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13, Great Marlborough-street. VOLUME FOUR of MAD.. D'ABBLAY'S DIARY and LETTERS, IS NOW READY. ** * Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW HISTORICAL IROMANCE. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. MAS S AN I E LL 0. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Edited by HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. HAMBURGH, JULY, 1842. MAJEST Ar Y isTa th I e A. EMPEROR of AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, having AUTHORISED. and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained, HEINE BRO THERS, at HAMBURG H, are now Selling Genuine and W kRRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTRIBU PIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive. PREVIOUS iziving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing', WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. As we •eceive frequently applications for CERTIFICATES, we rust bet; tl observe, that a CERTIFICATE is QUITE DIFFERENT from a BOND, and tiat there is a great dif ference again between BONDS and SELECTED BONDS —the SELECTED BONDS ONLY TAKING PART IN THE DISTRIBUTION WHICH' FOLLOWS THE SE LECTION, and which should never be overlooked, being of the greatest importance. TRUTH WILL OUT. In order that my friends in the country may know which way the wind blows, and that my native f ee li ngs in their behalf are unchangeable in relation to the shoe-pinching grievances of the Labourers, the following resolution, offered ' last (and also the previous) Sunday by me, as " Chairman," and agreed to by two thousand persons at my " camp meeting" in St. James's-park, etc., is copied from the EVENING STAR, the New Two-penny stamped paper of Tuesday last, the only daily journal in London that dared to publish it to the world as the:Lthoughtful state" of the operative classes in London : " Resolved—With feelings of indignation at oppression, this meeting sympathises with the working classes, male and female, of the provinces, and with heartfelt commisseration re-echo their sentiments for yearly good Government, based upon the truth : that the voice of the people is the mind of God,' "- AND NO MISTAKE. CHARLES HENRY ACKERLEY, Inventor of the " ASTHMA-COUGH LAMP" Apparatus for the liquification of the i n t er nal fluids of the body's-fabrie by dry hot-air, in all cases of " Morbid action" in and about tht .4 ball and socket" of the joints. 4 * 3, Swallow-street, Quadrant, July 28th, 1842. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, ILY 28. The Performances will commence wi CAPERS AND C,Cifto. NETS.—Characters by Messr.. Wigan, ranby, and Oxbe; ly, Mi ss Pincott, Mrs. Granby, and Miss Murray. lifter which, the New Burlesque • fillet, cane ' 0 RIZELLE!— Characters by Signor Oxberrini and Madlle. Louisotta Fairbro tneritii. To which will be added, the Farr , - Of DEAF AS A POST.— Tristram Sappy, Mr Harley; s a p. Ms, Miss Murray. Ta conclude with the DREA a AT SEA.—Characters by Messrs. Oxberry, W. H. Bland, an -- ''.. 0 Btnith ; Misses Pincott and Faucit. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 28. cautity, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six commence at ,even; :-1 - alf.price, a Quarter before Nine. Pnvx'e Boxes to * tie had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office and of Messrs.....„,u —S rews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 28. Will be rPpresen'ed Donizetti's Opera of THE LOVE SPELL supported bythe First Vocali s t s o f t h e D ay — Mi ss Romer, Mr, W I Harrison ' Mr. Leffler, Mr. J. Webster, Mr s . Serle, an d Mi ss E . l'errey. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury. After which, Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH; with all Locke's splendid 3.lo'ic, sung by the entire Opera Company. Places and Private Soxes may be ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Pox Olt Ice, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully is formed that ON MONDAYS, ITESDAYS, AND THURgDAYN GRAND EVENING FETES will be g i ven , i n w hi c h will tie em bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in. tesductions, which render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by many valuable and im. portant acquisitions in the clas ses o f both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remodviled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'action ' repre. senting the Procession of th e - Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. ThL , RAND includa some of the most eminent Performers, con. lusted by Mr Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES .610 SIC A LES selPctede corn the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUMINATIONof ST. PETER'S. the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIR A N OOL A of ST. ANGELO, w i t h a ll t h e gorgeous Spectaclns and magnificent introductio- , 5 that have called forth ac. clammations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex. hibition. terminating with the ,triumph of pyrotechnic s pl endour, the CASC A.DE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX I Y FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Murcales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, .nat Thursdays. Admission One Shilling. • TO COR,RESPONDENTi. • " A Constant Reader."—An answer may be received in seven days at the latest. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 5 minutes aßfe'r 5 I Evening ......2 minutes after 5. All AdvertitroTaents of a Disgusting Character, or Zol:/loral Tendency, are excluded from tic Columns of "The Sun." -: - Aztn. LONDON: 'THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1842. 'The conduct of the Ministers in yielding several ameliorations of our fiscal regulations, the enlight ened language they have sometimes held, the strange despondency and yet abusive language of the anti free-trade journals, and the assurances recently given by several Cabinet Ministers, that the public distress still occupies their consideration, must satisfy every man that the cause of free trade has made a very great progress. If to these circumstances we add the respectful manner in which the Ministers have re ceived the members of the Anti-Corn-Law League, we shall arrive at a strong conviction that the total abolition of the Corn-laws is a question now favour ably entertained, and must ere long be decided in the affirmative. All parties agree that Corn-law abolition verges towards its completion. We are not willing to allow so important a circumstance to. pass, without reminding our readers that it has not been brought about by violence. No physical force has - been used. Facts have been enunciated, and appeals have been continually made to the good sense of the public. Other causes having as good a founda tion, will be, no doubt, equally successful ; and all parties, therefore, may be confirmed in moderation by the example of the advantages of peaceful agitation. To use violence to obtain such an end, is like smash ing an imperfect watch for want of skill to take it to pieces and repair it. While we would make this lesson, on the one hand, as impressive for the people as possible. we would, on the other, caution Ministers not to rely on violence never being had recourse to, however much they may provoke it. There is always some limit to patience. They have no right to count on the people being per petually discreet. That would be expecting in them the virtues of angels, while their rulers are very ordi nary mortals. Itis idle now to tell mankind they must obey the law, unless the law be worthy of obedience. When the subject is discussed in newspapers, the law, it is plain, has lost its prescriptive power. That un defined prejudice which heretofore gathered around it the accumulated veneration of ages—each genera tion having transmitted to its successor its own in herited conviction of the duty of obedience,. confirmed by its own experience of the advantages of obedience — is everywhere at an end. Sentimentalists, a 4 well a., utilitarians, testify to this when they complain that men seek reasons for their creed, and that faith is limited to what they see. For rulers, therefore, now to fancy that the people will continue to obey a law, however absurd and unjust, simply because it is a law, is to endanger the well-being of society by re lying on the existence of a sentiment which time has destroyed. We rejoice, indeed, that we do not nom see in Sir R. PEEL, a settled determination to maintain an obnoxious law at all hazards, for though peaceful agitation promises success, it is quite possible to pro voke a just, determined, and violent resistance. if ever a law justified a violent resistance, the Corn law does. ' How unimportant is the freedom of the press compared to freedom of trade ? What are the rights of conscience compared to the right to eat ? What is the value of a right to property in land com pared to the right to have the food which a man can earn The right of self-preservation is at stake, and the la w which keeps food from the people invokes ag nn , f it the first law of nature. without divorcing words and thoughts from actions, and generating an irremediable moral confusion. The world would say that the Dissenting ministers and middle classes who have agitated this question, were they to stop short of resistance, were not sincere, that they had some concealed purpose to serve, and did not believe what they said. But we are assured that such is not the case that wide-spread plans to resist and overturn the particular law, are openly discussed, and will in time, if the law be not abolished by the Le gislature, be carried into execution. There is great danger, then, of provoking resistance ; and while we impress on our readers, on the one hand, the advan tages of peaceful agitation, we must, on the other, caution the lawmakers to beware of persisting in a line of calduct which justifies disobedience to the law. At the Greenwich Police Court yesterday, Mr. JEREMY, the Magistrate, held Mr. M 4 DouALL to bail to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for six months, himself in 501. and two sureties in 251. each. Why not for all his life, and why not hold every man to bail? We see as much reason for one as the other, Mr. M`DouALL's offence seems, from what the Magis trate said, to be two-fold; first, "he went to a meeting called for a specific purpose, and, nolens volens, at tempted to introduce some other subject, and to eject the chairman from the chair." That was conduct of all others likely to create a disturbance. Secondly, he " had been holding an illegal meeting at an illegal place, and at an unseasonable hour." With regard to the first offence the evidence we think completely exonerates Mr. M'DOUALL. Nobody deposes that he took an active part in the disturbance in the chapel, or that he went there for any improper purpose. On the contrary, it was ex pressly deposed by Mr. JOHN WADE (one of the trustees of the chapel) that it was a public meeting at which all classes were invited to attend ; that he saw nothing improper in Mr. M'DouALL's conduct, and walked out with him arm in arm. The Magistrate's observations, so far as the first charge is concerned, are wholly unwarranted by the evidence, and seem dic tated by a pre-formed resolution that on such grounds he would hold the first Charti st to bail who insisted on discussing the Charter a t any meeting called for a different purpose. With respect to the second charge, we also take a different view from Mr. JEREMY. Mr. M‘DouALL followed a crowd to the Broadway, which was directed thither by a spontaneous movement ; he there spoke to them, and we cannot believe that such a chance assemblage is correctly described as " holding an ille gal meeting." Suppose the people had been sum moned out of the chapel by a report that Greenwich Hospital was on fire, and that Mr. M'DouALL had gone thither with the multitude to assist in putting out the flames; suppose that he had harangued them as to the method they should observe in their proceedings, that surely would not have been an illegal meeting. It was not, therefore, the accom panying a multitude from the chapel to the Broadway, and there speaking to them, that constituted this an illegal meeting. Neither was it the hour, for no hour would be un seasonable for a multitude, headed by Mr. M‘DouALL, to save from danger the noble home of our worn-out sailors. Nor can we think the place illegal. A wide space used for stalls, a sort of market of a Saturday night, adjoining a public thoroughfare, but not con stituting a part of it, was a legal and proper place for Mr. M'DotrALL to speak to his friends. What constituted the illegality of the meeting in the Ma gistrate's eyes was, we are afraid, the tenour of Mr. M`DouALL's language. He spoke, according to the Police Inspector, of the " tyrant aristocrar:y of the country, who are trampling on the rights of the poor man." It was Mr. AI'DouALL's sentiments, not his speaking to a number of persons spon taneously collected on a spare piece of ground, which constituted, we are afraid, the illegality of the meet ing in the eyes of the Magistrate. He was held to hail because he entertains Chartist opinions ; and had he at the same spot, and at the same hour, delivered a discourse in favour of the Aristocracy and the State Church, we believe the Magistrate and the Police would only have interfered to protect him from the abuse of the multitude. We have noticed the conduct of the Magistrate first, which we must stigmatise as partial and unjust, because his decision wholly exonerated the Police Superintendent, and took all the responsibility of his having locked up Mr. M‘DouALL on himself. Mr. JEREMY, by his decision, justified Mr. MALLILEU. It is the law, according to Mr. JEREMY, and accord ing, we regret to say, to. other and much higher authorities, that a conservator of the peace, alias police, or any other constable, may form an opinion whether an assembly of people be illegal or not ; and if he fancies that it may lead to a disturbance of the peace, it is the law that he may, without warrant or summons, arrest any of the per sons there assembled, drag them down from a-pump by force, keep them in prison for a night, and the Magistrate will hold them to bail in the morning. Mr. M'DoUALL made no riot, he struck no person, he offered no resistance to the law; but the far and foreseeing Mr. MALLILEU perceived a breach of the peace in the denunciation of the aristocracy, and therefore he forcibly and violently assaulted and ar rested Mr. M'DOUALL. Order and peace are ex cellent things, but we doubt whether they are not too dearly purchased when, "to obtain them, the liberty of every man must ba placed at the mercy of every police constable. We cannot question the legality of Mr. JEREMY'S decision, for we believe it 'o be quite legal ; we cannot question the legality of \Er MALLILEU'S conduct, for it had the sanction of the Magistrate ; but we can and must say that the conduct of both was improper and injurious to the public peace. In truth, the present conduct of the police, in eternally meddling with all the concerns of the people, and the conduct of the Magistrates in sup porting them, constitute q heavier scourge for the community than the disorders the police and the Magistrates may possibly suppress. , Mr. ROEBUCK gave an outline last night of the resolutions he is to move to-night. They aim at punishing the parties to the corrupt compromises he has investigated, and at temporarily disfranchising the boroughs concerning which they were made. He declares that it would be derogatory to the House to allow those parties to escape punishment, and he pro poses that Mr. SPEAKER do not issue his writ till more legislative measures have secured the boroughs rrom the danger of further corruption. We quite agree with Mr. ROEBUCK thatall the parties to those compro misesought to be punished, and we know no punishment so appropriate as to disable them for ever from taking It any part, either as representatives or electors, in that system of representation they have sought to corrupt and destroy. We do not, however, see that an equally strong reason justifies the suspension of the writs. The eye of the public being now directed to those places, they will act with comparative honesty and freedom, and Nottinghamshould have the opportunity of redeeming its character by electing Mr. STUEGE• The only arguments which apply to the small bo • roughs implicated, would apply to all the small boroughs in the kingdom, and Harwich ought not to be temporarily disfranchised while Tavistock, Mor neth, and a score of small boroughs, send Members to Parliament. Mr. ROEBUCK is, however, more likely co carry the latter part of his resolution than the for mer, because the House of Commons cherishes class feelings and disregards justice. OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. The Extraordinary Seision of the French Cham bers, convoked to pass a Regency.. Bill, in consequence of the lamented death of his 'Royal Highness the Duke of ORLEANS, was opened on Tuesday (yester lay) by the KING in person. The concourse of spec tators was immense, and the number of Deputies in attendance, considering the shortness of the summons, very great. The Princes, the Ministers, and all the treat officers of state were in attendance upon the His MAJESTY, who, though deeply affected, laboured to quiet his mental agitation, opened the 4ession with the following Speech from the Throne : " Gentlemen, Peers, and Deputies, " In the grief which overwhelms me, deprived of that beloved son whom I thought destined to suc c e e d me on the throne, and who was the glory and the conservation of my old days, I felt the necessity of advancing the moment of your assembling round me. We have a great duty to fulfil together. When it shall please Goo to call me to him, it is necessary that France and its constitutional monarchy be not for a moment exposed to any interruption in the exercise , of the Royal authority. • • - • " You have then, to deliberate on the. measures T - whom, too, is the law passed ? By an ungrateful ar Ltocracy, who are maintained in idleness and splendour by the toils of the people they would starve out of existence. They are not satisfied with their own wealth, not satisfied with almost fabulous splen dour ; they must greedily seek for greater possession„ at the expense of the poor. ..I.igth the nature of the law, an d the vile conduct of those who make it, pro voke resistance.; and were there no signs of repent ance and concession we should despair of the public peace and public welfare. It is q ui te i m possible, indeed, th a t t h ose who have stigmatized the law as an iniquity, and denounced it as a rolAvry c an fail ..to carry out their doc trines to their appropriitt-, conclusion. Men cannot peacefully submit •to stigmatized.robbery4nd wrong necessary to obviate, during the minority of my well beloved grandson, this immense danger. The blow that has just struck me does not make me ungrateful towards PROVIDENCE, which still preserves to me chil dren so worthy of my tenderness and of the confidence of France. " Gentlemen,—Let us to-day ensure the repose and the security of our country. I will summon you later to resume, on affairs .of state, the usual course of your labours." This speech is brief, dignified, pathetic, and to the purpose. The concluding paragraph tells the Depu ties that the session is an extraordinary one, and they are summoned together to settle one question only in conjunction with the KlNG—that of the Regency. "We have a great duty to fulfil together," is the constitutional, but under such circumstances parental, and even affectionate language of the KING. We cannot conceive under such circumstances any decent ground for that opposition which the Ministerial journals apprehend from M. TRIERS and his friends. As only the Regency ques tion is to be discussed, and as we have not heard that M. TRIERS and his friends mean to call in question the propriety of appointing the Duke DE NEMOURS Regent of the Kingdom during the minority of the Count of PARIS, there is really nothing upon which an opposition can fasten for attackirg the present Cabinet. The occasion usually seized is when a resolution is proposed for secret service money, and which when rejected is tanta mount to a want-of-confidence vote in the British House of Commons. Now the secret service grant will not be brought forward before the beginning of the ordinary session of the Chambers in December, so that the strength of parties can only be tried in the elections of President,. Vice-Presidents, Questors, and Reporters of Bureaux. In these instances defeats do not impose on Ministers the necessity of yielding to the official pretensions of their opponents, however strongly they may indicate the near approach of such an undesired consummation. But it is on higher than mere party grounds, as regards the pretensions of rival can didates for office, that we regard the opening of the present session of the' French Chambers with consi derable anxiety. 'The strength of the monarchical principle is now to be tested. We have now to wit ness the sentiments awakened in the bosom of France, by cradled Royalty. If, as the Minis terial Journals affirm, the lamented death of the Duke of ORLEANS has the effect of silenc ing the clamours of faction, and of uniting all parties in support of the institutions of July, then may we look forward to the continued maintenance of the repose of Europe, and the improvement, physi cal and moral, of the condition of the French people. But should we, on the contrary, discover that the voice of faction is only silent for a moment—that the Regency is accepted as a sort of ear nest of approaching political changes far more im portant in their consequences—that such unscrupu lous leaders as M. TRIERS, and latterly ODILLON BAR.. ROT, assume such a position as to await and profit by the chapter of accidents, there will be reason to ap prehend for France and for Europe very serious cala mities. From the unscrupulous and indecent attacks which are daily made by the Opposition press upon M. GUIZOT, in the very presence, as it were, of the unburied remains of the Duke of ORLEANS, we con fess we hope little from the moderation of the Oppo sition. affairs. The Druse Sheiks are yet in the prison of Bey rout, they obstinately refusing to repair thedamage which they occasioned the Maroniteo in the late troubles. The EmirAbdallah,'a few days ago, left the English frigate In constant, upon the promise that he should not be molested. The Albanians are more quiet, but the English have had satisfaction to demand for an insult offered by these troops to a Midshipman of their navy. The Turkish troops of the line, it is said, ate to be recalled to Constantinople to join the Imperial Guards. A strottz'proof this, notwith standing Sir Robert Peel's declarations about the with- drawal of the Albanians, that there is no intention on the part of the Porte to do any such thing. With regard to Omar Pacha, we fiud no particular complaints against his conduct. The rumour of sending troops from Egypt to disarm the mountaineers seems completely false. A detachment of Albanians, being sent against the Ansa ries, inhabitants of a portion of the mountains, is, how ever, a proof that there is not a voluntary and entire submission. The news of this corps is favourable to Government. Upon the whole, we may add, that the measures of the Porte, however well-intentioned, will not ultimately succeed. There will be no permanent rest in the mountains. There is not a word of the Eng lish Bishop of Jerusalem." BOURSE--PA RIS, MONDAY, JULY 25. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Pilice. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents.... 117 25... 117 40... 117 25... 117 35 4 per Cents.... 101 30... 101 30... 101 30... 101 30 3 Per Cents 77 25... 77 35... 77 25... 77 35 Batik of France 3190 ...3190 —3185 .. 3187 50 Belgian Fives 1840 1031 ... 1934 ... 103 i ... 103 k Threes 7O ... 70 ... 70 ... 70 Spanish Active 221 ... 22/ ... 221 ... 22/ Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES . We have heard that the KING of the FRENCH lays great stress upon the support which the Regency will receive from Foreign Powers, and especially from England, Austria, and Prussia. Whatever support these Powers can give to a constitutional Government in France, which shall serve to keep in check the military extravagance of the Revolutionary faction, will doubtless not be withheld. But that support it would be madness to extend beyond the mere influ ence of opinion. There is in France no want of the elements of order, and of the means of repressing all attempts to disturb the general peace, provided Mi nisters know how to avail themselves of them. The rabble of the wretched Faubourgs of Paris, the dis contented workmen of Lyons, and the ferocious convicts at Brest, have no more right to be taken as specimens of the chivalrous, gal lant French nation, than the inhabitants of Houndsditch and St. Giles's have to be considered as samples of the people of England. There is in France all the materials for the construction and Versailles, R.B ...... ... 290 ... 290 ... 290 ... 290 LB 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 95 Rouen Orleans. Strasburg to ;Bale 2OO ... 200 ... 198 75... 200 On the Madrid Bourse on the 18th, two bargains in the Threes for 1,400,000 reals were done at 211 for fifty and sixty days, and two in the Fours for 3,820,000 reals, at 18i for fifty-five days ; 31 bargains in the Fives, for 15,758,000 reals, were also transacted, at 291 for cash, 291 at various dates, with the eleven coupons, and 30 4 31, with 111 premium, for fourteen to sixty days, with ten coupons. Exchange upon London, ninety days, 57i ; Paris, 16 libs. 5. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.—The following is an estimate of the further sum to be voted to defray the charge of the army, navy, and ordnance, connected with the forces employed in India and China, for the year ending Match 31, 1843 :—For Army services, 171,344/.; Navy services. 78,8551.; and Ordnance services, 22,7221.; total, 272,9211. There is also a supplementary estimate of 10,0001. for the purposes of education. maintenance of a Government capable of giving sta bility to the Throne, and protecting with a strong hand every right which ought to have been enjoyed by the people who effected the glorious Revolution of July. It appears from a meeting of wine merchants, held on Tuesday, that after several evasive answers on the part of the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER, they have at last ascertained from the Lords of the Tre sury that no drawback is to be allowed on stock in hand, when the reduction on Portuguese wines takes place. Various excuses for this course of proceeding have been given by Ministers. Mr. GOULBURN, it would appear, could not invent any that had a re spectable appearance. So, after many vain attempts in that quarter, they memorialized the Lords of the Treasury. The first answer to this application was, that it was not usual to return duty on goods admitted under the Customs laws ; the next was, that as there was no Excise survey, fraud would be com mitted; and a third was, that by the Board of Cus toms they were not bound to make return duties on stock. The variety and nature of these answers show that Government have a very bad case, arid are con scious of doing an act of injustice. They, in fact, very much resemble those persons of doubtful cha racter, who stretch their ingenuity in inventing reasons for retaining money to which they are not entitled. The Treasury has received large sums of money for wine on hand ; they have had the use of the money for years, and when the owners and the public expect to benefit from the commercial treaty with Portugal, Ministers turn round and say, " We cannot suffer you to profit by this treaty, because frauds may be committed." This, to say the least of the transaction, is a prepos terous mode of reasoning, and more or less charac terises Governments generally. "In matters of re venue and finance," as was stated by one of the speakers yesterday, " they have a sort of ribbed stocking, that fitted for any purpose. When a Chan cellor of the Exchequer was going to do what was unjust he pleaded expediency, and when he found there was an empty treasury, he considered the readiest way he could lay his hands upon money the most expedient." It is no justification of a fraud to urge it as a reason for preventing another. If there is no Excise survey, the Government are to blame, and it is contrary to all the rules of law and equity to al low them to profit by their own negligence and mis conduct. One thing is clear, that if Government per severe in this unfair course of proceeding, either a portion of the public or the wine merchants must be the sufferers. The latter naturally fear that the injury will fall upon them, as competition will bring other wines into the market, reduce the price while the duty on a large portion of the stock is undimi nished, and thereby throw the loss on a few indivi duals. The wine merchants, however, are more powerful than the poor tradesmen and customers, who were robbed by the light sovereign proclamation, and have only to persevere to attain their object. The whole of the French Journals of Monday have reached us, but their contents are of no political in terest. We subjoin some brief extracts from them : We have received the following letter from Constan tinople, dated the 7th inst. : " M. de Bourqueney, in consequence of a despatch lately received from M. Guizot, has just turned his at tention to the affair of the hospital of which we spoke some months ago. A conference between the two par ties was indispensable, in order that the question might be settltd, because the piquet of soldiers placed by the Porte in the hospital could not be withdrawn except on this condition ; for if the hospital were once vacated, the two parties would inevitably have come to blows in order to get possession of it. M. de Bourqueney there fore, much against his will, has again brought the ques tion forward ; concessions have been made by both par ties, especially by one. I believe that the system of col lective protection will be reverted to, only all represent ations are to be made through the medium of France. Though M. de Pontois delivered several notes, in which he declared that he would never agreee to any other protection than that of France, which was the natural protection of establishments of this nature, the collec tive protection is now accepted. M. de Bourqueney will not affix his signature to these arrangements. He pre tends that the honour of doing so belongs to M. Pon tois.—Constitutionnel. From Beyrout, July 1, we have the following The mountains have been apparently tranquil for some days, owing, it is supposed, to the presence of tl a - Albanians.- Omar Pacha Is actively engaged in the administration of THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 2s, 1842. " Who runs may read." SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Publtc eptitton. PORMI ZO N. There can now be very little doubt, if we may judge by what is said by some of the French Opposition jour nals, that the Opposition Deputies of the Left and Left Centre will make the ensuing short session of the Chambers an occasion for trying their strength with the Ministry. The organs of these parties announce this in unequivocal terms, although the journals which oppose Ministers, without ranging themselves under the banners of M. Thiers, insinuate that he has been induced to consent to the truce which had been recommended by the Debats. Sooner or later, says the Constitutionnel, the system upon which the Cabinet has acted must be overthrown by the Chamber, and the display of concord between M. Guizot and his colleagues will not have the effect of preventing its dissolution. This journal, alluding to an assertion that M. Thiers has promised to support the Regency Bill on condition of his being appointed to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, declares the as sertion to be unfounded, and that M. Thiers has never had an intention of becoming a candidate for that office. The Courrier Francais observes that it is quite evi dent M. Guizot wishes to carry the Ministerial question by sleight of hand, and that he sees nothing odious in taking refuge behind the coffin of the Duke of Orleans, but on the contrary considers it a commodious mode of preserving his portfolio. He evinces, says this journal, the audacity which is confounded by no reprobation, which is checked by no demonstration of public feeling. The National continues to deny the constitutional right of the Chambers to enact what it calls a new law of sovereignty without a direct and special appeal to the country. In 1830, observes this journal, the urgency of the occasion was brought forward in support of the institution of the Charter; no such urgency exists now. King Louis Philippe is not dead; he enjoys, we are assured, an excellent state of health, which resists the most severe trials, and he bids fair to live a long time, long enough perhaps to behold the majority of his grand son. Why then this haste ? Why not proceed calmly, legally, and constitutionally ?" " We learn," says the fouLnnais, " that great changes are about to be made in the officers of the port of Toulon. Admiral Baudin is to resign the Maritime Prefecture to Admiral Hugon, being himself appointed to the eminent post of Inspeett,r of Colonies. Admiral Lalande is to succeed to the command of the Mediterra nean fleet." Nearly all the corn in the environs of Paris is got in. 'rho ears are large and full of grain, so that the farmers consider the harvest to be very abundant. The straw, hoe ever, is short, and will necessarily be dear. The Augsburgh Gazette of the 21st announces that the news of the death of the Duke of Orleans was known in Vienna on the 18th (five days after the fatal event in Paris), and had produced the deepest impression in the Austrian capital. 'rho Duke of Bordeaux arrived on the 18th at Toplitz. Vienna funds on the 18th, 1084, 1001, 77, 1,595. Letters from Berlin mention that the news of the Duke of Orleans' death had produced the greatest im pression on that capital. Count Bresson, the French Ambassador, immediately countermanded a dtplomatie dinner which he was about to give. The greatest sym: pathy was evinced by the Prussian ladies for the Duchess of Orleans. The funds fell 14 per cent on the news. PARVICAMENTAItit. The House of Lords did not meet yesterday. The House of Commons was almost exclusively oc cupied with the Bribery at Elections Bill, which, after Mr. Mackinnon had withdrawn his opposition, was dis cussed in Committee at great length. A goal deal of difference of opinion was evinced at particular clauses. Some discussion took place, but the Bill went through a Committee. The House rose at Half-past Two. Ta..A • 1 • I A Arrook • s • - THE DitNISH CLAI NS_ Mr. HUTT on Tuesday gave notice that he would, on Friday next, bring the question of the Danish claims before Parliament, with a view to the final settlement of the amounts aivarded to the several unfortunate claimants. After the repeated decisions of the House of Commons in their favour, we cannot really understand on what grounds the Government can refuse payment of claims so just and so well authen ticated before Commissioners appointed to in vestigate their merits—Commissioners, be it remembered, specially authorised by the Treasury, and who, after the most searching scrutiny, reported that the claims had been duly established, and they awarded the respective sums accordingly. We sincerely trust that Sir ROBERT PEEL will judge for himself in a matter which concerns the character and even the privileges of the House of Commons, by disdaining to move in the crooked paths of SPRING RICE, and such persons, who mistook ob stinacy for justice, and thought, because they had the power to do wrong, they would exercise it, regardless of honour and common humanity. Sir ROBERT PEEL has it in his power to repair the faults of his pettifogging predecessors in office, and so relieve a number of unfortunate persons whose claims have been delayed under pretexts altogether unworthy of men conducting the affairs of a great commercial country. The following is the notice given by Mr. HUTT, which stands for to-morrow : " That an humble address be presented to her Ma jesty, praying that her Majesty will be pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House an estimate of the amount of money which will be required to satisfy the award made by the Commissioners to whom it was referred to examine and adjudicate upon the claims of certain British subjects, for losses sustained by the con fiscation of their ships and cargoes by the Government of Denmark, in the year 1807." LOU of the BISHOP of EXETER'S VOYAGE TO TILE SCILLY ISLANDS. " There is now a vote on the Paper of ninety-three pounds, for the expense of carrying the Bishop of Exeter to the Scilly Isles."— Vide Captain Pechell's Speech in the House of Commons. N.B. The Bishop of Exeter having lately made ,a voyage to the Scilly Isles, with a view of impressing on the benighted natives a becoming sense of the blessings of Episcopacy, the Captain of the ship, Hoax—the vessel in which the ghostly Prelate and his staff embarked— has kindly for 'carded to us the following Log of their proceedings, which he drew up at the time, and a copy of which he has also transmitted to the Admiralty. JULY 1, 10 O'CLOCK, A.M.—Set sail from the Land's- End, Cornwall, in the brig, Hoax, six hundred tons burden, exclusive of the tonnage of the Bishop of Exeter, his two men-Cooks, upper and under Butlers, Chaplain, Secretary, and four hampers of provisions—Ship going six knots an hour. 11, A.m.—Light winds from the north-west, with a short, brisk sea—Bishop complained of being " peckish," and piped all hands to lunch in the state cabin—Chap lain commenced saying Grace, but cut it short at Bishop's instigation, who immediately set-to, like a shark, at a cold pigeon pie —Ditto, Secretary—Ditto, Chaplain—A sudden roll of the brig deposited two plates of ham sandwiches in Bishop's lap, and sent his fork right through the Chaplain's wig. 12, A. M.—Bishop and his staff came on deck after lunch—Bishop looked over the gunwale, and, seeing a large fish swimming about, asked if it was a whale— Cracked a joke with his Chaplain about Jonah—Bad joke, but what can you expect from a Bishop ?—Chap lain laughed, of course—Wind chopping round to the nor'ard. 1, P.M.—A heavy swell—A bleak, blue tinge appeared at the tip of Bishop's nose—Face white and pasty— Complained of qualmishness in his apostolic bowels— Looked disconsolately at his Secretary, who was fast asleep over one of his old pamphlets against Catholic Emancipation—Bishop shot his head suddenly over ship's side, and groaned like a martyr—Dropped his shovel hat in the sea, and borrowed his Chap lain's castor, which didn't fit—Another heave of the ship, and a corresponding motion in the episcopal epi gastrium—Chaplain asked Bishop how he felt—Bishop replied, he never felt so uncomfortable since he was de prived of his rich living of Stanhope. 2, P.M.—Wind gradually abating.—Bishop quite comfortable again—Saw a porpoise, and asked the Chaplain if it wasn't very like Doctor C--, of Exeter— Chaplain said yes, of course—Tried to laugh, but was nearly choked with the effort. 3, P.M.—Sea much smoother—Bishop remarked that his fleshy Tabernacle was in want of repair, and piped all hands to dinner—Dispatched a pullet in less than no time, to the astonishment of the Mate, who said he'd rather keep him for a week than a month—Hob-a 'lobbed with the Chaplain—Toasted " Church and State" —Was beginning to sing the song of " Toby Phillpots," when just as he got as far as the word " Toby," a tre mendous roll of the ship sent him head foremost on the cabin-floor—Two hams, a round of beef, four bottles of champagne, and six ditto of old Port fell atop of him, and kept him cool and moist —Chaplain alarmed, sang out " The Church in danger ! 4, P.M.—Scilly Isles in sight—Aborigines rushdown to the sea-shore to see the great man—Astonished to find him just like any other man !—Bishop lands at the head of his staff, and holds a consultation with a native Chief, respecting the culinary accommodations of the island—Denounces all the islanders as savages, for their indifference to gastronomical science, and orders his two men-cooks to enlighten them on this point—Repairs to the lodgings provided for his reception, and gives an order on the Treasury to the ship'i steward, for ninety three pounds, the expense of his voyage. (Signed) NATHAN NOGGS, Captain of the schooner, Hoax. • BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARIE.-D EATII OF THE HIGH BartarT.—Tuesday morning, died at his residence, the Retreat, Vauxhall, Mr. John Holmes, in the 83d year of his age, High Bailiff for the borough of Southwark. The de. cea , ed, who filled this important situation for a period of nearly twenty years, succeeded Mr. John Princep, and during that time, by his urbanity and courtesy, gave satisfaction to all parties. Until within the last few days the health of the High Bailiff had been very good, the first symptoms of danger taking . place on Saturday. 't he apointment , wh ich i s v aluable , is in the gift of the Corporation of the City of London, and from the will circ have eatno be ceoffitlhleedreubp i mme diately, as no process from theeing no deputy appointed , the vacancy Court of Requests can issue until his successor is elected. Three gentlemen are already named as candidates. The salary and emoluments are stated at 2,000/. per annum. - - - HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.---ROSSilli'S Mose is to be performed this eiening, with the cast of Li- Ronconi, Moltini, and Rubini, whose farewell is rapidly approaching, he having only five more nights to terminate his brilliant career. Some gems of I Puritani and the last scene 'of La Sonnambula follow, with tge. gorgeous ballet of Alma to close the evening's entertain ment. PTISZIC OPINION: The Post renews its attacks on the manufacturing system in the following terms :—" The modern manu facturing system of this country has pauperised and brutalised a fearful proportion of the labouring classes. While the policy of England was purely agricultural, the whole community was incomparably more happy and prosperous than it has ever been since. Under the in fluence of our old agricultural plicy, not only did the labouring classes find abundance of profitable employ ment, but their spiritual wants were faitufully minis tered to. This fact is indirectly proved by the enemies of the Church. These men are in the habit of alleging that the spiritual destitution of the manufacturing dis tricts ought to be provided for out of the noble endow ments of the Church herself 1 Yes ; the endowments of the Church of England are noble ! They are evidences of the piety of the territorial aristocracy of England under the influence of a purely agricultural po!icy. But why should these endowments be expected to provide for the spiritual destitution of a population which, ac cording to the boast of our free trade manufacturers, a manufacturing policy has created ? Let our 'Liberal' manufacturers—our champions of free trade, and of cheap production'—let the men who boast that the machine-owning capitalists 'could buy up the Peerage' —let these men provide for the spiritual destitution of those masses of human beings who have been made paupers, in order that the Cobdens, the BrothemotiF, and Gregg's, and Strutts, may claim to be the equals of Peers !" In reference to the Report of Mr. Roebuck's Election Committee, the Advet tiser says—" As was to have been expected, the heals of the Tory and IVhig Press have aimed at what they can do to quash and to neu tralise the effect of the late Committee on Elections. Deny the statements or the It port they dare not ; but evade, deride, choke them as far as they coul , they have endeavoured to do. The public, of course, may repro i bate, but will not be surprised at it. The Whig party, in the name of Sir John Cam Hobt-.ouse. and the Tory, in that 'of Mr. John Walter, are both so implicated in the facts which have transpired, that there can be no astonishment relative to the manner in which they each resolve either to give an erroneous impression of the cir cumstances, or to pass them off as if they were of no moment. They are both, too, interested in the maintenance of a corrupt system ; they both see in it a way for themselves and their adherebts into the House. One an acknowledged organ of the ex-Whig Administration ; and the other, whether the avowed or otherwise, yet the notorious re ceiver of a bribe to an enormous extent., for a change in the tenour of its political advocacy, both sides of the daily Whig and Tory Press are, therefore, literally the interested, as they may be considered, suspected media of opinion on this grave topic. Their aim, of course, is to cloak over the now revealed state of the representative question, if they can. As they cannot annul the facts, their most earnest endeavour is either to put a wrong face on them, or to drive them away into the oblivion of neglect and silence as quickly as possible. But if there is an honest party in the country it. will not let such at tempts have effect. And it is to this party the country must look if it wish for truth on a subject really the most vital that can be discussed. And the most alarming part of the facts which the Election Committee have disclosed are, by far, those relating to the compromises. It is this compromise question which really betrays a more corrupt state of the representative principle than even the bribery. It may be safely said that the annals of political corrup tion exhibit no parallel to it. The Chronicle observes, in allusion to the Mines and Collieries Bill—" No unimportant good will be accom plished by the measure. It will stop many horrible scenes of cruelty and immorality. For numbers of children it will create months and years of light and sunshine, and afford opportunities of instruction that may spread a blessing over their lives. Thousands of women will be spared the degradation to which they are now exposed, and raised to the decencies of their sex, and its more befitting occupations. Some check will be interposed to frightful and fatal accidents ; and by the withdrawal from this section of the labour market of those who never ought to have been in it, either the value of labour will be enhanced, or an opening will be afforded for the competition of men who are at present unable to obtain any employment whatever. We call this philan thropic legislation—a bright spot in the history of the session ; and a benefit for conferring which Lord Ashley deserves the thanks and blessings of thousands of grate ful hearts, as well as the applause of all who rejoice in the contemplation of honourable and beneficent achievements." The Herald says—" A man like Lori John Russell may be a fit leader for the Whig party coming into office, but we believe him to be too upright a man to be a fitting leader for it on its exit. For such a purpose it requires a man far more conscious and far more knowing —a man used to the convivial and forgiving temper of the times. Lord John Russell, cold and frigid—reserved in personal intercourse—his mind bent upon matters of state, election, or debate—rarely seen—not cultivating-, flattering, overawing, seducing the varied dispositions of the motly crew congregated under the banner of reform —cann 4be expected to hold his ground when any man possessed of such qualifications as those in which he is wanting chooses to come forward. The late Foreign Secretary to all those qualities which we have enume rated, joins many others. He gives himself trouble ; can fascinate when he chooses; and he is master of all the , social amenities ; and to Parliamentary tact, oratorical powers, facility of exposition, aptitude of sarcasm, he adds the unbounded influence of select hospitality. Ile is the very fountain of knowledge of, and intercourse with, the world without this little island. Facts, affairs, men, nobles, senates, princes—all that reside north, east, south, west of England—all that influences it from with out, possessed in his single mind, must be to the mem bers of manufacturing districts, as well as counties, a source of delight when he chooses to communicate, and of confidence when he chooses to withhold:" The Times contains the following We to-day re sume our remarks on Mr. Roebuck's Election Com mittee. We observed on Monday that the report was worded in a manner very diffvrent from those fiery speeches with which he opened the trenches against the accused Members. From what cause this proceeds of course we cannot pretend to say. Whether the line which Mr. Roebuck in that paper adopts is the offspring of a genuine suavity of disposition, or w h e th er h e f oun d on looking over the reports of his late speeches, with all their energetic disclaimers of all personal or vindictive motives, that it would be impossible, with any preten sions to sincerity or consistency,. to emit a personal tirade .against any one or all of those whom he visited • with his inquisition ; or whether he was obliged to re sign himself, whether he would or no, to the impossibility of substantiating a tangible charge of corruption against any candidates or Members of Parliament, and so con sidered it wise totake with a good grace that more quiet tone which circumstances imptoratively demanded ; or whether, finally, the Report is not his but the Com mittee's ;—whether any, or all, or which of these. reasons operated to produce that more guarded language . in which the much-expected Report is couched, we, of cours.3, cannot pretend to say. Nor, indeed, if the truth be told, do we very much care. It is sufficient that the Report is very studiedly unobjectionable ; and we are glad to finsi it so , witilotit invettigating bm'scrup4lon , 'y the eauset 1% hich may have combined tu 'make it wl.at it is." MONIrt--Wlilic76#E—CowzrazacE. The sum deposited in We Tyrone Saving , Bank is 428,9611., which is a larger inveStorent than appears in any other town for Ireland, Dublin excepted, Upwards di` hiiie hundred and sixty,Ove thousand persons travelled by the various steam-boats on the rivet' ; plying to and from Greenwich, Gravesend, and Wool wich on Sunday. Upwards Or 1 00,000 quarters of foreign Wheat from the north of &dupe have been imported into London within the last fortnight. NAVAL AND VinitIPARY. By a Parliamentary return of all mates of the Royal Navy, it appears that the total number who have passed their examination for Lieutenants, up to the 3d of March of the present year, is 387. LAW AND PO =CM At the Antrim Assizes Judge Perrin sentenced two sisters to be hanged for the murder of the illegitimate infant of one of them. Tuesdiy, at Greenwich, two little boys named Howe and Smith, who had come from Uxbridge in searca of employment, were committed to prison fur three months on a charge of breaking a public lamp on the Greenwich road. It appeared that one of the prisoners had been before the same Magistrate on a similar charge, aLid that in the course of a fortnight lamps had bean broken in that neighbourhood to the amount of 21. I4s. The third adjourned meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Acraman, Morgan, and Co, of Bristol, took place on Tuesday. Nothing of public interest occurred, and /he meeting was adjourned till Thursday. PINE ARTS. A number of bas-reliefs, pottery, and other antiquities, discovered among the ruined buildings in Algeria, . have just arrived from that country in five largo cases at Paris. They are Roman remains, and are much admired. LITEItAR.Y AND SCIENrIrIC._ In preparing the ground for the railroad along the Rhine, portions of a skeleton mammoth, and remains of an extinct species of horse, have been discovered, in a bed of marl, about 30 feet below the surface.. Mehemet Ali, it is said, has determined on realising the dream of his life—the junction of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean by means of the canal to be cut through the Isthmus of Suez. For this purpose the Pacha had written to Mr. Brunel, the - engineer, who has exeeuted the Thames Tunnel, propising to him to un dertake this work. COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk left 'Hyde Park corner on Tuesday for Arundel Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose leave Puris in a few days for Beigrave-square. The Duke o Sutherland left Stafford House on Tues day for Leamington. The Muchioness of Bristol is passing the summer at her villa at Putney. The Earl and Countess of Powis left Berkeley-squar.• on Tuesday for Ashridge Castle. His Excellency Earl de Grey arrived in St. James's square, on Tuesday, from Dublin Castle. Lady Dover, with Viscount Clifden and family, left Whitehall on Monday last, for Gowran Castle, Kilkenny, for the autumn. Lord and Lady Lovat will receive company at Beau fort Castle, Inverness-shire, early in the ensuing month. Lord and Lady Vernon have arrived at Lausanne, on their way to the lakes of Swi•zerland. THEATRICAL. Covent Garden Theatre will open under the manage ment of Mr. Charles Kemble on the 4th of September. We understand that Miss Adelaide Kemblewill retire finally from the stage at Christmas. • Macready will recommence his theatrical campaign punctually on the Ist of October. MISCELLANEOUS. The chapel at Eton College is about to be extensively improved; the ancient oak wainscoting is to be placed in a new position, together with the Grecian urns and pil lars. The Gothic walls are also to be restored to their original state. The late Thomas . Reynolds. who gave important in formation to the Irish Government in 1798, during those times of trouble, received during his life 45,7401 of the public money, including an annuity of 1,0001. for thirty seven years. The pension reverts to his widow and two sons. The collieries of the Messrs. Kinnersley and William son, at Golden hill and Ridsgrove, have re-commenced working at their old rate of wages in the Potteries. They are the most extensive in this part of Stafford hire, extending through a district of four miles in length, and will be able to supply an immene quantity of coal for the manufactories at Burslem, Longport, Tunstall, &c., which will, it is hoped, put an end to the "strikes." It is expected that the other pits will 'soon also commence work. On Friday last, as an inquest was being held upon the body of Mr. Thomas Sollis, a farmer of Bishops Cleeve, near Cheltenham, in an upper room of the cottage of the deceased, the floor gave way in the centre, precipitating twelve of the jury, with the coroner, surgeon, and rolice, into the cellar below. They were extricated by means of a ladder, and fortunately received no injury trom the fall. Hollcham Hall, the princely baronial mansion of the late Lord Leicester, is now closed to the public, in conse quence of the Earl's death. COURT t ~iRCU~AR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.-tier Majesty and the Prin cess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, attended by the Lady in Waiting and the Maid of Honour, rode out in a pony phaeton. His Royal Highness Prince Alb.rt, and his brother the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg. attended by the Nohl,men and Gentlemen in Wuitteg, rode ow on horseback this afternoon into the Great Park. Viscount awl Viscountess Etnlyn are ,xpected this evening at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of .Kent. attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, will join the Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess - and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge honoured th.!ltalian Opera with their presence on Tuesday evening, and afterwards returned to their residence at Kew. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also returned to Kew from town on Tuesday night. A Deputation, consisting of Mr. Litton, MP. ; Mr. Burke, Prothonotary of the Queen's Bench ; the Ho nourable 0. Plunket, Prothonotary of the Common Pleas, Ireland ; nd Mr. Henry Carey, Commissioner of the Law Courts Inquiry, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official resi dence in Downing -street. The Judicial COmmittee of her Majesty's mast Honour able Privy Council, sat yesterday, in the Council Cham ber The Lords present, were the Lord President, Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnston and Sir dward East sat as Privy Councillors. An appeal from Bengal, " Bab' 43 Deep Narain v. Lal Chutterpect Singh," heard at former meetings, was re sumed. Mr. Jackson, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Charles Buller were heard, and their Lordships then rose soon after four o'clock, and adjourned the case. • DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. THE HAGUE, JULY 25.—Accounts have been received. from Java to the 29th of March. The island was per fectly tranquil. Some parts of the island, particularly the Residency of Bagelen, had suffered from great inundations; the waters rose to an extraordinary height, and in many places left slime to the depth of a foot, and it is hoped that the damage which has been done will be subsequently made good by the increased fertility of the soil. Fortunately only two persons lost their lives. The Batavier Journal gives more detailed accounts of the natural phenomena observed in the island of Banda during the eruption of the volcano in the month of November last year. One of the most singular phe nomena was a commotion of the sea, which continued for three-quarters of an hour. The sea rose in different parts of the Bay of Banda nearly eight or nine fek above the usual level, and then fell as much below it. This occurred repeatedly. UTRECHT, JULY 23.—1 t is said that his Majesty King William Frederick, Count of Nassau, will return to the Hague in October, to be present at the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia. . . MUNICH, JULY 18.—I hasten to give you the joyful information that his Majesty the King has just landed on Prussian ground, having had a very agreeable voyage, with fine weather. PETERSBURGU, JULY 12.—The day before - yesterday, nn occasion of the anniversary of the birth-day of her Majesty the Empress, mass was performed in the chapel of the Palace of Peterhof, in the presence of their Ma jesties the Emperor and Empress, the King of Pru,sia, all the Members of the Imperial tinnily, and of the foreign Princes now assembltd at the Court, for the solemnity of the 25th anniversary of the marriage of their ImperiA Majesties. The Members of the Council of the Empire, the Senators, thegrand Officers, the Officers of the guards and of the army and navy, the Court, and numerous persons of distinction of both sexes, were present at this ceremony ; after which their Imperial Majesties re ceived congratulations, and gave audience to M. Mollerus, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- Nntiary of the Netherlands, who had the honour to pre sent his credentials to the Emperor. In the evening thi-r was a grand masquerade at the Palace fir the nobility and the merchlnti, which their Imperial Majesties the King of Prussia, the Prince and Princesses of the Imperial family, and the foreign Princes, honoured with their presence. Among the persons who had the honour to be pre sented to their Majesties before the ball, were Sir Drum mond Stewart, Lord Ingestrie, and Lord Sheffield. • DUTCH FUN tsS.—AIIiTEnDAM, JULY 25. ilo•-• • • t.,s. Actuai Debt, *2% per Cent Mtn, ditto 5 pet cent. t Syndic, 11, per vent .)itte, ditto, 3l per cent 7 ' 141 (Ka i:ammercial CoApany, per cent 1446 14.434 Ditto (11.35 and NV) 5 per cent........... 1 , 11% ttHij t Loath 1F.37, S iier cant. Exchange nn London, One month 0.2 Two months 12 1 1 5 Hamburgh, One month 35 83 Si Two months 35 5'J Dutch Papers, July 26 We are now enabled to state that the great bulk of the hay in this neighbourhood has, within the last fort night, been secured in excellent condition. Such has been the genial and propitious weather with which we have been favoured, that the grass has been no sooner cut down than it was ready to stack. In some places, where the land is light, the pastures have suffered from the drought, but on the whole, we believe, there can be no doubt that the crops are abundant. —Derby Chronicle. FANCY TRADE.—A number of the master fancy manufactureisin the neighbourhood of Huddersfield are putting out more work ut present than they have done for a considerable tine past ; still the improvement is but very partial: Lest seek a very extensive fancy manufacturer made a reduction of about twelve per cent. in the price of weaving one sort of fine' waisteuating, viz., eighty shaft Nvitches.—Leeds Times. MONE V and COMMERCIAL NE WS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Funds lei t off more firmly, if possible, than they were in the early part of the day, end the closing prices of Consols were 91 91* for Money and for the Ac'etnsitt, Bank Stock, 167 169; India Stock, 249 251; ' Exchetittet Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem. To-morrow is the day fixed for settling time bargzitlg in Foreign Securities, but as no such transactions them have bean entered into it merely remains to noticert that such is the fact. The usual rate of interest for", ( money upon such a day as this has been from, ten tt v ' twenty per cent. per annum, varying not on the validitt of the security, but on the credit of the borrowatii, , ' and so little has t ! - .e event been regarded to day, that money MIA freely offered on worthless bonds at five pet cent., the lender..., however, being perfectly aware that no bargains had been made which would justify borrow ing. Prices were—for Belian, 1011 1021 ; Dutch TWO' and. a-Half per Cents., _ 51 1 511; the Five per Cents . . ' 1011 102 • Danish, 811 823 : ; and Brazilian,' 64 65. Th e quotation for Mexican was 36+ 361. The Share Market was decidedly improved. London and Birminvham were 180 182; Birmingham and Gloucester, 48 50 ; Great. Western, 871 881 ; the Half Shares, 62 63; South Western, 611 621; North Midland , 59 60 ; the New Shares, 29 30 ; South Eastern ant i , Dover, 23i 23+; Eastern Counties, B,i- 9 7 , 1 ; Northern an n. Eastern, 40 41 ; Blackwall, 9 91 ; and Brighton. 33-a 338 per share. T..e bonds were thus quoted :—.Colombian, 204 21 Peruvian, 15 16; Portuguese Five per Cents., 331 3 3 4; the Three per Cents., 191 20 ; Spanish Five per Cents. , 201 ; and the Three per Cents., 201 20*. (From The Sun of Lest Night.) The prices of the funds continue firm, but without any ez. tensive business. Consols are 91A 91 1 4 for Money and for the Account ; Three per Cents. ttettuced, 911194 ; and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1001 1001 ; New Three.'4f and-a-Halt per Cents 100 1001 ; Bank Stock, 1661 16711 1 0, India, Stock, 249 250; India Bonds, 29 31 ; Exchequer, Bill' Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 pi em. But little has been done in Foreign Securities, the marko , for which is steady, the transactions to-day have been—Dutc h Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 511; the Five per Cents. 102 i Danish, 82* ; and Brazilian, 65. The quotation for Mexican is 36k 36*. In Shares purchases have been made in South Western st 62 ;' Greenwich, 17i ~ Brighton, 3:i% 33% ;.South_ Easter n. 23* ; the Sc, ip, 8 ; Great Western, 8 8 ; the New Shares, 62k' Northern and Easter n, 4u ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47h• The Bonds quoted to-day are—Spanish Five per Cent! , 201 201, and the Three per Cents., 20k, 20*. The discussion in the House of .ommons last night on the subject of permitting the Coolies to proceed to the Mauri.in i haft attract.. d considerable attention. The accoun• I from thB whole of our sugar colonies agree that if an increase of Itbou reil be not received the produce must inevitably be much lea' sened. This ought not to be allowed, as the falling.off in B ° . , quantity of sugar from the West Indies has for same yen° been increasing, and were it not for the 'supply f rom tb. Alauritius, cely one-half of the quantity necessary P r the actual consumption would arrive in this cinnitry, cannot be concealed that the once important-colony !), Demerara is virtually ruined, and this fact is to be trace's to the want of labourers to supply the pla.-e of tb. negroes, who during the time of slavery, and from the biO wages paid to them in the years immediately succeeding tin s, '" cipation, had amused sufficient propery to render' tbeir t selves independent of more labour than is just ituffloiey, to raise the necessary food. In that place societies h s "' been formed, which have clubbed their money together , anti purchased estates, which have been parceled out in t ° allotments according to individual contributions, and or; which the negroes at present reside , quite regardless o f the! former employers, and who now are unable to obtain the cu vation of the plantations. Other parts of the West Indies n" certainly not yet reduced to this condition, but still much sect hension exists that, in the course of a few years , no labour ea • be bestowed upon the ground but that which - i s derive d retn extraneous assistance. In this state of affairs attention is naturally directed to th e Mauritius, which, with British India, is the source, from whi c q the deficiency is to be supplied. Here the negroeswork we" but the estates are not fully cultivated from the absen e .° of sufficient hands, and therefore a supply from some eouree actually necessary, and Which, without virtually te•establish 10 6 the slave-trade, can only be obtained from India. Such of tae Coolies as have proceeded to the Mauritius are stated to 1 16 • returned to India in the course of comparatively few yel e greatly improved both in condition and property, while . ! , island has received a great increase in its prosperity from VT; labour. Hence this measure, apparently so trifling, is of _P;,, greatest importance to all classes in this country, and it is "- hoped that it will shortly pass into law. ite t MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE , JULY 26 .— The to-- ar , is good, but the business has been limited for want of stock ti Euinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 3*; Manchester Assurarp 9i ; Manchester and Birminghao, 26 to 261 ; London a n d 9i 180 to 181; ditto New 32L, 30} to 30 1 / 4 ; Midland, 60 to 60* ; South Western. 62 to 62*. CLOSING PRICES. • BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 167 3 per Cent. Red. ........91* 3 per Cent. Con. (India Ditt o Bonds Stock ............... 1 :. 1 8 31 per Cent. Red... 1001 Ditto New A nnu ities... 0 New 33 per Cent... lOO3 Ex. Bills, I,oool— pia 5 P o New 5 per Cen'. Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ..,•••• Jan. 1861) 121 Bank Stock for Acct-e.. """ Oct. 11159 _Stock for 0pg...7 91 Jan. 1860 i 12 5-16:Consols for Acct. ••-•• FOREIGN FUNDS. r me rit. --- Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, s pe Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto ......... .... Brazilian Bonds 65 Prussian, 5 pe r c en t t: :" Defe rred. • t • ' 11 . 8 f. --4. " . BuenosAyres6 per cent Russian, 5 per on ::. Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Nletallic•••• • ;: . 9.0 i ~n .... Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per c, — -- Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent ..... -- Gteek, 1823, 5 per cent — Exchange ........... . ...... c. Nlexican, 5 per cent — ___ F D re it n to e , h, 5 re cen .. i c 36i French, 3 percent. 1 „ 1 !int., 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2. per cent. '7 lA Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto. 5 per cent. .. ... 10 SHARES Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 471 Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) ',:itto Loan Notes (10 paid) ... lOl, London and Black wall ( paid) ...... ..... 9/ London and Birmingham (90) ..... . .. • - -- Ditto Third. (32 paid) London and Greenwich Railway 'l2l 1534c1 lid)! 5i Ditto Preference, or Privilege London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 0 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .. ---- Ditto New Shares (30 paid ) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Midland Northern and Eastern (45 paid) South East,rn and Dover (50 paid) 9„Si Ditto Scrip. (10 paid) • TURNOUT OF COLLIERS IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. va BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING.—ACCOUDIS ha% been brought to Birmingham by the various conveynn e h , from the mining dis•ricts, that the colliers in the'neig, i _ bourhood of Bilston, West Bromwich, and Walsn.'it" „ have turned out, and are parading the country in . cl ferenc directions, demanding food and levying c°'; tributions on the inhabitants. Large bodies wet met on the road leading to Walsall, where it e l & pears the same plan which was put into success ; operation in the Potteries had been adopted. rri men having turned out at one or two of the pits , VI. r ceeded to visit the extensive works of the Earl Bradford, the coal and stone works of 'lludlei Brothers, and the lime-works of Mr. Adams, at til d, Butts, Mr. Brewer's; Mr. Strongthearm, at Doe PI and other masters, where- the men were compelled c r o leave work and join the turn-out, those who refused W so being ducked in the canal. At the time accounts le' the colliers were proceeding in bodies towards l' Fryer's works, at Bloxwich, and the Brownhill and re sell works, in the direction of Lichfield. On obtaining information of the turn-out and the iri o i lent proceedings of the colliers, Lord Dartmouth 911„ the Magistrates of the neighbourhood were promptly e'; the spot, and lost no time in calling out the Staffordsh. ir , troop of Yeomanry, and taking measures for quelit_rel' any disturbance which might take place. The a sst anee of a troop of the third Dragoons was also obta ine k from our barracks, and at the time my informant lee were statioled at the George Hotel, the Dragon , t' New Inn, and other parts of the town. WOOLWICH, JULY 25.—The Sulphur , 8-gun 1) 3 ! Captain E. Belcher, C. 8., Commander, arrived on 'Monday.% Woolwich from China, and is to be paid off here. She 11 been on foreign stations for a period of about five yeari, em h ployed in the surveying service on the coasts of New tin off Wales, East Indies, and China. The whole of the men d duty of the Royal Horse Artillery were assembled nn the grafy mounting parade at a quarter before 9 o'clock on Satura,_so morning last to witness the degradation of gunner Lloyd. 01;5 was found guilty by a Court-martial of embezzling his offiq r , (Lieutenant De Winton's) money, and afterwards desert.in: from the service. After having the letter "D" publicly I °' o , pressed on his person, in presence of the troops, agreeezblY the recent regulations, he was escorted to the PenitentiO t where he will be confined 12 months, in terms of his sentence' On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, a 60 years of age, went up to the parapet of the Arc de TriouiPL: and after erying out several times to the persons below, " 8 gore," precipitated himself from this great height, aid yr killed instantaneously. BIRTHS. On the 24th inst., at Highgate, Mr. F. Rivington; of a ' °11 „; On the 24th inst., at Finsbury-place, the lady of Dr. Js lll- Risdon Pennett, of a son. On the 19 h inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of W. E. yeller' ton. Esq , of a thught.f. o f On the 24th inst.. the wife of C. W. Graham, Esq. , Upper Belgrave place, of a son, still-born. of On the 2ith inst., at Norfolk-square. Brighton, the 1841 Lieutenant-Colonel Yaldwyn, Madras Arm y , of *son. ,De On the 24th inst.. at Guildford-street. Russell-squares lady of Forb s inslo Esq., surgeon, of a son. Rober t On the 25th inst., w. at Coombe Lodge, the lady of R obe Allfrey, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 26th inst., at Plum4ead, Mr. J. W. Letts. 60°1.- son of Mr. Thomas Letts, of Yarm-uth, to Susannah Frances, youngest daughter of Mr. James Redpath, of Shooter'o-bill• On the 20th inst., at Holywell Church, Oxford, Georqe Ki khan Pawn, Esq., of Cranfield, BedlordAhire, surgeon, t° Esther AuAusta, eldest daughter of Mr. Jonathan Lovo de '' of Oxford. B 11. On the 2.1 d inst., at S. Peter's. Walworth,e A Eiq., surgeon, &e. of Walaorth, to Theodosia Amel ia, th daughter of Richard Penny, Esq., late of At the Ca t tle Tmse, Ilfra com b e , on the 23d inst., LadY Wrry, wife of Sir Bouchier Palk Wrey, Bart. tin the 30th of June, at Albano, near Rome , Constance' dau ghter of the lat Sir obert Grant, aged 9 On the 21st inst., e at Calverleigh Court, Tiverton, Cathe riva Elizabeth, relict of the ! a t e Lieutenant-General Chapman' Royal Artillery, of Tamtield House, Somerset. Onthe23dinst. a ,Andlico-sqre. Alice Smith, eldest daught er of Chart Sewell, E'q., of are ea On the e2,s4t,hialutgsht.t,er of the l at Britwell ate Samuel House, the 1 On the l a th it'd., at West-end, Hampstea d, Sir ._ of Woods, Knt., Garter Principal King-of-Arms and Kn.g ., the Royal Hanoverian Gueiphic Order, aged 56. London Printed hei by 111VRDO YOUNG, No 12,.Strand an , at d The Publis Sun Ofiice, No. 112, S! I tho County of blickUeses, Thursday, July 21h 2142. ii ~~~, siiir NA Alai's- OS' Lon b urn a taink A' tne n, ; ; A. E T. J. T . D. Lc J. that tl Is. 6 , On pi 265. , Anth l Tnile s deliv e cross. 1 .63 BA HC AN Aftern day M YA Thy mote tran s f t vatic 14 `ha .nextq Rajiv; the G to pul lietai Si C. ° B • t ti . te s t he s , te‘y he; th e D u i for