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

nfluence, rable fate h always - are now tumon to towards claims of tend how ) aid the in 1840 e—ought I was fore- .vent the °"JP 4 increase' ;/(1 treaty of Luences of 0 0 . 1 ht of day ke use of "I°' Df Russia " ; not to be ,ationality er weight hich have ing them- vho would Christian i t of a petty ties of the vhile Tur- Lrating the , the sure r ; ion by the D gratify I. he confes• latred, jea- tt and chi t a people, resources, an emer- . Englaad ^t L COMMOn y disputes,. ed what a will return ." A man y with him 1 , ly of a third defends the nearly the done, and few °User )m it would But it is I rising into take place all to settle !r, publishes er of Public ;everal ordi- Courrier de it much has lanufactures pods manu )f our work' is, neverthe - Al of winter, wants. 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The reports from the East by the last Levant mail of an intended co-operation of the English and French squadrons on the coast of Syria, with a view to com pel the Porte to do justice to its subjects in that country, and fulfil the promises which were given to the Great Powers, have furnished the Courrier Fran cais, the Constitutionnel, and the Presse with occasions for again ripping up all the old sores about the Treaty of the 15th of July. We have noticed their argu ments in a leading article. 81. Eugene Bore has been appointed Consul for France at Jerusalem. He is at present at Bagdad, and will not proceed to his new post till towards the end of the year. The Barcelona journals of the 30th ult. are filled with distressing accounts of the ravages occasioned io Catalonia. Rain fell in torrents on the 24th, when the Llobregat and Noya overflowed their banks, and soon formed but one immense sheet of water. The districts of Iguallada, La Pobla de Charamunt, Ca- Pellades, Valibona, San Quintin, San Pedro de Riu de Vitelles, Monistrol, and others, were entirely laid waste; many of the inhabitants, surprised b y the 1113 °4 were drowned, and the damages caus e d in that quarter only were calculated to amount to 4,000,000 Piastres. The wasters of the Llobregat had not risen to so'great a height since the year 1740. The cantons of Berne, Soleure, Argau, and Basle, have formed a kind of commercial union for the abo lition of all international duties. Valais is threatened Wit) —ao explosion. A liberal print having been se vere on the cler, the latter have accused the Go '°'*i'ent of tol erating such calumnies, have raised the etr of Catholicism in danger, and have appealed an extraordinary convocation of the Great Council. The Cantonal Government has answered by a long p r oclamation. I,The Commerce Beige m en ti ons a re p or t th a t th e Ing and Q ueen o f the Belgians are about to visit ranee again, and that they will embark at Ostend direct for the Chateau d'Eu. The German papers are barren of news. Thy tell us of everything but what we want to know. they register reviews, Royal and University fetes, but by looking through them all no one would discover that the Congress of the German Union is at this moment sitting, and that their most important interests may be affected from day to day by the opinions that may prevail. Accounts from Rome of the 25th ult. announce that the three steamers built in England for the Papal Government had at last reached that capital. They bad already given proofs of the solidity of their con -1.1, ruction, having i n th e space of a few hours towed three vessels, heivily laden, from the mouth of the Tiber to Rome. The banks of the river were lined with an immense crowd of people, curious to wit ness at S pectacle so nove l to them. Cardinal Fosti, and several other Prelates, were present at the arrival of the steamers. According to letters from Bagdad of the 27th of 'July, tr anqu illi ty was far from having been restored in that city. The Sheik Soliman Ganam had been murdered b y t h e Agheles Gusmen, and the popula tion had been thrown into a state of considerable agitation in consequence of a report that the Persians were marching upon Bagdad. Those fears, however, Were soon allayed when it became known that the Itritish Minister at Teheran had protested against all violation of the Ottoman territory by the Persian forces. MO NEY — TRADE—COMMERCE. The Duke of Buccleuch has become proprietor of the Wanlockhead lead mines, which for the proceed u)lB7 years the Marquis o f B u t e ren t e d. Work is not yet general at Manchester, but peace 13 preserved. At one of the Salford factories the hands ,have resumed wor k w ith out o b ta i n i ng t h e i r additional R emand. It is calculated that 8,000 power-loom weavers are still out. At Glossop, where the attack V B4 made on a factory last week, everything is Peaceable. NAVAL AND MILITARY, An inspection of Plymouth and its naval establish ments is about to take place by the Earl of Hadding ton, Rear. Admiral Sir George Seymour, and Ad- Iniral Sir George Cockburn, who have left the Ad- Iniralty for that purpose. LAW AND POLICE. • The Yorkshire rioters had sentence passed on them )Fast Monday, at York, by Lord Chief Justice Den 'kith. The prisoners, to the amount of 150, were variously sentenced to terms of imprisonment with bard labour for periods of from two to eighteen months. The trial of the Clifton rioters took place at the Salford Sessions on Monday. A verdict of guilty WAS pronounced against six of the rioters, and the re taining 45 were acquitted. The sentences of the ,E finer are under consideration. • .Mary Ann Harvey, a young girl, was yesterday charged at Marlborough•street, by the Honourable Adolphus W. Chichester, Lieutenant in the Grenadier %iards, with annoying him while on duty that • morning at St. James's Palace. The prisoner was fined los., or seven days' imprisonment. The case of George Chapman came on for final examination in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday. It will be remembered the bankrupt was a few years since lessee of the dairy and farms of Mr. Rhodes, at Islin g t on, b es i des other farms in the neighbourhood of London, to the amount of nearly 1,000 acres. His debts and liabilities are estimated at about 20,0001., and the assets at 5,0001. Proclamation of outlawry Was made against him, on his non-appearance in Court. LITERARY AND SCINNTIFIC. The itoyal Academy of Fine Arts at Paris adjudged the first prize for engraving on Saturday toIM. Louis belemer of Lille, and the second to M. Ange Collier, of Paris. Researches have been lately made at Tintignac, on the road to Limoges by some antiquaries, under a c onviction that th e ruins of th e anc ie n t c ity o f Rhetia are buried there. Digging has commenced, and * building, with marbles, coins, and other relics, have already appeared. COURT-P.II.4IIZONABLE. The Earl of Denbigh is staying at the Upper " ( A y ge,_ near Bushy Park. • and Pady Palmerston are at Broadlands tinuse, near Southampton. The Marquis of Douro arrived at Brighton yes terday. Lid Worsley has arrived at Manby Brigg, Lin colnshire. The Earl of Pembroke is in Paris, and intends to Pass the summer abroad. MISCELLANEOUS. The foundati on - wa ll, w hi c h is supposed to have f ormed the eastern boundary of the Monastery of hitefriars, has been discovered during the excava tions now m a ki ng i n W a t er -l ane , Fl ee t- s treet. Two nulls, a coin of Charles the Second's time, and other Pieces of money, were also found. Prost, the ex-Magistrate, is at work among the common gang at Impression Bay. Jones, the Chartist ! v atclnaker, acts as overseer to the mess in the Peni tentiary at Port Arthur. Williams, who was sent to 'work In the coal-mines, built a boat and escaped, hut ?vas shortly after re-captured, and at present works In One of the chain gangs. Monday, P owys, at t h e St a ff or d s hi re mee ti ng on ivienday, stated that though the military at present restrained the discontented, the upraising of a single Talbotw bring up hundreds out of the its. Earl said that unexpected outbreaks p were fre ,quently liable to occur. He was one day only last week breakfasting with Lord Dartmouth at Sand 'Well, when all of a sudden news came of the ap- I n :Qaeh of a mob from the pits, spreading terror in all d irections. The report that Dr. M'Douall had been arrested turns out to be incorrect. The county Magistrates of Staffordshire held a meetin g in the Shire-hall, on Monday, to take into en nsideration the present state of the county. A aeries of rules aud regulations were unanimou sl y adopted for the more efficient preservation of the e ase, orderin g new district stations to be made, and orses and patrols to he kept in constant communica tion, and their reports constantly made to the Lord leutenant And the masters of the stations. LA W INTELLIGENCE. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY). IN RE LOUIS COQUEREL. The bankrupt, who up to yesterday had not sur rendered und e r th e fi a t, h a d b e e n proprietor of the C ommercial Hotel, Leicester. square. It will be in the recollection of the readers of The Sun, that, on the 10th of August, the bankrupt ab sconded f rom L e i ces t er - square , u p on w hich day a foreign gentleman, named Saclier, who was stop- Vng at the Commercial Hotel, applied to the ofice-Magistrate at .Marlborough-street, to whom t he stated that the bankrupt ha d ro bb e d "' l n of 13,000 francs and 801. in English money, with o th er proper t y . Pl aca rds were imme . cliately issued by M. Saclier, offering 1001. reward for his apprehension, but he continued to evade the This day being appointed for a proof of debts and choice of assignees, Sesse appeared to prove for money which it t'as alleg e d had been fraudulently obtained by the bankrupt. Sesse stated, through an inter preter , that the bankrupt got possession of the money on the ground of safe ke e pin g from him, and almost imme diately afterwards paid it away in the City. It was uged against M. Sesse's claim, that it was a case e Plaing under the cognizance of the criminal law, and that, therefore, he was not entitled to establish his Pivot at proem. Mr. Commissioner ForinLANQue said, in the evi dence adduced it was stated that the Police Magis trates and the Lord Mayor had refused to consider the case as one of felony, and it would be therefore unfair to refuse the claimant a remedy in this place. Under those circumstances the charge , of felony was so vague that he could not reject M. Sesse's right to prove. Several debts having been proved, most by fo reigners, the choice of assignees was proceeded with. POLICE INTELLIG ENC E. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) William Moss, a cabman, was charged with drun kenness, and robbing his fare. Police-constable 98 E, saw last night late a crowd at the corner of Berners-street, and Oxford-street, surrounding the prisoner and his cab. The prisoner was partiallz* drunk, and a boy , inside was quite senseless. } rom information received from the by standers he thought it his duty to take him to the station-house. The boy was sent home by the inspector. A witness proved that defendant had taken money out of the boy's pockets while he was insensible. The prisoner entered into a rambling defence, in the course of which he admitted having received money from a third party to take the boy home. The Magistrate fined him 40s. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) Owen Macarthy, Ellen Macarthy, and Ann Shanahan, Irish basket people, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, on a charge of having violently assaulted Patrick Macabe, a dealer in old clothes, and stolen from him a handkerchief and waistcoat. Patrick Macabe stated that, on Monday evening, when standing near Monmouth-street, the prisoners severally came up and violently assaulted him. They threw him down, and stripped him of his hand kerchief and waistcoat.. lie had his coat on 'at the time. The witness having been asked by the Magistrate how he could be stripped of his waistcoat while wear ing his coat, seemed at first unable to give any other answer except that he was an Irishman. He after wards said that the waistcoat was torn off his back. ra,trick Quin confirmed a portion of his statement. The prisoner Shanahan totally denied the charge. Waddington, the gaoler, here stated that the com plainant was in the habit of bringing parties before Magistrates on charges which were altogether unsus tained by evidence. He believed the complainant had been transported many years ago for a highway robbery. The MAGISTRATE said that he could not believe the statements of the complainant, and dismissed the charge. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The markets have exhibited some degree of flat ness this morning, and but very little business has been done. Consols are 93 931 for Money, and 931 931 for the Account. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 101/ 1011; Bank Stock, 166 167 for the Ac count; Exchequer Bills Old, 53; New, 49 51 prem. In Foreign Securities transactions have been Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 521 ; the Five per Cents. 1028 ; Belgium, 1021; and Danish at 841. Some considerable pur chases have been made in Mexican, and quotations are 361 361 for Time and for Money. The Shares which have changed hands to-day. are less than were almost ever known, having been con fined to South Eastern Scrip, 6i ; Eastern Counties, ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 4; Manchester and Birmingham, 23 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 491; and the New Shares, si, all of which are a shade below former prices. Colombian Bonds are quoted 21.; Portuguese Three per Cents., 21* ; Spanish Five per Cents., 161 16i; and the Three per Cents., 211 21i. Some days since intelligence appeared in The Sun of the existence of a conspiracy in St. Petersburgh, the object of which was the assassination of the Em peror of Russia. A Morning Contemporary claiming priority of information, denied the truth of this statement, inasmuch as it had not first received it. The whole is now confirmed by a party who has just arrived in this country from thence. It appears that even now the utmost precautions are observed about the pa laces, and so much distrust is exhibited, that it is never accurately known one day where the Emperor will be on the next, the guards and attendants being as frequently changed. Arrests are almost hourly taking place, or suspected indivi duals arriving in custody from the provinces for exa mination and the numbers which have alr e ady b een sent to Siberia are said to be extremely great. It is stated that the ramifications of this plot have been ascer tained to have extended almost throughout . the whole empire, and to have caused the utmost alarm, as it has not yet been fully developed. It may appear ex traordinary that the particulars have not been made more generally public, but the three-fold danger which attends correspondence from Russia, renders indivi duals excessively cautious as to what is written. PRICES OP SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R A ILWATS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 49/ to Ditto New Manchester and Leeds Ditto / Shares Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 South Eastern and D0ve1.... SO Ditto Scrip - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 6.—We still have but a limited business to report :—Bristol and Exeter, 45 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 23i ; London and Birmingham, 184 185; Manchester and Leeds, 72 73; Ditto Halves, 31 31f. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of all Grain since Monday have been inconsiderable. Wheat was steady at former prices, with less demand than of late. In other Grain not much done, and prices unvaried. The bakers were not much disposed to purchase flour at the advance of Monday. NEWGATE AND LEADENITALL. The firstqualities of meat find ready purchasers at our quotations, but the inferior sorts were difficult of sale at our lowest rates. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. ; Mutton, 2s. Bd. to 3s. 1 od.; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. ; Pork, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d.; Veal, 2s. 10d. to 4s. 4d. Game and Poultry were plentifully supplied at previous rates. Grouse, 6d. to 2s. each ; Partridges, 55. ; Geese, ss. 6(1. ; Leverets, 2s. 6d. to 3s. each ; Pigeons, 6d. to 9d.; Ducks, 2s. 6d. to 35.; Chickens, 2s. to 2s. 6d. ; Fowls, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; Rabbits, 9d. to ls. 6d. each. Eggs, 4s. 6d. to 65.6 d. per 120. COLONIAL MARKET. There was a fair amount of business transacted, and very full rates were paid; the quantity of pro duce pressed for sale was small. The imports were fair from all parts. Raw Sugar in fair request at full rates ; Brown West India at 595. to 615.; Yellow, 61s. 6d. to 68s. ; and White Bengal, 645. to 695. per cwt. Coffee firm, but few buyers, at 70s. to 735. TEA. MARKET. The market was firm, and a good business was done at firm prices, ls. 8 d. to Is. 9d. for common sound Congou cash, and Company's ls. 9kd. to ls. 90. per lb. TALLOW MARKET. Prices had a downward tendency, and the market was dull. P. Y. Candle 475. 3d. to 475. 6d. on the spot, and 475. 9d. for delivery in last three months of the year. SPIRIT MARKET. Rum sold slowly, and prices were barely sustained. Proof Leewards Is. 104-d. to Is. 11d. per gallon. Brandy little asked for, and prices on the decline. ENCE• MONDAY. ith 20 sad"' 1 2 1 2 3 dr bf two heats ' /AY. One Mile' ..(Marlow) 5 15 ft, and 5t1 0 4 • The se ca bg. les. 124 s' 0 happle) , 0 , ist 41b v 3 placed .45 of Riehm ° " 6 's ltetriev er 'd Est • Di k e fo p Captain g , r io r. 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This theatre is now under the management of Mr. Greenwood, who has added to the strength of the pre viously very efficient company, by the engagement ai,lt , A h li a s y s in Rankley an h k ad le of Mr. Lyon, Mr. Henry Marston, and Miss Caroline Rnkl e rea talent, Y con is sider uy a u b u leroici ugpladvnyoafl gt prac tice, has now for the first time made her appearance before a London audience. Her personal attractions are tions are by no means inconsiderable, besides which she an excellent actress, and bids fair to take a high rank as the heroine of domestic dramas. The manage-ment of the stage is committed to the su of Mr. Henry Marston, and as might have been expected fro m t he r efined taste of that gentleman, the entertainments are of a higher order than those to which a Sadler's Wells audience have in general been accustomed. A new drama, from the pen of the author of The Minerali, entitled Faust, was produced last evening with the most unequivocal success. The author, in treating the legend of Faust, has taken Kit Marlowe for his model rather than Goethe, and in so doing he has exercised a sound judgment, for a more undramatic piece than Goethe's Faust can scarcely be conceived ; while in the Faustus of Marlowe every situation is a telling one, and every incident is dramatic. Taking the old legend as the ground work of his plot, our author of last night has given us one of the most ingeniously constructed tales of diablerie ever represented on the stage. This ingeniously con structed plot is admirably developed, and the play itself is exceedingly well written, the language is always well chosen and appropriate, and we meet not unfrequently with occasional bursts of really fine poetry. It is evident that the author has been no careless student of our earlier dramatists, and his production has a smack of the ge nuine flavour about it. Lyon as Faust, and H. .Marston as Mephisto pheles, were every thing the author could wish ; the sepulchral tones of Marston told admirablv ar in the cha racter of the fiend. Miss C. Rankley, as.Mguerite, made the most of a secondary character ; she had little to do, but in doing that little she exhibited great taste and judgment. The piece has been got up with great I care, and the scenery—for which this theatre has THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1842. always been famed—was magnificent. Lyon and Marston were both called for at the conclusion of the piece, which was announced for repetition every evening, amidst the loudest applause. The drama of the Dumb Savoyard and his Monkey followed, in hich the performance of Wieland (who is starring it here for a week) as the Monkey, drew down roars of laUghter from all parts of the house, which was crowded in every part. SCOTLAND'S GREETING. (IN THE MANNER. OF COWLEY.) Scotia ad Angliam, suam sarorem. Down from its glittering nail Queen and bright sister, I my harp have taken, And all its golden-chorded strings awaken, To hail thy coming, and thy passage through Our land of lochs and mountains hid in blue— Homes of thy warrior-clansmen, brave and true. Yet neither chaunt nor song, I know, Amply grand or fully sweet, Thy serene approach to greet, Or rich embroidered verse to fitly throw, As carpet for thy feet. Nevertheless the song, Shall, opening, pour along, And tell thy graces, which, if fit extolled, 'Mid the rich music-stream, Would shine about and beam Like gold and rubies in a river rolled. Soon as the Hesper star, Leapt to his matin car, And with his diamond-glancing eyes Lightened up the Eastern skies, Then silken winds and every tuneful gale, Swelled the full snow-white sail; While Neptune's golden horses drew Her bounding vessel thro' the blue ; Till pressed her queenly foot the strand, Of Scotland's rock-enthroned land. Lovely the white young Moons, On high Ben Lomond's summits shine, When the transparent clouds With gold and interlucent gems, Weave glistening bands and diadems Round their sweet brows divine ; But to her people's eyes, No moon was ever seen, On the high hills or in the skies, Or at its full, or at its rise, So fair as their own Queen. Fair as our light-crowned fountains, Our purple-shaded lakes, and spiry mountains : Bright as a thousand other things— As jaspers of our silver Lowland springs— Or morning exhalations, seen In splendid dimness veiling every scene ! Beauteous thy blue uprising, morn in heaven, With sunbeams wreathed around thy hair serene, But lovelier never dawned upon Lochleven, Than dawns our Queen. Brief was the song of homage sang, But loud and loyally it rang, From cotter-huts, and mines, and looms, From golden-ceiling'd halls and rooms, Throughout the Scottish land : While lordly revel held the night, And street and city swelled with light ; And thousands clad in tartan pride Roll'd their full joy on every side ; Amid the pomp and bonfire's blaze, All Scotland poured abroad to gaze : The Eagles heard them in their nest— Then spread their plumes, and fired their crest And screamed in anthem grand ; While as the people's mighty shout, From tower, and town, and wall rang out, The hills and caverns sounded back A glorious-echoing coronach. Alone to grace the festal time One voice was needed—one sublime ! Of him who ne'er may be forgot— Deep-reverenced bard—immortal Scott ! Dead King of Melody—though long Thy harp bath hushed, and flown thy song— Tho' long thy shade from earth hath faded— Long the damp yew thy grave-house shaded— Yet daily glorious—more intense— Thy memory kindles to the sense, And gains a new omnipotence ! Ah ! only Scotland well can guess What verse of lofty gloriousness Had strung thy harp, and nerv'd thy hand, To hail thy Queen to Scottish land. TRIAL of the CLIFTON RIOTERS. SALFORD SESSIONS—MONDAY. This morning the Chairman (Mr. Foster) took his seat at nine o'clock for the purpose of trying the above-named case. He was supported on his right and left by several county Magistrates, amongst whom were Mr. G. W. Wood, M.P. Mr. W. F. Hulton, and the R ev . Mr. Mills, of Oldham. Several of the prisoners were out on bail. Those in the gaol were placed at the bar, and the rest answered to their names as follows :—George Bes wick, John Bramall, John Holland, William Wil son, Hugh Farren, William Roberts, Thomas Chad derton, Thomas Newton, John Lane, William Town send, Joseph Brierley, Thomas Edge, James Taylor, S. Stores, James Entwistle, Thomas Chadwick, John Lightbourne, Benjamin Hawksworth, John Stafford, Richard Rogers, Joseph Dunkerley, David Nightin gale, John Cooper, Thomas Orme, John Tipton, Joseph Salmon, John Simpson, Thomas Hanley, John Jenks, George Hankers, John Fielding, Peter Singleton, John 'Wood, Thomas Sut cliffe, Thomas Charleston, 'William Hoffton, George Hay, Ralph Taylor, John Hargreaves, John Marshall, Thomas Wood, Joseph Bowring, E. Holt, Joseph Taylor, John Wolfenden, Samuel Scholefield, 11 illiam Burgess, George Rose, John Hanley, T. Evans, and William Brooks. The indict ment charged them with a riot at Clifton, in :the parish of Eccles, on Saturday, the 20th of August, with having riotously and tumultuously assembled together, to the number of 300 and upwards, and that whilst so assembled they turned out the colliers at Mr. Knowles's, and at other coal-pits. They were also charged in another count, simply with a riot. All the prisoners pleaded not guilty, and did not avail themselves of their right to traverse. _ _ Mr. Brandt and Mr - . Hulton appeared for the pro secution. Eleven of the prisoners were defended by Mr. Green, twelve of them by Mr. Whigham, and the rest were undefended. Mr. Brandt having stated the case for the prosecu tion, called a great number of witnesses, but with the exception of the first three or four, their evidence was merely to the effect of identifying the parties who were present at the riot. It appeared that on the morning mentioned a large meeting, composed chiefly of colliers, many of them from a distance, was held on Kersall Moor, about three miles from Manchester. From this meeting the parties went in a body to several of the collieries near the road leading from Manchester to Bolton, where they turned out the hands. The plan of operation was this :—When at a short distance from the works the general body halted, and six or seven went to the place and en tered into conversation with those who happened to be on the spot. They then demanded in a menacing tone why they were at work, and immediately the whole mob made its appearance in such formidable numbers as to cause considerable alarm, and imme diately the hands left work. Intimation of their pro ceedings having been given to the authorities, a large body of county police in several omnibuses followed them, as did also a troop of the Ist Royal Dragoons, several Magistrates, and General IVarre with his staff. The military and police came up with the mob when they were leaving the colliery of Mr. Knowles, at Clifton Moss, where they had turned out all the hands, pulled out the plug of the engine boiler, and cut down the banks of the reservoir, which would have the effect of stopping the works effectually for some time. No sooner did they perceive the advanced guard of the Royals, which consisted of about half a dozen of the company, than the mob, which then were about 300 in number, and armed with sticks and bludgeons, scampered off in all directions. They were pursued by the police and dragoons, and nearly sixty of them captured, about half a dozen of whom were taken out of a tunnel not more than a yard in diameter, where they had concealed themselves. Most of them it turned out were entire strangers to that neighbour hood, being residents of Oldham or its immediate vicinity, a distance of at least twelve miles from the riot. The bludgeons taken from several of the pri soners were produced in Court, and were of a very formidable description, and a cane was found upon John Bramall with a large round iron head to it. Many of the defendants were apprehended in the im mediate neighbourhood of the place were the mob first dispersed on seeing the military . ; others were pursued across the fields, and taken either by the mi litary or police, and several were apprehended about an hour and a-half; or two hours, after the r i o t. The case for the prosecution having closed. Mr. Green proceeded to address the jury for the defence. Mr. Whigham also addressed the jury p on behalf of his clients at considerable length. The Learned CHAIRMAN summed up the case with great minuteness. The jury retired, and were out of Court half an hour, when they returned, and pronounced a verdict of Guilty against John Bramall, John Fielding, John Holland, John Lane, Thomas Orme, and Ralph Taylor, and acquitted all the rest. Mr. Hulton said, before the Chairman passed sentence, he begged to observe, that there were other cases to be tried of a similar nature to that. The CHAIR➢fAN having consulted with his brother Magistrates, said they would not sentence those con victed then, but they would consider what punish ment to inflict. The Jury had made a distinction between some of the cases. Undoubtedly there were a few against whom the evidence was slight, but in other cases he did not see the 'distinction the Jury had made. However, he did not find fault with the deci sion of the Jury ; but it was necessary to inform those who were acquitted, lest they should leave the Court with a wrong impression, that parties who were present at any assembly collected for an un lawful purpose (and they could not be so ignorant as not to know that the turnirg out hands from their work wai illegal) were liable to be punished for breaking the law. The case then terminated, at eight o'clock. MERCHANT GUILD OT PRESTON PRESTON, MONDAY EVENING.—The festivities of " the guild" have commenced this day under cir cumstances as auspicious as those of any previous occasion. By general consent all business appeared to be suspended, except so far as this was connected with the festivities of the week. The Royal stand ard was hoisted at the top of the principal parish church, and banners and flags floated in all directions. Thousands of persons wended their way in all direc tions, and several of the lines of railroad connected with the town put on extra trains, and will continue so during the week. At previous guilds the occasion has always been of much municipal interest, but the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill, depriving the corporation of many of its old customs and rights, re organised the body. The burgessess now living have their former privileges continued and confirmed, on being regularly renewed in the guild books, but no new freeman can now be created or admitted, so that in the course of a few years, when the present body is removed by death, the legal necessity for celebrat ing this jubilee will no longer exist. These circum stances have all contributed to render the present meeting one of considerable interest, and during the week the town will be crowded with the elite of the surrounding counties. Although the Premier, who is one of the patrons, will not honour the town on this occasion, his eldest son, Mr. Robert Peel, will be pre sent, having already ordered a dress for the fancy ball, at which, as well as the other entertainments of the week, most of the other noble patrons will attend. The formal opening of " the guild " took place at two o'clock at the Town-hall. From thence the pro cession, preceded by the band of the 60th Rifles from Manchester, followed by halberdiers, the Mayor, t Re corder,and Vicar, and about 200 gentlemen, proceeded to l e the ga nCorn fittedu p Exchange,for the L Lane-street , of the week. e tments 9 which had been e The area of this latter place has been covered over, the fittings-up and decorations being in the Tudor style of architecture, above which are an elegant suite of rooms for the purpose of refreshment, connected with which is the " guild fancy fair." The effect of the meeting in this room was very imposing. The band of the 60th Rifles, who were stationed in a tem porary orchestra, having performed the national an them, and the chair having been taken by the Mayor, the Recorder addressed the meeting, which consisted of nearly a thousand persons. He said that within almost a few years the town of Preston had arisen from a comparatively small village to distinction as an im portant town, and that chiefly through the talents and energy of that family of which the Mayor was a re presentative. Not only had it so been indebted to his family, but he had recently by his courage and per severance preserved the peace and saf ety of the town under osid ofetrheed such m in o soatshtd individual iasutrsepsisci auspicious. s .The Town-clerk, whopresiding at th e gu ild h e c sence on this occasion officiated for the third time, next him the customary fee read the various charters relating to the corporation, d af e t r e m r ewhh%ic,hhotshveerlelpayreosre,hßt,e;sovreder, and the seve ra l Al of Is. each. A Latin oration suitable for the occasion was delivered in a very effective manner by Master T. Humb er , a p up il o f the Preston Gramm ar School, who was pre sen ted by the Mayor with a silver medal. The whole o f th e pupils of the Gramm ar School after wards prom ena ded the room, and were regaled with a sumptuous entertainment in the h all. The p roce ssion afterwards returned in a similar manner to the T own Hall. ed with m eans li The town has been abundantly supp of recreati o n for the poorer classes. Chadwick's Or chard, the chief arena of the late d istressin g circum stances in which the town has been placed, with exhibitions, many of which are of a is crowded higher ord e r of intellectuality than on occasio ns similarin Lon don or its vicinity. During the tn o rning there were th e own, con several amusements in various parts of t sisting of cricket-matches, wrestlintrge influx of and a boat match. match. There is, unfortunately, a swell-mob men in the town, but their effor ts will be neutralised by the efforts o f th e county and metropo litan police, who are in su ffi c i e nt numbers to detect offence or prevent outrage. _ THE CLUBS.—The Q ue en an d Court being absent, Pall-man and St. James's -street, are utterly deserted, and most of the Clubhouses redolent of the paint and scrubbing-brush. The Senior United Service Club has undergone a complete purification, both in the interior and exterior; and the few members w h om business re quires to be in the metropolis are located at the club house at the corner of Bennet-street (late Bond's). The Travellers' Club-house is undergoing a complete repair, and it will be some time era their m embers congregate at the accustomed spot. The salon of the Oxford and Cambridge Club is under the hands of the decorator, but the members are accommodated in the other wing of that splendid building. The carpets are u p at the Reform Club, and the workmen are giving the finishing touches to that beautiful specimen of the architectural taste of Barry. 'The Carlton Club is having its annual purifi cation; and the Junior Conservative Club have removed to 59, Pall-mall, while the temporary repairs of their house are made; it is not expected that the Club will be able for some time to get possession of the Old Thatched House and surrounding premises for their new club. The Colonial Club Lave removed to the house recently occupied by the Parthenon Club, who have migrated to larger and more convenient premises in Regent-street. Herr Dobler and his wife miraculously escaped the alarming accident which took place in Edinburgh at the period of the Queen's procession. The Herr is now per forming at the Theatre Royal in that city, and will con tinue his entertainments during the Royal visit. G A me.—Partridge-shooting commenced yesterday. As the fields will be soon cleared of corn, and birds are abundant in all directions, capital sport is anticipated. Grouse and black cocks are very plentiful on the hills, and in the best possible condition, but they are so wild and strong on the wing. that it is with difficulty they can be approached ; there is, consequently, much work for the sportsman and small result.—Ross•shire Advertiser. THE GREEN PARIC.---Th e improvements on the site of the late Ranger's Lodge are in a state of great for wardness, and in a few weeks the ground will be thrown open to the public. The workmen are now employed in forming a new walk leading from the gate opposite Hamilton• place, through the grounds of the late Ranger's Lodge to the Earl of Coventry's garden, where it branches off to the old road. AMERICAN FLOUR.—Several cargoes of American flour have recently entered the ports of Limerick and the adjacent counties. No later than last week several hun dred sacks of flour, most excellent and prime in quality, were discharged in Sligo.—lrish Paper. THE STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—A few days ago an unknown friend called upo n the treasurer of tins charity (Mr. T. Farmer), and presented him with the munificent donation of 2001. in aid of its funds. Th. Millerites are prophesying that the end of the world is to be in April, 1843 ; an yet at the same ti me , in this month of August, 1842 , they are taking subscrip tions for a newspaper for one year in advance. Not bad that.—New York Herakl. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.--Circulars have just been issued from the British Museum to all the publishers in the kingdom, calling their attention to the new Copy right Act, 5 and 6 Vic., cap. 48, by w hi ch i t i s directed, penalties, that a cop y under certain of every book, pamphlet, sheet of letterpress, sheet of music, map, chart, or plan, published within her Majesty's dominions, shall be delivered, on its publication, at the British Museum. The provisions of the said Act to be enforced in every case in which any of the above-named species of publi cation shall not be delivered as the Act directs. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. — Yesterday the members of the corps draniatique assembled On the stage at twelve o'clock, having been convened by the stage manager, Mr. Serle, for that hour. Among those present were Mr. Harley, Miss R o mer, Mrs. Nisbett, and Miss Horton. It was communicated to the performers that the theatre would not open until Saturday the Ist of October, when the performances, as at present arranged, would consist of Shakspeare's As You Like It, with Mrs. Nisbett as Rosalind, and a new farce. The entire operatic strength of the comp a ny, i nc l u di ng Madame Vestris, Miss Romer, Miss Norton, Miss Grant, will be in the old English opera, by Purcell, of King Arthur, some of the music of which was g i ven out for study. In consequence of the theatre opening a week later than was anticipated, some of the principal artistes intend to make short provincial tours. Partridges are said to be to un usually abundant this y said ear. Grouse, too, arehe a b ove t h e average. The bare fields, owing to e early h arves t, o ff er b u t slight chance of escape to theth sport sman ' s prey. B i rds were so.d in Wolverhampton en Th urs d ay at 3s. per brace.—Sicifordshire Examiner. It is in contemlation to have a st e a mer , with a party of revenue p o li ce on hoard, at Killibegs, for the purpose of visiting the numerous putting dow n the baneful prac ticeinzerick Ch ron i cle. islands of the coast, and of illicit distillation. —L THE NIGER ExrEnrrioN.—Her Majesty's steamer Al bert, belonging to this u nfortunate e x p e di t i on, was lying at Akension prior to July 2. Her Majesty's ships Rapid and Waterwitch were also 1 41% there. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—Though we never thought so ill i of Lord Ellenborough as the Standard, which, before his appointment to the Governor-Generalship of India (which induced, it must be owned, a change of tone), spoke of him as a man so low in all the requisites of a statesman, that any Cabinet must suffer in public esti ' oration Is hick -should commit itself with him, we yet were under considerable alarm when the fate of India was entrusted to him. When the Times, at the con clusion of a long eulogistic article, ludicrously ob served that " it was no ill compliment to Lord Ellen borough to say that he combines in a very high de gree the qualities which have done most to honour the career of his predecessors"—those predecessors being Warren Hastings, Lord Cornwallis, Lord Wellesley, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Hastings, Lord Amherst, Lord W. Bentinck, and Lord Auckland— we did not refuse to give his Lordship credit for ac tivity and knowledge, but we at the same time re marked that what good qualities he possessed were in point of utility, "greatly endangered by his singular want of conduct and utter indiscretion • and it. the Governor-General of India were really entrusted with uncontrolled power—if the decision of the great questions on which the fate of our Indian em pire from time to time depends, were to rest solely with him, we should tremble at the prospect of in terests so vast and a policy so delicate being com mitted to so unsteady a guidance." Though from our knowledge of the character of the man, we were under considerable uneasiness with regard to his doings in India, we were, at the same time, not without a hope that as India contains many able and experienced men, some of them might be able to take him under their guidance, and thus prevent his want of judgment from endangering our Indian empire. We admit the danger of building on so insecure a foundation, as that want of judgment may be ren derous innocuous by the judgment of others. It is generally characteristic of men like Lord Ellen ' borough, of considerable quickness of parts, without judgment, that they are beset by a sort of fear of being thought influenced by others, and,- to ) avoid being considered incapable of judging for themselves, they take no advice. We do Lord Ellenborough the justice to believe that he has thought for himself. He has been his own counsellor. Lord Ellenborough's order was in pursuance of the dastardly policy of evacuating Afghanistan under circumstances calculated to create, not merely in that 1 country, but throughout the whole East, an impres sion that our military skill and bravery had been greatly over-estimated, and that it was only neces sary to emulate the Affghans to wrest from us the sceptre of India. Fortunately for the reputation of the country his order has been countermanded, and the brave troops whom Ellenborough arrested in their career to victory, will be yet allowed to vindicate in the face of the world their title to share in the old renown of their country's arms. But the retreat is thereby made only less mischievous and disgraceful than it would have been if Lord Ellenborough's policy had been suffered to take full effect. The Go vernment may have atoned to a certain extent for the misconduct of Lord Ellenborough ; it can not escape from the disgrace of having put it in the power of a man like Lord Ellenborough, whose want of judgment was notorious to every clerk at the India, House, to compromise the safety of our Indian ern pir., and to expose our brave countrymen in arms to the humiliation of a retreat before savage hordes, un able to meet them in the field, but able to harass them in a hundred ways before they can re-cross the Indus. There is no mistaking the character of the retreat. Had Lord Ellenborough been suffered to have his way, England would have been a by-word to the nations. As it is, what Englishman does not feel that Ellenborough has lowered the character of the nation ? If, in the language of the poet, it was a subject of boast to every Englishman, " That Chatham's language was his mother's tongue." it was equally felt as a disgrace that General Whit lock and Sir John Murray were Englishmen. And to the latest times Ellenborough will be associated with all that is cowardly and dishonourable in the pages of English history. TIMES.-'-In spite of Lord Melbourne's heartfelt expression of hatred and disgust against " the kind of man that gets up in his place and says, ' something must be done," we are inclined to agree with some of our Contemporaries that• i‘ something must be done" with respect to the state, of the manufacturing workmen. What the particular " something" is to be, is indeed a highly serious question, which nobody as yet appears especially successful in answering. The only truth which seems to be brought home dis tinctly and universally is this—that there is neither pleasure nor profit in remaining liable to such periodic visitations as this late outbreak. The recipes are many for calming these troubled waters for the future, but none certainly appear very thoroughly to meet the difficulty. A Liberal Contemporary would have it that the mere act of repealing the' Corn-laws would prove a sufficient and entire panacea to the diseased state of the country—that this single act would elicit, " as if by magic, new states and cities on each side of the Mississippi, formed by great agricultural communities, whose prosperity would depend upon English commerce," and " create an overpower ing interest in Western America, which would at any time find it better to separate from the Atlantic cities than to sever or weaken its commercial con nexions with England." A very potent magic cer tainly, which would suffice to create a fresh nation of Jonathans of this kidney—a magic 'amply sufficient to make black white, or green gray. IVe do not deny the poetry of the notion, so far as that attribute can be infused into such subject-matter ; nor of its professed corollary, that "the doom of restrictions throughout the world will be sealed" in the hour , when England "declares by one great act, that her past restrictions have been blunders, and that she has grown great, not because of them, but in spite of them." The wording and the sentiment are equally impressive —we almost fancy ourselves in the French Chamber of Deputies. But, glad as we should be to deliver ourselves to such magnificent visions, we must avow that we foresee some little obstacle to their full realization in certain circum stances to which their author appears partially alive. " Influential men," he says, "in America may . be pointed out who are favourable to restrictions in tended to encourage home manufacture." Unfor tunately they may, in the past and present history of that country; and we believe they include pretty nearly every statesman who has ever borne the office of President of the United States, from Washington downwards, who have, one after another, in their re corded speeches, commended the principle of protec tion to the adoption of their country. Nor are we 1 sanguine enough to suppose that a settled idea of so long standing will be dispelled like a cloud by the imposing recantation with which• it is proposed that England shall favour the civilized world. Let us see how the argument would stand. England, says onr Contemporary, cannot maintain its population by agri culture, and is therefore compelled to force an expan sion of its manufacturing capabilities to the utmost possible limit. England, it is perfectly plain, will, with fair play, undersell any country in the world in its own markets; and manufacture for the four quarters of the globe. Therefore, it is concluded, let us he no longer wanting to our destiny—let us sweep away that protection to agriculture which answers no pur pose but that of inciting 'squires to throw away good money on bad soils, and teach the world, by a glorious example, that the prosperity of manufactures 2S no t promoted by protection. Now, we are not goinif to Con temporary; with the practical conclusions of our temporary; but we must be allowed to doubt whe ther our Transatlantic relatives would draw precisely the same conclusions from those premises. There is a distinction—not, indeed, very new, but not the less enthusiastically adopted by many would-be manu facturing countries—between established and rising manufactures —between a dominant and organised system of capital, connexion, and machinery in the Height of its skill and strength, arid its weakly competitor struggling into a precarious existence against the weight of its gigantic rival : and it is not an uncommon notion in foreign countries, that the policy which is plainly the wisest for one of them is by no means the most conducive to the development of the other ;—that while it is the interest of the one that no check should be placed on the " expansion" of that power, of which it has already gained pos session, it is necessary for the other to be lifted above water—to be "protected" in its tender outset by artificial means against the crushing contact of its full-grown competitor. Some light may be thrown on these romantic expectations from foreign, and especially American, candour, by considering the present state of opinion in that country respecting English motives in the abolition of slavery. They are fully aware, and remark in print, that that mea sure was carried proximately, by apopular cry, utterly ignorant and careless of consequences ; they are aware that our planters protested against it as ruinous to themselves ; they are aware that our Government, in consideration of that confessed injury, granted them a compensation to the amount of 20,000,0001. of the public money ; they are aware and themselves urge that the event has corresponded with the expectations thus professed by the planters, allowed by the Govern ment, and not protested against by the abolitionists— that the value of West India property is destroyed— that the experiment of free labour is (as a matter of political economy) a failure. Yet, in spite of all this plain sacrifice, they will not be persuaded that our professed philanthropy is more or less than a deep and selfish plan for transferring to our own East Indian colonies all those branches of industry which are -at present monopolized by the slave labour of the Western hemisphere. This conviction, American. writers tell us, has taken a firm hold on the public mind of their country, and,it is surely sufficient to show, that whatever estimate we make of the resat of our commercial measures, we shall not act very 'wi se l y in building so romantically upon the expectation, th a t Our example will at this period of our imyl their. 40m. mercial history influence our neighbours to imitate our present policy. POST.—We still find the shameless organs of the shameless Whigs bellowing about Indian affairs, and endeavouring to drown, by an exhibition of drunken fury, those calm reflections which occur to every man of common sense in England. The absurd and unjust policy of the Whigs has done all the mischief in India which it is now so difficult to repair. The invasion of Affghanistan was, from the beginning, an absurd and unjust measure, which could not come to good. The evil it has brought about has been, indeed, more sud den and more tremendous than even the least hopeful could have calculated upon, but an ultimate result of evil was foreseen by every prudent man—every man who was not intoxicated by the same dreams which carried away such politicians as Lord. Palmerston, Sir John Hobhouse, and that dull, well-meaning agent of theirs, Lord Auckland. The world rings with the disasters and ',disgraces of this Affghan war, while the political promoters of it, instead of bowing their heads in humiliation and sorrow before a justly offended public—instead of humbly seeking pardon for the rash ignorance, and the paltry, grasping, unworthy, spirit which have led to results so calamitous crown their grievous fault by an audacity at once boisterous and contemptible. Working themselves up into an artificial fury, which seems to own the parentage both of extreme spitefulness and * strong drink, they express the most extravagant rage that their policy should not have been still pursued. Because the monstrous folly of which they were guilty is not re peated, they will have it that the fault is entirely with those who will not go on in the wretched course which already is strewn with the bones of our countrymen —of our countrymen who perished not in the victo rious fight, nor even in the honourable defeat of a well contested field, but who were butchered in the trap whither the rash policy of the Whigs had led them. We find a great deal of rent in the Chronicle, the ob ject of which is to defend exasperation and violence on the part of troops with arms in their hands, but we find no common sense. We do not see it explained how the march of British troops upon Caubul is to have the effect of rescuing the prisoners, or of doing them in any way any good. We do not find any statement to justify the supposition that the pri soners would be found at Caubul, supposing the British troops to reach that place. We do not find it shown that the advance of British troops upon Caubul would cause the prisoners to be taken to a more agreeable place, or to be more considerately treated. We do not see any attempt to prove that the consequence of putting another army in the power of Akbar Khan would be an extraordinary paroxysm of generosity in the breast of that chief, leading him not only to spare the second army after having murdered the first, but to give back the prisoners whom he selected out of the first army as hostages. But we are weary of dwelling upon the drunken rant of the writer of the Chronicle, the rather as lie no longer amuses us with revealing what he knows of the intentions of the British Cabinet, nor further acquaints us with the things which Sir Robert Peel dare not do in respect to Indian policy. We repeat that a preliminary step to the measures which British indignation (not blind headlong fury) should take against Akbar Khan . is the obtaining of the British prisoners now held by him. It is mere prudery and nonsense to pretend that there is anything un worthy in obtaining the release of those persons by other means than those of intimidation and force. We say it is quite palpable that intimidation or force can not obtain theprisoners, even though it might destroy Akbar Khan. He may fall, but in his fall he will crush the prisoners if they still be in his hands. There is no humanity in the suggestion that the British army should press forward for the sake of the prisoners. It is not humanity which leads to the sug gestion, but the eager desire of the Whigs to be avenged upon the savage chief who took advantage of their rash and imbecile policy, and proved the folly of British Government in the slaughter of British troops. ADVERTISER.—The movement in the manu facturing districts it appears has not subsided, and we prophesy it will not disappear till the cause in which it took its rise shall have been remedied. As long as the Government refuse to administer to that, let it expect agitation; and as long as the aristocracy refuse to part with their superfluous wealth for the sake of allowing of a more equal diffusion of the na tional riches, why let them look to it—whether they possess their hereditary halls in that safety, which doubtless they think desirable. It is in vain the Tory Press goes about striving by a thousand devices to sink the cause of the popular murmur; in vain it harangues to-day of Anti-Corn-law Con ferences, then of associations of all kinds what ever ; then of monopolies of millers and bakers ; then of combinations among the operatives, which it is not quite sure whether the law may not vi et armis suppress. For all this, it compasseth not its object, and the cause of the national outburst is there, just exactly as if it opened not its frivolous and contemptible oratory—just as if it were a dumb spec tator of the perilous contingencies now openly, now occultly in progress. While, too, the Tory press selects for itself this career, but let the nation mark the course of the Whig oracles. To-day raving about approaching French Revolutions ; then, as if they were in earnest, holding up the advantages of an extension of commerce—appealing from an extension of the franchise to extension of trade, just as if the latter were not a condition wholly and abstractedly de pendent on the former. The result of a survey of the general Press will, therefore, leave the impression that there are but few journals indeed on the side of the na tional interests—the Tory i 3 for aristocracy, the Whig for its own minute purposes of paltry faction; while the true national interests are unsustained, save by a journal here and there, strong in the independence of honesty, but by its own intrinsic weight and majesty. No wonder, is it, therefore, that the state of the manufacturing districts has, unless in instances of rare exception, been prevented: from truthful elucida tion. We have before asserted, that it is the interest of the parties opposed to the rights of the people to appear unconscious of the origin, consequently of the curatives, of the national condition. True to this in stinct, it were psychologically curious to watch how they evade it ; how they wind through a thousand dark avenues of sophisms, rather than face the truth in the open air of ingenuous argument. But evading it is not overcoming it, and this we think the oligar chists will find to their cost at no very remote period. MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TRIES. — The premium on gold at Paris is 8 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25 35k, and the exchange at Paris on Lon don at short being 25 57f, it follows that gold is 0.88 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 433 per mark, which at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 101, it follows that gold is 0.57 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The Committee appointed to receive subscriptions for the relief of sufferers from the fire at Hamburgh have just published their report, by which it appears that the whole sum which has passed through their hands is 4567/. 19s. 7d., besides contributions made in different parts of the country, amounting to about 13,000/., exclusive of clothing and other articles; and that the total amount received by the Committee at Hamburgh from all countries, up to the sth of July, is 268,8901. Great as these contributions are, the Committee remark, while expressing their gratitude, that.but little assistance has as yet been atlbrded, in comparison with the damage done. Having commenced an inquiry relative to the price of bread, we shall probably follow it up till a solution ' of various points is obtained. The publication of the price as set by the Lord Mayor in 1814, as it declares the price of the loaf according to that of the sack of flour, may perhaps remove the stigma of charging too highly, from the individual bakers to the system that has prevailed under authority ; but the document of itself supplies no materials for judging of its own cor rectness, and the basis on which the calculations have been made are yet to be elicited from other sources. To attain this, answers are required to the following questions 1. In fixing the assize of bread, what was the mode of calculation—was the highest quotation of flour per sack taken on an average of first and second quality ? 2. What amount of money was added to the price of the sack of flour to form the bakers' charges, profit, &c. ? 3. How many pounds' weight of bread w ere esti mated as the average produce of the sack of flour of 2801 b.? " A holder of Spanish' Treasury Bonds" has ad dressed a communication, in which he affords some further illustrations of the peculiar claims of these creditors. That the present Spanish Admistration has made admissions that the Treasury bondholders stand in a position that entitles their claims to a substantial preference, and not to the mere privilege of being " no worse off" than the holders of coupons, is generally known, from the communication made by Calatrava on the subject. Our correspondent states that in July last he had an interview with General Sancho, the Spanish Ambassador, when that gentleman assured him that he waspreparing dispatches fia• Madrid to urge the claims of the holders of Treasury paper, which he admitted to be of a pecu liarly sacred and inviolable character. A letter ad dressed to our correspondent, by M. Borrajo, and dated the 19th of February last, shows that he also is aware of the peculiar rights of the Treasury bondholders, as he used the fol lowing expressions :—" The Minister of Finance is, like myself, fully aware of the just claim, of the bondholders, as well as of the right of preference which they have attained by virtue of the premiums stipulated in those documents. It is for this reason that his Excellency thought he ought not to include them in the general rule established in respect to the conversion of the overdue coupons, and found himself under the necessity of calling the atten tion of the Cortes to the anterior engagements entered into by the Spanish Government with the Treasury bondh - oldera abroad." This language is perfectly distinct and intelligible; but it renders still more difficult to comprehend the offer that has since been made by the finance agent to convert the Treasury bonds, as mere coupons. Not only is it clear that the Treasury bondholders have a permanent claim, but it seems equally clear that this claim is perfectly recognized by the Spanish Government. Thus, on the one hand, we have an admission by that Government that the Treasury bondholders are superior to the rest of the claimants, and on the other, an offer by the financial agent to put thefir in "no worse position." As they have the choice of two 'situations, there can be little doubt but that the majority will avail themselves of it to remain in their present position. CHRONICLE. The French telegraphic dis patches are-..not unlike Peel's new sliding scale—it is difficult to understand their working, on the ave rage, and they are very apt to mislead and leave in the lurch those who run the risk of speculating in regard to them. It is not the belief in the city, how ' ever, that the late " decimation, simoom, and death," alluded to in the despatch from Marseilles, regarding our troops at Jellalabad, were purposely set forth.to facilitate gambling transactions in the funds; but if they were so; it is quite clear that the parties con cerned made very little by their motion. If they concocted an exaggerated statement to depress the funds, they only succeeded to the extent of one eighth per cent., for Consols did not give way more than a " turn of the market " on the publication of the despatch, and we have not heard that any sales of moment were effeei.ed at the period in question by parties supposed to he operating for a fall on any political intelligence. Many are, the refore, inclined to hold that the 'false• accounts regarding General Pollock's force which were convey by the last telegraphic despatch from Marseilles arose from a mere blunder in the deciphering, although there may have been— and probably is—a weak desire on the part of some of the French authorities to pander to the anti. English feeling (which is particularly vehement at Marseilles), by making things appear worse than they are, instead of better. They are evidently not unwilling to take what may be termed "a poetical license" with the accuracy of intelligence regard ing our power in the East, and hence they con verted the inaction of our troops into very bad news from the Indus, and the halt at Jellalabad into a complete decimation of our ferces. But, after all, the news is not good, and such being the fact, there may be occasions affording greater room to find fault with the telegraphic announce ment, that the news " was bad from the Indus." But we should be very much obliged to our French friends if they would have the candour to state whence they got all the rest of their information. It is a common belief that all the French officials—Cabinet Ministers, members of Government, and all others—dabble in the funds ; and the statement may be true in some degree, but we believe it is erroneous to make this charge in such a sweeping form, and equally so to at tribute the late dramatic announcement of our disas ters west of the Indus to the financial speculations of a functionary high in the confidence of M. Guizot. We have had much reason to blame the paltry conduct of the French Post-office authorities, in their obstructions of the couriers belonging to the English newspapers, and nothing could be more shahby, or really " little," than raising up and creating difficulties against their rapid progress, on purpose to preserve priority for their own govern ment. We have no hesitation in stating our opinion on that point, without reserve, but we shall not on that account rashly charge the managers of the French telegraphic department with having wilfully , falsified the intelligence they received of the last over land arrival, either from a spirit of envy at our eastern success, or from any views of turning such a falsehood to pecuniary profit. We rather desire to suspend our opinion and trust that a similar error may not occur hereafter. _ The foll Owing are the official returns of the exports of the precious metals from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Ounces. Silver coin to Calcutta 21,000 Silver bars to Madras and Calcutta 30,519 Gold coin to Launceston _ . SUN.—As was anticipated, a further advance in the prices of our funds has taken place this afternoon. The expansion of the currency necessary for the payment of July dividends not having been absorbed by com merce, and the certainty that in less than four weelts a similar amount wilkbe thrown on the market, con sequent on the payment of those due in October, will still further increase the glut which has led to this result. Much regret has been felt among respectable dealers, that undue efforts . to depress prices should continue to be made by certain parties, who form almost a complete circle among the principal capitalists of Eu rope. By a peculiar method these were made to be a profit to the parties when they had a large sum of capital, surreptitiously obtained, wherewith to gamble in foreign bonds. Such dealings, from the beginning, were repudiated by legitimate jobbers, but now it is thought that the integrity of the Stock Exchange is greatly compromised by introducing these auxiliaries to speculation in it. Consols left off at 93 931 for Money, and 931 buyers for the Account; India Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 premium. The prices of Foreign' Securities were—Belgian, 101/ 102 - ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 521; the Five Cents., 102 1021; Danish, 831 S4l; and Brazilian, 66 67. The quotation of Mexican rose to 36 361. The prices of Shares were—London and Bir mingham, 184 186 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 41 43 ; Great Western, 831 841 ; the Half Shares, 601 601; South Western, 59 60 ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares, 271 281; South Eastern and Dover, 221 221 ; Eastern Counties, 81 9 ; Northern and Eastern, 371 381 ; Blackwell, 71 71 ; and Brighton, 331 33/. The amount of business in the Foreign Exchanges was small. The quotations were—Antwerp, 12 4/ ; Amsterdiiii, 12 51, 12 6; Rotterdam, 12 6, 12 61 ; Hamburgh, 13,111, 13 12 ; Frankfort, 1501 151 ; Paris, 25f. 75c., 25f. 80c. • Vienna, 9 56, 957 ; Lisbon, 30 20, 30 221; and ileArid, 361. The quotations of the Bonds were—Peruvian, 15 16 ; Colombian, 201 21; Portuguese Five per Cents., 351 351 ; the Three per Cents., 21 211 ; Spanish Five per Cents. 161 164; the Three per Cents., 211 211. The publication of a clause in the new Bankrupt Act, which will shortly come into operation, has caused some uneasiness among the dealers in these documents. This Act will reach most of the parties usually engaged in time bargains ; and the clause particularly alluded to provides, that all certificates shall be void if the bankrupt, "in any gaming, or wagering 201., or within one year next preceding his bankruptcy has lost 2001. by any con tract for the purchase or sale of any Government or other Stock, where such contract was not performed within one week after the contract, or where the Stock bought or sold was not actually transferred or delivered in pursuance.of such contract. A more com plete death blow to time bargains can scarcely be conceived. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. Amsterdam CF.I2 9 Gibraltar ... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .. . ....2 U l2 9i Genoa :16 Antwerp l2 8 Mi lan ... 31 Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice 47 Alton& Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 65 l'aierrno, per oz .......... 120 Lisbon Ditto, 3 months 25 50 Marseilles Bourdeaux 2 5 9,5 Rio Janeiro ............... 23i Frankfort on Maine... 15 1 1 Bahia ..................... 24 Petersburgh, 3Us ... 3 6 11 r e e w r ;7 o A r Ares ............ Berlin... ........ Vienna, effec. 0.3 AL b 9 'Philadelphia 4ti Trieste, ditt0........... 10 raicss or• suwow, raft oz. Madrid .............. 36i Foreign G o ld, b ars 43 17 p Cadiz ..................... 364 Portugal Gold C o i n ..3 17 5 Bilbao ................. 36 New Doubloons •0 0 0 Barcelona .36 New Dollars 04 10 •36 , Silver in Bars... O4 l 1 g;;ine COURT CIRCULAR. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister the Commandeur M arques Li s b oa , th e Brazilian Minister, and the French Charge d'Affaires, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Tiftl Attorney -General transacted business'yester day at t' Home-office. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury continues in a state of gradual improvement, and we are happy to state was enabled to leave his room yesterday. The Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge has arrived in town. Dispatches for the Governor-General of India were sent off from the Board of Control last evening. TO THE — EDITOR . OF THE SUN. Six, —Seeing in your paper of this day , an extract from the Journal des Debats, stating that England. is sinking in the scale of nations into wretchedness and poverty, I beg to contradict that statement. A respectable farmer told me yesterday, that the rents of farms in Somerset had more than doubled within these forty years; and I know myself, and can prove, that, since 1750, land in most cases has quadrupled its value, without the owners of it laying out one six pence to 'produce this result. So that, although we know millions are starving, yet thousands are better off, without any exertions of their own. Sept. 3, 1842. Bath, SKELETON. The Duke of Buckingham is staying at Stowe, from whence he proceeds to Wootton, for the shoot ing Neon.