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13, Great Marlborough-street. CAFTAtx MARRYAT'S NEW IIrc)RK, " PERCIVAL ," IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, in 3 Yob. Henry Col.fourn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. , 12ris AucusT, 1842. TIES MAJ ES IY HAMBURGH the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, BIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, • AI I 7D HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which, though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be übtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Sellizv GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS r . for the said DIST/S.IBU "mos dPsirons to purchase max re:eive, PREVIOUS to giving anii order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. • THEATRE ROYAL, COVEN T- GA RDEN. • The Public is respectfully inforrneo that this Theatre will OPEN FOR THE SEASON TO-MORROW, SEPTEMBER 3, 1842, when Will be performed Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Hurisen; Oroveso, Mr. Giubilei; Flaying, Mr. Binge; Norma Miss Adelaide liemble; Adalgis a , Mi ss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Lane. After which will be produced a New Comedy, in Two Aets, writ.. ten by Douglas Jerrold:Esq., entitled GERTRUDE'S CHERRIES, OR WATERLOO Dr 1e35. Willoughby, Mr. Bartley; Vincent, Mr. W. Lacy ; Guibert, Mr. Diddear; Jack Halcyon, air. Har e y ; Crosshone,.Mr. Meadows ; Angelica , Miss Cooper ; Mrs. Crossbone, Mrs. Humby ; Gertrude. Mrs. W. Lacy. Doors open at half-past Six, and the Performances begin at Seven. Dress Boxes is.. Second Price 3s. 6/1 , First and Second Circles 55., Second Price k 4. 6d.; Pit 3s. ' Second Price 23. ; Gallery Is. Ticket s and Places for the Boxes t o be taken of Mr. Whitlow, at the Box- Office, from Ten till Four. where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-Otli e; of Mr. Andrews 347. New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old B on d street; and of Mr. trams. Pali Mall. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. LAST NIGHT OF THE PRESENT SEASON. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2. ,-- Will be per orme:d the Drama entitl e d SELF ACCUSATION.— - Characters by M , ,ssrs. Oxberry, W. H. Bland, Lynne, Green, Misi Granby and ;Las Faucit. "Iu which will be added, the Farce of DEAI. AS A POST.— Tristram Sappy, Mr Harley • Sally Maggs, Miss St a nley. To be followed by THERESS—Carwin, Mr. Diddear; Therese, 31. es Fauxit To conclude wi h MRS. WHlTE—Character. by Messrs. Granby, Oxberry, Miss Stanley, Miss Crisp, and Mrs. Granby, Boxes, 4s. Pit, Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine . Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at theit Libraries. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Immense attraction. '1 he Opera Company in Two Pieces. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MI S ROMER. THIS EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, IMO perhrreances will commence with BeliinPs LA SONNAM. ILlLA.—Amir.a, Miss Romer; Liz; Mrs. Serie; Rodelpho, Mr. Leffler; Elvin., Mr. W. Harrison ; with an increased Band, and a powerful Chcrns, conducted y Mr. G. Stansbury, To conelude w,th Bishop's Opera of GUY M ANNERING Henry Bertram, Mr W. Harrison ; Julia Mannering, Miss Romer; Lucy Bertram, Mrs. Serle Pieces and Private 3oxes may be t•ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the i.ox Office, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Girandola will commence this week at Half.past Eight GRAND EVENING FETES, MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY, with the fo lowing matchless combination of uniq-e attractions:— The celebrated MENAGERIE, recently enriched by several Zoo. /ogical rarities. Toe stupendous TYPORAMIC MODEL AL-FRESCO of ROME from the left bank of the Tiber. The PROMENADES Al USICALES by the unrivalled Band of Wind Instruments, coeclucted by Mr. Godfrey including Berlioz' Overture Fantastique, "Les Francs Juges ;" a New Grand Fantasia by Muller; the Selections from Adis and Galatea," and "•Oberon ;" Beethoven's Grand gattle Sinfonia." with its extr:oardinary isici_ dental effects; and a variety of popular pieces . After the Concert the Illumination of St. P-etees, and the Giran dola of Saint Angelo, with Southby's ma Saificent Pyrotechnic Spec. lades, Extiiordinary Aquatic Firewo,as on the Lake, and Superb Cascade of Fire. Admission to the whole of ttie Entertainments, One Shilling. Open at Ten in the Morn':.sg.—Feeding at Five.—Concert at Half past Five.—Fireworks at :dalr.p.lst Eight, HD;H VI LVVAI AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. R4orning".... ..ainutes after H 4 Evening ..... r, minutes after 0. 4 * if *, sc „', ;,u; 4, 4 )1 ' 47 " - k3 °..„ y b F OR O qitt "Atn. LONDON: FWD 1Y MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1842. _....____ It seems, by the complaints in the Manchester papers, that the Mayor. was absent in London when the riots began; that Mr. MAUDE, the sti pendiary Magistrate, was nut informed of the in tention of the in-marching people in time to stop them ; - and that Sir C. SHAW was not sufficiently alarmed at the intelligence that they were com ing, which he had received, to give an emphatic warning to the Magistrates. All these were for . - timate circumstances, and the consequence was that the people marched into Manchester, turned out the mill hands, and had their holiday out in, comparatively speaking, a very peaceable man ner. Not that we suppose Mr. NIELD, the Mayor, a gentleman of great mildness of temper and suavity of manners, had he been present, would have taken on himself the awful responsibility of causing a riot, which would most probably have ended in bloodshed, by unnecessarily and wantonly . interfering with the Turn-outs—not that we sup pose Mr. MAunE would have departed from his considerr.te line of conduct, and begun an affray ; by assaulting the leading women of the party-- not that we suppose Sir C. SHAW could, under any circumstance of zeal and interest, have com pletely forgotten those wise principles of forbear ance which have generally distinguished the conduct of the Manchester Magistrates; never theless, as some accident might in the first instance have provoked a collision between one or all of these Magistrates and the Turn-outs, we hold it to have been extremely fortunate that the Mayor was absent, that Mr. MAUDE was ignorant, and that Sir C. Saw was not bristling with bayonets and zeal. The consequence of not interfering with the people, in the first instance was to place them palpably in the wrong, and make their cause appear erroneous to the bulk of the community; while, had they been interfered with, had a col lision, attended with bloodshed, in the first in stance, taken place, passion and sympathy would have enlisted themselves on the side of the Turn-outs, and what might have been, under such circumstances, their success aNd the public disasters, it is impossible to foresee. Suppose that a Tory Mayor had been on the spot, being a mill-owner, or connected with mill-owners, and, dreadfully alarmed fi)r the fate of his own and his brother anill-owriers' property, had essayed to stop the march of the Ashton and Staley-bridge people, and had high words with them, had caused the Riot Act to be read, had fired an the people, had killed half-a-dozen of the singing women in the front—had such been the case, neither that Mayor nor any of his brother mill owners would ever have been forgiven; the people would have been at once blown into a flame, and a general rising throughout England for the Charter might have been the consequence• We esteem the absence of the Mayor, therefore, and th e non- i nterference of the Magistrates, in the first instance, which our Contemporaries re gret or blame, to have been most fortunate cir cumstances fur Manchester and the empire. It prevented a Peterloo massacre, and a Bristol con flagration. A secondary consequence of not interfering with the people was to prevent them forming a very close union. .An attack would have bound them together by grief and passion. They would have been immediately inthaied, they would have found amongst them eloquent tongues, loud talk would still further have irritated their minds, and instead of having a scattered, dis pirited, self-convicted mob of non-cohering indi viduals to deal with, the Magistrates might have bad the whole population organised and in furiated. Then, instead of quietly dispersing, they might in their anger have made a wreck of Manchester, and given to the flames those wonderful machines which are the just pride of • the Manchester people themselves and ,the honour of England. Again, we see reason to say, that it Was extremely fortunate that the Magistrates did not zealously interfere with the Turn-outs in the first instance, for that in our opinion has tended to suppress the insurrection, and has saved Manchester front the flames and England front confusion. It is we know, by the heated partizan3 of coercion, who are blind with rabid zeal in favour of the etnpb of terror as the only means of governing society, that it was the duty of the Magistrates to interfere, and to put down the be ginning of the turn-out for wages with a strong hand. Possibly the law does prescribe that as a ditty. But we know that Corn-laws—laws to bang men for trifling offences—laws to keep the Catholics out of the Constitution—laws to.de- Trade the Dissenters, have all prescribed duties, performing which inflicted a great injury on so ciety, and were much hetterleft unperformed. We cannot, therefore, adopt the op i nion, because the law prescribed a certain duty at Manchester, that gcod would necessarily have ensued from r performing it. We have mentioned some reasons for forming a contrary opinion, and we venture to believe, after some consideration, that it was very fortunate, if such a duty be pre scribed by the law, that it was not performed. I An ounce of mercy and discretion, of kindness and affection, in such a case, is in our opinion more worth than a ton of law, and an army of sol diers; and we rejoice unfeignedly that the law was not vigorously acted on in the first instance at Manchester. It was vigorously acted on at Kennington-common, and the results are by no means favourable to the continuance of public peace in future. The Corn Returns show that the average price of wheat, for the week ending the 27th ult., was 555., and the price, we rejoice to say, has since continued to fall. The returns show that the price in Lancashire, where it ought to rule high, is only 475. 9d.; in Cambridgeshire it is only 51s. Bd.; and in Suffolk only 535. 6d. It seems quite certain now, therefore, that the price of wheat will be considerably below 50s. before Christmas. The recent issue by the Stamp-office, of a cir cular relative to levying the Income-tax on the occupiers of land, in which the tithe rent-charge finds a conspicuous place, reminds us that this is the first year since the Tithe Commutation Act was passed, in which the selling price of corn is likely to be considerably below the price by which the rent-charge is fixed. Our readers will recollect that, by that Act, the average price of the seven years ending with the Christmas preceding, determines the rent charge into which tithes are commuted every year. Now, the average price of wheat for the seven years, 1835-1841, inclusive, was 51s. 6d., or above the present average price. Hitherto the landowners and the farmers have been tolerably well able to pay the charge, be cause the average price at which it has been fixed has been less than the price at which they sold their corn. This year the case will be re versed, and it may be doubted ifin many cases the increased quantity will compensate to the farmers for the fall in price. Of course it would, if that had been exclusively determined by our own produce ; but as the fall in price has been partly caused by the large importation of foreign wheat, it will be proportionably greater than is required by the quantity of our own produce ; and while the tithe-owner will rejoice at the cheapness, the landowner and the farmer will grumble not a little at what they will lose. To the farmers and the landowners, that cheapness which Sir ROBERT PEEL has done so much, ac cording to his own statements, to promote, will be felt as a pure evil—to the tithe-owner it wi be an unmixed good. The cheapness whic is to compensate all other classes for the burden of the Income-tax, will only exasperate that burden for the agriculturists, and soon place them amongst the most discontented classes in the kingdom. When we think of the stern and inexorable demands of the tax-gatherer on the poor farmers —at all times much averse from making prompt payments—and think of those demands in con- junction with falling prices, and the payment of a heavy rent charge, we are compelled to pity the poor farmers. How they will hate and curse the Tories and Sir R. PEEL when the Income tax is demanded of them, and wheat at 405.! Poor Sir ROBERT too, more wretched than ACTIEON, who suffered from the wrath of a Goddess, he has transformed himself, in order to be the leader of the agriculturists, and he seems now to , be in a fair way, like ACTiEON, to be worried by his own dogs. We foresee that we shall have to defend him from his followers before Christmas, and we at once begin by declaring that the law under which the landlords and farmers will suffer was granted to their demands ; that Sir Ro.. BERT PEEL would have made a more liberal law if the landed aristocracy would have allowed him; and that the cheapness which they will as cribe to him is far more the consequence of a bountiful harvest than of his measures. It was lately stated at a meeting of the artizans of Manchester, that the different classes of work men had within a few years spent 3,000,0001. in their endeavours, by strikes, combinations, &c., to raise wages. It is now stated, that these persons have still in their possession, as members of Provident Societies, Burial Clubs, &c. &c., considerable sums, and we read of their recently withdrawing 1,500/. from a Savings' Bank at Stockport, and of their giving notice to with draw 1,0001. more within a week. We read, too a number of ludicrous stories of members of dif ferent societies, under the influence of persons who are at once ignorant and mischievous, having hastily withdrawn their money from the hands of bankers, with a view of promoting a run for gold. So far as these circumstances indicate the existence even now of a considerable degree of welfare amongst the working classes, they are extremely satisfactory, and reflect, we think, much honour on them. That they have any funds at all, after such expenses as they have incurred, and after such privations as many of them have endured for the last three or four years, demonstrates unanswerably that they are far, very far, from being that reckless, thoughtless, improvident set of men their detractors have pleased to describe them. Of what other class of labourers, at home or abroad, could such fa vourable accounts be given, after four years of interrupted employment ? They must have made tolerable good use of the years of prosperity which they have enjoyed—considering how com paratively small at any time are their earnings— to have saved any thing, and to have applied the sums they are said to have applied to the im practicable purpose of raising wages. If these circumstances raise these men in our estimation, they also make them formidable. If they can undergo so much self-denial to ac cumulate funds against all the contingencies of life—if they can mistakingly waste large sums for an object which, by their mode of proceeding, is unattainable, what is to prevent their accumulating funds, and wisely applying them to self-improvement and to the attainment of political rights? In fact a large and influential portion of them are bend ing their energies in that direction, and as their habits enable them to accomplish much, with comparatively small means, we may anticipate for them a great, and not to be hindered, acces sion of political power. Their quietness, while they suffer, and yet silently mature their plans, is one of the least favourable symptoms we have yet beheld of the present interruption of the ordinary business of the community ' coming speedily to an end. We were willing to hope that such would be the case; we have stu diously avoided using any language that might encourage or provoke the continuance of the' contest; on the contrary, we have endeavoured to promote its cessation, though too ignorant of the views and feelings of the parties 'to presume to offer advice or admonition to either; but when we see plans of at least passive resistance grow ing to maturity, and see some funds at hand to carry them out, our hopes that the contest is at an end are materially abated. U nqu estionably much has been done by the rhodomontade and threats of the Tory Journals to keep alive fear, auger, and hatred; and if society should not soon relapse into peace, it will owe the continuance of strife to their fire-spouting- articles. Are d„lv :eeply regret to learn, that some of the manu facturers in the disturbed districts—irritated by the foul and calumnious obloquy cast upon them by the Tory Press, and sanctioned by the Government— manifest a disposition to suffer their mills, furnaces, and other works to continue to stand idle, notwith standing the willingness of the operatives to resume their employment. They expect to get rid of their stock of goods on hand at increased prices ; and if we may credit a well-informed Manchester Correspon dent, some of them propose—as manufacturers are de nounced as nuisances by the Ministerial organs —to either throw the distressed poor on the parisher, or send them back to the farmers in the country, and see what they, in the plenitude of .their patriarchal charity, will• do for them. Should any number of them persevere in such a course, the result would be most oiwitrous. And yet who that has heard the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1842 no improvement took place in the condition of the pe rishing people. Nevertheless they suffered on, " hoping against hope," till Ministers announced that on such a day in the ensuing week Parliament would rise, as there was no other measure of any importance to detain Honourable Gentlemen from the aristocratic amusement of grouse-shooting ! Then it was that the hope inspired by Sir ROBERT PEEL's promises disappeared in utter darkness. In the figurative language of Scripture, the hearts of the working classes died within them. They felt that they were duped, and awakened, as if from a dream, to a full sense of their misery. They had told their wives and children that the day of their redemption was at hand—that fuller bellies and better garments would attest in August the wisdom and the humanity of her MAJESTY'S Government. They were bitterly disappointed, and the turn-out followed as a natural consequence. What showed the excessive stupidity of the Government was the not having foreseen it, and being prepared for it. But whatever injustice the manufacturers may have suffered at the hands of Ministers and their insolent myrmidons of the Press, we think they are quite wrong in contemplating either a whole or a partial retirement from business. Why should they yield to the ignorant clamours of any faction in the State ? Knowing, as they must do, that they constitute the right arm of the strength of England, they can have no difficulty in repelling with interest any attack made upon them Besides, they are intelligent enough to know, and eloquent enough to persuade their opponents, if they will only make the attempt in a proper spirit, that the interests of all classes, instead of being opposed, are identical. If the manufacturer is flourishing he can afford to pay high wages, and the persons in his employ can indulge their appetites in the plentiful use of bread, beef, mutton, fruit, vegetables, eggs, and milk supplied by the farmers. By finding a ready mar ket for their produce the farmers can clothe their wives and daughters in silks, muslins, and other fine fabrics of the loom, multipy the implements of hus- bandry, and consume larger quantities of foreign and colonial produce, such as wine, tea, sugar, coffee, and the like. Thus it is with every class : the true interest of each is in reality more or less interwoven with the interests of all. Mr. STURGE, of Birmingham, as President of the National Complete Suffrage Union, has published an address to the Irish, with a view to unite the popula tion of the two countries in the bands of political free dom and social happiness, and devise Christian means for removing oppression from the land. His address vas read on Monday at the Repeal Association in Dublin, amidst loud applause, and Mr. O'CoririF.T.i, announced his intention of drawing up a counter ad dress to the people of England, the object of which would be " to draw together, by the strictest ties of interest, affection, principle, and duty, the people of both countries." We rejoice to see this mutual ap proach to reconciliation between two nations that have been too long separated by religious pre judices, and by the selfish and ungenerous policy of their rulers. This union, too, can have nothing in it dangerous to the peace of society, the offer having been made by a member of the Society of Friends, and accepted by a leader who has ever denounced physical force, and procured incalculable blessings for his native country by moral power alone. It was moral power that carried triumphantly two of the greatest measures of the age, the Catholic Emancipation Bill and Parliamentary Reform ; and whoever recommends any other means, either physical force or illegal associations, for the accomplishment of their views, however justifiable, may be regarded as the bitterest enemies of the people. The system adopted by Air. O'Cororma. forms a new era in the history of nations, and will entitle him to the lasting gratitude of all who labour under oppression. It is carried on without blood-shed, or weeping for the loss of relatives and friends ; it conciliates evt n enemies, and in the end is generally successful. In order, however, to carry into effect the reconciliation of the two countries, Mr. O ' CONNELL must go a little further, and renounce the doctrine of exclusive dealing which he proclaimed at the Drogheda meeting. Can England and Ireland over cordially unite if all appointments are to be con fined to the natives of the respective countries, or if all commercial intercourse is cut off ? If an Irish man is to be hooted for wearing an English hat, would not Englishmen be hooted in turn for wearing Irish linen ? Commercial intercourse forms the best bond of friendship, and if we wish to live in unity, there must be an end to national distinctions, and the words " exclusive dealing " must be banished from our language. We are surprised, too, that a man of Mr. O'CorixELL's knowledge and experience cannot see the absurdity and wicked tendency of such a scheme. What would become of the Irish if they were shut up within their own island, cut off from all commerce with other nations, forbidden to buy in the cheapest market, or to sell in the dearest ? In a few years the farmers would be ruined, manufactures would disappear, the people would relapse into a state of barbarism, and in process of time would devour one another like the wild beasts of the field. Such a doctrine is the more preposterous as coming from a legislator who is in favour of free trade, and has recorded his vote for the removal of one of the greatest obstructions to our commercial and friendly intercourse with other nations. The dearth of news continues in the French Journals. His Majesty the King of the FRENCH addressed the following letter to Baron PASQUIER, President of the Chamber of Peers, on the passing of the Regency Bill by that Assembly : " Eu, Aug. 28, 1842. " Monsieur le Chancellier,—l am too much af fected by the vote of the Chamber of Peers, which you announce to me in the letter I have this moment received, to delay an instant in requesting you to be the organ of informing the Chamber—until I can in person testify to them how much I am touched by their proceeding—of the emotion which their unani mous vote has caused me. " Nothing could be more conformable to the dearest wishes of my heart than to see the statue of my be loved son, whom I can only lament, as close to mine after his death as he had himself been to me during the whole time that Providence preserved him to me. " The Queen and all my family join with me in be seeching you to be the interpreter of our sentiments to the Chamber of Peers. ".You have long known, my dear Chancellor, what my feelings are to yourself, and I have great pleasure in again repeating them to you on this occasion. " Your affectionate, LOUIS PHILIPPE." The disturbances in the English manufacturing districts are commented on at considerable length in the French Journals. The Courrier Francais has a long and clever article on the subject, which con cludes as follows: " The working population in England, and the ca pital which is to find them employment, are out of proportion to the demand for their employment. New markets mu s t b e opene d f or the p ro d uce o f th e indus try of Engla n d, or she must resign, herself to behold., • cheering of the House of Commons when Mr. FERRAN') I denounced the members of the Anti-Corn-law League and the manufacturers, can blame them for thus re sisting the foul slanders heaped upon them in the pre • sence of an applauding Premier ? Who that has read the articles in the late numbers of the Quarterly Re view, and the daily lucubrations in the Times, can feel surprise that the manufacturers should threaten to withdraw their capital from trade, and leave the landlords to provide for the wants of the labouring population ? For ourselves we have always protested against these criminations and recriminations. The members of the Anti-Corn-law League never ap pealed to the passions of the poor with half the vio lence that the Times did on the question of the New Poor-law Bill. But neither the members of the League, nor the opponents of the New Poor-law, were the real authors of the late turn-out. The in dividuals at whose door the blame of the rising lies, are the Members of the Cabinet. The real mischief was done entirely by them. They came into office with declarations that they had dis covered a remedy for the distress of the country. Sir R. PEEL proclaimed in the House of Com mons that the patient was sick at heart, and that if consulted he would prescribe an efficient remedy. He was consulted. The country agreed to give him a fair trial. In the QUEEN'S Speech at the opening of the session, commiseration for the general distress, and praises to the people for their long, and unre pining endurance of misery, were liberally dealt in. The inference from this evidently was that the evil was at last about to cease—that the day of their sal vation was at hand. The session proceeded; measure after measure followed, each announced by a flourish a Ministerial trumpets as greater than the last ; but s ing scenes of distress which will be beyond all ima gination. The English Government• has made two attempts to gain its object. The first was the expedi tion against China, which originated with the Whig Ministry, with the intent of breaking down, by the force of cannon-shot, the bkrriers within which the Chinese had isolated themselves, initiating them into our ideas and wants, and creating in that country a new world of purchasers. The second, which is the work of the Tories, is the reforma tion of the commercial tariff. This is not suf ficiently complete and - radical to have any imme diate influence on the prosperity of the country. They have not had the effect of opening the English market to the produce of France, Germany, or the United States, and consequently have not offered to these nations any inducement to admit the manufactures of Leeds, Birmingham, and Manchester. In fine, foreign corn is excluded from this measure. Sir Robert Peel, who has proclaimed himself to be the advocate of freedom of commerce, and has declared that all en deavours, by prohibitory laws, to regulate the rate of wages must be in vain, has attempted, by his Corn law, to obtain a direct influence over the rate of wages, by insuring to the agriculturists a high price for their corn. At this time the harvest in the United States exceeds the wants of their own population by 3,000,000 quarters. If the English were at liberty to purchase this corn, it is clear that the Americans would take in exchange the iron of Birmingham, the lihen of Ireland, and the cottons of Manchester, and consequently the workmen of these places would have a regular increase of employment. But as the Corn laws prevent England from supplying herself with corn from the United States, the Americans are at the same time deprived of the power of purchasing , those manufactures with which England would other wise have to supply them. This is the well-gr3unded reproach cast by the adversaries of Sir Robert Peel upon the Tory Ministry." The Frenel; Chambers were prorogued on Tuesday, after sitting for a month. The following is a trans lation of the Royal Ordonnance to that effect : "Louis Philippe, to all present and to come, greeting. " The Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of De puties are prorogued'until the 9th of January, 1843. Our Minister, President of the Council, Minister Secretary of State at the Department of War, is charged to be the bearer of the present proclamation to the Chamber of Peers.—By the King. "LOUIS PHILIPPE. " Tuileries, Aug. 30." " The Committee of Deputies of the vine-growing department, at a meeting held with the principal Members of the Cabinet, have received an assurance that, during the next session of the Chambers, mea sures favourable to the interests of those whom they represented would be brought forward. It appears certain (says the Moniteur Parisien) that the recess will be employed in preparing treaties of commerce with several of the Northern States of Europe, and with South America. In the mean time the Com mittee is engaged in collecting all the documents ne cessary for justifying the claims that it is commis sioned to urge. " Tne official part of the Moniteur of the 30th an nounces that the King has received the Pope's answer to the notification of the death of the Prince Royal. " The Duke of Nemours is to return from his tour at the beginning of September. M. Dumont, en gineer, has been directed by the Minister of Public Works to visit the north of Italy, in order to examine the mode employed in that country of embanking the great rivers, and t o g i ve information to the depart ment of public works on the application that may be made of this mode in the Valley of the Rhone. " The Councils-General will be invited to state their views on the measures necessary to protect several parts of our territory from the action of the rivers. "In a circular addressed to the Prefect, the Mi nister of Public W or k s po i n t s out the principal ques tions on which the opinion of the Council-General is required.—Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 30. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Nice. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 120 5... 120 15... 120 5._ 120 15 4 per Cents 104 50... 104 50... 104 50... 104 50 3 per Cents 79 2.5.., 79 40... 79 25... 79 35 Bank of France 3260 -.3260 ...3260 .. 3260 Belgian Fives lo2* 102 j ... 1023 ... 102 1840 lO4 ... 1031 ... 1033 ... 1031 Spanish Active 22 „.. 22 ... 211 ... 211 Passive 4 4 ... 4 ... 4 New Deferred 94 93 ... 93 ... 93 Neapolitan Homan 1034 ... 1033 ... 1033 ... 104 - - - - - . _ RAILWAY SHARES, Versailles, R.B 287 50... 287 50... 287 50... 287 50 L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ..., 95 Rouen Orleans. 5 65 •.. 567 50... 565 ... 566 25 Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ... 203 75... 203 75 SUMMARY OF 'EV..'JS AND I,3tititt Opinion. " Who runs may read.' FOREIGN. The Paris journals comment but slightly ua the discussion on the Regency Bill in the Chamber of Peers. The Debats, whilst it admits that the speech of the Marquis de Dreux-Breze was remarkable for urbanity, expresses its regret that he should have felt himself bound by considerations of party to bring forward arguments opposed to the Constitution, and at variance with the attachment to monarchical prin ciples, which he must feel. The French Chambers having been prorogued on Tuesday by Royal Ordonnance to the 9th of January, the Ministers have ceased their receptions. His Ma jesty on Tuesday afternoon received the Peers, and was to leave that evening for Eu, where the Duchess of Orleans continued very indisposed. The Presse announces that a batch of Peers would be made during the recess, but that no Deputy would be included in ik The Committee of Deputies of the vine-growing department, at a meeting held with the principal members of the Cabinet, have received an assurance that, during the next session of the Chambers, mea sures favourable to the interests of those whom they represent shall be presented. It appears certain, says the Moniteur Parisien, that the recess will be em ployed in preparing treaties of commerce with several at the northern States of Europe, and with South America. In the mean time the Committee is engaged in collecting all the documents necessary for justify ing the claims it is commissioned to urge. The Spanish Minister of War had addressed a cir cular to all the military authorities, enjoining them to afford the customs officers every aid in their power for the repression of smuggling. A band of twelve miscreants, calling themselves the i Twelve Apostles, are infesting the environs of Toledo, and committing all sorts of outrages. The Mannheim Gazette quotes a letter from Berlin of the 22d, stating that a certain mystery still sur rounded the events which had recently occurred in the Russian capital. The account of the sudden death of Count Orloff had been confirmed by the re ports of travellers. Accounts from Constantinople of the 10th state, that letters had reached that capital from Trebisond, stating that the Persian troops had suspended their hostilities along the Turkish frontier. The energetic representations of the Envoys of Great Britain and Russia had induced the Shah to adopt that resolu tion; there was consequently every hope that the difference which had arisen between Persia and Turkey, would be amicably adjusted through the mediation of those two Powers. the Porte had trans mitted orders to the army on its way to Bagdad to suspend its march. PUBLIC OPIATY,ON. The Times observes, in an article suggested by the present state of the northern districts —" W e do earnestly trust that those in charge of these districts are pursuing a decided course ; but we confess these accounts do not evidence that full protection to labour to which we hoped their present force was adequate. It is not enough to fill the prisons ; nay, if it be true, as we see it reported, that thousands of persons are now in confinement, we cannot help fearing that a recourse to that ultima ratio has been even too indis criminately adopted. Men, like boys at school, do not fear punishment in a crowd. Arrest--nay, punish ment itself—loses its effect, as it appears in this case to have done, by being made so common. It is the right man whom we want to catch, and to punish him heartily and unsparingly ; the chastisement of a ran dom selection from the blind mob, unless it be such as is administered on the moment and on the spot, can produce little result. We should sincerely re joice, for example, to think that there was any pros pect of visiting with condign punishment this barba rous outrage on Mr. Cooper. For acts of this kind —committed not in the heat of any contest, not in any form 'of self-defence, however culpable, by no accident, from no immediate provocation, but delibe rately, from mere revenge, and, we may say, in cold blood—acts simply of intended murder —as no pal liative is conceivable, so no pains, we trust, will be spared to bring the perpetrators to justice, and no misplaced lenity shown them if they can be secured. The seditious assemblies, the affrays with police, th e breakings of windows, the sturdy begging, the turn ing out of hands-all these, none of which are things safely to be overlooked by the law, are yet infinitely less urgent in their demands for stern and severe re pression than brutal outrage. Nor can we conceive any more wretched symptom of the state of the ope ratives themselves than the fact, if fact it turn out to be, that the mass of th em sy m pa thi se w i t h ' or con nive at such cruel and unmanly acts of their brethren. Such occurrences, joined to the robberies which are announced as commencing around Stockport, must lead, if we are not mistaken, to some more extensive and complete organization of the neighbourhood than has yet taken place." The Herald says:—" Every one remembers the fable of the trumpeter who was taken prisoner in battle, and who pleaded with the enemy for his life on the ground that he had drawn no sword in the quar rel. True,' replied the captors, but though you did not fight, you were the cause of the affray ; but for the stirring notes of your trumpet there would have been no conflict. You deserve the death that awaits you.' We commend this apologue to the at tention of the peaceful fraternity which numbers amongst its brotherhood so gentle and meek a mem ber as Joseph Sturge, the late candidate for Notting ham, and present President of the National Com plete Suffrage Union,' now sitti ng i n Bi rm i ng h am. This quiet Quaker, who would fain fight only by proxy, has affixed his signature to a letter to 'the Irish people,' calling upon them to co-operate with the disaffected in England to break in pieces the teeth' of those whom he is pleased to term its oppressors.' This epistle, somewhat different, from those which serve the Society of Friends for their moral guidance breathes a spirit of hostility to the laws and institu tions of this country appropriate enough in one who all his life has fattened upon famine and grown wealthy upon popular distress. This truculent man of peace vindicates his claim to belong to those who especially proclaim their charity and goodwill to all mankind, by striving with as much vehemence as his nature will permit, to stimulate the impressionable Irish to assist him in carrying out his own selfish views." The following appears in the Chronicle:—" The mischievous quackery of Sir Robert Peel's Corn-law is becoming so generally felt, that its most ardent supporters o have little confidence in its continuance. Laborious puff's of it are coupled with announcements of failures in Mark-lane, which are significant proofs of its commercial advantages. It is found that the agricultural interest may be injured without any other being benefited, and that a sliding scale may be adjusted with such masterly skill, as to derange and dissatisfy every class of the community. The happy contrivance, which insures that corn shall come in, not gradually but in a mass, is proved, by experience, to keep up the price of corn while the people are in distress, and the farmers have none to sell, and to de press it considerably on the eve of a promising har vest, when the farmers are looking forward to good markets for the means to pay rents not liable to de pression. This monument of Conservative sagacity is found even to aggravate that one mischief, which all parties agreed in attributing to the old Corn-law. Instead of repressing, it has given new vigour to gambling speculations in the first necessary of life ; and if we attach any importance to the failures, the embarrassments, and the alarm which every hour seem to increase in Mark-lane, the corn trade has less than ever of the steadiness and regularity which would induce men of capital and caution to engage in it. Hence this chef d'oeuvre of Sir Robert Peel's tinkering will not last very long, and Parliament may be called upon, even in the next session, to clear away the botch-work, and make some more statesmanlike and effective adjustment of the question." We quote the following remarks, suggested by the present price of bread, from the Post The exces sive disproportion between the price of wheat and that at which bread is retailed by the bakers, con tinues to form the subject of just complaint by the consuming public. There can be no 'doubt that, con nected with the sale of bread, much abuse and unfair practices exist in some quarter. Some blame the millers, some the bakers, and some both. Certain it is, that while wheat is cheap bread is dear, and that the charges made for the manufacture of the article are greater than the public can justly and honestly be expected to submit to. We are no friends of cheap ness, in the slang meaning sometimes applied to that word. We wish to see the workman receive a fair reward for his labour. We wish the' farmer to get fair prices, measured by the standards of value existing in the country. The baker, the miller, and every other party concerned, are entitled to remuneration for the services they render the consumer in stepping in between him and the producer of the raw mate rial.' But these rewards, to be fair, must be rela tive; and when we see wheat falling ten or twenty per cent., while the price of the poor man's loaf is nearly stationary, an evil is disclosed, the enormity of which imperatively calls up the consideration whether there be no corrective power applicable to contin gencies of this kind." The Advertiser says :—" Tf the rumour to which we have so frequently referred of late, that Lord John Russell has already intimated his intention of resign ing the leadership of the Liberals in Parliament, be not true, there is one thing abundantly clear, namely, that it ought to be true. If we have not proved to Lord John's own satisfaction, we have, we are sure, proved to the satisfaction of everybody else, that he can no longer exercise the functions of leader of the DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, AuG:29.—We hear that the projects of law respecting the remaining portion of the penal ' code, which is shortly to be distributed among the Members of the States-General, contains, under a separate head, very severe enactments against duel ling. It is well known that the penal code at present in force does not contain a single word on this subject ; hence it has happened that actions which, at all events, are highly blameable and immoral in a well regulated society, have_ for a long series of years remained un punished. Yesterday f ore noon his Majesty g ave a so l emn au dience at th e P a lace to Lieut.-G enera l B aron Mar bot, Aid e -d e -C am p to his Roy a l Hi g h ness the late Duke of Orleans. NEUFCHATEL, 23.—The Muni c ip a l C ounc i l gave notice y e sterday that the King o f P russ i a, our sovereign, though his time will scarcely a ll ow i t, has resolved, if th e h e alth of the Queen will permit, t o visit with her. this part_of his dominions. He thinks to be. at Ball on the 23d of September, and on the 24th at Neufchatel, to stop there till the 27th, and to return on the 28th by the Brisgau to Friburg. DUTCH FUNDS.—Aisyrunn Am, Atm, 30. Money. Bins. Actual Debt, per Cent 52% 53 Jitto, ditto 5 per ceat. Ammt Sendic,436 per cent.... 114 k, 94% DAto, ditto, 334 per cant. 000000 ••••••••••••••• 77% %8 Commercial Company, 4i4 per cent :43% '43% Ditto (1835 an d 1837) 5 per cent IOOX :1440% Loan 18.37, 5 per cant. ...... ....... 49 % 10J3.. Exchange on London, One month.... Two months .. 12 Hamburgh, One m0nth ..... ...„ 35 87 34 Two m0nth5....,,,, 35 .s Dutch Papers, Aug. 31. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Ave. 30. ditto ............. 70% Actual Debt, 2;4 per Cent , .............................. 525 4 Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent . . .... . ............. 1 0 0% Loan of hirty Millions, Four per *Cent ............ 91 Three per Cent.... ...... (1840) ............... 110% Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent ................... . 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cen t. 00 Bank Belgium, Five per Cent ........................ 77 Thirty-seven I1i:lli ns, National Society . Exchange on London (short) ... —Brussels Papers, Aug. 30, A 0, 41 R.. !NI FUN 08.—Massa, Auo. 2 , 2, Five per Cents. Metalliques, 1004 ....... „. Four per Cents .. 111 .............................................. Three per Cents.. 7634 Bank Shares ..„ ................. ...KN DO 041.0$ 1631 Allgemeine Zeitung, August 28. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, AUG. 27. Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Share5..... Anglo-RussianLoan 10 9 14 1 091 4 Russian 5 per Cent, Ist series, Certificate IO3X 103% Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 9B 973 Ditto in Certificates 9B 97% New 4 per Cent. (1840) SIN 89 14 Dutch Actual Debt, •,:ji per Cent. ......... 51% 51 Ditto 5 per Cent - Polish Bonds New Tickets. llB Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 per ....... 'lB INDIA. ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL. The following telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles. dated the 30th of August, at seven o'clock in the morning, has reached Paris:— MALTA, Atm. 26.—The Great Liverpool, which ar rived this evening at five o'clock, with the dispatches from India, brings the following news from Jellalabad, and from the camp of General Pollock. They are dated the 22d of June, and are of the most dismal de scription. Sickness, extreme heat, the want of food, and the simoom, are decimating the army. The dis content and the inaction in which the army is left are at its height. " Ukbar Khan has seized the Bala Hisser, and the treasures which were left there. " The Governor-General has given full permission to General Pollock to act as he may think proper. " Symptoms , of mutiny have shown themselves among the Sikhs. " The news from Candahar is to the 11th of June, and it is without interest. " Nothing important has taken place in China. It is said that the Emperor has fled into Tartary. " The preparations for marching upon Chapoo were completed ; but the army remained in a state of inac tion, and seemed to be completely overcome by dis couragement." [These are French accounts, and of course our read ers will judge them according to their merits.] __— REGISTRATION OF *V OTER S IN CITIES AND BOUGUGHS.—On Sunday next and the following Sunday, the lists of persons objected to, and of those claiming to be registered, are; or ought to be published, and affixed on all the church and chapel doors of the various parishes, and are kept by the overseers for perusal at all reasonable hours, without fee, during the first ten (lays ' preceding the 15th day of September. It is not required in cities and boroughs that voters should be personally served with notice of objection as in counties. Reformers should, therefore, inspect the list in order to see that their names are not o bj ected to, and also inspect the list of claims, with a vi e w o f prevent i n g persons from being put on the register who are not entitled. Those persons who are objected to m us t appear t h emse l ves , or some one on their behalf, to prove their qualification before the Revising Barrister, who holds his Court some time between the 15th of September and the 25th of October, of which due notice will be given, and yosted on all the church and ehapel e doors iu borough& . Opposition with credit to himself or advantage to the country. Nature never intended the Noble Lord to play any prominent part on the stage of political life. He is at a crisis like the present intellectually, as well as physically, unfit for the leadership of a powerful party. When the Tories were prostrate and almost extinguished as a party by the heavy blow which the Reform Bill, immediately on its passing, gave them, the leadership of a person of Lord John's calibre might have been tolerated ; but the moment that a re action had commenced, and every successive 'week saw the Tories swelling their minority of 150, it was high time that the Whig Lordling should be uncere moniously thrown overboard, and a person chosen to succeed him, who, in addition to moral courage, supe rior talents as a debater, and enlarged views as a statesman, should possess a strong sympathy with the people —one, moreover, who, instead of lagging be hind the spirit of the age, should be prepared to lead the nation, as well as the Liberals in Parliament, in the onward road to further and far more extensive reforms." 74 COZTEY - T121738-00/91111MR.CE. At the annual meeting of the Consolidated Trefoil Min ingeompany, held on Wednesday in the Poultry, the Report stated that the sale of copper for the last morn was 127 tons ' • and there w as now ti n t o th e va l ue o f 200/. ready for market. The assets amount only to 1,7231., the diminution being occasioned by a decrease in the quantity of the ore. At Manchester great numbers of the coarse spin ners and power-loom weavers still remain out, but peace is kept : nearly fifty mills are in full work, and about a score partially so. At Glossop, an attack has been made on Mr. Shipley's works, and in the affray four persons were severely wounded. At Birmingham agitation has entirely ceased. LAW AND POLICE. There are now 735 prisoners in Stafford goal : a special commission is expected to be opened early in September. Henry Knott, John Samuel Crispin, and Lucy Smith were charged at Guildhall on Wednesday, with conspiring to defraud Messrs. Everett and Co., blacking manufacturers, Fetter-lane, of that com modity to the amount of 4/. 4s. The prisoners were remanded till Friday, for further evidence. John Levy, a Jew, was finally examined at Clerkenwell on 'Wednesday, charged with stealing seventy-four yards of woollen cloth, value 451., from a woollen-draper in Clerkenwell. Ile was committed for trial, but will be brought up again on Tuesday, the property in the meantime to be traced. At Marlborough-street on Wednesday, Frederick Martin was charged with stealing various article s , the property of the Duke of Beaufort, and his Grace's servants, and fully committed. Michael Mahon, was brought up at Greenwich on Wednesday for final examination, charged with malici ously cutting and wounding Jane Featherstone, a married woman, residing at Deptford. Ile was committed. On Wednesday, Henry Clotheer was convicted in a mitigated penalty of 255., at Lambeth -street, for working an illicit still in his house. LITENArtY AND SCIENTIFIC. At Strasburg, a scientific congress is to meet on the 28th of September next. Seven hundred and fifty saran; from different parts of Europe, have already announced their intention of attending it. SPOILTZNG. Partridge shooting commenced yesterday. Good sport was anticipated, as the birds are abundant, and the fields cleared of corn; but the rain, we fear, will disappoint many . cockneys. The studs of Colonel Anson, the Marquis of West minster, and Lord George Bentinck are about to be disposed of. There seems to be quite a mania among the aristocracy at present to get rid of their horses. c 01.141,11—FILSICION.A.33LE. The Duke and Duche ss of Bedford are expected at Woburn Abbey to-day. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne will arrive at Vienna, towards the close of the month. Earl Delawarr left Upper Grosvenor -street on Monday, for Buckhurst Park, near East Grinstead. The Earl and Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe are expected home from Germany about the end of October. The Earl and Countess of Jersey arrived on Wed nesday at Turville Park, near Kingston-on-Thames, upon a visit to the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lynd hurst. The Earl of Lonsdale has gone to the new hotel, Slough. Viscount and Viscountess Maynard are about to proceed on a tour through Switzerland. Viscount Cantalupe left town on Sunday for the Rhine. Colonel Lowther has arrived at Lowther Castle, from a tour. Lord Rivers arrived on the 28th at Brussels. On the same day Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambas sador to the Court of Great Britain, also arrived at Brussels on his way from Vienna to London. His Highness was to set out for. London on the same day. ZYLISCEZ.I.A.NEOUS.' • An oak still stands in Bowthorp Park, 15 yards in girth, in the .enormous hollow of ' which parties of a dozen at a time may dine. 'The length of the shelves in the new portion of the British Museum is eight miles, those in the library at Munich fifteen miles, and those of the King's library in Paris twenty miles. The first contains 260,000 volumes, the second .500,000, and the third 650,000. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ABINGDON RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Foal Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. One mile. (4 subs.) Hon. S. Herbert's Nessus, Bst 71b walked over The Marcham Park Stakes of 25 sovs. each, with 40 added, 15 ft., and 5 only if declared; the second saves his stake. Two miles. (22 subs.) 11 declared. Mr. Scott's MoSque, 4 yrs, Bst (Butler) 1 Mr. Forth's Vibration, 3 yrs, 7st 41b 2 Mr. G raydon's Helpmate, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b Mr. Wroughton's Mobarek, 5 yrs, Bst Mr. Collett's Isaac, aged, Bst 91b Mr. Isaac Day's Tarnburini, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b 6 Won by a head. The Pusey Horn Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added ; winner to be sold for 200/., &c. Two miles. (16 subs.) Mr. Lucas's The Trititor, 3 yrs (Evans) 1 Mr. Pryse's Australia, 4 yrs Mr. Etwall's Pelerine, 4 yrs Mr. Blandy's Wildfire, 3 yrs Mr. I. Lay's Viola, 4 yrs A fine race. The Berkshire Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 15 added, winner to be sold for 80 sovs. Heats. (11 subs.) Mr. I. Day's m, by Nimrod, out of Busk, 5 yrs, 9st Olb (Wakefield) 1 5 1 Mr. Herbert's Teetotaller, 3 yrs, 6st 71b Mr. Blandv ad Romance, 3 yrs. sst 13!13 6 3 3 Lord Bar;ington nd Maid of the Mill, 4 yrs._ 3 4 4 Mr. Pusey's President, 4 yrs, 7st. 121 b Mr. Legg's My Pet, 3 yrs, 6sti 4 dr The Old Berkshire Hunt Stakes of 10 soya. each h ft. Gentlemen riders. Heats, two miles. (5 subs.) Mr. Legg's Stickler, aged walked over. CHELMSFORD RACES—WEDNESDAY. The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each. The winner to bo sold for 3001., &c. Three miles. (6 subs.) Mr. Nightingale's Ajax, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Sly) 1 Mr. Rogers's Prosody, 3 yrs, 7st llb . 2 Won easy. The Town Plate of 501. Winner to be sold for 1201. Mr. Smith's Appleton Lass, 6 yrs, 9st 21b...(51y) 1 1 Mr. Skingsley's Fama, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b 2 2 Sir John Tyrrell's Miss Sally, 3 yrs, 7st 3 dr "Won in a canter. The Hylands Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added. Last half mile. (5 subs.) Mr. Ongley's The Gipsey Queen, 2 yrs, Bst 31b (Sly) 1 Mr. Coleman's Jamal, 2 yrs, Bst 51b General Yates's Rook's Nest, 2 yrs, Bst Mb 3 Won easy. Match, 50 sovs., one mile.—Mr. Casidy's Miller's Maid, 9st (Casidy, jun.), beat Mr. Smith's Economist, Bst., in a canter. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. A considerable number of bets were laid on the St Leger in the course of the afternoon, without in any ma terial instance affecting the prices as quoted on Monday last ; the only novelty was an official announcement that The Golden Rule will not start either for the Learning, ton Stakes or the St. Leger. Closing prices : LEAMINGTON STAKES. 6 to 4 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken 4 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Rhodanthe—taken 5 to 1 (offered) agst Retriever winning this and the Great Yorkshire 'Handicap (take 6 to 1). ST. LEGER. sto 4 agst Col. Anson's Attila-4. several times 12 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Policy —taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Fireaway—talten 15 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Eboracum—taken 18 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Seahorse—t. and aft. off. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Agreeable colt—taken and afterwards offered 22 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Ballinkeele 25 to 1 agst Mr. Coombe's Rosalind—taken • 35 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's Master Thomas—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. S. King's Cattonite—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Sir Harry—taken and afterwards offered 50 to 1 agst Mr. Allen's Belcceur—t. and aft. off. 10 to 1 agst Scott's lot, bar Attilla—taken ECCLES RACES.—TUESDAY. The Gentleman's Purse of 30 sovs., added to a Handicap of 3 soya, each. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Park's ch f, by Physician, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ..• 1 1 Mr. Jones' the Fairy, aged, ist Won in a canter. The Hunters' Stakes were won by Mr. Hay's Kate WEDNESDAY The Hurdle Stakes of 3 sous. each. with 30 added. Heats, twice round and a distance. (5 subs.) Mr. Lamplugh's Birthday, aged (Owner) 1 1 Mr. Hay's Kate Nickle b y, aged Won easy. The Cavalry Stakes were won in two heats, by Mr. Gillimore's br c, by Bay Malton, and the Ladies Purse by Mr. Jones's Fairy. LoxpoN, SErr. I.—The weather changed this morning about one o'clock, and has continued to rain, with little intermission, ever since. Wind this day at noon S.W., moderate breeze, hazy, with rain. Sunset— Wind from the westward, and thick, hazy weather,'with drizzling rain at times. ROYAL VISIT TO SCOTLAND. PROGR.ZSS OF THE ROYAL SQUADRON TO SCOTLAND. From the accounts received yesterday it appears that the Royal squadron, after . passing Orfordness . on Monday evening, reached Southwold at about half past nine o'clock; where her Majesty was received by a Royal salute, fired by a party of the Coast-guard service from a small gun battery on the beach. The squadron at the time was bearing towards the roads. outside of the Gunfleet sands in a north-easterly di rection. The fleet was at least nine miles out at sea. It however acknowledged the reception by the dis charge of blue lights from the mast-heads of the steamers:. From that hour the Royal squadron is supposed to have been greatly delayed by the weather becoming foggy and the progress of the steamers reduced to latilispeed. When within a few miles of Yarmouth it was met by a Non% egian barque, called the Minerva, on her passage to London, and according to the state ment made by the master on the vessel's arrival the following morning (Tuesday) in the roads of Aldbo rough, it was a miracle that a collision did :lot take place between them. He says he was running up with a slight breeze from the north-east, whet sud denly the Royal George yacht hove in sight toved by two steamers, the paddles, of which he had prev.ously heard, but did not suppose them to be so close, or ac count of the thick state of the atmosphere. At the rate the steamers were proceeding, it is consichred. that her Majesty would pass the Dudgeon at abut. eight o'clock, and Flamborough Head at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon." Several traders from Shields and Newcastle, cza their voyage to London, passed the Royal squadroi the same clay in crossing the " Deeps," and reported on their arrival in the Yarmouth Roads that the Roya George yacht had signals hoisted at the mast-head to the effect that ." all s well." The General Steam Navigation Company's steamer the Vivid, arrived last night off London-bridge4vharf, from Hull, having left that place bet Ween two and three o'clock on Tuesday morning. It was to have met the Royal squadron off the Humber, but it had passed some time before. Toivards the evening it came on blowing a stiff gale of wind from the north west. This lasted the whole night, with a heavy sea. PREPARATION AT GRANTON PIER. EDINBURGH, MONDAY EVEN IN G.—Granton Pier, the greatest public work that has ever been under taken in this kingdom by the munificence of a private individual, has been ex?cuted at the sole expense of his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch. Although it is not yet finished, Scotland does not possess a nioYe commodious, more spacious, and safer landing-place, than Granton Pier. It is situated on his Grace's estate of Caroline Park, and within two and a half miles of Edinburgh. The length of the pier is 1,700 feet. In all, there are 12 berths or jetties, for the ac commodation of vessels and ships of all sizes. A slip or inclined plane on each side extends the length of 325 feet, for the convenience of shipping and land ing cattle at all states of the tide. The extreme end of the pier will be nearly 200 feet in width, with a jetty across the end, so that vessels of the largest draught of water can have access to it at all times. Here a spacious lighthouse is to be placed for the guidance of vessels taking the pier at night, to be lighted from sunset to sunrise, in room of which a temporary red light is at present exhibited. So far are the whole works advanced, that it is expected this national undertaking, for which Scotland owes a deep debt of gratitude to the Noble Duke, will be com pleted by the latter end of 1843. The stone of which this splendid pile of mason - Z7 has been constructed has been quarried on the pro perty of his Grace, about a mile from the pier. The quarry was discovered by accident, and opened shortly after the commencement of the pier, in which have been found two splendid fossil trees of extraordinary dimensions, one of them 60 feet in length, and ave raging four feet in diameter. From this quarry was lately obtained the immense block lately sent to Lon don for the Nelson monument, weighing 32 tons, and of which so much has been recently written in the journals. The road• which the Royal cortege passes ali:pg, extending from the pier to the East Edinburgh-road, is 55 feet broad, constructed also at the sole expense of the Noble Duke. At the opening of this road, com manding a splendid view of the pier, his Grace has erected a large 'scaffold, to be covered with scarlet cloth, to accommodate such of his friends as cannot find windows in the hotel. The largest room in the hotel his Grace reserves for himself and his more im mediate friends ; the rest of the windows commanding a view of the landing have been let by the landlord at high prices. The arrangements for the landing are as follow :-- If the wind be westerly, the Royal yacht • will be brought to the fourth east jetty ; if easterly, to the fifth west jetty. These two jetties correspond with each other,- the difference arising from there being one more jetty on the west than the east side. The gang way and stair by . which the Royal party reach the top of the pier from the ship, should the arrival take place at low water, are lined with crimson. The Royal carriage is to be drawn up at the head of the stair or entrance to the pier, into which her Majesty is immediatety to be ushered by the Noble Duke, sir ' Robert Peel, and other distinguished officials. The preparations for the general illumination of the city have commenced with considerable activity, and altogether the display promises to be alike worthy of the occasion, and cr editable to the inhabitantsgenerally. At Holyrood House the most extensive prepara tions are in progress for the levee and• drawing-room on Friday, some hundreds of workmen being engaged in erecting barriers for the carriage -ways, and in the interior, especially the throne or reception-room, a number of men are employed in completing the ne cessary alterations for the reception of the brilliant assemblage of the ' Scottish Nobility likely to grace a Court ceremony, so unusual in the metropolis of that country. The Duke of Hamilton arrives at Holyrood House to-night, from Hamilton Pal ace, to inspect the arrange ments in progress, and to concert measures indispen sable for the Royal visit. The Marquis of Breadalbane arrives from Tay- - ' mouth Castle to-morrow. The Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Ad miralty, who is heritable keeper of the King's Park, is hourly expected. Sir Wm. Martins, Deputy Chamberlain, on whom the sole management of the " reception " at Holyrood House devolves, has arrived. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, with the Mar quis of Lorn and Lady Emma Campbell, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Lord Bateman, Lord Wm. Powlet, Sir Thomas B. and Lady Hepburn, Sir Philip H. and Lady Durham, Earl and. Countess of Rosebery and Ladies Primrose, Viscount Jocelyn, Mr. Edward Drummond, Mr.and Mrs. W. Campbell of Islay, Earl and Countess of Eglintoun, Lord Kelburne, Earl and Countess of Mi n t o , & c . , h ave already arrived. The distinguished capitalist and scholar, Dwark nauth Tagore Zemindar, and his nephew, have Just arrived from Yorkshire. Sir Robert Peel is expected at Dalkeith House to morrow morning, the Right Hon. Baronet intending to leave Drayton Manor this day for the railway station at Tamworth, and by that mode of convey.. ante would reach Darlington this evening, and from thence would proceed by post to Dalkeith, nearly 160 miles. The Earl of Aberdeen will not reach here before to-morrow afternoon. Sir James Graham, it is expected, will be unable, from press of business, to come to Scotland. DALKEITH HOUSE, MONDAY. In the course of to-morrow the noble and distin guished visitors invited to meet her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert will all arrive. COMMISSION OF ASSEMBLY. (Abridged from the Scotsman.) ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. EDINBURGU, AUG. 30.—A special meeting of the Commission, called by advertisement, was held yes terday in the Tolbooth Church, to vote an address to her Majesty on the occasion of her arrival in Scot land ; Dr. Welsh, Moderator of last Assembly, in the chair. •Dr. MAxELLAR, after a few appropriate observa tions, moved that a loyal and dutiful address be pre sented to her Majesty, congratulating her on her arrival in this country, and expressing their heartfelt ' joy at her Majesty's presence among her Scottish subjects. Dr. Cool( cordially seconded the motion. Diffe . rences there might be among them, but this was a field, in which all could meet, on the common ground of loyalty to their Sovereign.—(Cries of" Agreed.") A controversy then arose in the assembly, some parties esteeming it the fittest opportunity for bring ing the grievances on the Church question before her Majesty, and other speakers supporting the original motion of Dr. Makeller. At length, Mr. emelt-I'ON moved as an'amendment— " That; an address be presented to her Majesty, stat ing the perilous condition in which the Church of Scotland was placed, and craving her Majesty's gra cious consideration to the same, and that a Committee' be appointed to frame the address." Dr. CANDLISH suppOrted Mr. Crichton's motion. Dr. BUCHANAN could support neither of the mo tions now on the table, but begged leav e t o move in stead—" Th a t as her Majesty at present visited this ' kingdom without reference to affairs of State, and seeking to be relieved in some measure from those cares which her high office so unceasingly imposed upon her, the Commission deemed it expedient to re frain from introducing into the Address the subject of the serious difficulties in which the Church was now involved, and that the Committee be instructed accordingly." Professor ALEXANDER cordially seconded the . motion. a `l Mr. JA] DUFF Rgir Buchanan) were three rotes. 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