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first he should order a remand of six months. As re g arded the second, he believed that the insolvent was ully aware at the time that he purchased the yacht that he had no interest in the property that had been referred to. He was then, and had been for some time, living separate from his wife. If he forgot these things, he could not very easily forget that he had been an insol vent in that court, that not one shilling had been paid upon his debts, and that if he had property it was vested in his assignees. He considered the latter a case of fraud, and on that ground should order a re mand fur the period of twelve months, both remands to dare from the vesting order. The insolvent will, there ford, have to remain eight months in prison. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO U S E. Samuel Game, who had been employed on the Eastern Counties Railway, was brought before Alderman Gibbs, charged with having stolen a carpet bag, filled with clothes, &a., the property of a farmer named George Colo Francis, of Salter Grange, near Keyingham, Holderness, Yorkshire. The prosecutor said —Yesterday morning I came to London from Bishops Stortford, where I left my carpet bag, as I wa3 obliged to return on the same evening. At two o'clock in the afternoon, as I was walking down Bishopsgate-street to take the train at Shoreditch, I met the prisoner, who to my surprise was carrying my carpet bag in his hand. I went up to him, and asked him what he was going to do with the bag, as it had my name and address upon it. He answered, " What was that to me; it was his bag." I then seized and took him to the sta tion-house, where I described the contents of my bag before it was examined. The property in it consisted of shirts, coats, &c., of the value of upwards of 51. Inspector el'Lean said—When the prisoner was brought into the station-house I found in his pocket a key which did not fit the bag which he had in his pos session, and he appeared to be surprised, and said they (the train attendants) had given him the wrong bag. I went to the Eastern Counties Railway station after wards, and caused a telegraph message to be sent to Bishops Stortford, and at halt-past 6I received in answer to the communication the carpet bag produced, which had upon it a card containing the name " S. Game, passen ger to London." The prisoner, upon seeing the carpet bag with his name upon it, said it was his property. It contained a shirt, a small ham, a piece of soap, and three religious books, and was extremely unlike that which he was charged with having stolen. I found upen his per son a silver watch and 11. 17s. 4d. He said he had been a porter on the Eastern Counties Railway, and I found in his pocket a certificate of good character from the authorities there. Alderman Ginns (to the prisoner)—What have you to sly to this very serious charge ? The prisoner —I brought away the bag in a mistake. Alderman Gans—l shall commit you for trial. _ . SLnne of the officers in attendance said it was a very common practice with thieves to bring with them, on railway journeys, carpet bags containing things of no value, in the hope of being able to make profitable ex changes on the way. Committed for trial. Joseph Harvey, an ostler out of place, was charged with having assaulted a lady of the name of Brown. The defendant, who was standing apparently in liquor at the corner of Finsbury-circns, while the complainant and another lady were walking along, tried to grasp one of them. The complainant was less fortunate than her companion, and was seized by the fellow. She, however, got aw.,y from him, and ran as fast as she could into an eating-house in the neighbourhood, but was followed by him into the parlour, where he seized her, and was with great difficulty and violence removed by the man of the house and flung Into the stree;. In so outrageously following the lady he broke a window, and was at last deposited in the station-house. The terror of the ladies was, as might be expected, excessive. Tne defendant said be was so drunk he dial not know whit he was after. Alderman GIBB 3 said the sentence upon the defaudant was that he should pay halt-a-crown fur tho pane of glass which was broken, five shillings for b-yin ; ; drunk, and fifty shillings for the outrageoui assault upon the lady, or one month's imprisonment and hard labour in Bridewell.—Committed. [Vt . fliam Cole, the driver of a cart, was charged with having assaulted a farmer nauscd SDlne, iu a violent manner. The farmer was sitting on the outside of an omnibus, when the defendant was crossing Fenehurch street with his cart. The driver of the omnibus called out to the defendant, who immediately lashed at the driver, but the whip missed the person it was intended for, and al most cut the eye out of the unfortunate farmer. Alderman fine you 403. or one month's im pri,onment for this most unprovoked assault, and if the fine should be paid it shall go to discharge the com plainant's doctor's bill. GUILDHALL. John Lee, of 39, - geckforde-street, Pentonville, was charged with Mr. Alderman Moon, with embezzling 201. and various other moneys, to a very considerable amount; the embezzlements, extending over a period of between two and three years, sometimes amounted to 404 per month, but only four cases were proved. The prisoner, who appeared to be labouring under weakness of body, and to be much affected at the position in vzhich he was placed, was accommodated with a chair in the dock during the examination. Mr. Thomas Wright, of No. la, Giltapur-street, cheesemonger, said the prisoner has lived with me for some years as my confidential clerk and cashier, and it was his duty to receive money and pay it to my bankers, Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co., of Lothbury. On the 25th of July he debited Jones Loyd and Co. with 162/. Bs. 6d., paying is only 142/. Bs. 6d. There was in the cash-box 162 L Bs. 6d. to be paid on that day, and ho took that amount. On the counter part of the banker's book he has entered as paid the sum of 1421. Bs. 6d. The book contained the entry of 1621. Bs. 6d. in the prisoner's handwriting, and is entered as he took it from the cash-box, showing how that money was made up. On the 7th of July last he debited the bankers 446/. 65., only paying to them in like manner, as before, 4261. 65., which he entered in the counterpart of the banker's book. The next entry was that of the 29th of June, when the debit to the bankers was for 497/. 14s. ld., and the counterpart was only 4771. 14s. Id. He never accounted to me for these moneys, nor had he any au thority to withhold money. No other person was autho ' rived to pay in the money, except when the prisoner was absent. On referring to my, ledger of the 11th of June, I find in the prisoner's handwriting the entry of 1941. Bs. 4d., whereas the sum paid into the bank was only 1741. Bs. 4d. The prisoner had never accounted to me for this difference in his accounts, and on making this discovery I g ave him into custody. Alfred Harvest Coulson said-I am ono of the cashiers of Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co. of Lothbury, bankers, a nd produce a number of tickets of the payments of deposits from Mr. Wright, of Giltspur-street. I pro duce amongst them one dated July 25, for 1421. Bs. 6d.; Inother for 426/. 65., on the 7th of July; a third dated June 29, for 477/. 14s. 11; and a fourth ticket, of the 11th of June, for 174/. Bs. 4d. ; all of which amounts were carried to Mr. Wright's credit. Mr. Wright identified all the tickets as being in the prisoner's handwriting. George Wardle, 221, said that when he took Lee into custody, on the way to the station house he said to him, " This is a bail job I have got into, and I must get out of it as well as I can." The prisoner declined saying anything in his defence, and the depositions being made out, he was conveyed to Newgate in a cab. BOW-STREET. Wiliam Gregory, of 5, Upper Montagu-street, Rus sell-squire, solicitor, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, on a charge of violating the person of Mary Johanna Neary, a housemaid in the service of his mother. Mr. Humphrys attended for the prisoner. The prosgentrix, who is about thirty years of age, and gave her evidence with much flippancy, stated that she was a single woman, and the prisoner was her master's son. On Sunday morning last, when the family went ,o church, he met her at his mother's bed-room door, with the slop-pail in her hand, when he inquired if they were gone to church, and she said they were. He was dressed in his morning-gown, and he laid hold of her round the waist, desiring her to put down the pail, which she did, and he pulled her towards his room, while she dragged hack till they got to the bide of his mother's bed. She said, " For God's sake, Mr. William, don't effect my ruin;" and although she struck at him, and screamed " Murder!" till she was exh,usted, he by force accom plished his object ; after which ho went towards his own room. The witness underwent a lengthened cross-oxe,naira tion, in v. hicii she admitted that for the last six weeks he was in the habit of kissing her and taking °tiltr liberties with her, which she never mentioned to her mistress, fearing it might cause some ill-feeling in the family, and also her discharge from the service. The parlour-maid and a servant boy were in the house at the time in question; they, however, rendered her no assistance, and the reason why she laid down the pail was to have her hands at liberty in order to protect herselr'. questions to the prosecu- Mr. HENRY also put several trix, and from the nature of the answers she gave, with out examining the parlour-maid or a medical gentleman who was in attendance to give evidence, he ultimately came to the conclusion that be would not be justified in sending such a case before a jury, wad ordered the pri soner to be discharged. MARYLEB ONE. Jo Q l l 4 ll ,.. 7:if i d was placed at the bar b. - ?fore Mr. Brough heartien,n, With havalg, under circumstances of a most stia,er, or a . ture,robbe A a young woman, named Martha considerable sum of money and other pro perty. Mr. w ont rait.toended for the prosecution, and Mr. Grange for the e ; A great deal of e n v e ne s ~' as peared that in May last to gone into , and it ap several aliases, first be' Prlatl " . ' w h y trix, at which period she4Tve„Tievlu'a%tedow7 hknown prosecu family in Cadogan-place ; a h e , - , - 11 j b 'g se l i t e h: . E t terviee of a iiituation, and advertis,tl t s a pha.;..., a , n "" quitted her directions that all applicants were'r, ' r' aln with answer to be left at Mr. Shirley's, ExetTirdre'l l'Ater 4 in street, Chelsea. The prisoner, who had 't e r , Sloane " deavour to find her out, at length succeeded inetroe'ry.gen and gave her to understand that he knew of a l e n 6o s k e: ' situation which would be just the thin , ' for her, but that it would not be vacaqt torn few weeks , wherie ile t p i r y evailed u pon her to go into lodgings with him, promise ef mar riage to her he plundered her of 43/. and a qu,l.tity oi 1./caring apparel, which he had pawned. The by for the wedding had been appointed, and the bans had bea put up by him at St. Mary's, Lambeth. He had also purchased the ring. He at length absented himself altogether from prosecutrix, from whom, as alleged, he had forcibly taken possession of a portion of the motley above alluded to, and he left behind him some duplicates for her apparel which he had pawned. Information of the robbery was communicated to the pol ate, and the prisoner was taken into custody by Sergeant Dalton and police-constable Culling, of the D division, who met with him in Milman-street, Russell - square. The prisoner was committed for trial. SOUTHWARK. William Toose, the landlord of several houses in a court leading out of that great thoroughfare the Borough High-street, and in which numerous cases of cholera and death have recently occurred, was summoned for allowing nuisances of a pestilential nature to remain there, although served with repeated notices for their removal. Mr. Endean, inspector of nuisances for St. George's parish observed that the exterior of the habitations were in a most filthy condition, the cesspools running over into the yards, and the stench proceeding from them of the most intolerable description, and quite sufficient to ac, count for the number of deaths that had lately taken place from cholera. The officer then 4itated that the defendant had the filth collected from the houses Nos. 1 and 2 in the court to the cesspool of another of his houses in the same court (No. 17), and that within seven days, nine of the inmates, men, women, and children, were carrried off by cholera. He added that the defendant, as landlord, had been served with notices to cleanse the houses, but he failed in doing so. When the defendant waaasked why he did not comply with the notices that had been served upon him for the removal of such a dangerous nuisance, particularly during the prevalence of disease, his reply was, that a man whom he had employed for the purpose had dis appointed him. s t h n a o t t if th i B removednu i befores a nce, R s u t o o l ! d fa, r d e e s f u e l n t d s , a n w t ; wh M ie r h . S le E r LE to six o'clock the following morning, an made upon him to pay at the rate of 10s. a day , and that he also rendered himself liable to be indicted for neglecting to comply with the terms expressed in the order. CRICKET. SURREY (WITH BOX AND HILLYER) V. ENGLAND. This match was brought to a conclusion yesterday, at the Oval, Kennington, Surrey winning by 31 runs. The following is the score : SURREY-FIRST INNINGS. Brockwell—b Myna Julius Caesar—b Hinkly Chester—b Mynn Box—c Pilch, b Mynn... N. Felix, Esq.—b Hinkly ... C. Coltson, Esq.—c Guy, b Hinkly J. M. Lee, Esq.—c Mynn, b Hinkly Martingell—b Hinkly ••• ••• Sherman—c Nicholson, b Clarke ... Hillyer—c Hinkly, b Clarke ••• Day—not out ... b 8, w 3, nb 0 Total ... ••• ENGLAND -FIRST INNINGS. W. Nicholson, Esq.—b Hillyer •• A. Haygarth, Esq.—c Day, b Hillyer Dean—b Pilch —c Day, b Sherman ... •.• rarr—b Hillyer • . ••• ... Guy—b Hillyer ••• ... ... A. Mynas, Esq.—b Day ... ..• Hon. Colonel Liddell—not out ... Clarke—run out ... ..• ... Hinkly—b Hillyer Lillywhite—c Hillyer, b Day ... . . 86, w 0 ••• ... Total ... SURREY-SECOND INNINGS. Brockwell—b Lillyvvhite , . Julius Cresar—hit w, b Clarke ... .., Chester—b Lillywhite ... ... ... Box - c Clarke ... N. Felix, Esq.—c Mynn, b Clarke C. Coltson, Esq.—c Nicholson, b Clarke ... J. M. L2e, Esq.—not out ... Martingell—b Clarke ... ... .. Sherman—c Dean, b Clarke ... Hillyer—st Nicholson, b Clarke ... ... Day—b Hinkly... B 0, w 0 ... Total ... ENGLAND-SECOND INNINGS. W. Nicholson, Esq —c Coa,ar, b Day A. Haygarth, Esq.—b Hillyer ... Dean—b Hillyer ... ... ... Pilch—b Hillyer ... ... ... Parr—b Day ... ... Guy—c Felix, b Hillyer ... A. Mynas, Esq.—c Day, b Hillyer Hon. Colonel Liddell—b Hillyer Clarke—c Box, b Shearman Hinkly—not out ••• ••• ... Lillywhite—st Box, b Hillyer ... 86, w 0 ... ... Total 16 ~ 24 . 27 ~ 32 30 . 179 ... 16 ... 90 . 22 ... 7 ••• 0 ... o ... 11 ... o THE CoUNTRY MARKETS. 19 4 0 0 44 . 15 10 ..102 HULL, AUGUST 7.—Messrs. Taylor and Bright's cir cular states that though little rain has fallen during the past week, yet the temperature has been altogether too low for maturing the growing crops. We are yet fully three weeks from anything like general harvest. Al though several steamers sailed hence for Hamburg last week, in the hope that the blockade of the Elbe would be raised on or shortly after their arrival off Heligoland, we are yet without news of this being the case, and our imports are consequently still limited to non-blockaded ports; as will be seen from the tabular statement below, they continue on a liberal scale, but with the single ex ception of wheat, which no one seems disposed to buy at all beyond immediate wants, the supply of no article is in excess of a wholesome consumptive demand; and even the large arrival of barley is well worked off, at a decline iof is per qr. We had a moderate supply of English wheat this day, and which, under some alarm at the great decline in Mark•lane, was expected to be anxiously pushed for sale, but our farmers were not at all disposed to follow the panic of their southern brethren, and we cannot write the market more than Is to 2s per qr lower, while foreign wheat is almost unsaleable at fully 2s less money, although we have no great stock in the port, and comparatively little of fine quality. For barley, at the decline of is noted above, we had avery good sale. In other kinds of spriug corn the transactions are very limited. There are some good Russian oats now on the market, forming the bulk of the above arrival. Indian corn, at the decline, attracts attention for feeding. There are only two parcels on the market. The week's import of linseed is very large, and the market must be reported heavy at a decline of is per qr. For cakes there is somewhat less demand, and they are purchaseable at a trifle under late quotations. We are still without arri vals of rapeseed, for which there is some inquiry. Rape cakes are also in moderate supply, and go off well at our above quotations. As may also be remarked of bones, for which we have several speculative buyers. The following are the present prices of grain : s. 8. Wheat, English, red 44 to 47 Do. white ..... Dant zic and Ko nigsberg 4B 50 Pomeranian and Hamburgh . 43 46 Danish, Holstein, & Peas, white and yel. Do. grey Linseed, Black Sea Do. Petersburgh Do. Riga& Archngl. Do. Konigsberg S. S• 27 - 30 25 - 27 39 41 84 39 35 37 32 35 Per ton. Friesland B6 42 Linseed cakes, Hull 7110 s Od Russian and Odessa 34 38 Do. fine foreign Oats, English Do. Danish l4 16 Rapeseed Do.Friesland l6 18 Rape cakes B2s 6d Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 16 Tares, English oos —00 s Barley,malting 24 27 Do. foreign 20s —25 s Do. grinding.. . ..... 21 23 Guano 6/ to 91 10s Beans Do. foreign LEEDS, Ana. 7.—We have a smaller supply of wheat at market to-day than for some time past, but the wea ther continuing tine, and the dull accounts received from Mark-lane yesterday, have caused the market to be very dull, and fine wheat is fully 2s. per quarter lower than last week. Other descriptions of grain are all rather lover. LIVERPoOL, AUG. 7.—At this day's market there was a fair attendance of the trade, but owing to the smart decline at Mark lane yesterday buyers acted with ex treme caution, and purchased sparingly of wheat and fl mr, at a decline of 3d per 701 b, and 6 , 1 per barrel. O. is and oatmeal were neglected, and nominally unchanged in value. Barley met with little attention, and we lower our quotations 2d per 601 b. Beans and peas without al teration. Indian corn was offered at 24s 6d to 253 per quarter for prime yellow, and 263 6d to 27s per quarter tor prime white, and a very little business done at these prices. IPSWICH, Auo. 7. Our farmers are very busy in harvest ; the weather is re markably fine, and has the appearance of continuing so. This day's supply was not large ; samples of new wheat and barley appeared for sale; the former fetched 50s per quarter. The market for wheat generally was extremely heavy, and prices from 3s to 4s lower. Barley and peas unaltered in value. Oats and beans is lower. Flour 3s per sack cheap-r. Malt dull sale. PER QUARTER. I PER QUARTER. Wheat 36s to 483'Beans Barley .... 2os to 25sPeas . 259 to 33s Oats l6s to 20s1Malt Rye AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUG. 4, 1849. Wheat Barley Oats ....... ... ... Beans... ..••• 50 „ 325. 2d. Peas ............ DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, AUG. B.—At this day's market there were ,103 bags oatmeal, and 1 of barleymeal (new). Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. 28s 6d 27s Od 26s Od ... ... Barleymeal, per ditto ... 20s Od 2 2 s Od — s Od Peasemeal ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour —s Od —s Od — s Od ... ... ... ... ... ... Pot barley ... 275 Od —8 Od —s Od ... .• • seconds,Co , l A 3s u 6 s 4 t 6 o . 0-09Floodu;rh—ouFiser;itosidls4si 0 0 9 d t t o o l l 2 4 s s ; 66 thi ; rd e s x , 8 t r s a t o 15 1 s 0s ; per cwt. Oatmeal 12s 6d to 13s; Indian meal 7s 3d to 7s 6d; wheat meal, lOs 6d tolls per cwt. Indian corn 617 s 6d to 61 12 s 6d per ton. Bran 3117 s 6d to 4/ per ton. Hay—Farmers I Is to 275; average 12 t r O e d r to lb 2 . 8s Od ; average 20s ; dealers 40s Od 235; dealers 31s to 455; average 00s Od per ton. Straw—Farmers average 00 3 03 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6id ; household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to i_ I_4s ; Eggs- 7 4s Cd to 4s 2d per hundred. Coals— NewportperLYtot." —Beet 4d to 7d ; Culla 13s / 20 0. 13.. 6s Od 7d ; pork 4d to hid r to 003 Od; T l6 4 sLLa 4 n o d s or o e d l t 4 o s ; 00 13 , es p t er N e ea vv t t b ill tit' °?" r g dr o r toirn s t ates P egrli 3/ a I -2d ; veal bid to Fleece a ; Valonia 141 to 01. 2. g 6 a1 d l gallo n . . 31 bleat lb.ton ton. Hopsilar Bark—Barbary B lo a s r b per ary cwt. tuto afro 74 0 8d ; sausages 6d per 71103; English 01 per ton. Hemp 341 to 351 per tor. Fish—Scotch h • ditto '26s to 28s per barrel • NewfouWnd7 to, ton. Timber—Memel, 85/per ton ; deals, second quality, 16s: per 100. Hides—Markle: salted 12s to 18s per cwt ; calf skins lid to , French _ pet to 12s per atone. erring, 17s to 18s ;red l fi o/ lOs to 121 pe r Potatoes, white 10d to 13d ; Minions 00d to 00d qu ' laldit 105 to 16s ; Peruvian, 111 lOs ; Ichaboe 91 per ton; Tar—ArGclia.n:ll:g;el2l, 191 par barrel. THE SIIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1849. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. OSBORNE-HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT, JULY 18. This day had an audience of her Majesty: His Excellency Monsieur Drouyn de Lhuys, Ambas sador Extraordinary from the French Republic to deliver his credentials; To which he was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. E. Smith, J. R. Beard, and R. T. Smith, Cheapside, warehousemen, Aug. 28, at eleven—L. Congdon, Spring street, Paddington, painter, Aug. 28, at half-past twelve —T. Williams, Fenchurch- street, merchant, Aug. 28, at half-past eleven. In the Country. S. Knight, Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, hosier and grocer, Aug. 30, at twelve, at the Court, Birming ham—D. Field, Frome, Somersetshire, linendraper, Sept. 4, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—F. C. Veith, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, Aug. 29, at half past ten, at the Court, Kingston•upon•Hull—T. Skipworth, Bel ton, Lincolnshire, clerk, Aug. 29, at half-past ten, at the Court, Kingston-upon-Hull—R. Wake, Kingston-upon- Hull, merchant, Aug. 29, at half-past ten, at the Court, Kingston-upon-Hull._ PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. W. Eccles, Walton•le-Dale, Lancashire, cotton spinner, 7s. 6d., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, and every following 'Tues day, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. Eliza Paton, Manchester, manufacturing chemist, 25., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, and every following Tuesday, be tween ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man chester. A. P. Halliday, Manchester, manufacturing chemist, 10s., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, lat the office of Mr. Hobson, Man chester. A. P. Halliday and Eliza Paton, Manchester, manu facturing chemists, 155., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. R. Smith, Baxenden, Lancashire, and M. Smith, Man chester, calico printers, a second dividend of Hid., on followingTu m es a d n a c y h , e b s e t t e w r. een tenT otuwnje J. es Tuesda y , ,is rnapdtdulwyveea.o,foslivnoß:diAilkevsaalu, following agt Burton nt7h, and sadn o d ffiv W. r, ev ery . o m.Sm it h,r . Hobson, Manchester and Leeds, manufacturers, 33., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, and every fol lowing Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. W. L. Aams, Selby, Yorkshire, watchmaker, 83., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. G. Alletson, jun., and Co., Wakefield, dyers, 25,, on Tuesday, Aug. 7., or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and t nnn i t: i honaugnutid Cam b erwe l l , w Wednesday, Aug. tffii t woe h 7ycdo e .h o oeaoi ffi srti f , c aaAh e yiynies, o ry. 0. o f Arof figsk M i .uu:rjgbhea r . 2,. . hi oero h acifel l nm,us o 1 Wednesday, wnecb,oet Mr. eodo L TtHlinwe, i e uemot e eesap d edsapen s dnai ~ yea- tryes: Coleman- s treet, ee6vbudeedgestn. ~.., B, an A d en . City._ S. S. Woolatt, Holborn-hill, draper, 2s. 5d., on Satur day, Aug. 4, and subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. J. Price, Belle Savage Hotel, innkeeper, 5-1(1., on Sa turday, Aug. 4, and subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's place, Old Jewry. J. B. Cooper, Drury-lane, ironfounder, I ld., and 3s. 7d. on new proofs, on Saturday, Aug. 4, and subse quent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, FrAerick's-place, Old Jewry. C. M. Adams, Shrewsbury and Market Drayton, Shropshire, broker, 6d., any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. C. Warren, Shrewsbury and Market Drayton, Shrop shire, banker, 3s. 41, any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. E. Gibson, Sr. Alban's, banker, ls. 2d., on Saturday, Aug. 11, and on Saturdays, the 13th, 20th, and 27th Oct., between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. NOTICE OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. S. Dancy, Brighton, builder, Aug. 31, at eleven—J. Silvester, Gloucester-street, Queen-square, and Hart street, Covent garden, sauce, pickle, and preserve manu facturer, Aug. 31, at one.—C. Carter, Rochford, Essex, ironmonger, Aug. 29, at one—J. Bessell, Farringdon street, glass merchant, Aug. 29, at eleven. In the Country. W. P. Martin, Bath, wine and spirit merchant, Aug. 81, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W. Wilkinson, Bir mingham, grocer and engraver, Aug. 30, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, Aug. 28. _ _ _ J. Phillipps, Upper Bullingh*m, Herefordshire, banker —D. Turner, Sheffield, innkeeper—G. Burton, Bradford, engraver—C. Dearlove, Knaresborough, grocer—G. Kinnell, Bolton-terrace, Edward-street, Walworth, spin ner and hearth rug manufacturer—H. Rngers, Whit church, Southampton, coal merchant—J. Warne, New port, Isle of Wight, grocer—C. Hall, Hereford, linen draper—J. Robinson, Slough, Buckinghamshire, grocer —B. Thompson, Derby, woollendraper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. F. Franklin and G. Franklin, Exeter, coach and har ness makers—C. Kerrison and J. Kerrison, East Harling, Norfolk, bricklayers—T. Dalater and J. Pye, Liverpool, corn and flour dealers—R. Mees and H. G. Mees, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, drapers—J. Pierce and G. Crosfield, Liverpool, tobacconists—R. Ripley and J. Ogle, Lreds and Holbeck, cloth manufacturers—T. Moore, jun., and J. Hudson, Sunderland, ship brokers—R. Day and J. Steele, Hiendley, Yorkshire, wine and spirit merchants—W. Crookes, S. Gibbons, and S. J. Gibbons, St. Andrew's-hill, Doctor's-commons, and High-street, Southwark, tea dealers and hop merchants (so far as regards S. Gibbons)—T. Burgin and W. Matthews, Waltharn-on-the-Woulds, Leicestershire, machinemen— B. Smith and W. Rowlands, Droitwich, salt manufac turers—J. Seeley and S. Holmes, Norwich—J. B. Sinclair and E. Howatt, Liverpool, share brokers Elizabeth Lythgoe and Mary Ann Hollinsworth, Manchester, confectioners—J. Cloak and W. Borham, Derby, paper dealers —B. P. Ascough and %V. Jackson, Masham, Yorkshire, tal lowchandlers—W. Hargate, P. Kirkman, and T. J. Spetch, Manchester, engravers and calico printers (so far as regards W. Hargate)—J. Schofield, W. Cookson, J. Kirk, and T. Marshall, Almondbury, Yorkshire, machine makers (ao far as regards W. Cookson)—G. Twigge and G. Morton, Llanellechid, Carnarvonshire, contractors—A. Robertson and J. Jobson, Sheffield, stove manufacturers—W. Smith and J. Bell, Little Bol ton, cotton spinners—G. L. Setchell and W. Gibson, Rodney-buildings, New Kent-road, cigar manufacturers —J. M. Hughes and R. K. Hood, Manchester, drysalters —F. La Mark, G. La Mark, and W. H. Austin. ship brokers (so far as regards G. La Mark)—Maria Varley and J. T. 011ivant, Manchester, tailors and drapers—H. and R. Dunk, Hastings, grocers—J. Bowen and L Gaits kell, Liverpool, tea dealers—R. Holliday and B. B. Nicholson, Huddersfield, manufacturing chemists—W. Clegg and Co., Stainland, Yorkshire, grocers—R. S. Heilbrit, 11. D. Ruben, and M. Symons, Hart-street, Mark-lane—W. W. and H. Stables, Huddersfield, woollen manufacturers—W. F. Ball and R. H. Moore, Bath-street, Nowgate-street, fringe manufacturers—J. Davis and W. Danells, Chatham, tea dealers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Hannah Gorman, Liverpool, milliner. Worcestershire, confectioner. AmosSGoael mhe o nxruageuneßl Hughes,oes Coates, wrseiFti nr Lsa on k D s,sloLi aunnido:f Lower ; I Mileew Town, hTi otive Whitley, Sheerness,csh Sheerness, es eh rirn Cheshire, s grocer. ab,ride kocoaykaer rd. clerk. Thomas Wardner Wellington Spear, Mile Town, Sheer ness, clerk in the royal navy. James Clements, Canterbury, shoemaker. William Dickson, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. John Ord, West Woodburn, Northumberland, draper. Thomas Dollery, Southampton, hotel keeper. Ephraim Phillips, Withycomb, Devonshire, miller. Thomas Frankland, Whitley, Berkshire, farming bailiff. Richard Holloway, Reading, licensed victualler. Thomas Jackson, Whippingham, Isle of Wight, grocer. William Altman, Reading, last maker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. A. Bell, Duadee, merchant, to meet Aug. 14 and Sept. 4, at twelve, within the Royal Hotel, Dundee. G. Clapparton, Auchindinny Mains, Edinburgh, farmer, to meet Aug. 13 and Sept. 5, at two, within Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh. C. Wilson, Dalkeith, merchant, to meet Aug. 13 and Sept. 4, at twelve, within Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh. THE COLLIERS OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. — BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY.—The colliers in the surround ing district are now on strike to resist a proposed re duction of, some say, 3d. per day or more. The iron trade having received an impetus it is supposed the col liers may succeed, as the works cannot progress without the product of their labour. It is an ill-advised strike, considering the season of the year and the difficulties which have existed in the way of affording them perma nent employment. THE VELASQUEZ PORTRAIT OF CHARLES I.—JOHN SNARE V. THE TRUSTEES OF THE EARL OF FIFE.— EDINBURGH, JULY 20.—The trustees of the Earl of Fife have suffered judgment iu this case to be decreed against them. Mr. Snare claims the sum of 5,0001. by way of compensation, and the following interlocutor has been pronounced in his favour by Lord Wood :—" In the summons of damages, at the instance of Mr. Snare, against the trustees of the Eerl of Fife, 20th July, 1849 —Decerns, in absence against the defenders, in terms of the conclusion of the libel. (Signed) A. WOOD," ASSURANCE OF RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—This new system of life assurance, in the event of railway accident, is now in operation over the London and North- Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways. It commenced with the present month. The assurance tickets for the single journey, irrespective of distance, are obtained at the same time that the passenger pays his fare and takes his ticket. The first-class passenger paying 31., insures 1,000/.; the second-clan; paying 2d., 500/4 and the third •class passengers ld., 2001., the amount in the event of loss of life to be paid to their re presentatives. MIDLAND.—The chairman of the Committee of Investigation proposes the app.intment of three paid and responsibl.3 directors for the future management of this line. ISL.ViDS OF SYKE AND NORTH UIST.—The weather hzs been favourable for all kinds of crops, and harvest will apparently be earlier than usual in this island. The potato crop looks healthy and well.— Inverness Courier. bore,From the Northam m re A p r o t r e t s s ia i n t w a e p il p n ea ea rs r s t o h u a t t ha t m ha p t great now been bored to 353 feet in depth. The provass has been impeded by a stone 22 inches thick, and the h? of water had decreased through the decay) ': 1 " trt try :-.‹•lattion FRANCE. The discussion on the affairs of Rome was brought to a close in yesterday's sitting of the Assembly, by M. de Falloux, who declared himself in favour of the unconditional restoration of the Priestly Government in Rome. AUSTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of August - , 3 contains an announcement to the inhabitants of Austria that, in consequence of the thinning of the ranks of the re serve battalions by the war in Hungary, a fresh levy of troops will be made, to the extent of about fifteen recruits from every 10,000 inhabitants. The above-mentioned journal also contains the official news of the junction in Transylvania of the Russian and Austrian corps under the Generals Luders and Clam- Gallas. This junction took place at Cronstadt, on the 12th and 15th of July, and on the 15th General Luders advanced with the two armies to Hermannstadt and the defiles of Rothen thurm. The latter position was first attacked and forced, in spite of the obstinate resistance of the Hungarians who defended it. Nine hundred of them were forced to fly into Wallachia, were they were disarmed. The Imperialists took three hundred pri soners and twelve pieces of artillery. On the 21st inst. General Luders took possession of Hermann stadt, after routing the three hundred Hungarians who held that place. It was expected that General Luders would march upon Marosh Vasarkely, where General Bem has taken up a formidable position, and where the Imperialists intend to surround him. General Bern, however, has, in the course of this war, always managed to get surrounded, and when it was thought no escape was possible, he suddenly found means to foil his enemies, and to do them more harm than they could ever have hoped to do to him. The city of Csongrad, the inhabitants of which aided the Hungarians, has been sacked and burned by Haynau. A recent letter from the seat of war in Hungary describes in considerable detail the formidable auxiliaries the Magyar armies have found in the wild population scattered over the vast steppes and forests of the interior, particularly the horseherds, or tenders of the troops of wild horses of the plains, the swineherds, and fishermen. The first-named of these are especially dreaded by Austrian troops, on account of the extraordinary weipm they carry and use with deadly skill. It is simply the whip with which they select and catch any horse of the herd they wish to tame and dispose of. The ap plication of it in war is quite a novelty. It has a handle not more than two feet in length, while the thong measures from fifteen to twenty ; a leaden ball is fixed to the end of it, with smaller ones at different distances from it, like shot oa a fishing line. When thrown it aets like a lasso, curling round man or horse, or it strikes either to the earth with a crushing blow. The horseherds (or Chykosz) are so skilful in the use of this weapon, that at full gallop they will strike an enemy with unerring cer tainty, on any part of the body they please. In skir mishes any isolated foot soldier, if he fires his musket and! misses, is lost before he can attempt to reload— the wild horseman rushes past, and with the sweep of his ball loaded thong stretches him lifeless on the earth by a blow on the head. There are some thou sands of these men in the Hungarian armies, and they are generally mixed with the light hussars and sent against the heavy Austrian cavalry. They often strike the officers from their horses with incredible were military r broughtan a intot greato n p o number dexterity. T he wounds th i s weapon i nflicts are injury Hungarian ljasusnielyresr w th a e, neitherksa surgeons u described a s f r i g h t f u l . B e f ore it was k nown that these h orse h er d s were serv i ng i n the woundedor T a in i The m e n t not explain. r, gun shotn w oun d, and t h e soldiers were for a long time ashamed t o own t h at i t was caused b y so i gno b le a weapon as a whip. F ortuna t e l y , it can on ly b e use d where the h orseman h as amp l e space; i n anyt hi ng like " close or d er " i t wou ld b e as d angerous t o fri ends c r c ae puncture, ul u t dhn n , ber of Cu as foes. One of these men was lately taken pri soner at Wieselburg, and, probably to obtain an exact power of the knowledge of his arm, he was ordered to display his skill in the camp. A stuffed figure was set up, the Austrian officers pointing out the parts he was to strike while in full career. Twice he did as directed, hut the third time introduced a startling variation ; swinging his whip in a wide circle he dashed his horse at a point of the line of soldiers round the place of exercise, broke through it, and was far on his way to the open fields in an instant, untouched by the volley of balls sent after him. These swineherds (or kanasz) are generally Servians; their weapon is a small axe, with a rather long handle, called "fokosch," and they throw it with such dexterity that at 80 or 100 paces they rarely miss a man, and the blow is almost always fatal, as the Austrian army surgeons can testify. The fisher men are employed in constructing bridges in their own manner, on a sort of tubs, in a style which the Austrians at first ridiculed accordingly ; ,but, though rude, they were effective, and put together in a very short time, and have proved of the greatest use in the Hungarian operations. ITALY. The following address to the Romans is at present widely circulated in Rome : " ROMAN REPUBLIC. " In the name of God and the People. " Romans,—Brutal force has overcome your city, but it has not changed or vanquished your rights. The Roman Republic lives eternal and inviolable in the suffrages of the free who proclaimed it, and in the spon taneous adhesion of the elements of the state—in the faith of the people who have prolonged our defence, and in the blood of the martyrs who fell for it under your walls. Oar invaders have betrayed all their promises, God will betray them. Remain constant and firm in the faith during the short trial to which you are now ex posed,tion and despair an dnot certainof the must future,bShort the triumph is the o f d ur a a • e people who hope, fight, and suffer for the cause of justice and for that of true liberty. "You have given many proofs of military daring— give now proofs of civil courage. By all that is sacred with you, citizens, do not yield either to base fear or stupid egotism. Make visible to the world the separation that exists between you and y e j o t u y r ; b n e n tr d ay l e e t r s t h . 0 L n a e m tl e to o m f ebe h t rai t t or ei t r camp, e R mo Rome ebutbe e not h given t their D Europe l l t the ofanother Le him who, contrary to hi s h onour an d conscience, has any dealings nation. with the enemy.t theirToccupation he necessities have of will not permit Rome t o become the conque s t o f F rance or character of a conquest. Isolate the enemy, and Europe will raise its powerful voice for you. "No one c a n p reven t t h e peacea b le expression of your wishes. Let the public voice be constantly heard and understood. " Let the Municipality mike it known that it adhered voluntary to the republican form of government and the abolition of the temporal government of the Pope, and that it will consider every government to be illegal that dues not emanate directly from the people. From every district, from every provincial town, let lists ap pear of thousands of names who attest the same faith and invoke the same rights. In the streets, in the theatre, in every suitable place, let the cry be beard, Away with the government of the priests,' Freedom of vote,' and after that sole cry let there be silence. On the display of the Pontifical arms let those who swore to the Republic retire from office. Fear not, they can not imprison thousands, they cannot compel a whole people to disgrace themselves, and disgraced you will be, O Rumans, if, after once having proclaimed to all Europe your determination to be free, and fought and lost tho best blood amongst you to be so, you should now descend to the eJndition of slaves, or associate with jour he trayers. 6 , Your fathers, Romans, were great—not because they knew how to conquer, but that when beaten they did not despair. _ _ " In the name of God and the people be great, as your fathers were. This day, as men, you have a world—an Italian world—in your custrdy. " Your National Assembly is not dissolved—it is only separated. Your Triumvirs, compelled by the force of circumstances to suspend their public action, still watch over your affairs, and will direct your conduct when the opportune moment arrives. For the Triumvirate, " Italy, July, 1849. " MAZZLNI." STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCUESTER, AUG. 7.—Our market has exhibited greater firmness and a more cheerful tone to-day than might have been anticipated towards the close of last week. Sellers have not only stood firmly upon their previous quotations, but have shown a disposition slightly to raise them in some things. The fact is that the contracts still held for many articles are so ample, and the existirg stocks of others are generally so mode rate, as greatly to sustaia the resolution of producers whenever appearances become rather unfavourable, and naturally to render them susceptible of any exciting causes. Same degree of stimulus has been supplied by the Niagara's accounts of a probably bukward crop of cotton, as a result of bad weather, and of higher prices by ie. to te. pe r lb. having been obtained in the States, though this was in a great degree occasioned by advices of the upward tendency of the Liverpool market. For yarns we have had a demand of a pretty general kind, yet cf a very li m it e d extent. In goods, the inquiry for printers has rather increased, and prices are inclined to harden. 34 and 36-inch cloths go off at steady rates. The lower 40-inch shirtings are dull, 64 and 72 reeds being in a comparatively better position. Low jacconets are little inquired after. Madapollams are steady, but quiet. There is very little doing in T's and long cloths, and scarcely any noticeable increase in the purchase of stout domestics. The highly encouraging reports of the growing crops are, however, opening a better prospect for our home trade. Advises from Tabriz represent the Persian trade as being more than ever depressed; and those from Con• stautinople st a t e t h at, as yet, no sensible improvement tins taken place in that market. ltovno.s.LE, AUG. 6.—We have had a brisk demand ,14nnels to-day, at previous prices, and most of the pi€ces were cleared out early in the day. Notwith standing the workmen are in full employ, and the mmu facturers with very slender stocks on hand, the wool dealers complain of the very limited demand there is for the raw material. It is well known that some of the large manufacturers laid in very heavy stocks when wool v;asat it, lowest point. MACCLESFIELD, AuG. 7.—The throwing department of the silk trade is now in a more healthy state than it has been for some length-of time. When the " commis sion throwsters" are busy (which is the case at the pre sent time), it may be considered that the manufacturers, who chiefly employ them, are at least preparing against a coming demand. As yet, however, the inquiry for au tumn manufactured goods continues slack, and at prices which preclude any large amount of business being done. Hundreds of weavers are idle; whilst a large number of country weavers come to town for work, which they take at cheaper rates tha❑ the list of prices recently made by the local board, alluded to in our last report, to com plete which cost upwards of 1,0001., raised by levies upon the weavers. The last improvement made in throwing machinery is now very extensively shipped for Italy. HUDDERSFIELD, AUG. 7.—Scarcely so much has been doing as last week, which is partly owing to consider able quantities having been purchased on speculation, in consequence of the advance in wool. Every description of cloth commands higher price. HALIFAX, AUG. 4.—Although the amount of business transacted in our Piece Hall to-day has not been so large as it has been for several weeks past, yet there is a fair amount doing, both in plain and fancy goods, to order, and iu the warehouses, and the quotations are fully sustained. In yarns, the business continues good. The spinners are full of orders, and prices remain with out alteration. There is a moderate trade doing in wool. The market is well supplied, and the sales that are effected are upon rather easier terms. In short wools there is very little doing, and prices are stationary. LEEDS, Aca. 7.—We have nothing to report to-day. The brisk demand for goods still continues. The clothiers being fully employed, and there being a steady business doing in the warehouses, prices are firm and stocks light. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES. BRIGHTON, TUESDAY EVENING.—The extent and character of the field for the ensuing races may be gathered from the following list of the horses arrived up to six o'clock this evening: —Hornpipe, Reflection, Countess, Retail, Malmesbury, Emma I)onna, Colling wood, I3ibury, Besborough, Cosachia, Hind of the Forest, Red Doe, the Moor, Lady Frances, Plebeia, Alpheia, Lovelace, Faith, Wallflower, Sagacity, Fallow Deer, Carbuncle, Rhedycina, %Vhitetone, Telegraph, Sir Peter Laurie, the Northern Eagle, lole, Spectator, Rat trap, Manufacturer, Self-defence, Miss Wilfred filly, 3 yrs, Valentinia, the Nautch Girl. Four or five others expected. FIRST DAY. Entries—Stewards' Plate, Gentlemen riders— Specta tor, Rattrap, Cosachia, Chat, Northern Eagle, Sir Peter Laurie, Reflection, Faith, Bellenden, Besborough. Trades' Plate—Lovelace (to be sold for 801), Maltnes- , bury, 4 yra (801.), the Drummer, aged (801.). SECOND DAY. The Ilotelkeepers' PlAto—Cosachis, hind of the Forest, Plebeia, Messman, Wailfhwer, Selt-Defence, Carb uncle, Queen of the Gipsies, licher Skelter, Buffalo Gal, Se cond Sight, First Chance. The Licensed Victuallers' Plate—Reflection, 4 yrs (1001.); Lady Frances, 4 yrs (1000; Alpheia, 4 yrs (1000; Telegraph, 4 yrs (200/.); the Northern Eagle, 4 yrs (1001.). THIRD DAY. The Railway Plate—Miss Wilfred filly, Miter Skelter, Syrup, Chat, First Chance, Second Sight, the Moor, Retail, the Nautch Girl, Queen of the Gypsies, Cosachia. The Selling Stakes—Manufacturer, 3 yrs (1001.) ; b e by ThiFtle Whipper, 2 yrs (1001.); Carbuncle, 3 yrs (1001.) ; Little Jack, 2 yrs (1501.) ; Fiat Chance, 3 yrs (1501.) The Scurry Stakes—Whitstone, Sagacity. _ _ Sussex St;lces—Lovelace, 4 yrs (501.):; Famine, 5 yrs (501.); Alpheia, 4 yrs (501); Messman, 4 yrs (501.); Trebonius, 5 yrs (501.); Emma Dinna, 3 yrs (501.); Fallow Deer, 4 yrs (501.); Plebeia, 3 yrs (504); blames bury, 4 yrs (501.) ; liellenden, 4 yrs (501.) ; The Drummer, aged (80/.); Syrup, 3 yrs (801.); Reflector, 4 yrs, (50/.). RIPON RACES—MONDAY. The Two-yrs-old Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 20 added; colts, Bst 51b; fillies, Bst 21b; winner 3lbs extra; those that have started and not won allowed 31bs. T.Y.U. (3 Subs.) Mr. B. Haworth's St. Valentine (Holmes) 1 Mr. Hall's Lodona Mr. H. Stebbing's 111 Coup 3 The Selling Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20 added. Heats, One mile and a half. Mr. Wilkins' bm, by St. Martin, 5 yrs (Arnold) 4 1 1 Sir C. Monck's Gulliver, 3 yrs Mr. F_esseltine's Fitzwilliam aged 2 3 3 Mr. C. Scriven's Miss Fan, 5 yrs The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats; two miles. Mr. J. Gill's Lady Pm-off, 4 yra (Wintringharo) 1 1 Mr. Palmer's Tity, 3 yrs 3 2 Mr. Dawson's Potluck, 3 yrs .- 2 3 __ _ BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY. EBOR HANDICAP.-8 to 1 agst Blucher (t), Bto 1 eget Giselle, 10 to 1 agst Van Diemen, 10 to 1 agst Glen Saddel, 10 to 1 awn Mallon, 100 to *3 agst The Hero, 100 to 8 agst Chanticleer, 100 to 8 agst Ellerdale, 100 to 8 agst The Knout. ST. LEGER.-55 to 40 on Flying Dutchman, 18 to 1 agst Honeycomb (t), 18 to 1 agst Chatterer (t), 20 to 1 agst Volcano. DERBY, 1850.-14 1 offered on the field. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J OURNALS CHRONICLE.—A man of genius, i or even of acknowledged talent and proved integrity, snot an every-day production; and the electors of Reading could hardly be expected to supply, on so short a notice, a new member duly qualified in all respects to replace the distinguished poet, lawyer, and orator, who has recently been elevated to the Bench. But they might surely have found a candidate of so un d un derstanding and enlightened views, who would up..hold the great principles of commercial and religious freedom, repudiate the fallacious doctrine of finality, and give his steady support to the judicious advocates of economical reform, without going out of his way th attach an undue importance to the ballot, or pre judging the momentous and embarrassing question of State Endowment for the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Moreover, the more sagacious and reflecting portion of them might have come to some preliminary agreement as to the best method of forwarding the wishes of the majority, instead of presenting the unseemly spectacle o f di v i s i ons and dissensions, re sting upon no apparent ground beyond local rivalries or personal predilections and dislikes. We by no means admit that an occasional difference on particular topics is dis cre dit a bl e to L i berals or Liberal Conservatives. Such diversities simply show that they are in the habit of thinking for themselves, and of acting honestly on their own matured convic tions. On the other hand, the unanimity of the more violent section of the " Country Party" is a proof that they do not (perhaps cannot) reason. The late Sir John Astley could never be made to comprehend the bearings of any new question before the House, but his vote was invariably secured by the whipper in who boldly asserted that the game-laws were in volved in the result of the expected division. Just so, the fierce and faithful few who still obey the signal of the Gallant Member for Essex are ready to follow him, at a moment's warning, on being assured that they are assisting to fetter commerce or promote bigotry, or (should even this be beyond their depth) that they are about to spite Mr. Cobden or to annoy Sir Robert Peel. Still, although this kind of unity may be unattainable by persona who seek truth, and who are not kept together by self-interest or vindic tiveness, the sensible townspeople of Reading might at least have concentrated their forces in favour of one of the more rational candidates (Mr. Bowyer or Mr. Norton, for example) ; and the consequence of their neglect or fully in this respect has been, that they have actually incurred the disgrace of being represented by a Protectionist of the white-glove and lady-killing school, who evidently adopts Lord Malmesbury as his prototype, and who presents himself on the hustings with a tuft upon his chin, in in open defiance of Mr. Place's well-known axiom— " if you desire to get on with the English people, you must shave clean." Yet the truth of the axiom was curiously confirmed on the nomination day. Mr. Norton, looking at Mr. Stanford, observed—" Then there was another young gentleman on the other side, who looked quite a genius. He bore in mind the promise that gentleman had made to the electors, a promise which could only spring from one who had an inexhaustible fountain of self-esteem. He told 1,300 electors, in a town containing a population of 30,000, that he would marry one of their daughters." Mr. Stanford hereupon exclaimed—" And do it yet;" an announcement which elicited peals of laughter, prolonged and heightened (adds our re porter) by some one ejaculating, in allusion to the candidate's magnificent imperial, "He must get shaved, or they won't kiss him." Mr. Norton, however, was wrong i . n supposing that the promise, life Shekspere's circle in the water, was dispersed into nonentity by spreading. " A thousand naked men," says Partridge, " are nothing to one pistol ; for though it is true it will kill but one at a single discharge, yet who can tell but thaton may be himself?" By analogous reasonin g , a thou sand electors daughters are too many for one candi date; yet although it is true he can marry but one at a time, who can tell but that one may be herself ? The value of the prize, or the amount of the tempta tion, is a very different matter; but, ac cor di ng to Air. Norton, the Reading belle who is destined to become Mrs. Stanford will find her spouse's house better fur nished than his head. Mr. Stanford, sail Mr. Norton, " was against the encouragement of foreign labour. Now, if the Hon. G ent l eman would go to his own house in Foley -place, and put out of it all the furniture that was the workmanship of foreign opera pets, th e D resden china, the tives, the Turkey car various articles of vertu—if he did that, he would leave his house nearly as n a k e d and b are as the young gentleman's own understanding." We once dwelt, at some length, on the ludicrous inconsistency of the aristocratic Protectionists in this particular. They indulge in every foreign luxury ; and there are few of them who have not spent two or three years' income abroad. Yet the shopkeepers of Lonion and the mechanics of Manchester are to be prevented from buying foreign corn, lest the landed interest should suffer in their rents ! The Duke of Richmond's argument practically stands thus :—" If the people are allowed to buy Norwegian salm on an d American breadstuff3, it will be impossible for me to keep a French cook, or to take a box at the Italian Opera." But the cause of free trade was most effectively advocated by Salmon, the propcser of Mr. Bowyer on this occasion. One passage of his speech as really admirable : "He believed it was to the fact that the rulers of England had been wise in time, that they now owed it that they were not in the same situation as the nations of the Continent—and the greatest enemies of England were those who would re-impose fetters on commerce ; who would re-enact the corn-laws; who would subject the people of this country to the chances of a cloudy sky in August, or a drizzling rain in Juae; who wend.' shut us out from the granary of the world, and would forbid the looms of Manchester and Glasgow and the forges of Shef field and Birmingham from exchanging their produce with the granaries of the Vistula and the Mississippi. Let them not suppose that these were gratuitous suppo sitions—they were the calm and deliberate views of such men as the Stanleys, tht3 Granbys, the Richmonds, and the Ilerriesk s of Westminster, and of their humble ad mirers in Berkshire—they were the views of m‘ n who still pursued with vituperation the character of the states man who saw the evil that was coming, and who had the courage to save his country from famine by the sa crifice of himself." A single fact mentioned by that statesman (on the 6th of last month) refutes and confounds the pre- tended friends and real enemies of British indus try :—" Here is a great commercial country, exporting annually in official value 133,000,0001. worth of the produce of its industry. You have imported, during the same time, manufactured goods to the declared value of 4,722,0001." To prolong the argument in the teeth of facts like these would be a pure waste of space, time, and temper ; yet no political speculator who has marked the tenacity with which the human mind clings to antiquited error and prescriptive prejudice, will he surprised to see a Protectionist succeed at an election. Reaction, however, is a moral impossibility, when the progressive policy consists merely in a return to natural principles. Suppose the Mandarin Premier of China were to issue a decree forbidding infant heads to be flattened and female feet to be cramped— it is highly probable that the Stanleys, Richwonds, Herrieses, Muntzes, and Sibthorps of the Celestial Empire would, for a period, prove too strong for him. He might be deprived of all his tails and buttons, or be shut up in a cage for life, minus an eye, an ear, and half his nose. But if the iron-bound shoes and the flattening boards were once laid aside, the fate of the Chinese restrictive system would be virtually sealed, and within half a century the Mandarins would be wondering at the barbarism, instead of reverting to the foolish practices of their prede cessors. Perhaps Mr. Disraeli, who delights in Oriental mysteries, will have the goodness to ex pound our parallel for the edification of his friends. HOP INTELLIGENCE. BOROUGH, AUG, 6.—The accounts this morning rom all quarters come decidedly worse and worse. The duty has fallen to 65,0001. Nearly all the good hops are withdrawn from sale. MAIDSTONE.—The few good grounds still continue to progress, and branches of hops have been gathered in some forward grounds, such as that of Mr. White head, of Barnjet ; but where there is one good ground, there are probably a dozen bad ones, and many which promised to produce a few hops have decidedly retrograded within the last week. The burr " hangs fire," where there is any at the top of the poles, and there are scarcely any lateral shoots. Even the present duty will, we fear, go down. WATERINGBURY, MEREWORTII, TESTON, AND NETTLESTEAD.—The hops have improved only in very favoured grounds, which are very few, but many have got worse, and the mould is making rapid advances in some of the grounds. MALLING —The main bine now looks very black. The young shoots, though green, are infested with vermin, and the burr is very weakly and slow growing. _ _ CRAIBROOK.—The few fine days, with which we have been lately visited, has had the effect of improv ing those pieces of bine which have been compara tively clean, and of developing the burr ; but the bad pieces, which are far mor e numerous , appear to h ave lost all signs of improvement, save and except a few green shoots which are at the heads of the poles, and which, with a continuation of propitious weather, may perhaps produce a few hops. Opinion here is de cidedly against 80,0001. duty. GOUDHURST.—The late rain, followed by a succes sion of cold nights, together with the vermin close to the shoots, will cause about three-fourths of our plantations to be irrecoverably ruined, and the frosty nights (having had two this week) will retard those which looked a little promising, from growing to any size. In a portion of a garden the poles have been taken up and stacked. HORSMENDEN.—Our plantations have not derived the benefit from the showers that we expected they would. In many gardens the vermin is following the young shoots ; in others, that are clean, the bine does not grow away vigorously. 'We do not antici i pate so large a crop as we did a fortnight ago. We do not think it possible for our parish to average more than from four to five cwt. an acre. WuoTuAm.---The hops still look very black and withering. The young shoots seem quite dying away, and there is very little prospect of anything like a crop of hops this year. YALDING.—Our hops in some grounds have im proved a little since the last rains; but the others are still getting worse. BRENCHLEY AND HAWBHURST.—The weather being more congenial, the hops during the last few days, in our best grounds, are doing a little better, but not to any amount. A great portion are completely gone and given up to the blight. IGHTHAM AND SEAL.—There is no material im provement in the hops during the past week, there fore the crop must be partial and very slight. EDENBRIDGE.—We can see but little improvement, if any, since our last. The nights are too cold to curl the hops. ORPINGTON.—The hops are decidedly worse. The burr (what little there is) is followed up so close by the lice, that it is very questionable whether it wid ever come into hop, and their appearance is altogether of a lifeless character. ROLVENDEN.—The hops in some parts of the pa rish during the last few warm days and nights have made improvement. The vermin is leaving the young shoots. They are Coming into burr, and if we get showers, with sun, we may grow a few in some gardens. THE HERRIN Ur FISHING. ST. MONANCE.—Last week several of our boats here have had good takes. From Tuesday until Friday the success was good, when we take into con sideration the early stage of the fishing. On Friday one crew had 36 crans, one 29, one 26, and 20, down to half a eran. On Saturday very few were caught. The Friday's herrings were spent —a sure sign that the early shoal were about to depart. Prices have been from 225. to 10s. per cran.-IVeshire Journal. ANSTEUTHER.—We have had a fair fishing during the past week, considering the early period of the fishing. A considerable quantity have been cured after supplying the cadgers, but as yet the price has never been below 12s. to curers. A number of French vessels are in the offing purchasing, which has a tendency to enhance the prices during a light fish. ing. The general average for the week is 121 crans, and for the season 141 crans.—lbid. SToNEnAvEN.—Our herring fishing is promising well—one of the boats on Saturday last brought ashore between 5 and 6 crafts. On Monday night they did not go to s ea , ow i ng to t h e gloomy state of the weather; but on Tuesday night they all went to sea, and a few of the boats brought ashore 4 and 5 crans of excellent fish.—Aberdeen Journal. WICK, AUG. 2.—The fishing continues to be pro secuted in this district with a very encouraging de gree of success. Since our last week's report, about 16,800 crans have been landed here, or an average of twenty-one crans for each boat, bringing the entire catch of the season to about 32,800 crans, or an ave rage of forty-one crans per boat for 800 boats. This is eighteen crans more than the average at the same date last year. In fact, few, if any, remember of so large a quantity of herrings being caught in July as our fishermen have this year brought ashore in that month, or of so high an average as our boats have now reached a t thi s date. At th larger stations on the Aberdeen shores, however, the take has been pro portionally under that of last year, while at the smaller stations, Macduff for instance, the success has been much better; but we believe the entire take on that coast is several thousands of barrels under that of 1848 up to the same period. Shipments, chiefly di rected to the Baltic, are going on pretty briskly, a large number of vessels being now on their passage, in the hope that the blockade may be off the ports of their destination ere their arrival. Most of the car • goes are intended for Stettin ; some four or five for Hamburgh, and one or two to markets of less con sump o .ti n —North British Mail. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, AUG. I.—The public are cautioned against retaining money orders too long in hand. By the 11 th and 12th Viet., cap. 88, it is en acted, " That all money orders issued before the end of August, 1848, and not presented for payment before the end of August, 1849, shall be mill and void." And by s regulation made under the authority of the same Act by the Postmaster General, with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, every money order issued subsequently to August 31st, 1848, shall ho void, unless presented for payment before the end of the twelfth calendar month after that in which it was issuA. Thus, a money order issued in September, 1848, will lose all value, unless presented for payment before the end of September, 1849. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. (From the Regittrar. General's Return.) It is unsatisfactory. to observe that the constant increase of mortality, which commenced in the second week of July, was maintained in the week ending Saturday Lot The deaths from all diseases in ILIA week were 1,967—a mortality nearly double the weekly average of the season, which is 1,008. The progress of the total mortality is shown by the following numbers returned in the last four weeks:-- 1,369, 1,741, 1,931, and 1,967. The deaths from cholera, which in six previous weeks were 49, 124, 152, 339, 678, 783, increased in the last to 926. A feature worthy of notice in the present return is the fact that while the mortality caused by cholera 1 125 increased, there has been simultaneously a decrease in the deaths attributed to diarrhoea; for whereas the deaths from this disease (including dysentery) were in four previous weeks 54, 100, 146, and 238, in the last week they declined to 198, an amount which is nearly the same as in the corresponding week of the summer of 1846, and little more than that of the same week of 1848. It is shown, there fore, that the total in srtality from diarrhcea, dysen tery, and cholera amounts in this return to 1,124, while the average is only 92. Consequently the ex cess from the three epidemics exceed in some degree the increase above the average of the mortality from all causes, which is owing p ar tly t o th e c i rcums t an ce that the aths from fractures, burns, and other in' jury registered in the week were unusually few. Other epidemics besides those mentioned are under the average, with the exception of hoopingscough, which a little exceeds it. The mortality from cbn" lera still predominates on the south side of the river, the deaths there, which in the pr ece di ng wee k were , 514, rose in the last to 621. O n th e nor th s ide 01 the Thames the deaths in the western districts were 58, showing an increase; in the northern 27, or nearly the same as i n the former week; in the eastern 127, a slight increase ; and in the central, which include St. Giles and St. George, Strand, Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East London, west London, and City, there is a small decrease, the number being 93, though in a previous return there were 97 deaths. The .g rea t es t num b er i n any di s trict on the north side of the river is in West London- - I namely 32. Of the southern districts there were 67 in Bermondsey, 86 in Newington, 112 in St. George, Southwark, and 143 in Lambeth. The deaths In Rotherhithe are now comparatively few. The death of a man of forty years, in Broinpton, was caused by erysipelas of both legs of putrid character (after five days' illness), cau g ht f rom s l eep i ng with a c hild who suffered from th e di sease. The daily mean o f th e b arome t er was hi g h es t on Thursday, when it was 29 . 965 . Th e mean o f the week was 29.793. Th e t empera t ure was un d er the average of the corresp on di ng d ays o f seven years on every day except Th urs d ay . Th e hi g h est i n the shade was on Thursday, namely, 74.5. The mean temperature of the week was 59.5. The following is the return of cases of cholera reported to the General Board of Health from the 13th day of July to the 6th of August, 1849, both inclusive : Attacks. D e aths. In London and vicinity, viz.:— Lambeth .. .. .. 1,160 48 4 Bermondsey ... ... .. 630 102 Southwark .. .. .. 316 16 9 Newington Butts .. 337 19 6 Camberwell ... .. ... 173 124 Whitechapel ... .. .. 166 52 Poplar .. .. ••• .. 138 26 Stepney 35 Limehome •• •• •• 51 15 St. George's-in-the-East .. 65 2 1 Shad well 9 Wapping • • .. .. 37 13 llatclitl 6 Spitalfields ... ..• .. 26 S 34 Holborn Union.. .. ... 91 St. Giles's Rotherhithe 40 19 38 34 Deptford .. ••• ••• 98 V , Greenwich ... .. ••• 104 38 Lewisham .. ••• .. 25 19 63 7 Other localities in L on d on .. 1,313 --- _ Total • . .. 4968 2,0 6 In England an d W a l es, v i z.:— Liverpool • • ••• .. 1,970 694 Merthyr Tydfil ••• ... 405 169 Dowlais • • ••• .. 650 279 Gloucester ... .. - 47 24 38 Cardiff ••• ••• • • 59 Salisbury .. ••• • • 81 71 Nantwich .. ••• ••• 126 6 9 Portsmouth .. .. - 115 73 Portsea Island ... ... ••• 443 259 - Ply mouth ... ... ... 484 164 Mevagissy - ••• ••• 87 41 Bristol ••• ••• ••• 176 97 Taibach •• ••• .. 65 36 Aberavon .. 45 0 Cwmavon 29 11 Clifton Union ... ... •.. 82 47 Brighton 27 Poole 23 6 Other towns in England and Wales ••• ••• .. 1,901 870 .....--• Totals ... ... .. 6,831 3,005 In Sc o tl an d , viz, :___. Dundee 532 26 4 •• ••• ••• Other t owns in• Scotland ... 42 97 .......-- 291 574 General total ... 12,373 5,366 THE Moous.—Recent reports from the hills as t° the prospects of sportsmen, though not so favourable a 3 they were represented in the early part of last m onth , are on the wh o l e more cheering than for some yeori; past. In th e crac k d i stricts of Aberdeen and 133'3 shires, the bi r d s are sa i d to be plentiful end strong. I'l,' 8 covies are not so numerous as expected, man y biros having proved barren this year, but it is nothing u ncon 3 " mon to startle eight or ten birds, which is fully an ave rage. On the Deeside moors there is au excellent poi spect--partrid ges everywhere well-grown and stronkan_ promises better sport than for several bygone seasons —Aberdeen Journal. Art INCORRIGIBLE BEGGAR.—A man who had been employed in th e at e li ers na ti onaux was recently brought before the Tribunal of C orrect i ona l P o li ca on the c b ar g , of mendicity.'" Have you ever been condemned before? sz.id the President, "I should think so!" answered b e ' "How often?" "Always; in fact the thing has becoin: a perfect bore, for every t i me I' ve b een caught, I ' ve bee ,, condemned." " Y ou h ave li ve d 40 years by begging `'t No; 39 only—a s I p asse d t h e f i rst year of my We ; l e nurse!" " And y ou ore d ec i ded not to wor k ', " Why, if I found a lucrative place with nothing to do might not object to take it." The tribunal c o ndemn the fellow to three months' imprisonment. BIRMINGHAM AND S TOUR V ALLEY.—The --If yearly meeting of the sharebo.ders of this company Via' to have been held at the company's offices in f3irming; ham yesterday; but at th e h oar appo i nted there was 13°." a suffici9nt number o f p ropr i etors present to constitute a quorum, and the meeting consequently adjourned. . 1 " report was produced. In the course of the morning deputation from the inhabitants of Dudley, headed by Thomas Badger, Esq., waited upon the board of direr' tors to complain, which they did in strong terms, of tile ) proposed abandonment of the fork or branch line froth Oldbury to Dudley. If the directors persevere in their present intentions, the nearest station (Tipton) will be one and a half or two miles from Dudley, by far the most important town in the district. Mr. J. F. Ledsan'. the chairman, intimated that they were in communication with the directors of the South Staffordshire Company' with a view of running on a portion of that line; and that the subject should also be mentioned to the dime . tors of the London and North-Western Company, non' lessees of the Stour Valley Railway. lIURSTGREEN.—Some grounds have slighly proved since our last, while others are worse , and get blacker. The fresh shoots that do look well do not seem thick with fruit ; taken in the aggregate they seem to have made a retrograde movement.—ln one instance the poles have been taken up.—Maidstone Gazette. BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at St. Ann's-road, Norland, Notting-hi ll ' the wife of H. J. Butt, Esq., of a daughter. On the sth inst., at Kynastone-house, Herefordshire, the wife of T. Batson, Esq., of a daughter. On the sth inst., at Walthamstow, the wife of N. Powell' Esq , of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Upper Harley-street, the wife of C. 131 * Archibald, Esq., of a son. on the 6th inst., at Upper Woburn-place, the wife of J• Clarke, Esq., of a son. At Albany-street, Regent's -park, the wife of Henry C• Barfoot, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Lowndes- street, Be'grave-square, the wife of J. Harvey, Esq., of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, of a son and heir. This morning, at St. James 11ARRIED. s Church, Piccadilly, by e the Rv. Dr. Swiss, Charles Jones, E sq ., o f I s li ngton, t o App E iza, eldest daughter of Dr. Culverwell, of Argyle - Pl ace ' Regent-street, Oa the 4th inst , at Froyle, William Smith Nicholson, Captain Cameronians, second son of George T. Nicholson' Esq., of Waverley-abbey, to Charlotte Elizabeth, Odest daughter of the Rev. Sir T. Miller, Bart., of Froyle-par DIED, On the sth inst., at Qaeen's-row, Walworth, 31r. Christo pher F. Seyfang, aged 77. On the sth inst., in Queen Anne-street, Jane Catherine, eldest daughter of C. P. Ittlshworth, Fsq. On the 4th inst., at ChelnasforJ, John M. Wood, Esq., of Golden square, London. On the 4th inst., at Albany-road, Camberwell, aged 73 ' Susannah, widow of the late J. Green, Esq o f Stebbing Parsonage, Essex. 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