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PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIRA N DOI. A of ST. ANGELO, all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnificent introductio ,, s that have called forth ae. clammations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex. ihtbition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC ADE of BRILLIANT FlttE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Mutecales, Illumin a tion o f Et. Peter's, Riratidola of St. Angelo, &c., Will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, .rd Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. fm,ll w ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 14 minutes after 6 I Evening ... 31 minutes after 6. - ~:§0 • , • :0t 171. s - • r. •-• ‘...," `~~ ~~1~ -~~ ~~d LONDON : SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1842. It is perhaps indicative of improvement —we hope it is—to find persons in various stations of life at present directing their attention to describing the condition of the working classes. Never before, we believe, did their condition require and receive more atteution than at present ; never, perhaps, judging from, the concur rent testimony of different parties, waa it worse than at present. For several years it h-. 45 engaged the serious consideration of the Legislature. Corn-laws and Poor laws, Police Acts and sc,',ool grants, votes of money to build churches and titablish new systems of prison discipline, have 1111 been framed with a view, according hi the Legislature, to improve the condition, tt the working classes. The palpa ble a.trd: l eertain result is extreme degradation of the Nyofking-Chasses. They seem to have continually gone from bad fo worse, as our Legislature has established tine Frenchified schemes of centralization of police, and of rtipilating all their amusements, till the once inde- Pel 'peasant of England, under whose tread the earth ed, has become a mean, starved, and shrivelled slave ; and the stalwart artizan, who was some check on both the bartadal landlords and on the burgher capitalists, has become a poor shivering wretch, dwelling in caves or cellars, like some of the earliest known races of men lie is so dependent fur subsistence, that, like a dog, he licks the hand that corrects him, while it holds firth a miserable crust. Let us quote a specimen or two, which, taken from different sources, may serve to show both the condition of the working-classes and the attention which is now, prompted by necessity. devoted to them. We have of late heard one party assert that agricul tural lalmurers get only 7s. a week, and others that th ey gain 145., but here are some specimens of their condition, extracted from the Report of the Pror-law Commis sioners on the sanatory condition of the labouring popu lation of Great Britain, a perfectly impartial authority, which must set at rest all disputes as to their wages. It may with safety be asserted. when we find the bulk of the p ,, pa!rili.a, sunk in wt2tch,alticss, that it is because they cannot 'trip themselves. Wages are good or bad, not iu proportion to the number of shillings they amount to. hut ill proportion to the amount of comfort they com mand; and consequently an accurate description of cum in,'" , 'UnifortS of labourers' cottages, is a far better clue to the value of his wages than the number of shillings of which they are composed. The Report of the Poor-law Commissioners says state of the dwellings of many of the agricultural labourers in Dorset ( Lord Ashley's Dorset) is described in the return of 11Ir. John Fox, the medical ofli..er of the Cerne Union. lie says, " three eases of disease occurred in a house occupied by nearly fifty persons on the ground-floor ; the rooms e neither boarded nor paved, and are generally damp. Eleven persons slept in one room." In many of the cottages the beds stood on the g round- fl oor, which was clamp, three part s o f th e year. Scarcely one had a fire-place in the bedroom, and one had a single pane o f glass stuck in the m u d wa l l as its only window, with a large heap of wet and dirty potat oes (h appy people to have potatoes) in one corner. Person s li v i ng in such cottages are generally very poor, very dirty, and usually in rags, living almost wholly ,on bread and potatoes. The medical officer of the Uxbridge union.stat.es,., The cottages of the poor arc mostly of a bad description, frequen.ly mud walls, and often situated (info to the dykes where the water is for the most part in a state of stagnation. Often times not more than one room for the whole family, some times two, one above the other. Of the Bedford union it is said— Most of the residences of the labourers are thickly in habited, and many of them are damp, low, smoky, and com fortless. " A large proportion of the cottages in the Ampthill union are very miserable places, small and incon venient, in which it is impossible to keep up even the common decencies of life. I will refer to one instance, with which lam well acquainted. A man, his wife, and family, consisting in all of eleven individuals, resided in a cottage, containing only two rooms. The man , wife, and four children, sometimes five, slept in one of the rooms, and in one bed, some at the foot, others at the top—one a girl about fourteen, another a boy above twelve, the rest younger. The other part of the family slept in one bed in the keeping-room, in which their cooking, washing, and eating, were performed. How could it be otherwise with this family, than that it should be sunk into the most deplorable state of degradation and depravity. There are many similar cases, and a very great number that make near approach to it." In Durham the peasantry (according to Dr. Gilly) were crowded into small places, 24 feet by 16, in which eight, ten, or even twelve persons dwelt (scarcely the allowance for the slaves in a slave ship). How they lie down to rest, how they sleep, how they can preserve common decency, how unutterable horrors are avoided, is beyond all conception. The case is aggravated when there is a young woman to be lodged in this confined space, who is not a mem ber of the family, but who is hired to do the field work, for which every hind is bound to provide a female. It shocks every feeling of propriety to think that in a room, and within such a space, civilized beings should be herding together with out a decent separation of age and sex. These are only specimens of what occurs throughout the agricultural districts. There is nothing worse in the cabins of Ireland, and if ever the peasantry of Eng • land deserved the character formerly given of them, they are now, in their habits and manners, after twenty-five years' assiduous attention on the part of our law-makers, sunk below the level of the peasantry of any part of Europe, except Ireland. • In France and Italy, the climate enabling people to live in the open air, renders the house accommodation of the working classes of less importance than in England, and makes their condition comparatively superior to that of the working classes here. If Lord ASHLEY, and the rest of the landlords who are so extremely anxious to improve the morals of the colliers, will look into the cottages on their estates, they will pi o ba,bly find amongst the peasantry what 1)r. GILLY calls " unutterable horrors," to Which all the vices imagined by prurient-minded Commissioners in the collieries are like blushing innocence. Now let us turn, having for the present done with the peasantry and their herding together like the beasts of the field, to the manufacturing districts, and quote a passage from Mr. ADSHEAD'S pamphlet on " the distress in Manchester." This has every appearance of being a most authentic account, not merely of the present, but of the general condition of the working classes in Man chester ; and the slaves of the cotton-lords, we regret to state, are not in a better condition than the slaves of the landlords. Mr. ADSHEAD states that there are 2,040 fami lies, consisting of 9,179 persons, of whom 3,479 are chil dren under twelve, and 1,743 above twelve, living in cellars in Manchester. lie states that this is relatively a smaller number than live in cellars in Liverpool, where, we believe, the GLADsToNEs, and other men of that saintly character, manage to return two Tories by means of a cellar population, such as Mr. ADSIIEAD describes in the following passage:— The cellars are most of them neither drained nor soughed. They are consequently damp, are always liable to be flooded, and are almost entirely without the mean; of ventilation having rarely but the outlets of door and window at the one side, and these almost hid below the level of the street. • But the above-ground habitations of the indigent poor are little better than the cellars, except in the matter of situation. Nothing in the shape of the meanest comforts of life arc visible in them. Decent furniture there is none,—bricks, logs of wood, and other contrivances being frequently used as substitutes for tables and chairs, while the bag of shavings or litter of straw is laid in some corner to be occupied nightly by its miserable tenants, with all its accumulation of impurities inevitably resulting from the condition and habits of the latter. And not always are these abodes of squalor and poverty, whether cellars or ground-floor habitations, occupied by the members of one family alone. Frequently, different families occupied opposite corners of the same room, the sexes being no further se, arated than by the few feet of space which lie be tween their respective beds of straw. This state of things has come under my own observation repeatedly, in visiting the habitations of the poor. Six or eight persons have I witnessed inhabiting a damp cellar, males and females congregated to gether, with a line hung along the hovel for the use of the ic mates, upon which were suspended, indiscriminately, their torn and dirty apparel ; with other scenes of a nature too dis gusting for recital. In other instances, parents and children were found sleeping together in the same bed, without regard to age or sea. The tenoning conversation took place between a member of the Relief Committee, and a poor widow whe applied to the Com mittee for a bed : Examiner—Have you a bed? Widow—l have one. Examines—ls not one enough ? Widow—No ; I have a son. Examiner—What age is he ? Widow—Nineteen )ears. Examiner—And where has he slept ? Widow—With me ; or he must have lain on the floor. Of course a bed was given for the son. It wou,d be impossible to over-state the moral and social evils arising from this state of things. The domestic decencies must be utterly unknown where habits like these prevail ; and every barrier against profligacy in its coarsest form must be broken down. Such is the condition at present of the industrious classes of England. If the legislator had not mcddlrd with them, had not pasSed Corti laws, as he says to keep up wages, and established a Church, crowded with well paid parsons to teach the working classes all that men ought to learn, what is necessary in this life, as well as what will possibly gain for them life hereafter, we should nut have had a word to say against the legislator on account of the condition of the working cla,ses ; but looking at what the legislator has pretended to perform, and looking at his unceasing guidance and government of them, we affirm that he is reponsible for all the wretchedness, misery, and horrors, unutterable or utter able, which prevail amongst our working classes, and which are to him a complete scandal. No classes, however, can escape the influence of the contamination we have alluded to. The crowded filth of multitudes vitiates the air, and spreads infection and disease through the land. The moral infection, too, arising from their manners, is equal to the physical in fection arising from their filth ; and while the legislator supposes that he is merely securing his own authority, by his multiplied regulations he is spreading moral and physical corruption and degradation throughout the com munity. For the condition of the working classes, we repeat, he is responsible, and we assert that at present it is a scandal to the clergy, the gentry, and all the ruling classes of England. • The House of Commons on Thursday rejected Mr. ItoEnuctes resolutions by a majority of 136 votes against 47. This is no. disappointment to us. We knew very well that the Committee was not appointed twenty-four hours before Sir ROBERT PEEL heartily repented having supported the motion of the Honourable and Learned Member for Bath ; and that it had not sat a day before he had resolved to oppose any measure founded upon the only Report which he knew it could make. But, as was well said last night, by Mr. AGLIONBY, the Premier unwittingly assisted Mr. ROEBUCK in planting a tree which will yet bear good fruit. The Report may be got rid of now— it may be buried with the other lumber of the session, but Whigs and Tories combined will not be able to pre vent its resurrection: The real importance of this inquiry is not in the least affected by the refusal of the House to found any immediate measure upon it. All we immediately expected from it has been accomplished. It was reported, and believed, but denied, that bribery to an unprecedented extent was carried on at the last general election. It was affirmed, and believed, but denied, that in conse quence of corrupt compromises the petitions against the returns were for the most part with drawn, and that gentlemen legislated in the House of Commons, who, if justice was fairly administered, ought to be expiating their crimes in Newgate. The Report of the Committee has removed all doubts upon these matters. It is now proved that a general system of bribery was carried on at the last election throughout England and Ireland. It is an established fact, that but for the Bill of Indemnity, which preceded Mr. ROEBUCK'S inquiry, several gentlemen who voted with the majority last night would have been liable to be prosecuted as public criminals. The House of Commons adopted the Report, and in doing so admitted that its Members are not the representatives of the people, but of their own purses. Mr. ROEBUCK'S first resolution was unnecessary. Nothing which the House of Commons can do will take away from it that which it never had. Now the present House of Commons never had the confidence of the country, nor did any of its proceedings inspire respect. It cannot, therefore, suffer in public opinion by hug ging in its bosom a system of corruption engendered by itself. But it is a matter of immense importance to have its iniquitous composition laid bare by its own Members, and so recorded as to place the question for ever beyond the reach ofearil. It is much, in point ing to the brand upon its brow, to be able to say the aro kof infamy was self inflicted. For these reason?, we are in some sort reconciled to the loss of Mr. RoEnucK's resolutions. The Hun. and Learned Gen tleman distinctly stated that the great object of his Com mittee was not so much to e:;pose the infamy of in dividual acts, as to lay bare some of the ramifica tion,i of a g eneral system, and that he h as d one most etf_ctually. We now know who are the great criminals. Wei know the low standard of morality which exists even among the staunch champions of the Church in the House of Commons. Even the " Monk of the Middle Ages," the Hon. Member for the University of Ox ford, who, some nights ago, enunciated the priestly maxim, that popular ignorance and bad taste is favourable. to virtue, admits that he looks with a lenient eye upon gentlemen who approach the confessional of the House of Comrnon i p tinbprd?nthgossAyßs of no greater guilt than I;ribery, corruption, and Perjury. - But the day of judgment for that House will and must come. The end is not yet, but it is nearer by years thati it would have been but for Mr, RottitTK's Bribery Report. The inhabitants of the metropolis have occasionally just cause of complaint against the conduct of the Ma gistrates and police, but owing to the vigilance of the Press, and also to the open manner in which the pro ceedings in all the inferior Courts are conducted, the evil is trifling when compared with the doings of these func tionaries in the country. In remote 'districts they are almost left without control. The local new4paper is probably, under the influence of some of them, and consequently the grossest acts of oppres sion only reach the ears of the public through correspondents to leading provincial or London journals. We noticed on Thursday a remarkable stretch of power in committing some poor man to prison for non-payment of rates, and some months ago another of even kworse description, which occurred at Stoke-upon- Trent. A respectable man, the owner of a boat on the canal, was taken into custody by a constable, on sus picion of having stolen a plank, conveyed to. a station house, where he was chained by the kg to an iron ring fixed in the fluor, and confined in this manner fur four days in a most filthy condition, when he was at last taken before a Magistrate and discharged. This cruel treatment did not satisfy the parties, fer a bill was filed against the unfortunate man, the Grand Jury returned a true bill, and having been arrested on a Bench warrant, he was again committed to prison. The Ma gistrates refused to bail him, and he was consequently confined till a Judge's order for his release could be ob tained. He surrendered to take his trial at the present Assizes at Stafford, but the Judge stopped the case. He of course brought an action for false impri sonment, and obtained a verdict with 201. damages. The constable against whom the action was brought was the least guilty party, for the gaol, it appears, was in such a dilapidated state, that this iron ring with chains was found necessary to prevent prisoners from escaping. The Magistrates and Grand Jurors who suffered such an abomination were allowed to go free. Yet this is called a land of liberty, and praises without end are bestowed on the humanity of ()lir laws, and the mild administration 4 justice, and the sum of 201., is considered a sufficient compensation to this unfortunate victim of oppression. To crown the proceedings, the intelligent Jury at first refused to assess the damage, and asked the Judge to fix the amount, hut Lord Chief Justice TINDAL said that it was no part of his duty, and no doubt looked with wonder and amazement at the twelve gentlemen in the jurors' box. Sir IL PEEL on Thursday protested, and we think with good reason, against the system lately adopted of reporting interviews between Ministers and Deputations from different dosses. The practice is objectionable, even when correct and impartial reports are given, be cause it tends to check free communication between the two parties ; but it is quite unjustifiable when only a one-sided view of the question is given, and the conver sations are reported from memory. It would be only fitir, when the result is to be published, that the state ment should be drawn up and submitted to the revision of the Minister before it goes forth to the world. Dad such a plan been adopted many misconceptions which have arisen from the late interviews with the Govern ment would have been avoided. We have found it necessary to mention the subject, in order to justify ourselves for refusing certain communications made to us by respectable Correspondents. The French Journals have all been received. We sub join the following extracts from them : It appears (says the Debats) that the Deputies of the Left have determined on giving all their votes to M. 0. Barrot for the Presidency of the Chamber. We yerceive by the Austrian Observer that the Court of Vienna went into mourning for the Duke of Orleans en the 19th. This was to continue to the 26th. Half mourning was to be worn from that period till August 3d. We find in the Leipsic Gazette the following letter from Constantine:de, July 6, stating that conflicts had taken place between the Turkish and Persian troops, near Erzeroum and Bagdad. The letters from Constantinople of the 7th, from other sources, do not, however, speak of these collisions. The account in the Leipsic Gazette says :—" The Turkish troops have fought with those of Persia in the env►rons of Er zeroum and near Bagdad. The Turks were conquerors. The dif ferences between Persia and Turkey, relative to the frontiers, led to this collision ; to vi hick must be added the fact that the Persians refused to give up to the Turks a Pacha who had taken refuge in Persia." The Egypt►an General Edhem-Bey, Minister of Public In struction, has arrived at Marseilles from Malta, on his way to London. He is acccmpanied by a numerous suite. An ordonnance relative to the expenses of the funeral of the late Duke of Orleans was signed by the King, at Neuilly, on the 18th instant, on a report of the Minister of the Interior, and with the advice of the Council of Ministers. The follow ing are the essential articles :—" There is opened to our Mi nister of the Interior, on the grant for 1842, an extraordinary credit for 400,000 f., for the expenses of the obsequies of our well-beloved son the Duke of Orleans Prince Royal. The re gularisation of this credit shall be proposed to the Chambers at the next session." By another Royal ordonnance, dated 20th instant, the King, after reciting the law of the 7th of May, 1637, fixing the sum to be paid out of the public Treasury as a dower to the Duchess of Orleans in case of her widowLooil, ordains as follows:—" There is ( T oned to our Minister of the Finances, out of the grants for 1842, an extraordinary credit f 139,166 f. 66c., applicable to the dower of our well-beloved daughter-in-law the Duchess of Orleans. This expense shall be the object of a special chapter in the budget of 1842. '1 he regularisation of this credit shall be proposed to the Chambers at their next ses,ion." The Bishop of Evreux, who had returned to his diocese, will come back again to Paris to assist at the funeral of the Duke of Orleans, and will accompany the corpse to Dreux. Two African priests, in behalf of those of their own colour living in Paris, and who have so frequently experienced the benevolent protection of the Royal family, celebrated on Mon day, in the chapel of Neuilly, a mass for the repose of the soul of the Duke of Orleans. A great number of blacks of both sexes on the same day attended the mortuary mass at the church of Saint Sulpice. . . . . . Count d'iippony, the Austrian Ambassador, had the honour of delivering on Monday to the King and Queen at Neuilly letters of condolence from his Sovereign on the death of the Prince Royal. The Swiss journals publish the following letter sent by the King of the French to the Helvetic Diet, on the day after the death of the Duke of Orleans :—" Very dear and great friends, allies, and confederates.—A horrible accident has just deprived our family and France of our beloved son Ferdinand• Philippe- Louis-Charles Henry Duke of Orleans, Prince Royal of the French. He expired in our arms, and in those of the Queen, yesterday at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon. Over whelmed with the most profound grief, and a.sured of the sympathy which the praiseworthy Cantons of Helvetia, the an cient and noble allies of France, feel for all that affects her, we announce to you this cruel and unexpected event, and offer ing up prayers that Heaven may have in reserve for Switzer land only days of felicity, we eagerly renew to you the assur ance of our sincere esteem and unchangeable good will. (Signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE. ( Countersigned ) "GUI Z OT." So fully was the Chamber attended yesterday by the Mem bers of the Two Houses, that a little before the King entered, M. Emile de Girardin, after in vain seeking a seat on the lett side, went to the right on a similar mission, and was equally unsucci- ssful. We believe that the Hon. Deputy was obliged to stand during the whole period that the King was present. BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cent5.....117 65... 117 65... 117 50... 117 55 4 per Cents 101 35... 101 35... 101 35... 101 35 3 per Cents 77 40... 77 45... 77 30... 77 45 Belgian Bank... 775 ... 7 7 5 ... 775 ... 775 Belgian Fives lo2i ... 102 i ... 102 i ... 102 i 1840 lo3a ... 103 j ... 103 a ... 1031 Spanish Active ... 221 ... 24 ... 24 Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES St. Germain .. 810 ... 810 ... 810 ... 810 Versailles, R.B ... 290 ... 290 ... 290 ... 290 L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 95 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to Bale 2OO ... 202 50... 200 ... 202 50 BELGIAN r UNDS—Baussats, Aux 27 Actual Debt, a% per Cent. ttothschild'b Loan, 5 per Cent lOl% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 9l Sper Cent. ---. O% .(1640) 1013% Loan of City, 1'232,4 per Cent 93% Societyol Contincree,4 N,per Cent, S6 dank of Belgium, 5 per Cent . 73 National Society .. . Exchange on London (short) ....... —Brussels Papers, July 27. AUSTRIAN ruNu..-viENNA, JULY 19. !•treper CORM BleillniqUCS ~ 101 l lose per Cent s. llO% 1 hree per Cents. Hank Shares . 00000000000000000 "................ 1606 HAMBUItGH BORSEN HALLE, JULY 23. Thirty.scven Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares Anglo-Russian Loan lo 9 1 4 ii 9 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certific a t e lO 2, Inscription, Ist series . Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates New 4 per tent. (1840) B9 88 Dutch Actual Debt. per Cent stili 53) Ditto a per Cent. - Polish Bonds Money. New Tickets. llB _ Anglo-I/mid) Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 por Cents. IS . EXCHANGES ON LONDOS. HAMBURGH, JULY 26.-13 t , Two months 1 4 7%. STOCKHOLM, JULY lit— Seventy-live days, 136. VIENNA, JULY I: 4 .—Three months, 9. 12. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 23. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cont. Prussian English Bond , 1830, per cent. I 2 y, Exchange on London Prussian State Gazelle, July 24. LUCKY TOWNS.-It is no less singular than true that there are three market towns in the county of Somerset, without an attorney .esiding in either, and two of them arc sea-ports. IVe have much pleasure in remarking that symp toms of reviving trade begin to appear. The accounts from most Of our:great seats of manufacture and commerce speak:of improve ment. This is particularly the case in London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Manchester. here in the woollen districts we can also speak, in the language of a correspondent, of "more business and to better purpose." And in Scotland, too, there are marks of revival.— Leeds Journal. After the departure of her Majesty and suite from the Slough station on Saturday, upon the arrival of the Court from Buckingham Palace, Gibbs, the Superintendent of the Police to the Great Western Railway Company at that station, discovered in one of the carriages of the special train a brace of loaded bolster pistols which had been Incautiously left by one of the Queen's attendants. The pistols sere fortunately discovered tirisave been loaded Wore any accident occurred, and they were immediately dispatched by a special messenger to Windsor Castle. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1842. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Ptibite Q:ptittatt, " Who runs may read." rbltzti*rir,, The eliehin of the lerinporary and special session of 18-12 form's the leading feature in the original columns of the Paris journals. The Debats says—" The King opened the session yesterday for 1842.. He came with tears in his eyes, his voice interrupted with sobs, and asked the Chamber for their pa triotic assistance under the melancholy circumstances in which the death of the Prince Royal has placed France. The Chambers replied by loud acclamations, devotedness, sympathy, and enthusiasm. Such was the Royal sitting of yesterday All was simple and true, noble and touching, worthy of France and worthy of the King. The King was not afraid to show his tears; he publicly lamented him whom everybody laments.' The Presse alludes as follows to the Speech from the Throne —.6 In the speech delivered by the King, we praise, above all, its deeply religious character. For the first time, perhaps, in solemnities of this nature, we heard God and his holy name publicly invoked. This is a good example, coining from the exalted amongst us. Accustom the people to carry their thoughts towards Heaven, and in this habit they will find that resignation which political passions render daily more difficult of attainment; and when they see these who are con sidered to be the great and happy of the earth bow with reve rence of the most severe strokes of Providence, they will learn to support with better feelings their own sufferings." The National says—" Ministers who, in arranging the ceremonial of this sitting, decided that the King should preside over it, committed, both as men and citizens a bad action. After the blow that had fallen upon Louis Philippe, scarcely ten days after the sad death of his eldest son, it was a duty of humanity in Ministers to have spared the King a ceremony in which his presence was not indispensable, and which was of a nature to revive painful recollections. But Ministers, it ap pears, carevery little about the paternal sorrows of the King. TI ey imagined that the sobs of an old man would have a favour able effect on the maintenance of their power, and that they would meet but with little resistance from the Chamber, when it should have seen the Chief of the Government. weeping be fore it.' We knew very well that t hey would make a political use of the death of the Duke of Orleans." The Courriv• Francais observes—" The Ministers ought to have spared Louis Philippe this struggle between the grief of the father and the majesty of the monarch, for it passed be fore the eyes of the diplomatic body, and we ought not' to let strangers into the secret of cur afflictions. Antiquity has a sublime image to express•the grief that is suitable to Prinoes— it merely threw a veil over the features of Agamemnon. In other respects the speech which Ministers have placed in the mouth of Louis Philippe is becoming and dignified. It says what it has to say with a sober' simplicity of expression, with out exagierating , cr underrating the exact position of things." The Lonstitutionnel has thc following :•—,‘ The grief of France has responded to that of the King. Never was there so full an attendance of the two Chambers ; never was the King received with such warm acclamations. The Legitimists alone were almost all absent from the Royal sitting. The Royal Speech alludes only to the approaching presentatio's of a Bill for a Regency. There is not a word on the Ministerial policy, which has nothing to do with the measures, the prompt adop tion of which is commanded by the interest of France and of the dynasty. The impression left upon our mind by the sit ting is, that the monarchical principle is deep-rooted in France, and that the dynasty which we elected in 1830, still is, and ever will be, the best safeguard of order and public liberty. No person attempts to deny the dangerous eventualities which may arise from the death of the Duke of Orleans,; but every body has faith in the good sense of the country, in its energy, and in the force of our institutions." " If (says the Constitutionnel) the Opposition should engage in the conflict with the Ministry before the vote on the Regency Bill, it would give to M. Guizot the only advantage he could possibly possess—it would authorise him to confound the inte rest of the Ministry with that of the dynasty. All conscientious, but timid and uncertain men, would ask themselves if the Op position was really constitutional, and the whole of the discus sion would be influenced by this deplorable doubt. A majority opposed to the will of the electors, and favourable to M. Guiaut, might result front the confusion into which such ambiguous conduct on the part of the Opposition might throw the Chamber.' The Quotidienne confines itself to a short criticism on the speech. In noticing the announcement that the business of the present session will be limited exclusively to the Recency, it says—" It is not easy to understand why the passing of a Regency 81l is thus hurried, whilst, on the other hand, all de liberation on the affairs of the State is postponed. We must suppose that M. Guizot was in haste to turn to profit the emo tion of the;, assemblies., which he has called to dispose summa rily of one of the most delicate and grave questions of public right, in presence of the still open tomb of Louis Philippe's eldestson." We find the following short notice in the Legitimist journal, the France :—" The Speech of Louis Philippe is all that it ought to be under the grave cit cums:ances in which the death of his eldest son has plunged his house. Politics are alien to it. It speaks alone of grief. The Ministry has kept aloof, feeling that it could not come forward without being accused of attempting to cloak its acts under the general mourning." PAILLI/LIKENTKILY. The Peers transacted no business of importance last night, but they forwarded several measures a stage. Lord Radnor introduced a Bill to repeal the Corn-laws, and the Marquis of Clanricarde, because the session touches its tend, withdrew the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill. In the Commons, Mr. Sheil corrected the Morning Iferalds report of his speech on the Bribery Bill. He had said that the bribery oath was a great restraint, not that it was no restraint. At the request of Sir James Graham, Mr. T. Duncombe postponed the presentation of the petition from the Deptford Chartists. Mr. Home presented a petition from; the Raja of Sattara which was ordered to be printed. For several notices, one of which, to do honour to Herschel, Watt, and Davy, is creditable to Mr. Hawes, we refer to our report. Mr. Hutt brought the Danish Claims under the notice of the House, but did not press his motion. In reply to Lord Palmerston, Sir R. Peel said he did nbt mean to propose a specific grant for the encouragement of sing ing this session. A little conversation, provoked by Mr. Thornely, took place about corn and provisions arriving from America, when Sir It. Peel stated that he believed both would come in under his law. The House were into a Committee of Supply, and passed, we believe, all the remaining estimates. A new writ was issued for "Nottingham, on the motion of Mr. Sharman Crawford. The House adjourned at One &Cloak. NAVAL AND MILITARY. Her Majesty, attired in a splendid purple riding habit, with the ribbon of the Order of the Garter, and a military cap. re viewed the 15th Regiment of Foot, commanded by Lord Charles Wellesley, in the Home Park, Windsor, on Thunday morning, in company with Prince Albert. I.AW AND POLICE. J. Wyatt, a carpenter uut of work, was on Thursday charged at Queen•square with having thrown a stone at Lord Sandon, as that Nobleman was leaving his house on Wednesday evening. The Magistrate considered him insane, and committed him tor three months, at the end of which time he was to be put under restraint. Sarah Stroud was on Thursday committed to Newgate for trial from the illarylebone office, for drowning her illegitimate child in the Regent's-canal. Thomas Casey, a journeyman dyer, charged at Lambeth street with having caused the death of his wife by inflicting bruises on her, was fully committed on Thursday to Newgate, for " Manslaughter,'' and the witnesses bound over to appear. Four parties, factory-men and labourers, wt. re charged on Thursday at Greenwich Police with exciting the late meeting to rescue Dr. M'Douall from the hands of the poliee, and bound over iu sums of 401. and upwards, for their good be haviour during the next six months. SPORTING. The Admiralty has during the past week granted by war rant permission to the yachts of the Thames Club to carry the blue ensign of her Majesty's fleet. They will display their new colours on the occasion tt their last match, which takes place on Monday next, the Ist of August. The annual match between eleven gentlemen and eleven players was commenced on Monday morning at Lord's, and terminated on Wednesday aTternooo, when the former won the game by a majority of 95 runs. The tour-oared cutter-match between the Saint George's Club and the Civil Engineers, took place on Thursday, the dis tance being from Westminster to Putney, when the former won by n length of 180 yards a-head. COURT-FA.SHIONABLE. The Duke of Devonshire has recommenced his dinner par. ties at Chiswick. The Marquis of Hertford left Dorchester House last week for Paris. He returns early in the month. The Marquis Conynghara arrived in town on Thursday from his villa at Southampton. The Earl and Countess of Charleville left St. George's-place on Thursday fur Germany. The Earl and Countess of Brownlow have arrived at Belton House, near Grantham, from a visit to the Marquis of North ampton, at Castle Ashby. Viscount and Viscountess Beresford left Cavendish-square yesterday for Bedgebury Park. Viscount Haddo has taken the late Lord Harcourt's villa of St. Leonard's, near Windsor. Lord AshbUrton is expected home from America about the 20th of Agust. Miss Burdett Coutts has left town on a tour. .1 . /lISCZIAMANZIOUS. The Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, was an Thursday elected Head Master of Rugby School by the Hon. the Trustees. On Monday night upwards of 36 houses were entirely burnt down at Crediton, in Devonshire. Under the codicil to Mr. James Wood's will, G. W. Counsel Esq., of Gloucester, has this week received a legacy of 10,0001 MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We understand that the day, is at length fixed for the marriage of the Hight Hon. the Earl Cornwallis with the beautiful and accomplished sliss Julia Bacon, the third surviving daughter of T. Bacon, Esq., of Redlands, Berkshire. Thursday, the 4th August, is the day named for the celebration of the nuptial ceremony. Viscount Parker, only son. of the Earl of Maccles field, who is about to lead to the altar the Lady Mary Grosvenor, Second daughter of the Earl and Countess Grosvenor, and niece to the Duke of Sutherland, is the widower of the accom plished daughter of Edmund Turnor, Esq., of Stoke Hochford, who only survived her marriage a few months. His Lordship lately represented Oxfordshire, and is in his thirty-first year ; the noble bride elect is in her twenty-first year. Thtiir Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Anhalt-Cothcn, attended by Count de Behr, have gone on a tour in the manufacturing districts, and have already visited Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. Their Serene Highnesses, during their tour, are expected to go to Alton Towers, the scat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Chatsworth, the Duke of Devonshire's princely mansion in Derbyshire. Countess Flahault (Baroness Keith and Nairne) and the . Hon. Misses Elphinstone-Flahault shortly take their departure for Paris, after a residence of nearly six months in this country. The Count is daily expected in the French capital from Vienna, at the Court of which he is Ambassador from France. DREADFUL CARRIAGE ACClDENT.—Yesterday between ten and eleven o'clock a very dreadful accident hap pened in the Waterloo -road, near the Victoria Theatre, by which an interesting littl e g i r l, name d Margaret Randall, lost her life. It anears th e c hild, in company with a sister and brother, rather her seni or , were wa lki ng together, when the de ceased ran off the footp at h i nto t h e roa d, after an apple which she had dropped, at the moment the carriage of Mr. Wood, of the York-road, passed along, the horses - of which knocked the child down, both the near wheels passing over her body. She was taken up and carried to the shop of Mr. Brooks, in the Waterloo-road, who pronounced her dead. At the time of the accident the carriage was going at i moderate rate. Mr. Wood alighted and gave his name an d a dd ress to the police. The body awaits a Coroner's inquest. CODICIL TO AIR. WOOD'S WILI,.—We are happy to state that our respected fellow-citizen, G. W. Coun sel, Esq., has this week received the legacy of 10,0001., be queathed to him under the codicil to Mr. James Wood's will, with interest.— Gloucestershire Chronicle. COURT CIRc ULAR. PRIDAY.--The 2d regiment of Life Guards was reviewed this morning at 10 o'clock, in the Great Park, by the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince of Sale Coburg Gotha (habited in the uniform of the lith Satort Hussars), and the Princess of Saxe Coburg, at tended by the Viscountess Emlyn, Hon. Miss Devereux, Hon. Mrs, Anson, in phaetons; the Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel Eotiverie, and Sir George Quentin, in uniform s; an d by Viscount Sydney, Hon. C, A. Murray, and Captain Hood, *caring the Wind•Or uniform. Her Majesty was on horseback during the review, and also the two Princes and the Gentlemen in Waiting. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have been taken their usual airings to-day accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lvttelton. In the afternoon the Queen rode out into the drives of the Great Park, accompanied by the Princess of Saxe Coburg, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Caroline Cocks, the Hon. Miss Devereux, in pony phaetons ; Prince Albeit and the Hereditary Prince, attended by the rest of the suite, vidi,g on horseback. Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn took their departure this afternoon. Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. and Mrs Harcourt (St. Leonard's), Colonel Reid, and Lieut. Col. :11.Douall will have the honour of joining the Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones, honoured the Lord Mayor with his company at dinner yesterday evening at the Mansion House. His Royal Highness afterwards returned to his residence at Kew. Dr. Rolph had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Beckett, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Ripon yestorday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Lord Chancellor left town yesterday. Dispatches from the Governor of the Canadas, and also from the Governor of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, were received yesterday at the Co'onial-office. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE Wt,l, CITY, FRIDAY EVENING, The funds recovered a trifle from the effect of the sales, noticed this afternoon, and Consols left off at 91 91% for Money, and for the Account; Bank Stock, 167 169; India Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 Fern The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 101 102 ; Dutch Two-and-- Half per Cents., 51/ 51i ; Danish, 81% 82%; Brazilian, 64% 65%. The quotation of Mexican declined to 353 for Money, and 35i for the Account. A decided improvement was exhibited in the Share Market towards the close of business. London and Birmingham. were 181 183 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 46 50 ; Great Western, 88% 89% ; the Half-Shares, 63% 64 ; South Western, 611 ; North Midland, 58/ 59%; the Half-Shares, 28% 29 ; South Eastern and Dover, 23 23%; Eastern Counties, 8- 9% ; Northern and Eastern, 39i- 40; Blackwall, 9 9%; anti Brighton, 33% 34-i per share. The Foreign Exchanges were altogether better, especially in Paris and Parnburgh. The large purchases made at the late Indigo sales have, doubtless, to a great extent, contributed to this advance in the latter place, but still the probability of any great demand for produce, against which bills would have to be drawn, haring been removed, the balance of trade will, it is almost certain, remain in favour of this country for some months at least to come. The Bonds quoted in the official lists were—Colombian, 20% 20% ; Spanish Five per Cents., 2N, and the Three per Cents., 20k. Owing to the late hour at which the letters by the Caledonia were delivered, no part of their contents can be noticed which contain any general information, beyond the copious details of intelligence published in an early second edition of The Sun this evening, for which merchants have expressed themselves much indebted. Papers to the 30th March have been received from Sydney. The accounts continue to be favourable for British goods, but the caution is again repeated that the improvement is owing more to the diminution of stocks than to increased demand. The want of labour appears to be felt here also, and measures were about to be adopted to petition the home Government that convicts might again be allotted to them. (Vi(n The Sun of Last Night.) The Funds do not still maintain their prices, and some few sales this morning have given a flatness to the market. Con sols are 91 91A for Money, and 916 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced 914; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1003 l(t0 ; New 'Three•and-a-Falf per Cents., 100 1006 ; Bank Stock, 1674 1684 ; India Stock, 249 2111 ; India Bonds, 33 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 pr em. Foreign Securities are without any particular feature; the business to-day has been in the Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., at 51i 514. Mexican is (tnted 36} 34. The inquiry for Shares has bee?rrather more extensive, but some difficulty is experienced in making purchases, in conse quence of the few which are publicly offered for sale. Great Western have been sold at 83A 834; the New Shares, 04; South Western, 62 1 A ; South Eastern, 23A ; London and Birmingham, Quarters, 47 ; and Thirds, 60; Brighton, 353. The Bonds quoted to-day ive Colombian 203 201; and Spanish Five per Cents.. 203 204. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 28.—The market remains quite firm; but we cannot report much business done, our only sales being—Manchester and Birmingham, 284 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 544. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH . FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 91i Ditto Bonds ...... 3 per Cent. C0n5......... 91A Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent. Red... 100 i 'Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Cent... ...... 1004 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 49 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/... - ... 51 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ..... .51 pm Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12i Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds... 64/ Prussian, 5 per cent. „ -- Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent ll4i Chilian, 6 per cent. — Ditto, Metallic.. .... Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2O Dil to, 1824 2O Ditto, Deferred.... . __. Danish, 3 per cent - French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Gi eek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —c Mexican, 5 per cent 353 French, 3 percent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. sli Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 1011 SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) ... Ditto Debentures • .... . - 9s 2d Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid ... Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) ' 33/ London and Birmingham (90) - Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 47 Ditto Third,. (32 paid) London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 62i Northern and Eastern (45 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Paris and Rouen (18 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23} Ditto Scrip. (10 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ,C F. 12 71(Gibraltar... ... ... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U l2 8 Genoa . 25 85 Antwerp l2 7 Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice ... 47 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 26 Frankfort on Maine... Ibli Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin... 7 New York, 21days sight 46i . _ Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 967 Philadelphia - Trieste, ditto 9 bti. PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Cadiz .36 t Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5 Bilbao Barcelona Seville ... 36 I Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4I I; FALM6UTII.—AWFUL AND SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday morning, the 18th inst., a person by the Tia of Richard Granvill, for many years master of one of tho Falmouth packets, during a cunvc.rsation with his wife, complained of a numbness in one of his arms. Whilst in the act of describing the pain, he exclaimed " good God ! oh, my head," and felt to the ground a lifeless corpse.—Plymouth Herald. IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE.—The Emerald Isle steamer from Rotterdam, which arrived here on Sunday, brought us the first importation of live cattle from that quarter under the new law. It was but a specimen, consisting of four cows in calf, which we me derstand found ready sale at remunerating prices. One of the cows calved on Tuesday, and the calf, with two of the other cows, were offered and disposed of at our market that day. While the importers are satisfied, our neighbouring farmers look with no alarm upon the change, being perfectly sure that no foreign cattle can equal, much less excel, the native breed. The cattle brought over are likely to be lean beasts for feeding. The Innisfail, Gothenburg mail steam-ship, which arrived on Tuesday, brought 16 pigs.--Hull Rockingham. NOTTINGHAM TRADE. The plain cotton hose branch in the villages is bad indeed, and nothing can exceed the misery of the stockingers. he glove trade, both silk and cotton, is nearly in the same deplorable state, the hands being short of empioyment that makes them reckless of seeking for labour, nor is the worst yet come, fur the hosiers are rapidly and almost generally stopping their frames. The silk hose branch, like a wounded snake, " drugs its slow length along," making cheap hose, such as five scores, and four scores and fif teens. The streets of Nottingham present a woeful ap pearance.—.Dr 4 Chronicle. FRunTut, VlNE.—There has been counted on a vine belonging to Mr. Candy, Lemon-row, Truro, the e.lmost incredible number of 875 bunches of grapes, Should they come to maturity, of which, from their pre sent healthy appearance, there can be no doubt, they may be expected to weigh each, at a very low average ; equal to 8 cwt. 3 qrs. 171 lbs. the weight of the whole. Although an out-door vine, some of the grapes are nearly full size.—Plywouth Herald. Dysentery of a very severe kind is now prevalent in the neighbourhood of Kilrush, arising from the use of un ripe potatoes after a hard summer of keen starvation. Many families were fainting and famishing on one meal a day of herbs and gruel. These afiiieting scenes must recur while the precarious potatoe continues the staple food of the bulk of the people.—Limerick Reporter. ASIITON-IN-MACKERFIELD.—Mere are a great many people out of employment. Those who make the various articles of iron, such as locks, bolts. hinges, &e., were last week " task e d" a secon d t i me ; in other words, were prohibited from doing more than a certain quan tity of work in the week ; the masters urging as a rea son their utter inability to pay wages to the amount they have been accustomed to do. Orders are becom ing " rare things," and cash very difficult to meet with. As this is the second time , the masters have availed themselves of " tasking" their workpeople, the latter find it absolutely impossible to provide for their families and pay their way. — Manchester Times. A very extraordinary wasps nest was discovered the other day in a hedge, belonging to Mr. John Forth, at Castle Donington. It measured seven feet six inches in cit.. , cumference, and two feet in depth.—Nottingham Review. A letter from Sevine,:of the 11th inst., states:that the heat had been so intense there for several day% tha a great number of persons had quitted the place to proceed to a cooler situation. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOODWOOD—FrioaT. The March (handicap) Stakes of 10 Soya. each, 5 ft if de clared, for all ages, ridden by Members of tlr_t Goodwood Club ; the last three quarters of a mile of D. H. S. C. (34 Subscribers, divided into two classes, the winners of each to run for the M. forfeits, staking 101. each, and carrying (ilbs extra). Any horse that has started allowed the challenge for the forfeits, carrying the original weights. FIRST CLASS. Lord G. Bentinck's African, 3 yrs, 9st 101b...(Lord March) 1 Lord Rosslyn's Cornuto, aged, lOst 71b Mr. S. Herbert's Arctic, aged, llst .tlb Mr. Bell's Man Friday, 4 yrs, Ilst 61b.. .............. 4 Lord G. Bentinek's The Yorkshire Lady, 3 yrs, lOst Sib Iletting-2 to 1 agst African, 2-to 1 agst Arctic, 4to 1 agst Cornuto, and 5" to 1 agst Yorkshire Lady. African made an the running, and won by a I.ngth. SECOND CLASS. Lord G. Bentinek's Tiptoe, 3 yrs, 9st 7lb ...( Lord Ma - eh) 1 Count Bittliyany'i Nicholas, 5 yrs, lOst 71b 0 Lord G. Bentinek's Tripoli, 5 yrs, lOst .lib Mr. Bell's sister to Ferneloy, aged, i Ist 6.13 Mr. Graydon's Helpmate, 6 yrs, 1 ht 21b Betting—Six to 4 agst Tiptoe, 3 to I agst Helpmate, 3 to I agst Nicholas, 4 to 1 agst sister to Ferneley, and 5 tot agst Tripoli. Tripoli made the play throughout, and won by two lengths. A dead heat for second. The Nassau Stakes of 50 sots. each, for 3 yrs old fillies, Bst lib each ; winners extra. The new mile. (22 Subs ) Lord Chesterfield's Dilbar Lord Exeter's Celia 2 Lord G. Bentinek's Firebrand Sir G. Heathcote's Mingrelia .... • Lord Westminster's Evening Star Mr. Bowes' Ladye of Silverkeld Well Betting—Even on Celia, 5 to 2 agst Dilbar, and 5 to 1 agst Firebrand. Won cleverly by a length. The Chesterfield Cup by Subs. of 15 sovs. each (handicap) for all horses but 2 years old. Craven course. (38 Subs. ) Major Hay's Retriever, 6 yrs, 7st 9lb (Murphy) 1 Cohasel Peel's Garry Owen, 5 yrs, Bst 4lb Mr. Payne's Johnny, 6 yrs, Bst 21b . . 3 The following also started but were not placed , : —Alr. Licht wald's Hyllus, 6 yrs, lOst ; Mr. Robertson's Little Wonder, yrs, 9st 91b ; Lord Chesterfield's Marshal Soult, 4 yrs, 7st 91b ; Lord G. Bentinck's Alustapha, 4 yr:, 7st 21b ; Mr. Gregory's Una, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ; Air. Gratwicke's Clementina, 4 yrs, Est 1 21b ; Lord Exeter's Saros, 3 yrs, sst 10lb (carried 3lb over ); Lord Eglin ton's, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b; Lord G. Bentinck's St. Jean d'Acre, 3 yrs, Est ; Sir W. Stanley's Vakeel, 3 yrs, Est 191 b; and Sir. Goodman's Rover, 3 yrs, (Ist 71b. Betting-7 to 4 agst Retriever; 6to 1 agst Clementina; 7 to I agst Dr. Caius; 7 to 1 agst Garry Owen; 8 to 1 agst Little Wonder ; I() to 1 agst Hyilus ; and 12 to I agst Una. Retriever made all the running and won in a canter, by two lengths. A good race for second place. Dr. Caius lost start. March Stakes. Challenge for the Si. forfeits. Lord G. Bentinck's Tiptoe, 3 yrs Match, 2001. each, Craven Course.—Duke of Bedford's Envoy, Bst 71b (E. Edwards), beat Lord Eglinton's Pharold. Match, 25 soya. each, Craven Course.—Lord Eglinton's The Young-'un, I Ist 61b (Captain Pettat) beat Lord G. Ben tinck's Proof Print, 9st 51b. 5 to 4 on the Young-'un. Won by a length. Produce Match, 3001 , h ft.—Lord G. Bentinck's Gaper, fist 10Ib, received lorfeit from Lord Kelburrte's Deerslayer, Bst lUlb. Match, 200!., VI ft. One mile.—Mr. Theobald's Glenury, Bst 31b, received forfeit from Mr. Gregory's Defier, Bst 71b. The following Nobility and Gentry sojourned at Bognor during the Goodwood Races :—Marquis of Worcester ; the Marchioness and Marquis of Queensberl, Lord Macdonald, Sir Chas. Cockerell, Sir. Codrington, AI. P. ; Hon. W. Bagot, Capt. and Mrs. Doherty, Capt. Mackay, lion. C. Forester, Lord G. Bagot, Mr. R. Etwall, M.P. ; Sir, AI. Etwall, M.P. ; Sir M. Farquhar, Capt. Udney, Hon. Capt. Howard, Hon. AI. Rodney, Hon. AI. Lennox, Sir. Ricardo and 'Arty, Mr. J. Bayley, Sir B. and Lady Doyle, &c. &c. Lord and Lady George Lennox en ertained a distinguished party during the week at Lennox Lodge. COVES, ISLE OF VirltiHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. JULY 2L—Hussar schooner, T. P. Williams, Esq., ALP., from Southampton ; Pearl cutter, Marquis of Anglesey, from London. 231..-Circassiais schooner, William Lyon, Esq., from Ports mouth ; schooner, -Sir Jd. R. Graham, Bart., from Cher bOurg and Guerrisey: 24th.—Medina cu:ter, Captain F. Holcome, R. H. A., from Boulogne. 2811.—Brilliant schooner; G. H. Ackers, Esq., from Guernsey. SAILINGS. JULY 22.—Pearl cutter, Marquis of Anglesey, for Teign mouth. 26th.—Gan3mede cutter, J. li. W. P. S. Nutt, Esq., for Teigt mow h 27th.-I'ert schooner, Capt. bulkeley, for Plymouth ; Eme rald cutter, J. L. Symonds, Esq., for Dartmouth; Amazon cutter, Sit John Walsh, Bart., ALP., Liverpool and Fleetwood. YAGUTS AT AND ABOUT THE 61AlION. Schooners—Hussar, Jack-o'-Lantern, Hawk, Ariel, Illtrlin, Camilla, Circassian, Flirt, Harriet, Brilliant. Cutters—Nautilus, Sparrawhawa, Hebe, Phobe, Corsair, Nymph, Cynthia, Talisman, Flower of Yarrow, Midge, Sap phire, Intrepid, Medina. Yawls—Alarm, Breen. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS THIS WEEK. Lord Fitzhardinge has taken gothic Hall ; Mrs. Noel, the Large Pavilion ; Lady Louisa de Horsey, the King's House ; Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere, Noe folk House ; the Earl of Errol, a douse in Castle -terrace; Mrs. Arkwright has taken Egypt House; Mr. Robert Meiklam has taken the Parsonage; Cap tain C. H. Williams has left Prospect House for . 36 ,Uprer Grosvenor•street ; Lord Robert Grosvenor and several other fashionables have applied for houses. The town is still tar from full. 310 NE Y MA 11,KET and CI 'l' I NE POST.—As an extraordinary circumstance, it may be noted that not a bargain in Mexican Bonus- is quoted in the official lists to-day. I lie intelligence from Mexico by the Tweed i of a most undecided character, but leading to the conclusion diet neither part of the belligerent parties will come into serious collision. Both will write and bluster, but beyond a paper war n.• mischief will ensue. It must be allots ed, and the admission is made with satisfaction, that the Government under Santa Anna have most scrupulously endea‘oured to fulfil the engage ments it had entered into with its foreign crethti:rs. Alretwy not only has the October dividend been provided for, but an amount has been remitted almost sufficient to provide for that due in April, 1843. If peace be maintained, and the same course of good faith be persevered in as has hitherto been shown, each subsequent dividend will be in hand tar befote the previous one shall have become due. The attention of heads of schools and private teachers is especially directed to " Mons. Le Page's Complete Course of Instruction in the French Language," extremely well calcu!ated to entirely obviate all necessity of leaving Erigand to learn French. Notwithstanding the numerous attempts to ac. complish this desideratum, none can be compared with the very elevei. little progressive books of Mons. Le Page, which consist of " L'Echo de Paris," " Gift of Conversation," the " Last Step to French," and the " French Master fnr the Nursery," • which for judicious arrangement stand unrivalled fur the easy acquirement of iris accomplished language. THE PROROGATION.—Her .Majesty and Prince Albert are expected at Buckingham Palace about Wednesday se'nnight, the leth of August, for the purpose of enabling the Queen to prcrogue the Houses of Parliament ; and her Ma jetty will return to the Castle on the following day, if not the same evening, by the Great Western Railway, as the ceremony will be over by half-past three o'clock. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAlLWAY.—Thursday the half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held at the London Tavern, ifshopsgate-street, and was nume rously attended. The Chair was taken by W. Shadbolt, Esq., • when the Report was read, from which it appeared that the new works necessary for widening the rathoray, and farming the area of the station to he exchanged for the Croydon station, have been completed within the estimates, and on the 10th of May the addit oual line* op to the Croydon junction were opened to the public. A centrect had been entered into with the rectors and churchwardens of the I arisha of 61, (have and St. John for the purchase of their burial ground for the approach to the railway, acd an Act has been obtained Tne station at Deptford has been cumpi ted and opened to the pubite, and the Spa-road station is to course of erection. The re. laying of the permanent way on wooden sleepers, in lieu of stone blocks is tiow accomplished, and has effected a great saving in the ex penditure, but the receipts had been diminished through the altered fares, which induced the Directors to t ink of a return to the former prices. There was a balance of 3,2011. 17a. 3d. applicable to the payment of a dividend, which was at the rate of Is bd. per share on all the Unprivileged hares.' The re sult of the traffic from the Brighton, Cro)dein f ettei Dover lines for the last stiX months has produced only 3,402/.; mating an average of 5671. per month, but during the last Vito Months, since the increased tell has been received, the average has been 9311. per month, which 14t a hope of greater prosperity a§ the traffic of the other lines came into operations In conclu sion, the Directors stated, that the Bill of the Croydon Com pany for making an approach to their railtvety front the Grange• road was thrown out of Parliament by a large majority { The total cash, to the :Ath of June, was 1,012,3361. Is. bd., end the balance in hand 15,7051. 3s. 10d. The receipts for the half year were 27,5701, 2s. 4d., and the number of passengers was 824,291. After a long and warm discusaiis of several hours the report was adopted, and three new Directors were elected, when a vote of thanks was passed to the directors, and the meeting adjourned. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—At a late hour on Wednesday evening, att inquest was held at the Railway Ta vern, Brentwood, by Mr. Lewis, the Coroner, on the body of William Fitch, aged 33, who was killed on the Eastern Cowl. ties Railway, on Monday last. From the evidence adduced by the wit. eases, it appeared the deceased was an excavator, in the service of Messrs. Hills and Co., contractors, and was engaged at the works now in progress at the extensive cutting near the mansion of Lord Petre, about a mile and a half from Brent wood. On Monday afternoon last, between two and three o'clock, he got upon the earth train to proceed up the line, awhole attached ofea verdict tet e, when, just as it had attained its full speed, he fell oil' on the blame b y treturnedh e being rails, and met with insstaysneerrtav his nane bads. Noj ry instantaneous death, to o a n d ry . e t d vi4 t 4 .h g e onj o y m ia p ss a i n n;,_ , o of " Accidental death." The Earl and Countess of Brow•nlow and the Ladies Cost have arrived at Belton House, near Grantham, from a visit to the %larquis of Northampton, at Castle Ashby, whet e Vis count and Lady Marianne Alford are at present staying. The Noble Viscount and Lady leave for Scotland shortly. Viscount and Viscountess Bad& have taken the late Lord Harcourt's delightfully-situated villa at St Leon rds, near Windsor, where they have been residing some weeks. The ibllowing lashionables took their departure on Thursday, from the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell, by the General Steam Navigation Company's splendid steamer, Rainbow, Captain J. Fite, for Antwerp, on their route to the Rhine Hodgson, M.P., Colonel Grove, General S,r Moore Disney, the Countess of Newburgh, the Hon Sir John Kennedy, the Hon. Admiral Mackay, Admiral Hawker, Mr. Backhouse, Mr. Hibbert, of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and Major Pugh. HER MAJESTY TilE QUEEN DOWAGER.—At the close of the ensuing week the Queen Don ager goes on a tour of visits in the Midland counties. Her Majesty honours the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter with a visit at Burghley, near Stamford, where the illustrious guest is expected to arrive on Monday, the Bth of the ensuing month, and will sojourn there until the Thursday following. The Earl and Countess of Brownlow and Earl Howe will also he honoured by. visits at Belton House, near Grantham, and at Gopsall Hail, Leicester shire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter. on their re turn to town from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, go immediately to Burghley, in order to make preparations far the reception of the august visitor, which will be, from the arrangements in progress, of a princely character. THE STABAT is one proOf of the merit of this work, that in the musical circles it has been relished the more the oftener it has been heard. Its succe.s with the public has been unequivocal. Last night it was performed for the last time this season at her Majosty'3 Theatre, and drew a crowded_ audience. Cl WEST IN DIES. FALMOUTH, JULY 26.—The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's vessel the Tweed, Captain Franklin, arrived here this morning from the West Indies, with the mails. Dates by her arc to the 29th of May from Panama, 18th of June from the city nah, 4th offro3mlezNicaos;a2lsl , th lo fr t o h m fr J om am ß ai e c r a m , u ls d t a, in i s o t t .r 19th from rornilFaavya l On freight 210,000 dollars sod e 9 serons of cochineal. Passengers.—From Lima : Mr. Arvelina Amur. Jamaica: Messrs. Browse, E. Bry an, R. C. Thompson, Burton Tay lor, W. M'Aulay, and Mr. F. H. Smyth, of the Customs; Cot. S. W. Short, late of the Guards ; Colonel Giffard, 60th Rifles. Hayti : J W. Thompson, British Consul. Trinidad : Messrs- J. Cahoren, Louis Pauten, and A. Elizonda, Mr. and 111 r s Mr. and Mrs. W. Cadett and child. St. Thomas: Mr. S. Babusen. St. Croiz : Mr. George Burrows. Deese" rara: Archdeacon A ustin, Mrs. Austin, four children, and servants ; Mr J. Gibson. Antigua : J. Martin. Barbadoes: Messrs. J. Whitle and J. Bishop. Turk's Island: Mr. VI- E . Darrell. Havannah : Messrs. J. J. Hardwen, J. Hughes , a" servant Bermuda : Mr. J. Harvey. Fayal : Messrs. D. Twining, G. Large, and R Dart. 'I he British ship of war, Thunder, was at. Nassau. The British ship of war, Rinedove, was at Bermuda, and was to sail for Jamaica. The Sylla was also there, and was to sail for Barbadoes. The F a ir Rosamond arrived at St. Lucia on the :sth of May, from a cruise. The Tweeei received her Havannah and Mexican mails at Nassau from the Trent. The Forth had arrived at Havarurah. The Teviot was gone to the Gulf. The fay had left 'fuck's Island to replace the Tweed on the Jamaica line. The Clyde had also sailed to take the Windward Island station. We have received papers to the 22d and 23d ult., from which we extract the follow ing bulletin : " We have much pleasure in announcing that the Countess of Elgin was on Sunday last safely delivered of a daughter, end that both mother and child are happily doing well." By the arrival of the Mary, from Baltimore, we learn thet a severe shock of earthquake was felt at Ponce, Port Royals on the 7th ult. It lasted for three minutes. The inhabitants ran out of their houses, and knelt down in the streets, pray ing. Several hogsheads of sugar and molasses on the beach were destroyed. HA Y7l.—This unfortunate Republic is now completely ar set, both by the late destruction from earthquake, . and the tyranny of the despotic Boyer, who is new, however, approach ing his last moments. It will be observed that, during the 114 twenty-four years, Boyer has amassed a considerable fortune from that Republic by theft and arbitrary measure's, taking every step to conceal his fraudulent acts, as it is evident the banks of France hold a deposit of about twenty millions of dol lars on his private account, which now stands as a security for the national debt. The Senate, that intelligent corps of the Haytian adrninistra trn have hitherto accorded supreme power to the Presiden t, whose niode of dministering justice has been by expelli si ng telligent men fro a m the House of Assembly, and other milar acts of barbarism, to maintain himself in office. The blacks are now, however, likely, ere lung, to give the fatal blow—tbe result of Bayer's flattering proclamation. ASSASSINATION Os' GENEit.'.L HERES.—On the night of the 9th May, between the hours of nine and ten, General Thomas de Heres was treacherously murdered in his own house , by a shot from a blunderbuss, fired at him from between the jalousies of one of the windows of his cabinet, where be Was ' sitting with the Bishop of the diocese. By the paper from which we extract this, it appears drat the inhabitants of Carraeas are grieved and enraged at the event, and that the assassins are suspected. Proceeding to de' plore the melancholy event, the paper in question says— " Yes, in the presence of a pastor, whom all Venezuelan love and venerate ; per haps, whilst discoursing . on religion an d virtue, or of the pleasure of friendship, a sudden blow de' prived him of life—surprised and horror-stricken, the pat ° springs to succour his friend—both are prostrate!—the ee e gasping, and the ether staining his sacred hands in the blot , * of his friend, whose wife, revived from her swoon, lives but t° eternally mourn her husband's fate!" This is a stroke of Republican politics with• a vengeance- Our friends, the Haytians, may rejoice with their comp el° . in semi-barbarism. JUNE 11.—A vessel arrived from Port au Plat this morittalo reports that few lives were lost, and little damage done there, •by the earthquake ; but that many people were killed at Cape Hay tien. The merchants of Demerara are upend doing. On the /Rh of last month two hundred and twenty-two of their body prr, sented a petition to the Combined Court, which concluded praying (inter aliaj— " Firstly—Fur a careful revision of the expenditure of t he colony. " Secondly— For a reduction in every department of the ' establishments of the colony which can be e ff ected with pr pricty and justice to the claims of individuals, and uith a a og regard to the efficiency of the public service. That especially to the attainment of this object a respe ct( representation be made, with the least possible delay, to ber , Majesty's Government, setting forth the inability of the crk ,; lo y, under existing circumstances, to support the present Cilia List. " Thirdly—For the encouragement of immigration on 1 10 extensive scale, such immigration to be under the special regv ' lation arid control of her Al jesty's Government." Upan this a series of resolutions were agreed to, promisinff to attend to the foregoing important points. The publishe.! returns of exports show a lamentable decrease in the s ta p le productions. JUNE 21.—The Volage, Captain Dickson, Bart., arrived s ', t Port ttoyal from Santa Martha and Carthagena, with plieeie! . Occasionally shocks of earthquake were felt throughout the islands, though we are happy to say without any serious results. From Panama we learn that the misunderstanding he'll!. Peru aad Bolivia was being adjusted • the contending Pe r !: , were about t , enter into a treaty. Chili, Venezuela , and Nr. Granada, were quiet. Sir CENTRAL AMERICA.—Nothing further from then ce. Charles Adam was daily expected in the Illustrious from Du- muds from Belize. the • e fo r , FscoM Alaxico.—The Congress was to meet on d as tine of a new constitution. All parties were agree d id e on- • invasion of Texas. Santa Anna was in the city; b e ca re to centrated eight thousand troops at Jalapa, an d th Deelted from embark at Vera Cruz on board of two steameree z i c e ,,, w ay England, when they would make a descent on Texas "J • Galveston. oUhilease The Government has announced that a ssosscl isc ta w the city of Mexico on the 28th of June. The various markets in Mexico were well itheited with Epp lish manufactures, and we regret to find that business was dull- LORD FITZGERALD.—The noble President of the Board of Control, who is considerably improved in health, has left town forCheltenhain, to take the waters. ARISTOCRATIC 110 DE OF AVOIDING THE INCOME', TA x.— A wealthy landowner, living near Weybridge, in Surreys said to be worth 18,0001. a year, derived from land, has pot given all his servants notice that he must reduce their wage s ' on the plea that the income-tax compels him to become eceno• rnical ! This Income-tax, then, of three per cent, is thus con versed into a tax of probably ten or twelve per cent. upon the poor It was a pretended merit of the tax—a good to be set against its many evils—that it did not touch the incomes of the labouring class, yet here we have a wealthy landowner, will, ought to be the first to step forward to relieve the exigencies ot the State, meanly taxing his butler and his coachman, to the extent of an eighth or a tenth of their miserable incomes, oh the ground that he, forsooth, cannot now afford to give stleit high wagei as heretotore.—Liverpool Mercury. A survey has been made of the injury done to St. Martin's Church, from which it appears that the lightning entered the clock house, and forced open the door of the clock► and also that of a box standing near it ; it then entered en aperture of the floor, and tore up the massive boards two or three inches above the level ; after which it passed out of the ch .- csdar window above, with such tremendous force that the two side stones of the niche were dislodged from their places and tell ontbe roof of the church.. The electric fluid was distinctly seen to pass over the Golden Cross yard, when it struck against the - ground and expended itself in a momentary blaze. On its passage a policeman of the A division was forced with such , violence against the rail. , as to be completely stunned,.and vies removed to the station• house, happily without further injerY• We understand it has been found necessary to take down tbe. , tower as far as the flag staff. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE DARTMOOR RAILWAY' —Some waggons, laden with granite, on being brought down towards Plymouth by the railway en Saturday, suddenly pro ceeded down the tunnel with unchecked velocity, and a man of the name of Warren, one of the drivers, with two of the horses were crushed to death. A coroner's inquest has been since held on the body, and the verdict brought in " Accidental death," with a deodand of s. on the train. Thursday afternoon, about two o'clock, a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Holdsvvorth, 18, Hatfield street, Stamford-street, which burnt with much fury for some time; bet through the active - exertions of several firemen at- . tat:tied to the West of England and Waterloo-road brigade stations, it was eventually got under, though not until the uppr part of the house, together with a large quantity of furta- sure, had been consumed. The fire originated through the 'dangerous practice of fumigating the rooms with sulphur to destroy bugs. _ _ . Th - e mail for India will be made up in London to day, in consequence of the last day of the month falling ors Sunday SUDDEN DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.--YeSterdayan inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Chequers Taverns Isieworth, on the body of T. Miller, Esq., aged 60, a gentle.. man of large fortune. From the evidence it appeared that the • deceased resided in Isleworth-vale, and was of very retired and steady habits, enjoying the best of health. On Tuesday night he ate heartily of pickled salmon, and shortly after re- • tired to rest. Having been in bed about two , hours he was seized with g swimming in the head and sickness. A medical man was irnmefliately sent for, who bled him. He died the' following morning. Mr. Manning, the surgeon who -eras called in, attributed death to an attack of apoplexy. Verdict...* - Died by the visitation of God." ALTERATION OP, THE BANKRUPT LAW.—A HU' merous deputation waited yesterday, by appointment, on Sir ' James Graham at the Home-oti4:e, on the subject of the Bank rupt Amendment Bill. There were present Mr. Lyall, Sir M. Wood, M.P., Mr. Masterman, Mr. Beckett, M. P., Mr. Mark Philips, M. P. , Mr, C,OZ)den, M.P., Mr ' Parker, M. P., and several other Members , of Parliament. Messrs. Dillon, Caklecott, James, Smith, Spence, and Cast/4 Attended as the Chairman and Committee of the London Associa- ' tion and Mr. Taylor and other gentlemen from the Late Society of Manchester. 'I he deputations were received by Sir J a i: Gra* hem, accompanied by the Attorney and the Solieitor-Getieral , Mr. Commissioner Holroyd being also preoent. Mr. Dillon' wated at some length the views entertained by the members of the London Association, who solicited a postponement of the' measure till the ensuing session, with a view to its being more fully considered and amended. The postponement was sup ported by Mr. Mark Philips, Mr. Parker, of Sheffield, Die Matthew Wood, and other !Weathers, on the ground that din' had not expected that the Bill would be pressed through thia session, and that their constituents had not had time to consi der its provisions. Sir James Graham received the represen tation: made to him with marked attention, and undertook to communicate them to the Lord Chancellor ( who had brought in the Bill), to consult with his colleagues as to the course be adopted. I DIED. On the 13th of June last, it Were, in the island of Jam.liCa. William Chancellor Lang, aged 23. On the 2.5 th inst , in the Old Kent-road, Mrs. De Lanny On the 26th inst., Harriet Elizabeth, infant .datighter se. Captain Valiant, 40th Regiment. On the 26th inst., in the Retreat, South Lambeth, Joh° Holmes, Esq., aged 78. On the 26th inst., at Stoke, near Devonport; Martha, third' daughter of the late S. J. Litley, Esq., of Peckham, Surrey. On the 27th inst., at Vittoria-place, West Hackney, Chil i ' lotte, the last surviving daughter of Mr. John Williams. On the 28th in,t., at Lindsey-place, Chelsea, Miss Jane, youngest daughter of the late John Beech, Esq. On the 28th inst ,at Denmark-hill, W. J. M. Hackblock, only child of W. Haekblock, Esq., aged 6. On the 24th inst., in Russell-square, Anne, widow of the late Dr. Whalley. ' On the 24th inst., H enry Willi am L ove tt, Esq., of Gray s Inn, barrister-at-l aw . On the 25th i nst ., a t H ampton - cour t Palace, Middlesex, Flora, relief of th e l ate J ames Willi s , E sq . Oa the 23th la4t., Mr. J. Pattison, wf Cornhill. London: Printed and Publi.t•er;. Ur IVIU111)0 YOI'NG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun °thee, No. 11'2, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Saturday, July 30,1542. I or I to far, fro; blis PC qua the Ma tail ten not +•en tioi as rec, me Per 031 len diti ten 331 tro *ai Ile ter Tit I i -0 is t*r