are th e von . up to this date:— Wheat. Batley. Oats. Beans. relisi od First ... 50s Od 28 s 03 22 s 03 —s Od I-4 od Second 473 6d 24s Od 21s 641 —s Od I Third 423 Od 233 Od 193 Od —s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs. imp.. 23; to 2930 d. ( a GLASGOW, AuG. 23.—P rov i s i ons — C heese, 40s to 41s Od per cwt • retail, sid to 6(1 per lb. Skim m ilk, 18 s to 20s cwt. Country fresh butter, 93 to 10d per lb ; Irish p o i s dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale , r i d to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen; carried hen ditto, 53 0 per hundred, o r 7d per d ozen. H ens, 2s Od per pair; _ 2s Od. 3 11 KELSO, AUG. 24.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto, pea,O t° to 4 s d ; barley, new, 17 s to 20s Od ; ditto old, Os or Os ; potato oats, Os to Os Od ; ditto new, 13s to lss Od ; C OI mon oats, 12s to 14s Od ; ditto new, Os Od to Os Od ; peas, to 253 Od; b eans , 2 4s to 25s per boll of six imperial bushelitte STIRLING, A uG. 24.—Wheat, foreign, 22s to 26s Od; home, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 22s Od to 00;; barlekA; b.. 11 of 6 bushels, O s Od to O s Od ; ditto new, 17 , od to 1966-d; oats, common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 121 Od to 15° ,,, 5 11 ditto, Flemish, Os Od t o O s Od ; di tto d i tto new, Os Od L;oto distillers, 35s to 38; ; ditto brewers, 37s Od to 39s ; a ft per boll, Os 6d to Os Od ; ditto new, 15s Od to 17s 6d; P o e so is 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new , per sac k , 3 4s to 35s ; ditto O. o d; ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oa t mea l, per l oa d , O s od to v s „A; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditt o p er pec k o f 71bs, Ezid to OS l i d . ; fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to hay per ton, 45s to 50s. PERTH, Auc. 23.—Wheat, 40s Od to 48s Od ; barley to 25s Od; oats, 17s to 20s; peas and beans, 25 s od to 2 c'' per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 261 to 28s. i s ay ' ' FALKIRK, AUG. 23. —Th e supp l y o f gra i n in t -h b o ll • market was 230 b o ll s; w h eat at 22s 6d to 23s 6 d Per Oll barley, 00s Od to Os Od ; oa t s , 14 s 3d to 163 6d; beans , 11 0 to 00s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAWICK, A UG . 23.—Wb ea t, new , 37 s Od to 43s od; dit to old, 00s to oos ; barley, new, 18; to 21s 6d ; potato 03 0 1 13s Od to 15s Od ; com mon oats, 11 ; to 14sOd ; peas, 23 3 .A to 2.5 s Od ; beans, 23s Od t o 23 3 Od per boll of six imperial bushels. • NAVAL IN TLLLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Salutes from the flag ships and the platform at five o'clock this evening announced the arrival at Gosport of the Lords of the Admiralty to make their annual inspection of this important station. The movements of the Board of Admiralty having become so hackneyed a subject of detail, especially on periodical visits to the dockyards, and as all dockyards are much alike in their equip ment, and consequently afford no diversity for description in chronicling the perambulations of visitors, whether official or less consequential, we shall not inflict upon the reader the task of wading through the monotonous chapter of arrival, embark ing, saluting, steering, landing, reception, inspection of stores and houses, re-emberkings, re landings, and such like uninteresting minutiae connected with the duties of this puissant body, but leave them to per form their tedious labours unintruded upon. Should their vieit, however, be productive of any benefit to , the port or to the service, or should any vessels be commissioned, new works ordered, or occurrence of interest take place consequent upon their Lordships' presence, the public shall have the benefit of it; but we think it high time that the chronicling of mere cursory inspections and " dining out " of official bodies should give place to the more sensible chroni cling of business. The Pallas, Russian frigate, did not sail last night for Madeira, as she appeared to have done by getting under way and firing salutes of 21 and 17 guns, but after working round Spitliead, and displaying consi derable seamarbhip in her movements, she dropped anchor again to know the reason why her parting compliment of 21 guns to the garrison was not re turned. Captain Purcell, of the Superb, communi cated immediately with the Commander-in-Chief, and we believe the circumstance was through him com municated to the Lieutenant-Governor, as the salute was eventually fired by the Platform battery, a few minutes before eight .o'clock, by moonlight. We are informed that a poor Marine sentinel is charged with the offence of not "reporting" the Russian's fire ; but at this moment (six P.m.) we have not time to inquire whether the report be correct or not. It seems, however, both too absurd and too tyrannical for truth. A salute from the garrison at so unusual an hour caused no little consternation at the port, no one but the officials knowing the cause. At six this.morning the Pallas sailed for Madeira. The Elfin, royal dispatch yacht, Master. Com mander Balliston, having had her bottom scrubbed and the needed steam-pipes fitted, was taken out of duck today, ready for service. The Encounter screw corvette was taken into dock this morning, to have her bottom inspected, prior to commission by a Commander. Wind—West; light breezes and fine weather. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 25.—0 n Tuesday next, on board her Majesty's ship impregnable, 104, Captain Sir T. Maitland, in Hamoaze, a court-martial is to be held for the purpose of trying Commander Pitman for alleged acts of cruelty, oppression, and tyranny, towards the officers and crew of her Majesty's sloop Childers, 16, when recently in command of that ship on the African station. FATAL ACCIDENT TO THE HON. T. E. PAGET GRAVES.—ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—On Friday after noon the second master of her Majesty's ship Impreg nable, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C. 8., the flag ship at Devonport, and Mr. Croke and Mr. De Mon tezuma, midshipmen, and Mr. Brownrigg and the Hon. Thomas Edward Paget Graves, naval cadets, were in a small shore boat, cruising about the Haneoaze, when, passing between the Impregnable and the Mount Edgecumbe shore, a proposal was ma d e by Mr. Croke to change seat s with the second master, and Mr. Graves, who had been steering, proposed that some one should change with him, so that he might pull awhile. All the parties stood up in the boat to make these changes, and immediately the boat upset, and they were all precipitated into the water. The second master and Mr. de Montezuma, on rising to the surface, caught hold of the boat, which was lying keel up, and held on until they were taken off by a boat from her Majesty's brig Crane, on board of which the accident had been observed. Mr. Croke took charge of Mr. Brownrigg, and with him swans towards the shore, and after having proceeded some distance, was taken on board a boat by Mr. Banks, ship-builder, of Cremill, who, on seeing the accident, had at once called the assistance of some of his work people, and put off in a boat in the hope of relieving the young gentlemen from their perilous position. Having Mr. Croke and his charge on board, M DIED V• r. Oa the 21st s ea t, a t Old B romp t on, aged 62, the 1 `.„'".410, Banks asked if all were safe, and found that Morgan, many y ears cura t e o f St. M art i n ' s -i n - t h e -Fie one was missing ; and this turned out to be the i and late of Camden-villas, Camden-town. gap& Honourable Mr. Graves. After rowing round the On the 20th inst., aged 39, Helen, the wife of E. R. place where the boat had upset, a young man, named cock, Esq. Robert Bruce, in the employ of M r . Banks, be. B O w n c tl i e rN th in ( s i t., at Pentonville, a ge d 44, Mr. Birdsal l ' °I flaying he saw the deceased som e di stance d own i n On the 22d -Y ins r t ,at Margate, Anna, the wife of C. Crado cig ' the water, gallantly dived, but found the object he had , Esq., of Burton-crescent, Tavistock-place, aged 58. of noticed to be a handkerchief; which he br o u g ht u p. On the 2.3 d inst., aged 95. Arthur Palmer, sen., Ds c l" Drags were obtained, an d a f ter about one hour Park-row, Bristol. of the lite and a half's labour the body of the unfortunate Harriett uh er On the 23d inst., at Putney„da g t young gentleman was recovered, quite dead. The Oct Charles Shepherd, Esq, of Bedford-row. the 23d inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. Ralph Le o. deceased was the eldest son and heir of Lotd Graves; Bens'-n, formerly rector of Easthope, Shropshire, aged b colia he was a naval cwiet belonging to the Southampton, At Dacre-terrace, Lee, Kent, on the 24th inst., Ann, Be Admiral Reynolds fl ag . s hi p, but was serving on daughter of the late Mr. J. Clark. board the Impre gna bl e, and was about thirteen years London: Printed and Published by MURDO 'WITS l i 6 ' of age. The body was subsequently removed to the , No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, NO . : family residen ce on th e b anks of the Tamar, and Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tht colow Tuesday, August 28, 1849. about two miles and hitlf from the scene of the acci- I BERWICK, Aua. 23.—Wheat, 653 5d ; barley, 249 2 i d; oats, 20s ,Od ; rye, 00s Od ; beans, 28s 8d ; peas, oo s Od ar rage per imperial quarter. COAL MARKE' East Adairs Main 13s 6d Hedley's Hartley Elolywell Main lss 6d Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart 15s 6d 'Canfield Moor Wylam ___ :T.—YESTERDAY. 9d 17S 9 3 Hetton ... 17e 3 j Haswell Lambton Russell's Hetton .••••• 175 6d Stewart's 16s 6d ffelloe ,.,, :I.A West Hartlepool Adelaide Tees Consett Tees .... • ••• i ' ° 6d rees Alloy 13 5 o Garnaat Stone ...... ... V G : 1 dartley —.... ...... ..• ‘ ,.. a Ships at market, 1". Wall's End, &c. Brown's Gas Morrison lss 6 , Riddell's lss Od Bell Belmont l6s 9, Braddyll RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS' - - ------- BRISTOL, AUG. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—'rhe market has been fiat to-c 1 3 0 1; scarcely any transactions ha v i ng b een c l osed in ElcbAl/P hours. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 27. STOOK EXCIIANOE.—There was very little business til l 0 . acted in our share market to-day, and prices have a doW d ward tendency. The sal es are —Bi rm i ng h am an d Oxf°r: 24—Great Northern, I I t/ 2 dis. • itto (5 per centPreceren, 1 5 4 i dis. Lancashire and Yorkshire,. Fifths. 4 dis. Halves (L. and 8.),1214 dis.—Lonuon and North. W 128 c.— itto, New Quarters, 2 p.—Midland, 62 1 4 C ;0, Ditto, Halves, 15% dis. —York, Newcastle, and B erw i c k N. E. Purchase), Yreterence, guaranteed 6 per cent., 4A —Shropshire Union, p.zs„....d,dis. DIANCHESTER, Alia. 27. STOCK Exctinktorg. —The t ransactions to-day We— e , follow : Eastern Counties, BE4 East Lancashire, P r efereq 7 3 ,,—Dover, No. 4 (Scrip), 6 13-16—Manchester and Len ,, . Fifths, 4 1-16 dis.—Mancheste r an d Birmingham kw' Quarters, 2 13-16 p. B MINGHAM, Ada. 27. • STOCK EXCHAN I R E.— There has be en a considerabls ad, n vance in the pri ce o f South Staffordshire sh ares , which hero done at 4% dis—North Staffordshire, 6% Union, 3 dis. Sir Henry Floyd, Bart., accompanied by Capt4,l! P v i e g e a l t , i ß un N e ., o c in am pa e u r s ai s v t r o g l e m rs - ty ip tb s e oh G oe, neral Steam l ' or p from nobs yesterday, and arrived in London early Pit l ram ninz. [ADVFRTISEMENT.]—Astonishing Cure of fl Ve g Bid d Leg of Thirty Y ears ' S tanding by Holloway's pills of Ointment.—The wife of Mr. George Bourne, butcher'fol Stockton-on-Tees, suff ere d f or full thirty years with a driginc bad leg, apparently or i g i nat i ng b y the bursting of a vein in nally ; the pain w as i n t ense . T he most eminent medical O ho in the neighbourhood t r i e d t o cure i t, b ut in vain ; at last gin was induced to try Holloway's Pills and Ointment, who" i n the astonishraent of herself and all who knew her, the legs e, the course of eight wee k s , was th oroug hl y h ea l e d and 0 0 1. 4 and has remained sound and free f r om pain for the last TO", • moaths.--Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor HOLOWAI Establishment, 244, Strand, i..ondon. BIRTHS. the On the 21st inst., at Heydon-h ouse , E ssex, the w if e o f t- Rev. C. Boothby, of a son. On the Tid inst. , at Westb ourne -terrace-road, the wife of E. M. Perkins, Esq., of a daughter. haolf On the 2 id inst., at O a k- co tt age, Hanover-park, Pec,..,..-- the wife of Mr. E. Fyffe, of a daughter. ob i f On the 23d inst., at G a i na b oroug h , t h e w if e o f M. ' c, — jun., Esq., of a daughter. a o ' On the 24th inst., at South am pt on - p l ace, New-roa-1 R D. APCracken, of a son. - affo' On the 24th inst., at Stanley. villas, Kensington-park, G. Hayes, of a son. I,'r de A' On the 25th inst , at Gresham-pl ace , D a l ton, Mrs. A rick W. Pr ce, of a son. On the 25th inst., at Stratford, Essex, the wife of fir' I/ Van Patten, of a son. _...• MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at St. John's, Notting-hill, Frederic o . Bell, Esq., of Springfi e ld, Hi g h Wycombe, to Caroline R",b.. son, third daughte r o f t h e late William Barr, Esq., P l ' place, Peckham, At the Cathedral, Man c h es t er , on th e 23d i ns t ., Neil nish, Esq.. merchant, to Eliza, third daughter of T. Li t " Esq., the Howe, Douglas, Isle of Man. SIC On the 3d inst., at St. George's, Hanover.square, o"" o ni Dennis, sec on d son o f Mr. R. Dennis, of Hartland, P a ' s yr to Elizabeth, s econ d d aug h ter of the late Mr. J. Holler of Winchester. 2 • Ilex aut I and and Co( gait per WII Joh ner Joh Joh Pren for t COm d aura e f fe 'teat, th e i, outs !tea Cl the •PPr Conn Quin -Elev Lon( Ages folio T 1) ITI fb Clare sv,, Parti or tl for t AI Adap a ICI Ping. „ 11'4 PA. ft gar • PA bri Lklll ef '44,4