The Sun. — London, England, 1842-07-09 00:00:00

- r-.--~----~~ THE WEATHER.—NooN, JULY J. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCI EN CE, ADELAIDE -STREE T. Thermometer—. 63 ) Hight 64 Lowest 47 Barometer 29.80.—Wind S.W. HIM - I WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Verging...... 20 minutes after 2 Evening .... 43 minutes after 2 Ili 0 -4.4050,1 - *11 4 : 4114 „ • ` - z 441 t • # firronblZZlttion SUN OFFICE Three o'clock. The Duke of RICHMOND informed the House of Lords l i •ist night that a witness called before the Oaths Cons mittee had refused to give evidence on oath, and he moved that the witness's reasons. for not swearing, and the.questions put to him, should be printed. This wit . ness was..not a member of the Society of Friends, or he . -would have had no difficulty in evading the taking of an oath. 7We gather from this, as well as from numerous difficulties • which have lately been thrown in the way of the . administaation of justice by the dis inclination of witnesses to take oaths, that there is a _growing conviction throu:hout the, religious world, that the,otiole system of book-swearing is exceedingly .quitous, and directly contrary to the express command of the Founder of our holy religion. We rejoice at this. There is by far too much swearing, and it leads to :the impression that a man cannot open his mouth . without giving utterance to a lie without a book in his hand. Is any Member of the House of Commons a jot the more loyal for having taken . the oath of allegiance at its bar ? Is he one iota the better Protestant fur having insulted his Catholic fel low-subjects, by swearing not only that he believes the Thirty-nine Articles, but that he believes the Mass to be " idolatrous and damnable ?" Let oaths be retained for the especial benefit of such persons as feel that they cannot speak truth without them ; but compel no man to swear who r; ligiously objects to take an oath. As to swearing tide-waiters, guagers, and other revenue officers, it would be quite a farce, but for the awful and daily mass of perjury to which it gives rise. Oaths rarely, if ever, bind the consciences of these men. They ;ire honest in many cases from principle, but we appre hend in most by dread of detection, loss of situation, and certainty of punishment. The vote of the House of Commons upon Mr. WAL LACE'S mctiton will fill the working classes of thia..coun try with feelings of dismay and despair. That only forty-nine Members of that House should be found to tote for an inquiry into the extent of their sufferings, proves the little sympathy which is felt in that assembly for their overwhelming distresses. Tho Whig and Tory speakers who voted against the inquiry objected to the way in which the resolutions were drawn up ; but they had not the honesty to propose amending them. Mr. WALLACE, in the most conciliatory spirit, offered to adopt any amendments proposed upon his resolutions, but Alknisters preferred getting rid of the subject alto- togetheT, by rejecting thorn in the lump. A cry of hun- ger is heard throughout the land —every breeze from ' the manufacturing districts wafts upon it the wail of famine; and yet the Government will neither pledge itself to relieve it, nor allow corn to be brought in, free of duty, to feed the starving people. What inheritance have the starving millions in such a Government ? : Why should they be toiled, and taxed, and coerced, and . manacled for its support ? These are questions which the people wit ask themselves, and to which their hearts wNI give responses but little in accordance with the sentiments of Sir lionEryr PEEL. The Government is treading, upon dangerous ground. Millions of our fellow- countrymen approach the House of Commons and the Ministers, in the attitude of suppliants—suppliants for • the coarse means of physical existence ; they tell that House and those Ministers, that they are absolutely and literally dying of hunger ; they implore relief and permission to exchange their labour for untaxed foreign wheat, and their prayer is rejected ; in an assembly of,upwards of six hundred legislators, only forty-nine are found to vote for an inquiry into the extent of their wretchedness ! Is it to be supposed that this treatment will not sink deep into their hearts ? They were less than men if it did not. It will engemler sad, bitter, and terrible feelings, which they will .bequeath as an inheritance to their children. The names of the forty nine Members who voted for Mr. WALLACE'S motion vial become household words throughout the land—the list of them will be found in many a cottage when Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government is forgotten, or remem ,bered only for its rejeetion of the prayer of millions of starling Englishmen. Two important notices were given last night ; the first by Mr. VILLIFrts, to more on Monday next, on t motion for a Committee of Supply, for a repeal of the Corn-lan'3. That is bold and useful policy. On the 14th July, Lcrd Howicx is to move for a Cone- mines of the whole House, with a view to propose " That it is expedient that wheat imported from foreign countries shall, until the Ist of .March, 1843, be admissible for home consumption, on payaient. of ' 'a duty not exceeding fourteen shillings a quarter." These are two excellent notices, the first especial:y ; and we trust that Mr. VizadEns will give way to no per suasions, and will as boldly carry his notice into effect ns ho has honestly given it. We are sorry to see indications on the part of the Whigs of a wish to give a preference to the motion of Lord llowicK, and throw overboard that of Mr. VILLIERS. We must at once tell them that the country will regard this as a shabby proceeding, The vast distress demands a great and a bold remedy, and the total repeal of the Corn-laws will place our trade on a permanent basis ; while Lord Howacx's motion ; were it successful, would continue all the uncertainty which now prevails. The total repeaters must earnestly prefer Mr. VlLLiEtt's 'no tion to that of Lord Illowicx. lYe beg to call attention to the petition (a copy of which will be found in this day's Sun) presented to the llouse of Commons on behalf of the claimants for losses sustained through the reprisals made by the Danes for our unjust and unprovoked attack on that State in 1807. Be it undeastood that the property of which these un offending claimants were despoiled, was not lost in a case of war, but in retaliation for the Danish ships, and other property, seized from Denmark whilst we were profes sing to be in a state of friendship with that power, and by, the 3alo of which Danish property, upwards of a million sterling was paid into the British treasury. Now it appears to us to be one of the greatest cases of arbitrary power which can be exercised by a Minister, • to deny redress to the . r claimants, after the repeated decisions of the Houseof Commons, and her MAJESTY'S gracious answer in their favour. This injustice seams to be increased when we consider the ridiculous distinction which has been made in grant ing compensation to the owners of such a portion of a cargo as happened to be taken out of a ship lying on the wharf at the time of seizure, and refusing it to t h e owner s of the other portion which happened to be on board the ship which was discharging that cargo at the same wharf, the whole of which, landed and unlanded, was taken pozsession of at the same time. It is one thing, , however, to do a pure act of justice to suffering indivi duals without power, and to propose the grossest job where the Minister's influence is concerned. The Preach Journals of Thursday contain nothing let election news. Among the absurd rumours set afloat by the Opposition Journals is one to the effect the British gold is extensivety employed in procuring the return of Deputies favourable to M. GUIZOT ! We h ave too much to do at bottle with our gold. There are sinks deorruption enough in England to swallow up all the surplus cash of the Tories. The Madrid and Barcelona Journals come down to the Ist of this month. *le accounts from the provinces to the north and south of Spain - are favourable ; the greatest tranquillity prevails in those countries. The 7th Regiment of Infantry, which was to come from Aragon, and the trovincial battalion of Salamanca, being part IL:f the corps of Cienetal Zurbano, were expeeted from Barcelona. A letter from Amsterdam, of the 28th of Juno, says— " Great sensation has been excited on 'Change to-day, by a no.. tire given by the house of Hope and Co., which announces that the coupon of the American stock, which becomes due on the i‘t of July, will not be paid, because the house has re ceived nOthing to make the payment. On this point there is not much to No, because it was foreseen that the fund s for the pay ment of this coupon would not arrive. Dot what is openly blamed. anil will probably be the foundation of an action against Hope and Co. is, that their bankers, having been fur nished by the Bank of the United States with a quantity of effects ( Valeurs) as security fur the tenders, have thought themselves authorised to part with a portion of those securities in exohange for others. As chance would have it, though the nominal value has remained the same, it turns out that Messrs. Hope and Co. have parted with the most valuable, in exchange for sixth as hav e hardly any Pa at all. We need not sly that vttte holders are furious." — Commerce. BO ''''''''''''' JULY 7. hirat Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric.. Prier. yremsh 11 per cont... no 85 ... !20 ... 119 81 ... 119 85 ..... • , 4 I e• Cents ..... lO3 50 ... 1 , 8 50 ... 108 LC ... 108 50 4perCshis. lO2 ... 102 ... 102 ... IC2 Spar Cents. ..... : ..... 79 95 .. 79 95 ... 79 75 ... 19 75 jii - - ik as !rants 32E6 2 5 ...'..V.Ou ...32,6 25 ...all() Laffltte Bark 1,0(0t. B h . ars. 1015 _lOl5 ...1015 ...1015 Belgian 5 per Cents. 1.3% ... 103% 184( "*" In4 ii .... 115 ... 1C41; .. 105 Spanish Active .. ...-- ._ 22% „. t 3 „. 22% ... 23 Passive—. 0 * - ~- ..... ~,4 „ % —4% ..„ 4% ... 4% lieapolitan .•.,.. ..... .. '0 6 ." .. . ... ~, ... It 6 ... 106 ... 'C6 it0man.......;..........—. '"•*"" 104 ••• 10 4 ... 104 ... 104 tIAii.WAY StlititXs. atzfienman ..., ; 815 ... 815 0 . 815 ... 815 Versailesl -ft B. ...... 1.41 cl . . n - 3, 0 -. 300 ... 3,.,0 4 -. .' ..• .. 5 6 .. 92 50 ... 9 0 50 goners ............, ~.• ' . L 62 50 502 Strlaing;-- vr : ~,, 50 •••• 201 SO ... L 62 5; atrasburg ai5.4 . ,4 -. .„,.„„, 2(11 25 ..):'," '''• 2 5.n 201 2) AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JUNE 23 fireper Cents. Eletalliques • - lt Sg t , Fokr perCant5........... ............ . ............ . ... IrO% Three par Cents.... ' 7734, Bank Mares AMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, JOLT 5. Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. ... ll6 Bank Shares 1678 Anglo-Russian Loan 1(9% AN Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 163 Inscription, Ist series lO3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., ;:c1 and 4th Series 98% Ditto in Certificates .. foi3 N , New 4 per Cent. (1840) ... 83% 88% Dutch Actual Debt, a% per Cent .... ..... ...... 51 Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds — —.. New Tickets IGS Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. '7B% '78% Spanish, New 5 per Cents . EXCHANGES ON LONDOc". HAMBURGH, JULY 5.-13 7%, Two months 13 6. PETERSBURG, JUNE N.—Three months, 371 pence. STOCKHOLM, JUNE 28.—Seventy-five days, 1 6. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 2. Bills. Money St. SchuldSch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond , , MO, 4 per cent 103% 102% Exchange on London Prussian State Gazette, July 3. BELGIAN N UNDS—BRUSSELS, JULY 6. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lO2 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 93 -- 3 per Cent. ----..-Thirty.seven-----......".. 71% --(1340) 102% Loan of City, P:32,4 per Cent. 93% Society of Comincrce, 4 Y., per Cent Ati Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 75% National Seoiety Exchange on Louden (short) - -Brussels Papers, July 6. ABUSES AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.—In the month of March we stated from authority that regulations had been issued by the Board of Customs for increased facility and despatch in the passing of passengers' lug gage at the London Custom-House ; and that a second landing waiter was to be appointed to assist in the exa mination of the luggage, whose duty was to be confined to the examination of such of the passengers' luggage as did not exceed one packet. Now, this announcement by the Board of Customs was either a direct false hood, or their order has been wantonly and shamefully disobeyed. Yesterday one of the steamers of the Gene ral Steam Navigation Company reached London-bridge wharf from Boulogne at eleven o'clock, with 102 pas sengers, and a vast amount of luggage. A Custom house fficer was present to see the passengers leave the vessel, and in several instances he refused to obey tha order just referred to. We make the statement from personal experience. A passenger, with only one small packet, containing the necessary arti cles of dress for a few days' stay, exhibited it open for inspection, but though informed that it was the only luggage the passenger had, the Custom-house officer re jected it, and handed thepacket to one of his colleagues to be placed among the vast heap of luggage. Remon strance was vain—the passenger was obliged to quit the vessel, and, after waiting for more than hour, and finding that ho would probablylbe compelled to wait four hours more, he returned on board the vessel, and, at last, suc ceeded in obtaining the small packet. The poor travel lers, to the number of some sixty or seventy, worn out with sea-sickness, and want of sleep, were collected to gether in a waiting-room, several of them only with one packet each, and could neither get their luggage nor the slightest information when they had any chance for it. Indeed no person connected with the Custom house could be seen, except a door-keeper, who referred them to an insolent lad about sixteen years of age, and this functionary seemed to take delight only in displaying his authority. All the small luggage could have been cleared in twenty minutes, and as it was announced by this juvenile hanger-on at the office that every one must take his turn, whether the packages were small or great, or numerous; some of these unfortunate victims must have been detained at least four hours. Such conduct is a disgrace to the country. Foreigners have heard much of the despatch and skill of the English in almost every department of trade, when they are left to manage their own concerns ; and here they find not only insolence, but the most sluggish and arbitrary system of proceeding, when public officers are paid, whether they work or not. The system of bribery under despotic Governments is infinitely preferable to this. Perhaps one-half of the passengers would willingly have given money to these officers only to induce them to do their duty. In France an officer is specially appointed for the purpose of pass in.- small packets, whether there are five or fifty, or whether a passenger has one, two, or three, and every proceeding is conducted with the utmost good order and politeness. It may be proper to add, that the English Custom-house officers, when remonstrated with, behaved with civility, and said they were not to blame, but the system, for there were too few hands. The Board of Cus toms, in fact, should be abolished, for whether it is their fault originally, or the fault of those under them, it is clear that the whole mode of conducting that de partment is radically bad. To crown the scene, passen gers, after being thus tormented for hours, had to pay sixpence for each package, but into whose pocket this money goes we cannot tell. Why not take a bribe at moo ? THE MACHINERY QUlBBLE.—Compelled reluctantly to admit that the distress under which the country at present labours is almost unexampled, the Tories, who are never at a loss for a sophistry, have discovered that this alarming state of things has been brought about by machinery. " Machinery," say they—and Sir Robert Peel, who is the very genius of equivocation, of course endor.,es the fallacy—" machinery has done it all !" Are the people eating boiled nettles at Paisley, and disin terred calves at Akington ? It is machinery that has brought them to this pass ! Are they rotting by hundreds off the face of the earth at Stockport, Manchester, Leeds, Burn ley, and other great commercial districts ? It is ma chinery- that is to blame for their destitution ! Mr. Cob den triumphantly disposed of this Tory sophism last night in the House of Commons, and showed that in Nottinghamshire, in the Staffordshire Potteries, and in numerous other districts, where not the slightest im provement in machinery had takenplace for the last two centuries, the distiess was actually appalling it was the same in the mines and colleries, where machinery was just what it was years and years ago. In Ireland, according to Mr. O'Con nell, the state of things was just as bad ; and yet so far is this country from being overrun with ma cphinery, that it has not even the " machinery of taxa tion," greatly to Sir Robert Peel's annoyance, as he him self assured his faithful Commons at the commencement of the session. Deprived of the aid of this sophism, the Tories, we suppose, will next attribute the distress to the visitation of Providence ; and should this ground, too, be cut from under them, they will, doubtless, as a last resource, assign it to the malignant interposition of the Devil. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. ROYAL ASSENT. Their Lordships met this day at twelve o'clock, when the loyal Assent was given, by Commission, to several Bills. The Lords Commissioners were—the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke of Buccleucb, and Lord Wharn- The Usher of the Black Rod having summoned the Commons the Royal Commission was read, and the Royal Assent given to the following Bills : The Customs' Duties Act (the Tariff), Forest of Dean Poor Bill, Deptford Pier Bill, Court House (Cromarty) Bill, Marine Insurance Bill, Manners' Estate Bill, Stafford Grammar School Bill, York Cathedral Bill, and llawkes' Divorce Bill. Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday ai ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The house of Commons met this day at twelve o'clock to hear the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills, and the Deputy• Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table to summon the House to the House of Peers for that pnrpose. The SPEAKER, on his return, informed the House that he had heard the Royal Assent given by Commission to several Bills (11)r which see Lords' Report). CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTION. On the motion that the House do now adjourn, ry Sir F. BURDETT made a short statement relative to Captain 'Warner's invention, and gave notice that he would more for the appointment of a Committee on Monday. The House then adjourned. GROSS OUTRAGE on the CAPTAIN. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Last evening, at the public meeting held in Fletcher's Chapel, Finsbury-square, on the conclusion of the Rev. Mr. Massie's detail of starvation and awful state of the operative classes, the popular cry was, "Now state your remedy against this evil." Mr. M. demurred, under side-looks at his colleagues, and at last "broke the ice" by saying, "A repeal of the Corn-laws." (Cries of " Put it as a resolution," with " We want deeds, not talk, talk.") Mr. Massie concluded in evident dilemma, and with hasty descent from the pulpit, he seized Captain Aekerley by the collar, having at hand a policeman, &c. The ceremony of ejectment took place, with similar dragging away, under abuse, through the streets, to the district police-office, when the Inspector refused investigation, in default of evidence, the Rev. Mr. Massie absenting himself. The Captain returned to the chapel, amidst cheers, whose presence, as may be conceived, disconeerted the party, who refused to put the resolution—this hypocritical set of. money-talkers of distress without any mani festation by " acts"—to prove the sincerity of their intention, or agree to a call for a pos i t i ve remedy against the distress of the people. Gossz or TILE WEEK, &c.-:—Grisi was confined on Friday last. The accouchement has, for obvious reasons, bes,n kept a profound secret, but we give the fact from un (Whited authority.—The King of Prussia has just named Meyerbeer his Director-General of Music. He will receive an annual salary of three thousand thalers (about five hundred guineas). —Mrs. Alfred Shaw has arrived in England from Italy, after an absence of three years. —Di aniatic and Musical Review — IiE3IARRABLE CIRCUMSTANCE. —About eight days ago a swarm of young bees, from the stoc i lt t of t l; : ir teld s. t E ufnpo l r iz n a s b ot e mh t e h e Stephenson, of Dalton - in - Furness, left the parent hive in search of a new habitation ; and after flyn time alighted upon a small bird, which w as bough of a pear-tree , and which, strange as it maapypaaprepnetairy allowed itself to be hived along with the bees, and aft er remain ing with them a short time flew out of the hi ve , quite delighted with its novel adventure.—Lancaster Guardani The corn merchants are playing their old game again of raisingyrices, in order to lower the duty on foreign grain, and we hed? they calculate on getting the duty down to 6s. per quarter in a few weeks—which we have no doubt they will effect. This plainly'shows the absurdity of the present Corn-laws; a fixed duty would be far preferable.—Exet er Western Times. SVN, LONDON', SATURDAY4FX/I NO, STILT -9, - 1842. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vublit eptitton. " Who runs muy read." FOREIGN. A very large portion of the Paris Journals is filled with arti. on the merits of the different candidates for the national representation. As usual, on such occasions, their merits a•e extolled to the skies by one party and depreciated by the other. The Opposition candidates 'Are described, by the various organs of what is called the liberal and independent press, as models of patriotism and general perfection, whilst the Ministerial Jour nals represent them as the advocates of principles subversive of order and good Government. The Aliintteur announces, on the authority of a letter from Naples, that Prince de Joinville, together with Admiral Hugon, and the fleet under his command, were expected at that city on the 26th ult., where preparations were made for their re ception. The Moniteur gives the• following as the amounts of the several sums which were expended between l l 5 and the end of 1827, in the construction and arming the Belgian fortresses : Liege, 2,885,0006. ; Buy, 509,0008. ; Namur, 5,165,8856. ; Dinant, 425,0006. ; Marienburg, 265,0006. ; 304,0006. ; Bouillon, 50,0006. ; Charleroy, 6,540,0006 ; Mons, 55,423,4278. ; Ath, 5,358,0006. ; Memn, 3,993,0006. ; Ypres, 3,958,4976. ; Nieuport, 4,530,0006. ; Ostende, 5,537,0006. ; Antwerp, 3,000,0006. ; Tournay, 4,089,0006. ; Termonde, 2,989,0576. ; Audernarde, 3,378,0006. ; Ghent, 3,317,5006. The expenses of the artillery stores and armament. of these fortresses were 13,500,00011. Total, 81,239,3666. We have received the Madrid journals of the 30th ult. Their contents are not important. A Madrid letter informs us that the Cortes will probably close their session about the 15th instant. The Prussian State Gazette of the 2d instant published a long list of decorations granted by the King in the Grand Duchy of Po2en. M. de DI unin, the Archbishop of Gneisen, had received the decoration of the Red Eagle. PARLICAMENTAny. Some discussion took place in the Lords on presenting petitions concerning the evidence collected by the Com missioners fur inquiring into mines, and several Noble Lords spoke slightingly of the course taken by the Com missioners. After a good deal of conversation on the subject, Lord Hatherton gave notice of a motion for Tuesday, for a Committee to inquire into the statements of the Commissioners. There is to be an inquiry into the inquiries. The Bill itself, in the course of the evening, was referred to a Select Committee, which must delay it for a considerable period. The Customs' Duties Bill was read a third time and passed, after a division, when 9 voted against the Bill, and 52 for it. The other business done by the Lords was unimportant. In the Commons a question was asked about our treaty with Brazil, which only elicited from Sir E. Peel the old statement that the Brazilian' Government deems that treaty to be at an end in 1842, and our Go vernment not till 1844. No notification, he said, had been given by the Brazilian Government of an intention to propose to the Chambers a higher rate of duties on British goods. _ _ _ An indication of the approaching end of the Session is to be found in Sir James Graham having declined to proceed with the Ecclesiastical Corporation Leases Bill this session. Lord Eliot said he had no intention of passing a Medical Charities Bill for Ireland this ses sion, though he meant to bring in one. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said the same as to a Bill for altering law licenses (Ireland). The adjourned debate on Mr. Wallace's motion was resumed by Mr. O'Connell, in an able and outspoken speech. _ _ - The debate was continued the whole evening, though it was pretty much on one side, only Mr. B. Escott, Mr. Grimsditch, and Mr. Ferrand having spoken on the Mi nisterial side ; while, on the Opposition, Mr. P. M. Stewart, Mr. Marsland, Mr. Childers, Mr. M. Philips, Mr. R. Yorke, General Johnston, Mr. Leader, Mr. C. Buller, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Villiers, all delivered able speeches on the motion. Three divisions on questions of adjournment took place, after which, on • a division, Mr. Wallace's resolutions were lost by 174 to 49. The House adjourned at a Quarter to Three o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Post says, in an article on the discussions in Parliament respectit g the distress of the country :—" The Whigs make of the distress a mere party matter. It gives them an oppor tunity of asserting that if their commercial policy, that is, the admission of foreign corn at a low duty, had been acted upon last year, the distress would have disappeared. They can show no more ground for this assertion than if they said that the pulling down of St. Paul's would have removed the distress. But what does that matter to them ? There is an opportunity for making the assertion, and as it may serve the party, it is made. They know that the distre is severe, and that few things can be more wicked than the irritation of people in distress, by causing them to believe that some particular measure which cannot be carried would give them relief. But what does that matter to the Whigs ? It is not the state of the poor, present or future, which concerns them, but the popularity of their own party with the multitude, and that may be promoted by causing the multitude to believe that their policy would have prevented the distress. We cannot but deeply regret that the present leading men in the House of Commons should have so en tangled themselves, by adopting to a certain extent Whig prin • ciples, that they cannot answer these impudent and heartless dogmatisers as they ought to be answered." We take the following from the Chronicle :—" Let the Libe • ral party depend upon it, that the fabric of Tory misrule is tot tering ; that nothing but energy and tact are wanting to level it with the dnst ; that nothing but such violence as compromises the Liberal party in the blunders of a very few of its body can make men of sense rally round a Ministry which, by its dogged maintenance of abuses, is perilling every institution and interest of the country. We have a clear cause before us—a cause in which right is on our side, and success ahead. And Mr. Fielden and his friends ought not to intervene and waste time which is precious, not to our enemy, but to us. The Liberal Members of the House of Commons will not be true to them selves or to the country if they allow the coming month to pass without forcing the distress of the country on the attenticn of Parliament. And they evidently know their duty, and mean to do it." The Times, in an article on prison discipline, observes : " We do not for an instant maintain that prisons ought to be made purposely wretched; nor of course do we contend that every possible means should not be taken t,r reclaiming the of fenders, especially the younger ones ; but we do say, that while the first object to be sought is the amelioration of the criminal, the repentance and amendment of the hardened and abandoned sinner, the way to produce this is not by indulgence, but by punishment—not by softness and comfort, but by strict ness and discipline—not by rewarding the offender with promotion in a foreign country, so much as by keeping hint in strict seclusion from evil example, and the means of gratifying his evil passions, in his own ; and that if these means be used, as we have no doubt they may, within the walls of a prison much more conveniently and surely than on board a convict-ship, this proposed system of emigration will turn out, after all, to be little more than a bounty to juvenile crime. Let things be really what they pro fess to be—let them be called by their right names. If these juvenile offenders really deserve punishment, let them be punished and reclaimed, as they can and may well be, either by imprisonment at home, or by transportation, if they have de served it, without promotion, abroad; but let it be a punish ment, not a promotion. If, on the contrary, transportation is to be made a reward;let meritorious and really deserving per sons have the benefit, and not juvenile offenders.' " The _Herald says :—" Mr. Bannerman's motion to give Ministers power, by an Order in Council, to suspend or mo dify the Corn-law, during the recess, so as to admit at lower duties than those affirmed by law the foreign grain row in bond, though kindly meant and expressive of abundant confidence in the Government, was one which Sir Robert Peel could not support, without inflicting a heavy blow on his own law. The present high price of wheat, when taken in connexion with the frightful distress which prevails in the manufacturing districts, is very deplorable; but that price is nut wholly produced by the small quantity of free wheat in the country ; it is very much the consequence of the combination of corn factors speculating for a rise to such a point as w ill admit the 1,400,000 quarters of bonded wheat now in store at merely nominal duties. That the bonded wheat, or tlie greater part thereof, will be released before harvest, without any such extraordinary powers as those proposed by Mr. Bannerman, is exceedingly probable. Its re lease will testify to the improvement achieved in the law regu lating the importation of foreign grain by Sir Robert Peel's Act; for under the operation of the repealed Act, its admis sion would have been scarcely possible. Should, however, circumstances prevent the admission of the foreign wheat now in bond, and the distress of the country be aggravated, we sincerely trust that Government will have the moral courage to issue an Order in Council on the subject during the recess, and apply to Parliament on its re-assembling for an Indem nity Act." MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. At a meeting of the subscribers to the Philanthropic Society yesterday, it was stated by the report that during the last year 12 sons ofconvicts, 21 daughters of convicts, and 33 criminal boys had been received by the Society, and above 140 children are now under its care. The income of the Society for the past year was 5,225/. 195., and the funded property was about 17,0001. ECCLESIASTICAL. From the charge of the Bishop of Edinburgh it appears from between November last to the present time, 15,000/., which is more than the one-half of the required amount, has been sub scribed towards the establishment of the Episcopal College in Scotland. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The death of Lieutenant-General the Hon. John Ramsay,. which took place at Edinburgh last week, creates a vacancy in the Colonelcy of the 79th Foot. He was brother of the late Earl of Dalhousie, and in his 68th year. The Elbe is now so low, that steamers, ships, and cargoes are aground ; it affords, however, good opportunity to improve the navigation, and the Commissioners of Dresden are to meet to consider the removal of the obstruction to the navigation of this great German river, which is about 700 miles in length: LAW AND POLICE. Of 115 persons now in Hereford gao l, or recently indicted, 4 can only read and write well k 47 can read, and the remain ing 64 are nearly altogether illiterate. At the Gloucester Sessions, only or.e prisoner out of 127 was able to re,cl and write well. Thomas Waters, a tobacconist, in Fair-street, Horsleydown, was charged at Union Hall, yesterday, with havi ng twenty _ eight packages of smuggled tobacco on his premises, and fined 12!., and costs. Richard Edwards, charged at Merthyr with the wilful murde r of his mother, Tamar Edwards, had sentence of death Eased on him at the Cardiff assizes, on Friday. FINE AIL TS! The Earl of Guildford has just made a present to Eton College, of the bust of his uncle, Lord North, the Minister. It is a recently executed copy from the original by Bacon, and is even considered a more splendid piece of art than the original. LITERAILY Alg D Mr. T. Naumann, the celebrated violinist, had conferred on him the order of Vasa, and a decoration, by the King of Sweden, at Stockholm, in satisfaction of his performr.nces. THEATRICAL. _ _ The French theatre closed last everiTnng after a most success ful season. l'erlet, Plessy, Dejazet, and Bouffir have all con duced to its display. Bouffe withdrew last night in his affect jug Paucre Jacques, and the Gamin de Paris. SPORTING. Game is this season very abundant in Inverness. Deer are especially plentiful in the Duke of Sutherland's extensive fir plantations, and all the districts adjoining. Lord and Lady Aylmer have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, from Paris. _ The Almack's Ball next week is appointed to take place on Thursday. On Thursday last Lord and Lady Bridport entertained a large party at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond. The Duke de Stozzi arrived at Dlivart's Hotel, yesterday, from Brussels. The Duke of Devonshire arrived at Devonshire House, es lerday, from Kemp Town. Vileount an.l Viscountess Ca-nden arrived in Cavendish. square, yesterday, from Paris. Two of Sir Hobert Pees sons are nowstaying at 3lorrison's Hotel, Dublin. IVEISCEMMANISIOTYS. Father Mathew visits Glasgow on the Isth of next August. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT,-(THIS DAY.) Lord LAxanALE heard petitions to-clay. The questions involved were not suited to a report. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) ( Before Vice-Chancellor WIG RANI. ) Unopposed petitions and short causes engaged the Court throughout the day. QUEEN'S BEIiCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in London. ) AttitißldLi e V. 1 . .4 RR ER. The COURT was occupied the whole day with this case, which was an action on a banker's account, and of no interest to the public. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) BA YL EY V. SMITH, This action upon a promissory note for 2,8001., alleged to have been executed by the late Mr. Smith, of the Seven-dials (commonly known as Miser Smith), has occupied the Court for tw•o days, and will not be concluded until a late hour. It is one of those peculiar casts of which the particulars are best omitted until the whole case can be placed before the public. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY). ' IN THE MATTER OF JOHN BIGGS. The bankrupt was a wholsale boot and shoemaker, in the New-cut, Lambeth. The amount of debts in his schedule was stated at 2,7901. while the available assets would scarcely afford a dividend of 6d. in the po und. He was examined . at great length with respect to certain bills of exchange which he alleged were of no value, in Consequenceof the parties executing them having absconded to the Continent, when a charge of conspiracy was preferred against them. He stated that a person named Henry Wilson was indebted to him in the sum of 1791. for goods sold, but that he had passed through the Insolvent Court about six months ago. On the application of the Solicitor to the fiat, who stated that he thought, if afforded time, he should be able to gain some evidence with respect to the disposal of certain goods which the body of the creditors believed had been fraudulently disposed of, the further examination was ordered to stand over for a month. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH. STREET. (THIS DAY.) EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT. —Frederick Bacon, a young man of very fashionable appearance, and whose family con nexions.are highly respectable, was placed at the bar, charged with embezzling divers sums of money which had come into his hands, for, and on account of, Messrs. Henry Br3adwood, Huggins and Co , of Broad-street, Gold en - square , b rewers , i n whose employ h e had been for some time last as collecting clerk. Mr. Child, of the firm of Wyre and Child, of St. Martin's-le- Grand, solicitors, appeared on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Henry Huggins, one of the brewery firm, stated that out of the amount of 424/. paid over to the prisoner on account of the firm from different customers, the discovery had been made that he had embezzled SU 13s. 6d. The full extent of his defalcation was not at present known, and a remand was there fore prayed for, in order to allow time for making further exa mination into the accounts, and to procure the attendance of the necessary witnesses. Mr. HARDWICK (to the prisoner)--Do you wish to say any thing in answer to the charge ? Prisoner—l wish the investi gation to be postponed for a few days, in order that I may have time to send to my friends. lam willing to enter into any arrangement with the firm. Mr . : HA RDWICK—You will be remanded until Monday week. The prisoner seemed to be most painfully affected while standing at the bar, and occasionally shed tears. It was said that he had filled situations of great trust in se veral banking houses and public Companies. Two dashing young men, who gave the assumed names of James Blond and William Henry Merritt, but who were re cognised as scions of Noble families, were charged with knock. ing at doors and ringing of bells, at half-past three o'clock this morning, in Wardour-street, Soho. They were fined 40s. each, or in default, one month to hard labour. It is, perhaps, needless to add that the fines were in • stantly paid. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) TUE LATE CLIMBING BOYS —Three boys, who followed the occupation of chimney-sweepers, until the recent Act pro hibiting persons of a certain age from pursuing that trade, ap plied to the Magistrate, saying that since the Ist instant they had been driven to great distress. They were brought up to the trade of climbing-boys, and knew no other means of obtaining a livelihood except by that means. Now, however, they were des titute, and although they sought work of every kind they could not succeed, and their object in making the present application R a to know if there was not some asylum for the reception of persons in their forlorn situation. The 111..tctsTaATE regretted that there was no place of such description, and advised them to apply to the parochial autho rities of that part 6f the town where they serves their time, and that in all probability something would be done for them. The poor boys having thanked the Magistrate, then withdrew. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS LoNnoii, JULY 9.—Wind this day at Noon, Southerly. OFF MARGATE, JULY B.—Harrington, Mercer, Sydney; St. Thomas packet, flamburgh, for St. Thomas. DEAL, JULY 8. Wind A.M. S. W. , P. at. fresh. —A rrd. from the River, Mauritius, for Jamaica ; Guardian, Algoa Bay: Dunt.lN, JULY 6.—Sid. Kingston, Demerara. KINGSTOWN, JULY 7.—Arrd. Jackson, Jackson, Trinidad. JULY 7.--Sld. Peter Haitriek, New York. BRISTOL, JULY B.—Arrd. Neate, Jarrett, Grenada. Put back, Lucy, fur Antigua. PORTSMOUTH ' JULY B.—Wind S.W., f res h b reezes an d squally.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Actaeon, San Blas, sailed Jan. 26, Valparaiso April 8, and Rio May 21, with 1,250,000 dollars; Great Liverpool, steamer, Alexandria, left 21st ult., Malta 27th, Gibraltar 2d inst; British Queen, steamer, Antwerp for New York. Sid. her Majesty's ship Sparrow, eastward. _ COWES, JULY B.—Arrd. Juliana, Cortina, and Fama, Lor renga, Havannah ; Bashaw, Howes, New Orleans, and tailed for Antwerp. FALMOUTH, JULY 7.—Wind S. to W. N. W., fresh breezes. —Arrd. Enchantress, Bisset, Guayaquil, sailed Feb. 1, and Rio May 5. LIVERPOOL, JULY B.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Inde pendence, Smith, Valparaiso ; Wright, Curlett, and Eliza Ann, Jamaica; Brilliant, Coward, Monte Video; Tarquin, Heber, New Orleans; George, Mobile; Andover, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Norval, Newfoundland. Sld. Liverpool, China ; Je mima, Valparaiso; Chicona, Charleston ; Salome, Africa. Arrd. off, Lady Rowena, Charleston, left 15th ult. OFF HASTINGS, JULY B.—Cypress, Calcutta, left 30th Jan., St. Helena, May I. V A LPARAISO, APRIL 8.----The Chili steamer, from Callao, has arrived, with 323,000 dollars. The Packet, Robinson, has also arrived from Cobija, with 58,000 dollars. THE MARKETS.—.(THIS DAY). NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply was good. The demand for the inferior and low qualities of Beef and Mutton was heavy, but prices were the same as last, and for the better descriptions prices were fully supported. The same may be said of Veal. Pork dull of sale. Lamb of the hest quality realised full rates. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. ; Pork, 2s. 4d. to ,4s. 6d. ; Lamb, 4s. 2d. to ss. The demand con tinues pretty good for Poultry. 'f he supplies are rather large, but in prices no variation has occurred. Eggs, 4s. 6d. to 6s. per 120. WHITECHAPEL MARKET. Beef, 2s. Sd. to 4s. • Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 101. ; V ea l, 2s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. ; York, 2s. 8(1. to 4s. 6d.; Lamb, 4s. to 45. 10d. The supply was good, and trade middling, with no advance in prices. Clover, 2/. 10s. to 51.105.; Hay, D. ss. to 41. 4s. ; New Hay, 31. to 3/. 10s. ; Straw, 11. 12s. to I/. 16s. TEA MARKET. The quantity of Tea to be offered for public sale next week has been increased to 31,000 packages. The market, there fore, remains dull. No reduction has been accepted. TALLOW MARKET. A few small sales were made in P. Y. C. of firm quality at 48s. on the spot, but generally the market was dull, with a prospect of lower rates. WOOL MARKET. Some large parcels of Colonial Wool are announced for public sale, consequently the market is quiet, but nevertheless has a healthy appearance, and it is presumed that the choice and good qualities will rtalise better prices. WAKEFIELD CORN AIARKE r. ........ The supply of Whe a t was mod er ate, • but — fair of Oats and Barley. Fine fresh Wheat obtained rather more, but other sorts were s'atinnary. Oats and Shelling steady in price. No variation in Beans and other articles. Wriest, lied, Essex and Kent —s. 655. to 665. fine (7,. Norfolk and Suffolk —s. 6 s. to 13s. fine 655. -- Lin. and Cam —s. 60s. to 635. hne 65 . ~- Yorkshire s Ws. tc 635. hoc 64 ----- White ...--- Foreign, fted —a. —s. to sqs. fine 6es. ----....-- White Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 2 1 4. to f2G:. line 28s o-- . Lincolnshire Yor k s h n e W . . o I . d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . 29 1 1,:1 5 . .. :3 — :3052 6 6 ,3:: 1 0. ..... ,:t t t tt .10.0 0 3d0521. f. . ) 3 2 8 . 5 . .., : p , . p.. ... ec.fil fine fine n i ri nn n . o ieee e e ,o3,l2 L: 7 6 o : : :. . ---- Foreign Beans, New • -- Old ' , Oats, Potato ...-.- Poland —s• —5. to 225. fine 245. ---. Vrie.slattal and Small ...........••.•.••• --s. —s. to lf3s. fi ne Yo., --- 'Leafing Shelling Malt Rapeseed —1.05. 341.05, 351. Os. per Last LATEST MANCHESTER BETTI N G. - ---- MANCHESTER.—FrtinAY NIGHT. LIVERPOOL JULY CUP.-6 to 1 asst Knight of the Whistle (taken freely); 11 to 1 agst Forester; 11 to 1 apt Rhodanthe • l'2 to 1 agst Prince Car adoc ( tak en); 13 to I agst Thirsk (taken); 13 to 1 agst Retriever (taken); 15 to 1 agst The Currier. (taken); 16 to 1 agst Fitzroy; 20 to I agst Una (taken) ; 20 to 1 agst Naworth ; 25 to 1 agst Cruiskeen ; 25 to 1 agst Clinker ; 25 to 1 agst Portrait ; 30 to 1 agst Topsail; 30 to 1 agst Vulean ; 30 to 1 agst The Lord Mayor ; 30 to 1 agst The Young-' un (taken); 5 to 2 agst Scott's lot (taken) ; 10 to 1 agst Daws on ' s l o t ; 10 to 1 agst Treen'e two (taken). ileslington is d ec lared not to run. The following hor s es have arrived : — The L ord Mayor, Er mengardis, The Nun Mermaid filly , Princess, Flamingo, Cham pagne, Studley Royal, ' Clinker, St. Bernard, Pagan, Miss Fanny filly, Sir Robert, Mr. Whippy, Cruiskeen, Zelmyra, Lueelle, Mas'er Edmund, Portrait, &c. LivEaroor. ST. LEGER.-2 to 1 agst Beleceur (t), 3 to 1 agst Lord G. 13entinek's lot, 7 to 2 agst Auckland, and 6 to 1 agst Sealteen. ,14 to 1 agst LivEavoor. 500 G U INEAS STARES.--6 to 4on Auckland. Goonwoon D RAWING R oo m STAKEs.- -5 to 2 agst Meteor. GOODWO OD S TAKES.-6 to I agst Knight of the Whistle , 8 to l agst Arnagill, 8 to 1 ag V a keel, 12 to 1 agst Rhodanthe. st Welfare , 10 to 1 agst liiia, 11 to 1 agst Tup s l ey Goonwoon C up.- 5 to I agst The Sq uire, Bto 1 agst Nautilus, 9 t o 1 agst Marshal Soult, 10 to 1 a g st Middleham. Marshal Soult and Lanercost will run at Liverpool for the 51bs. allowance. g l ed, ea u t r e planting, and TeilidEestLATE LORD L EICESTER.— His admonition t o his u N r y s a u s its t . hat He a i t adherence to publi c lib erty an d Whig principles with the sa me sop, uiridelin)ega,ted were inteoesbseanhtilsyp, fervency. He a bh orre d rac i n g and gambling in all their phases, though p er h aps among st the most skilful players of whist in the kingdom. Often 'and often have we heard hii precept, " Tom, when you go through Newmarket draw down the blinds—never look at the place.' — N"lvich Mercurio', -L., ....... - MONEY and COMMLRC AL NEWS. CITY, QUARTEU TO THREE. In consequence of the sales noticed yeverclay not having been repra'ed to-day, the English market ha , recovered from the de) re,-ion, and Consuls are 9I fcr Mo ley, 91} for the 15th inst., and 91i for the August account, bu- with very little busi ness; Three per Cents, Reduced.f , l%; Tbree-and-aHalf per Cents. Reduced, 10) 1 4 ; New T 1 ree-and-a-Half per Cents., 99 3 / 1 ; India Bonds, 28 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 48 to 50, and New, 4 prem. Foreign Securities are firm ; a pu - cha.e in the Dutel Five per Cents. comprises all the transactions. No quotation fcr Mexican. The Share Market is extremely dull. Great Western, 861 ; Brighton, 331 ; Greenwich, 54 ; North Midland, 60 ; Edin burgh and Glasgow, 3. The Bonds quoted to-day, are Colombian, 22,,i; Spanish Five per Cents., 21h 214; the Three per Cents., 21} ex div. The returns of the circulation for the United Kingdom, for the four weeks ending 25th June, show a material withdrawal of issues, when compared with the account of the 28th May. The Bank of England, now £17,543,000 was . Decrease - £348,000 Private Banks in England, now 4,955,594 was Decrease --- Joint-stock Banks in England, now 2,850,532 was 3,101,540 Decrease --- 370,060 251,008 Decrease in England .£969,068 Private and Joint-stock Banks in £2,887,038 2,951,383 Scotland, now was ... Decrease in Scotland Bank of Ireland, now ... was ......... 3,093,900 £64,345 Decrease 192,375 Private and Joiut• Stock Banks, now £1,769,184 was... 1,963,152 Decrease 193,968 Decrease in Ireland £386,343 Decrease in the circulation of the United Kingdom £1,419,756 TOTAL CIRCULATION. England, June 25—£25,389,126 .. May 28 ... £26,358,194 Scotland Ireland £32,946,673 £34,366,629 Bullion in the Bank of England £7,846,000 May 28 Increase... £463,000 These returns prove clearly that the complaints which have been made for some months of the extreme depression of trade are not without foundation, neither have they been exaggerated. At no period has the rate of interest been so low as at present ; and this circumstance occurs at a time when nearly a million and a half has been withdrawn, fully showing that a demand for money for commercial purposes scarcely exists; and this contraction is not confined to the Bank of England, who aro lending money at four per cent., but is participated in equally by other banking establishments. The Great Liverpool arrivel this morning with the remain der of the Indian correspondence. Papers to the 23d April have been received from Buenos Ayres, and contain most laboured attempts to exculpate the Go vernment from any participation in the late outrages. These are so forced as almost to confirm the opinion that the murders were committed, if not by the order, at least with the knowledge and tacit consent of the Executive. It is stated that no English man or other foreigner had been injured, but that the massacre was wholly confined to the natives, and that order had been perfectly restored. The Unitarian army in Entrerios had been completely dispersed, Ferie and Paz having quar relled ; and the latter had fled, and was being pursued, with every hope of capturing him. The insurrection had been so far put down, that the communications with all the interior provinces, as well as with Chili and Peru, had been completed, opened, and the mails had again commenced their usual journeys. Trade was dull, but the want of ships to convey the produce was the chief cause of the depression. Exchange on England 3 1-16 d. 3id. Accounts from Mor.te Video to the 26th cf April, and Rio Janeiro to the 18th of May, have also came to hand, but are of no patticular importance. At the latter place the local Stock was 72k, and the exchange on London 27k. Letters from Sydney to the 27th of February have been de livered, and give a far more alarming account of the markets. Cotton goods had increased in demand, and prices had risen from 10 to 25 per cent., but it is added, " if this improvement be to continue, no fresh importations must come." PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Slime. Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O Ditto New ...... .............. ... 3 Great Western Ditto Fifths Hull and Selby London an(' Brighton London and Greenwich North Midland COURSE OF EXCHANGE—.(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar .. .. 46 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam ...... ...2 U. 12 81 Genoa . ... 25 90 Antwerp l2 7/ Milan 'II Hamburgh M.B. 13 131 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 261 Frankfort on Maine... 1514 Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin ..... ... .......... 7 New York, 21 days sight 461 Vienna, effec. 8. 3M. 958 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 59 i PRICES OF BULLION, PER OE. Madrid Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0 Barcelona Seville ..47 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 7. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 99i , Grand Canal Stock ... ... ... Ditto Reduced Ditto New 1830... 994 Ditto 4 per cent — 3i ,per Cent. Debs. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY B.—lt is only neces sary to repeat the remarks of yesterday—prices remain un varied, and business dull. 3,500 bales were sold. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JULY 8, was abundantly sup plied, but the demand was very dull, and prices generally lower. The sales were—Eastern Counties, 12 3 A, New, 6%; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Now, 3 ; Grand Junction, 188, New Quarters, 25/ ; South Western, 60i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY B.—The mar ket is much the same as y esterday, and the inquiry for Rail ay Stock continues. The prices are—London andßirmingharn,l7B to 180; South Western, 60 to 61 ; South Eastern, 24 to 23i. ; Ditto New, 4to 4/ ; Manchester and Birmingham, 23 to 23§ ; North Union, 71 to 71i. BOULOGNE. (PROM A OORRESPONDENT.) JULY 7.—Though the election of a Member to represent this district takes place on Saturday, the 9th inst., the event seems not to excite the slightest interest. The subject is hardly even alluded to in any coffee-room or public company, and what is more, there is no talk about the right of search, or the increased duty on linen-yarn; and if one may judge from the respectable demeanour of the citizens towards the English, a war with England would be regarded as one of the greatest calamities that could befal them. If there is any difference the people, from the highest to the lowest, are more polite and obliging to our countrymen now than they were before Thiers raised the war cry, and the town was thronged with English residents and visitors. Unless excited by some supposed insult, or some anticipated outrage on their country, the French generally exhibit their natural politeness, and are anxious to return the compliment to strangers who reside amongst them. It is highly to their credit, as far as this district is concerned, that notwithstanding the violence of many of the French journals (and they see no other), and the wicked fabrications poured forth day after day, to excite two great nations to tear one another in pieces, they treat all these as they deserve, and are evidently anxious to avoid a catastrophe, which in the end could benefit neither party, but on the con. trary entail sufferings of no ordinary kind, not only on them. but the greater portion of the civilised world. As it is, the Boulognese have great reason to regret the events of the last two years, for though they have not been harassed by actual war they have been subjected to the expense, and have lost besides nearly one• half of their most profitable trade. Many shops that at one time did a great deal of business are now comparatively deserted, some are shut up, and others are con verted to different purposes. In the trade in gloves, Eau de Colopne, boots and shoes, independent of many other articles, in which the French excel, there has been a great falling off. The rent of houses and apartments, of course, has declined in a proportionate degree. Numbers are empty, and those occupied do not bring in by one-third the rent of former years. Apart ments well furnished, and in the best streets, amply sufficient for a family of six or seven persons, and nearly as many dogs if yen choose to keep them, can be had at this time, the height of the season, for 120 francs the month, or less than 245. per week. In the Rue des Vieillards, near the Rue Neuve Chaussee, one of the most convenient situations in the town, a family of my acquaintance has apartments for that sum, con sisting of drawing-room and parlour, four bed-rooms, kitchen, &c., which furnish good accommodation for the family, five in number, two servants, and four incipient French dogs. The history of these dogs is curious, but that may probably furnish subject for another letter. Provisions also are proportionably cheap. Three pounds of excellent bread, nearly four pounds English, are sold at 4d. ; the best butter from 9d. to I Id. the lb., though it is imported from Belgium ; beef, mutton, &c., at about 6d. the lb. ; cauliflowers, lid. each, large, and f ex cellent quality ; best cherries, l id. the lb. ; a couple of fowls, 2s. 6d ; ducks, Is. 6d. each. Coffee is much cheaper and better than in England, and wine is little more than half price. The charges at hotels are exceedingly moderate, not one half the price charged at Ramsgate or Brighton. Take a second rate hotel, for instance, the Commercial Hotel, kept by Fleury, in Rue Neuve Chaussee, and though second, or say even third rate, every thing is of the best, and the whole expense does not exceed 4s. 4d. a day. The charges are as follow :—Break fast and bed, 3 francs; dinner, two francs and a half, but only two francs if the party remain for some time. At Ramsgate, at an hotel, with not half the accommodation, the charges are : Bed and breakfast, 4s 6d. ; dinner, 3s. 6d. ; and one glass of brandy in the evening, if you are not a teetotaller, Is., making in all, exclusive of wine, nine shillings. Better beds, better breakfasts and dinners, and better brandy can be had in the French hotel for six francs at the utmost ; and say a pint of wine at the English hotel, and a bottle of very fair Burgundy in the French, and the charges will stand thus—English 12s. 6d., French tis. ea. B oots, shoes, and gloves are equally reasonable, and can be had at one-third less than in England. As a proof of this, the French tradesmen ale delighted with the English tariff, and expect no slight increase in business. A pair of shoes, for instance, can be had in the one place for bs., which in the other would cost Bs. 6d. Is there not enough surplus here, to pay the Is. 2d. duty and the transport, and leave ample profit to the importer? Very few troops are here at present, and indeed they are not wanted, for a more orderly, correct, and honest people could hardly be found i n any country. No street rows, little thieving, great regularity, and mutual kindness in all their proceedings ; even the brute creatures participate in the national character. Before the dog-days came on, orders, by telegraph some people think, Wore transmitted from the capital, to muzzle the whole of the canine species. It is really wonderful and instructive to wit ness the calm composure with which these animals submit to the ordinaece. You see a dog sitting at almost every door with a neat muzzle—red, white, black, or green, as suits the fancy of the owner—and he wears it with as much patience as the soldier carries his knapsack and musket. No attempt is made to pull it off, either by rubbing the head against the ground, or tearing at it with his paws, like the lawless English dog. In fact, he is a perfect patteru for both a good citizen, and a good soldier. Dogs indeed seem to have a great predilec tion for the army, and at every review or military display great numbers of them are present, and take as much pleasure in the sound of the drum as the soldiers themselves. Ia re- ference to reviews, I may state that the National Guard, to the number of 800, were summoned by beat of drum last Sunday to be reviewed as usual on the first Sunday of the month, and a very respectable appearance they made. The meeting of tI - • drummers and a train of 2,000 children going to church, each with his prayer-book, and escorted by a number of prests, formed a singular exhibition, and verified the phrase, arm: cedaut toga. The robed priests with their pupils readily gave way to the petits tanthours, who by the way make a terrible rattling thundering noise in the street, enough to frighten a timid ecclesiastic. All the movements of the Infantry here are regulated by beat of drum. Even when the soldiers, without their arms, go to bathe, the drum leads the way to the beach ; it tells them when to draw up, when to take off the first and last portion of their vestment, and him long to stay in the water. An exhibition of this sort took place this week. A party of soldiers were marched to the sea side one fine morning, and after having gone through the operation of undressing to the last garment, they were all at tenti3n, each man with his hands at the collar of his shirt; when the drum beat, off flew the shirts, and off scamptlred, on the dry sand, for 200 yards at least, 300 well-made, stout fellows, as naked as Adam before the fall, followed by nume rous dogs and children, all equally delighted with the scene. They remained in the water. amusing themselves, like chil dren, for a quarter of an hour, and were - tlien recalled in a body by the magic instrument. I may, in conclusion, state, that the town is beginning to fill. Steamers arrive from London almost every day in the week, bringing generally from 100 to 130 passengers, and it is hardly necessary to say that the people are very glad to see them. Without the communication with England, Boulogne would indeed be a dull place. THE ANTI-CORN-L A W CONFERENCE. (THIS DAY.) The Conference met this morning, at half-past ten, at the Crown and Anchor, and immediately proceeded to the official residence of Sir H. Peel, in Downing-street. On the termination of the interview the Deputation pro ceeded to Herbert's Hotel (late Brown's), Palace-yard. P. A. Taylor, Esq., took the Chair at one o'clock. Mr. FISHER, of Sheffield, rose and said that the first act of the Executive Committee after their arrival from the interview with Sir H. Peel, was to pass a unanimous vote of thanks to their Chairman, for the modest, digni fied, and impressive manner in which the Deputation was introduced to Sir H. Peel.- 7 .(Cheers.) He (Mr. Fisher) was quite sure that the first act of that large meeting should be a similar vote.—(Hear, hear.) He would therefore propose that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Chairman, for the excellent and impres sive manner in which the Deputation was introduced to Sir IL Peel.—(Cheers.) Mr. FREARSON (of Nottingham) seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN said, I have only to repeat the thanks that I tendered to the Committee, which I now give to you.—(Cheers.) It is most gratifying to have their approbation for any effort that I can make in so great and righteous a cause.—(Cheers.) I have been identified with this cause for years be fore the formation of the Manchester League, and before Manchester was aware of the coming difficulties, and coming evils, which these Corn-laws would bring upon this country. I was one of that few in London, with the excellent Colonel Thompson as chairman, who used to meet once a week in a very small room, for I am sorry to say that a small room was quite sufficient to hold us all in, Colonel Thompson was in the chair, the Secretary at the foot of the table, and only one or two more to form the Committee to carry on the work. That was the spark—that was he germ---that was the commencement of that great question which is now agi tating the whole community, and which now, in spit e o f the coolness of Sir H. P ee l, shakes him in his security. —(Loud cheers.) I can only again assert that I am always at your service. —(Cheers.) The memorial to the Queen was then read to the meeting. Mr. G. THOMPSON said that it was highly important that those gentlemen. who were on the Committee should immediately adjourn to the Committee-room, in order that every word which was stated in the presence of Sir R. Peel should be faithfully reported, and that every statement which was made should be inserted in the Morning Chronicle, and other daily papers, that would not hesitate to insert pitch important communications, and give them to the NV•orld. It was, therefore, neces sary that those who attended the Deputation, should at once consult together, and prepare the statements. ' The Deputies then adjourned to the Committee-room. The CHAIRMAN said that he would commence that morning's sitting by reading two letters which had come into his hand, one from Crayford, in Kent, dated July 6, the other from Mr. JOhnson, of Nottingham : Crayford, July 7, 1842. Dear Sir,—lf the following facts will not be too late for your purpose, please receive them. thought the statement I sent to Manc hester a short time since, would have been produced upon the present occasion. I am sorry to say Crayford is in a most deplorable state, dis tress is increasing to a fearful degree. For the last two years trade has declined here rapidly. At that time our bloek printers were all in full work at full wages, since which time they have not been employed more than seven months, on an average, in each year. Wages have fallen upwards of 25 per cent., and the men have received notice of a farther reduction. During the spring, the calico-printing has generally been brisk, but this year, spring has passed over without any spring trade ; last week, one of the two remaining factories in Crayford, closed its gates, by which several hundred persons are thrown out of employment. Prior to this melancholy event, many families in Crayford were subsisting almost wholly upon potatoes; nor is the distress confined to the manufacturers, as the wages of the agricultural labourers have, in many instances, been reduced 12 to 14 per cent. within the last four months. how long this stare will last, God only knows, I dread the coming winter.—Believe me, dear Sir, yours very truly, Sidney Smith, Esq. THOMAS MIDDLETON. Sir—Considering it desirable you should be put in posses sion of every incident that manifests the portentous signs of the times, which are becoming every day more threatening and, gloomy, I beg to inform you that yesterday, and again to-day, a haggard, wretched body of upwards of two hundred famishing individnals, have been levying con'ributions on the shops and passers by—their im portunity was such that no denial would be taken, and at a ' baker's shop (where I was a witness) on meeting with a denial they declared bread they must have—and have it they ac corcingly did. And can it, Sir, be wondered at, when famine and misery invade the home of the industrious artizan, that he should seek to alleviate the sufferings of his family, by in vading the 511112 , 3 TV bcr, proTizi coo abvund It may suit the interests of such men as Peel and Stanley to impiously attribute the present distress to causes beyond the control of man, instead of the corrupt and avaricious acts of a selfish aristocracy. But the people are awake to the truth, and the murmur of vengeance may be heard in our streets. Let the Government beware, they are slumbering upon a volcano, and however they may boast secerity, , unless they promptly relieve the distresses ot the nation, by promoting a market for labour, not only will the manufacturing and commercial interests be de stroyed, but the possessors of the broad acres, the aristocratic worshippers of Mammon, will be eugulphed in the same deso lation. Upon inquiry I find most of the hosiers here are turning off hands, and I have been told that the lace-merchants can in many cases only realise for their tri4nufactured article the value of the cotton. A gentleman who arrived here from Tewkesbury to-day informs me that most of the manufacturers there are stopping their frames ; one hosier, to the number of from two to three hundred, and others the whole. Nottingham, July 8, 1842. Mr. BRADLEY, of Nottingham, said he could fully corroborate what was stated in the last letter ; in fact, he would vouch for every word that the n riter uttered. The lace trade was the one with which he (Mr. Bradley) was connected, and he knew that now that article was being sold fur the value of the cotton. It was a light fabric, so that they would easily suppose that the labour must be very great in proportion to the value of the raw material. The amount of the increase or relief between the period of March, 1841, and March, 1842, was 50 per cent. The next quarter would show a similar increase. The relief was 100/. a week more than it was this time last year. The increase of the people in the workhouse in one week was 25. He had ttis from the relieving officer. This was a circumstance unpre cedented in the history of the last twenty years. A remarkatde fact in proof of the superiority of the measure they proposed over every other measure was, that not one man who was ever in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws, had drawn back ; they were more anxious for it now than ever, and were convinced that nothing but the repeal of those and their concomitant laws would rescue the country from its present distressed state. Without free trade they believed that the people of this country were doomed to starve, and many of them were leaving home for abroad who were the very bones and sinews of the community. The people at Nottingham had laboured in this cause a long time, and they had met with great obstructions. It had been urged upon them to begin again at the foundation. He thought with Mr. Cobden, that they should consider along time before they dissolved this League, and merged it into another. He should conclude by reading a quotation from the Times, of March, 1839, which was us follows :—" We know the importance of a speedy revision of the Corn laws. We know that whether that revision come sooner or later, come it inevitably must. We say that to make it speedily is the way to make it safely ; but we fear we can discover from the tone of a large party in this, and in the other Houses of Parliament, that on this question, as on several others, all will be obstinately withheld until all must be disgracefully sur rendered. We cannot for the life of us discover the wis dom, the morality, or the patriotism of such a course." The following statement was read by Mr. Bradley In the town of Nottingham and a distance of five or six miles round there must be from 8 to 10,0n0/. less money in circula tion weekly now than in 1836, which sufficiently accounts for the threatening aspect of affairs to the shopkeepers. Alderman FREARSON, of Nottingham, confirmed the report of the great distress which existed in the town to which he belonged. He had been acquainted for some time with the state of the American markets, and he knew that there was considerable difficulty in getting payment from the Americans, because we could not take what they could give, which was bread-corn. Mr. LawsoN, of Manchester, stated that he had been engaged for thirty years as a workman and manufacturer in :he stocking:trade, and he thought he could throw some light upon the subject of cheap wages. There had been no improvement in the stocking-frame for many years ; it required just as much time and labour to make a stock ins now, as it did many years ago. Out of 100/. worth of hosiery sent from Hinckley to the United States. there was a loss of 75 per cent ; and he would show them how this was, from a shipment of his own to the United States, the return for which was to be made in flour. There were as many goods shipped as purchased 216 barrels of American flour. The American duty on the stockings cost 32 barrels of the flour, and that duty, he would remind them, had been laid on on account of our Corn-laws. The English Corn law in Liverpool took 421 barrels ; the charges of conveying the stockings to New York ' and the com mission there on b uy i ng the flour and bringing it to . Liverpool, w ere equa l to 59 1 b arrels, an d t h e cost o f the yarn to make the stockings was equal to 31 barrels mere. Nj‘V he would tell them who t the American menu _ faeturers had to pay. In his yarn 70 barrels, for profit 14 barrels, being 132 barreb of flour for the wages, instead .r- of 34, which was all left to the English manufac. (Cheers.) Thu worst part of the rnatter•was, that' whatever w e so ld t h e goo d s i n t h e f ore i gn inarkct, , regulated the price in the- home market, so that 0 raised their ho s til e t ar iff abroad _prices •increasedyo , 1 and wages went d o w n . I t cou ld not be allegoU fi l this badness of the trade was owing to stockings Visit out of fashion, as had been urged with regard !,,l Paisley manufacture, for it happened that the de 3 for stockings was grea tly on th e i ncrease i n eve ry Ow' in the world except one, and that was the country.l.o for 250 years had manufactured stockings foi whole world. [The meeting had not concluded when we ° I paess.] The following most important resolution hasiu 3 /4 proposed to tsleiceonAdnedti- byCoriNr Moore, n i lawCon and un ference,b a y niol o Thompson, lf agreed to:— " That this Conference being deliberately Of °P.A t i iiiiis that its continued exertions are imperatively dei11 5 ;.4 both by the alarming condition of the country at and the position of the question in Lond oll, being of opinion that th e ir efforts ha ve already Der d :, tended with effect, determine to remain sitting, af r iY use every constitutional me a ns f o r th e attainment_u!, cbject for which the Conference has been assenOlFu, FOREIGN SHIP BISCUIT. - An Account of the Quantities of FOREIGN SOO, 00 CULT Exported from the United Kingdom in t h e Five Years : Cwt. qrs. lbs.. 1837 25,849 2 1 3 1838 30,262 2 ' 7 1839 15,657 3 2 6 1840 8,774 2 - 7 . 1841 13,648 2 1 3 .. . Inspector-General's office, Custom-house, London, W. 131 04 ' .' 1 July, 1842. ' IP COMMISSIONERS APPOINTEA it 3 0 EXECUTE THE PROPERTY AND IN_ „ 0 TAX ACT IN THE COUNTY OF MIMI, , e so til fj, 4 DISTRICT OF HOLBORN AND THE It° LIBERTY. ti a fio l FOR GENERAL PURPOS E S.—M r . James Manaftesw- ' d or street, Bedford-row ; Mr. William Tooke, of Bed e - James Hargrave Mann, of Old Chapel-row, ' town; Mr. Thomas Weeding, of Mecklenburg-54°W i John Jacob Hansler, Knight, of Tavistock-square; '',;"; ward Baylis, of Cambridge-terrace, Edgeware-road; L'"' . ward Page Clowser, of New-end, Hampstead. To SUPPLY VACANCIE..—Mr. Richard Edward Arlsolv Red Lion-square; 11r. Richard Ramsden, of BW lt el t stof Holborn ; Mr. Benjamin G oo d e , o f H ow l an d-street, x'. 4 ,tr square ; Mr. Daniel Cha r l es R ogers H arr i son , of trtole street; Mr. Michael Prendergast, of Willow-walk , g o. " town ; Mr. John Hill, of Stanhope-street, Paddingtonk Richard Cooke, of the Terrace, Kentish-town. '?' . DISTRICT OF BLOOMSBURY. - $ O O FOR GENE Kat. Pu a rosits.—Mr. Thomas Leverton ost eon, of Hart-street, Bloomsbu r y ; M r . J o h n Jortin, of niott lotto-street, Bloomsbury ; Mr. Samuel Mills, •of 1.1 square; Mr. Samuel Page, of Holborn ; Mr. Williatn, 0: Savage, of Gower- s treet; Mr. Nicholas Winsland , 01 0,; Russell-street ;' Mr. James Whiskin, of Upper Bedfordifoor To SUPPLY VACANCIES.—Mr. Ri c h ar d Barker, 4 12 kiiie square ; Mr. James Hansard, of S o utha m pton. street, mi s oll bury-square ; Mr. James -H. Ma nn , o f G rea t Queen"' : A Mr. John Freder:ck Pike Scrivener, of Bedford-sqnsrpf William Tooke, of Russell-square ; Mr. Richard Arden, of Bedford-square ; M r . R o b er t M' William, of 4 - --,:' . : • ton-square. . r BOROUGH OF WINDSOR. cii. 4 o:l FOR GENERAL PURPOSES.—Sir J o h n Chapman, ."' ; or gusson, and John Clode, F. Burt, J. Church, T. Ad a°. .„'. W. Clode, Esqrs. On To SUPPLY VACANCIES.—Messrs. J. B an i s ter, es ..i i ,,„— W. Jennings, W. B err id ge , W. L eg h, C. M. Snow''"' G. Cooper. __ , TOWER DIVISION—WHITECHAPEL' 0 FOR GENERAL PURPOSES.—Messrs. Off or , Garfore•- .. .. „ meek, Butler, Humphreys, Burnell, and Black, Eglet;„l6 To SUTPLY VACANCIRS.—Messrs. L awrenc e, Carl o !: nor, Musgrove, Mears, Gant, and Jenners, Esqrs•• - v 4 1 • the Commissioners elected are Liberals. t , The lovers of fencing experienced a treat On .fri l i at the Queen's Conc er t- room , Hanover-squar e; o of fencing was super a dd e d a mus i ca l concer t, by.s r 4 the first foreign and native ar ti s t es . W e s hall hrie!l miss the latter, rem a rki ng i n p ass i ng th a t it quite . 4i , all that was expected. We may particularise fi" 0, 01 by Mlle. E. Grisi a nd Si gnor C am pi on i, f r om IN. .04 1 : which was greet e d w ith en th us i ast i c mar k s o f adEa rS -,.0 4 H., In fencing. the parte prima of the prog ram me cool° Oil by Messrs. Mondh a i r an d G ermain taking the foil I.tutett4 whom came Mr. Breck, Si gnor Pi ccon i, M r . L. G,L l ; O O 4 ' Signor Gandini, Serge an t J ac k son , M r . T. G, M. Ruchonet, Signor Gandini, and Mr. ' This last was an exceedingly well contested beet , ' catill prejudice apart, we were happy to see that our ~r , man had the best of it. But the grand attractio!";ol evening was the sabre assault between Signor fi t ' and Sergeant M'Naughten, of the Grenadier ts'isiti The latter had, in a previous part of the eyenietti: cleverly put Mr. Germain hors de combat, at the We lish game of " single sti c k," an d th e s y m pathies : 2" English portion of the audience were, therefore , '5O strongly elicited in his favour. After the usuOigolf of impatience for the gr ea t s t ars o f th e ev ening+, Gandini and Sergeant APlCaughten appeared,lllllolo with naked sabres, We observed some beautifa, as beautifully parried ; but the Sergeant was - el l . . the better man. His antagonist, howeVerO 41 4 01 not cry peccavi, although his " blood-stain ed ? went " proved that the thing was beyond II ~I but unconsciously admitting his defeat, said that ,14! more" would decide. It did decide, as we stroefiro7, pect his shoulder will remind him for a good 01 %/49 come. The Sergeant, after a well-contested slti nem. con. declared the victor. Among the delight 1 tators we observed Mr. Bushman (of fencing ll°. o f", Mr. Burdos, and other admirers of this noble . ~ We were sorry to see th a t f ew o f our E n gh 6 l l 4oo rc;p44o — e . cracy were present to enj o y th e t r i um ph o f our • 4 soldiery. While thousands are lavished upon f ° ; ,: i / s i who bring not real e x cell ence , b u t a s p ec i ous extu— our markets, why should native talent pass Imre he A How TO CURE A LIGHT SOVRREIGN.--4 ass verpend Co w4c.r ...t..1D., the following account in isl played in that town on Saturday : —The narrator, s'l r de,,/ ployed in a foundry in Liverpool where some henr k ijOr paid, on Saturday night received his wages. He and ' panions adjourned to a neighbouring public-house t° C I their sovereigns, when several were declared tight... jected to deductions varying from sixpence to a shilli n gi;, narrator nut liking to pay so heavy a tax for his elle, recollec ing he had a piece of sheet lead in his poc , 0 oli o the edge of his so vere i gn u p on t h e l ea d , of which some t it 9 adhering to the milling, increased its weight. Whe n P r e" the balance, down it went " whop," to use his own eh' . .. " This will do," said the landlady. f rou o ti. # RiGlie OF WAY OVER PRIMROSE-HILL;- -- Atpr ii day a very nume rous mee ti ng o f t h e rate-pavers of bisflOOS took place at the Q ueen ' s H ea d T avern, High-streetsotSt purpose of adopting such measures as shOuld be d_.bloOr i e ped!ent in support of the vestry in asserting the pa r es ' indisputable claim of the right of way over Prim Mr. Jenkinson occupied the chair, and laving Uri"' ' object of the meeting , : several statements were- • which it appeared, that, although the Bill for Pip Igo Primrose-hill as a public park to the public had p a Legishe tire, still it was usel,ss to the pe o ple of lual rp o , the path, which had existed so many years, leading f t . Avenue-road, on the estate of Mr. Walpole Eyre, O A . - .4 4 purchased by a Mr. Fry, having been stopped u p . by l e isstA party. A ratepayer said, he had a few days 2110 0500 the office of the Duke of Portland, a map of the date b ee in which a style is shown to exist on the exact spot!. ga l l wall of obstruction was now built. As sixty Ye a lio o 4 " right of way," it was the duty of the parish t o ' . assert their privilege. Mr. W. E. Sasse cited 11 10 04 conduct of the inhabitants of Kensington iu breaking oo il;i enclosure and forcing their way through the Hipiwwi rn . toS:srii or two since, in which they had been fully justified hl it h` . esli called upon the parishioners of Marylebone to sa i l ; 0 6 determination, and appoint a day whea they she?! 'W . , large numbers and force down the obstruction to toe • I is, bone side of Primrose-hill. This precipitate p ,_,l' iiili , repudiated, and u lti ma t e l y a C omm i ttee was apPoin7eilvdsi, to Primrose-hill, accompan i e d b y severa l o ld rate4fAVlO could testify to the existence of the path at leastlli, and to wait upon the vestry and request their C_7a, to therein. The m ee ti ng th en, a f ter a vote of Sham's chairman, separated.' , sTe 4 L, INCOME-TAX COMM ISSIONERS FOR EIC-- e ; i i • 1 For general p ur p oses : —J o h n S arson, T . W. Pato! Moore, J. S. Hardy, an d J. T ay l or , E sqrs . T o ii,.„ 1 " 1- r s,,L, cies :—Dr. Shaw, J. Needham, and H. Paynie„,rljsoi t tif Messrs. G. Lockwood, B. Cort, T. Marston, and Iv a : I d - st The first meeti ng o f th e ac ti ng Commissioners wag': the ,k Three Crowns, on Thursday l as t. Mr. T. Burbidfi , jo . Town Clerk, i s app o i n t e d cleik to them. Skipper, the celeb ra t e d N orw i c h Vetell n i t e r sl,,,d° l4 trian, has nearly accomplished the arduous task ,1,,,f , 0 1 fifty miles a i'ay for twenty success i ve d ays, an d to 1 1- 01„10, time he is going on all right, and has not yet failed its 0?;j4 1. of the days i n fi n i s hi ng t h e stated distance. - See n `Z e inr o d, the last d a y o f th e matc h , t h erefore on the Mends,' " - pi, • , walking an extra fifty miles, being for his benefi t. , a Chronicle. t'' Rumours have b een i n c i rcu l at i on i n Gluo ce . s h t lii il o o l some time, that Joh n Phill potts, E sq., means to r e . siv t A e ! ° iiii in Parlia men t. W e s h ou ld not think it wort h while or igilli., these reports, whi c h ma y, f or aug h t we k now , have te e. . P in me re idl e goss i p , were t h ey not frequently e eiters Tw ee Phillpotts has at last o bt a i ne d hi s l egacy of 5 0 , 0 Kn o tere't ••, famous codi c il t o M r . James Wood's, will ' , witu - 0 ~ .. Gloucester Chronicle. ..,... tu be Dr. Barrett, of Irish notoriety, who `iv° sc roolo ever known to go out of the College walls, exc e l: an e 0,110 street to the Bank, happened, by some strange c I P I Iso one day walking at Rathmines, in the suburbs f hipi tf i d He suddenly stopped a gentleman, and inquired °L an due t ee was that animal grazing in the fi eld ? The gentle r° t . ` , Ol l at him with astonishment, replied, that it was a cn erc liP' - ' your honour," said the doctor, " I thought it was v - '` rints I have seen of that animal." ___ Olt B T S. On the 3d inst., at Bruninic H k-terraee, ;ANN 'Ol Robert Upperton, of a son. On the 3d inst., at the Rectory, Little Polito°, tb the Rev. Pennyman Worsley, of a son. ,h# On the sth inst., in Kensingto n - squa re, the la— , „dy Rougemont, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Bedford-place, Rusbe/1- 111 P" lif of Charles Dr Es" Ou the derson, of a J. CC ' This morning, at S t . Pancrat Church, M r -,; dog- r er of William-street, Regent's Park, to Eliza, seeco‘' 6 • ...,,-- IA Mr. Whitehead, o f the Polygon, Somers Town • f freaci t e On the 6th i nst ., at St. Marylebone, Lewin , sc' l3° sdigt ,r Reads, E t q., o f Portland-place, to Mary Ana , e,A,- • ' of Captain Larkins, of Leyton. 01 4 , 9 On the 28th Hon. Joh n Ramsay. in E , aged 67. GeOf tiltdin burgh, Lieuten ot " 41 0 lED. On the l a t inst , at his residence in the college, Ol', i Rev. Philip Durham A M aged 60. London: Fruited and Publ d 1 - .)1 MURD O coo l 1 . 12, S ' tra;:l, --- at --- Tit ---- e l :iu e n Oiice:l s;° l l l l l349. 2 ' the County of Middlesex, Satwdith July .7, ,/ Davies, Esq., of a s u n. D u d a /0' ith inst., in B e l grave - square , tb• •--- a son. t MARRIED. _ t cal • • 'r k 1 a I