The Sun. — London, England, 1842-08-01 00:00:00

TEAM to NEW YORK from SOUTH -1.7 AMPTON. The renowned steamer BRITISH QUEEN will leave SOUTHAMPTON, for NEW YORK, on the 10th SEPTEMBER next. Passage-money Twenty Guineas. For further information, and to secure Berths, apply at the 'Office of the London Agents, Messrs. Lightly and Simon,. 123 Fenehurch-street. HIGH% - /A 7 fElt AT 4.:iiNDuti BRIDGE THIS DAY. 'tir.ruing 45 minutes after 7 1 Evening 2) minutes after g „ eeO , Jr.,Q) §Utt ' A 709-Zbittt n 'S4W SUN OFFICE Three o' Cloth. Every day reveals ?futile atrocious proceeding en the part of the Mali Government. The old spy system , which flourished in lrellnd during the rebellion of I 7'28, is revived under the auspices of Lord DE GREY and Mr. BLAcicaunN; whose agents first make Ribbonmen, End: then transport them. The infamy of these tools of a l corrupt Government was exposed, in all its revolting den, fortuity, at a late trial of persons accused of the crime of flibbunistn at Armagh. Five of them Were found guihy: on the evidence of a spy, named 11:tc:AN, and a policeman named Cox, and sentenced to be transported for seven Mr. WHITESIDE, a liberal Tory, defended the prisoners, and denounced the conduct of the Govern= meat as atrocious. In his cross-examination the spy HAGAN gave the following account of himself‘ We .years. qua: hi's evidence from that really italepentlent journal the Newry Examiner : " I took the temperance pledge, but broke it on the ' doc tor's authority ;' I kept it as honestly as Father Mathew fur a year. I was ' nabbed' in September last. 1 was eight days in ' crib.' The first I spoke to about Ribbonism, after 1 was • necked,' was Constable Johnston, and told him to go for the Provost of Sligo, which he did. When I had conferred with that gereletnan, 1 was let out on heavy bad. After thut I reiterated meetings, made passwords, Ribbonmen, and all that. I made Ribbonmen by the hundreds. The police knew that was the business I went on. 1 was ' out' from September till February. I did not expect to be wanted by the police till about Patrick's Day—till the . assizes time. When I returned, I told them about the meetings. ' By the word ' them,' I mean Mr. Faw cett, Provost of Sligo, and the Alagistrates. While I was out at gaol, 1 concocted about SIXTY-SIX ittanoN ro Peas, AND SCATTERED THEM ABOUT as well 'as I could. The Magist-ates knew all this. During the time I wrote several letters to people, and gut answers. I took the oath of - the Society, once, twice, thrice, four times—aye, foarteen ' times—l had -no further to go, or I would have sworn more.. I AM THIS MOMENT BREAKING THEM ALL. I get my sup pose from the Government. My conscience stretches some times. - During the six months I was ,out I was as busy as ever at the 6 old trade.'" "1 WROTE THE RIBBON LETTERS, &C., DISTRIBUTED /THEM, AND CANVASSED RIBBONMEN. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MAGISTRATES, but not of the police; the former were: perfectly aware of what 1 was doing." 'rise Government which employs such a wretch as this to make criminals, for the purpose of prosecuting them, covers itself with infamy. No honest, impartial man could believe him on his oath. In the policeman Cox, the other witness, he found a worthy - colleague. Cox in his cross-examination said : " I told the party that I was from Termonbarry, in the county Roscommon. ,Vrat was a lie. I told other lies on the occasion. It was arsotKr lie to say that a man from Stokes town was to have met me there. I may have told other lies then. "think it quite right to tell the lies. It would not an swer me tell the truth always. I consider it was only my duty to tell the lies. When it comes in my way as a policeman, I don't think much about telling a lie. The pubtic good cirri only be eff;:clect by that:" . . 1:ox has evidently imbibed the Machiavellian spirit of the Irish Government. He believes with the author of the " Prince," and Mr. Attorney-General -BLACKBURN, that the public good is only to be effected by lies, and so he tells them, and swears these,, and transports those who are credulous enough to believe him. Except in Russia there is not, out of Ireland, a Court of Justice in Europe in which th.s testimony of such monsters would convict any man of a crime to which :t penalty of five shillings attached. But _under tie parental Government of Lord DE GREY, • . :heir evicts nee is sufficient to send ',scores of Roman . Catholics taiM Norfolk Island. - Judge CRAPTON, who .- - • • • 'presided at the trial, admitted that the conduct of I the witness, HAGAN, as described' by himself, was • strange," find "at ' variance With" . the spirit .of the . t lie • C m Christian religion,".bs l i d not tell them, as we cun- . • . t , . - 41rlit.was.hiStlute tohavt'done,that these witnesses wer e . ~ • . not to be believed upon their oath. Mr. WRIT..ESIDE W • dl six posed - the 'base conduct of the Government. in ens. • • ttloying . sash wrettihes, to ,betray ' innocent, 'men into "'',htz,i,nie 'flit; the purpose of prosecuting. their,. We regret :; , , ' 6 . 41114 we r.Barr only 'Mae come' for' the'roilov‘ing extract . ....viahlititnitis'kpetrett :-7- .. .. . . . ... . , .. evole•-': "1 never kneW that fe`was the duty of any'Government not to Use their most strenuous,. their ineessant, their undivided cam , sdal" , tions to guard agains....the perpetration of crime, but rather to t .v tuff . ..Stake criminals, in *der that they might shine their vigilance 10 oni‘inthe joianishenint o ‘ r the offenders of their • men ' creation. • - -------------- ban ilchievee'kiiew th aat Government could not only tolerate, MUNE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. +(fiats irtrt absoltitelia sanction - the mission of te, tutored spy, who CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. was let .olit on the people: in .order to 'entrap , into his. The Funds have again improved to-day, and the business la t as-AoTfireifihr; liiiioceni - and th e unwary . Many have doubted been very extensive, conducted chiefly by some of the moat in the prnpriet er receiving the evidence of a villain steeped ' fluential brokers. Consols have advanced to 911 91a f or M oney , •gninaniu,iq '''Monster, On • feared not, it might he, to and- for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced 92 92k- ; v . newefillifitiii Wills in the blood, of his fellow-man, or (as in I Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1011011 ; New Th ree . Iv / ,id (IRV lye* 0 5 . 4,0 who was a participator, according to his ' and-a-Half per Cents., 100 1004 ; Bank Stock, 169% 170% ; ateoiegtgirse&*kit, 'in the offence with whreh the prisoners, at the India Stock, 249 251 ; India Bonds, 322; Exchequer Bills, asembirairiabargetl-I ,say many have doubted the propriety of ; Obi, 52 54 ; New, 50 52 premium. alagiffsijiloft the evidence of that corrupt acc omp li ce against, Attention being chiefly drawn to our ow n mar k e t, F ore i gn ed itirseliki l and liberty of his fellow-man. However, I dome" Securities have been 'comparatively neglected, transactions ifin brill it, nor do I object to juries acting on such testimony, have been, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51%; the Five filtf9Stilitided •it receive full corroboration from f a ith- 101%. per Cents., • - titilerdittri witnesses. 1 could have had no objection, if, i Mexican bonds are quoted 36b for Money, and 36 for the Ais4;freli" Hagan was first apprehended,' a trial against Account. "''th'eSe' unfortunate men had been instituted ; then by The Share Market has been firm, with but little doing. —his evidence, let the case either stand or fall ; but Great Western have been sold at tio ; the Half Shares, 631; when it is well known that the information he then possessed j Brighter,, 34; South Eastern and Dover Scrip, 8; Eastern --was not sufficient to obtain aconvietion—when it was found that Counties, 61. 9s. 2d. ; the Debentures, 10/. 9,. 2d. ; Northern with his whole stock-in-trade of news, no sane person would be 'and Eastern. 17; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47 3 4 ; and Paris presumptuous enough to bring a prosecution forward—when it and Rotten, 181. was found that, as matters then stood, littlemore than patched• Some transfers have taken place in the shares of the Austra up stories and a superabundance of villany could be de- lien Loan Stock Banks; those of the Bank of Australia at a tected on the 6 conscientious' scrape-grace—they invest him premium of 4/. per share, the original shares of the Union with new powers, full impunity is awarded to him, he is decked Bank IA 4/. 35.. and the New Shares 1/. 2s. 6d. premium. out with all the ability to deceive, to decoy, to allure, to - Spanish Bonds only are quoted to-day ; the Five per Cents. betray, those upon whom he can foist his villainy ; and when at 20L. 21, and the Three per Cents. 20X 20g. he has made a rich harvest, he returns home, parading the Letters from the manufaeturing districts, received this morn. long list of his victories, and from a 'paternal' Government ing, are of 'a more satisfactory nature than those of late. It is claims honours, rewards, and patronage, us proportion to the stated, from Manchester especially, that some extensive orders amount of crime which he has the unparalleled, monstrous hail been received, and that the execution of them will cause audacity to pride having perpetrated, during his cursed career, the employment of many men now out of work. It is admitted on the lives and properties of those whom it was the duty of a that the prices are exceedingly low, but still sufficient to reran wise Government to !protect and fipiter against the w il e s of nerate them. A better feeling appears to prevail, and the iniquity, instead of letting slip on them the organised, pre- masters, it is said, are now convinced that it is far inco'llerted, and deep-h. - lid treachery of a tutored spy !" more to their interest to wait for orders, than to What is Mr. O'CoNNEto. about that he does not bring manufacture on speculation. Much of the present dis tress may be' traced to thi s system, encourage d at the . conduct of the Irish Executive Government befbr e . first by reckless advances from the J o int St oc k B an k s , I ) :Arliatnent ? It is impossible that Sir HOBERT PEEL in the immediate neighbouthood and subsequently, when they and Lord ELIOT can know and sanction such sum abomi- I were broken u-a, by parties, who for the sake of the commission noble system 'as is here denounced by a most respect- continued the plan by drawing upon their connexions in other able Tory barrister. Lord ELI O T i s inc a p a bl e o f sanct i on - countries. The result has been that f o r e i gn mar k e t s were completely glutted with English goods, which could have been ing the entrapping innocent men into crime, to fill the purchased at a heavy discount upon the cost prices. It being pockets of Crown lawyers, and supply blood-money to impos ible to effect sales in order to meet the bills when due, failures o a c n e d u r f r r e o d m , and the tl i i n e te elil e i n s ce n o r w e c b e i e , :g d n n d i u n g i to duty of some of the Liberal Irish Members t o brio spit s and informers. We, therefore, hold it t o b e t h e n w u o m rk er i o ts " ow fa n g the the last month,' from most foreign ports, it appeal! question before the House of Commons. that speculative consignments having ceased, the heavy 1 stocks were being gradually dimini s h e d, an d pr i ces I consequently improving. This is more particularly to be noticed at Rio and Australia, more especially at the latter place. It is not twelve months since when cottons were selling there at from 25, and in some instances 30 per cent. below the invoice ; and it was calculated that there was sufficient, which, if it were all taken off, would have required twenty-two pounds from every individual, whether convict or free, of the whole population of the country. . This state of af fairs is now happily at an end ; prices had risen to something like a remunerating point, and orders had been sent home, but coupled with a strong injunction not to exceed the extent of their improvement, were to continue. MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, fJucv 30.—There is no material change in prices, and not much stock offering, but vte do, not consider our market to be firmer than yesterday:— North Midland, 591; Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 20it ; Leeds, 77 to 78; ditto, Half-Shares, 331 to 34, Grand Junction, 184 to 185. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS . . --. That y.iseyeti--- .. 'MIA —."--_—__.---(1,40) lolk 1.4... ti of City, V-3'2,4 per Cent l ,3i Sreletl of Commk,rce,4!,perCent... 66 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 73 I'4 Ilonal SfiCiely .. — Exeltarge r a n Londen (short) - -_Brussels Passers, July 29. AUSTRIAN lUNDS.—.VIENNA, Rio( 21. fiteper Cents. Metalhques Font per Cents. Three Tr , r Cents. bant . sharrn :. _ ...... ______ =v .__ _ _ _........ _... ...... ...... HA MBURGH BORSEN HALL , H..ix t 29. tills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares... it 31 1629 Analo-Russian Loan 14%94 ii 9 Russian 3 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO3 102% Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series ' 93 9714 Ditto in Certificates 9B 9754 New 4 per Cent. (1840) B9 t 134 Dutch .‘ctual Debt, .46 per Cent Ditto a per Cent. Polish Bonds ..... New Tickets l6B Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 79 78% Spanish, New 5 rwr Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDOI O . HAMBURGH, JIILY t4—.13 94, Two months 13 7%. PaTecsaufw,JULY 22.—Three months, 35 pence. ItIGA, JULY 3. ...Three Months, 384. There is not much political news in the French Jour nals of Friday.- and Saturday, received this morning. In the Chamber of Deputies on Friday an exceedingly tumultuous scene took place on the report relative to the e'rvtion of M. LAROCHE-JAQUELIN, for Ploermel, being pre:sentco., Solite objections were made against the return, but the bureau proposed uisnnimously that the lion. De puty should be admitted. M. BILLAUT rose, not, he said, to oppcse the admission of M. LAROCHE-JAQUELIN, but to complain of the conduct of the Ministry in the elections in general. lie accused them of' having supported the Le gitimist candidates against . the Dynastic party, and founded his accusss:ion on a letter written by M. DE- L tTouc:n the Sub-Prefect of Ploerinel, which de clared that the neutrality imposed on him by the Ministry, with respect to M. DE Slyer, M. LAROCHE- AquELlN's opponent, not having been guarded, he had considered himself released from any further obliga tion, and had voted for that opponent (M. nI. Stvav). The Minister, M. BILLAUT argued, had acted thus be cause a Deputy of the Extreme Right was less dangerous to the position of the Cabinet than one of the Left Centre. The Minister of the Interior denied that the statement just made was founded on truth ; the Sub-Prefect had forgotten his duty to the Go vernnient if he had voted for M. DE SIVRY, M. ODILON BARROT said that there was this difference between the Government and himself, that he was not ashamed to acknowledge the support lie gave to any particular candidate. M. BERRY ER declared that, %hailer in elections or other political matters, he had never looked at anything but the interests of his country. M. LAROCIIE-JAQUELIN was then admitted to take the uath and his seat. f The Theatres Royal will be closed this evening, and will re. mail so until Wednesday evening inclusive, on account of the ob-equies of the Prince Royal. The other theatres ,will be shut ogle on this evening and Wednesday. The King and Queen of the Belgians will remain in Paris until after the funeral and interment of the Duke of Orleans. On the occasion of the death of the Duke of Orleans the Polish refugees have presented an address to the King. Among the signatures are many eminent names. According to a Royal Ordonnance of the :.'4th of July, the family council or the King's gnindsons, the Comte de Paris and the Duke de Chartre-s, will be presided over by the Chan cellor, and will be composed of the Princes when they have attained their majority, and the following persons in addition,' viz.:—Marshal Soult, Marshal Gerard, ° M. Portalis, First President of the Court of Caseation ; M. Dupin Proeureur. General and M. Barthe, Fi rst P res i dent of the Court of Accounts!" 'Letters of condolence have been recziyed by his Majesty from the King o; Sardinia, the G ran d Duke of Baden, the. Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, and the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg)), in auswer to the notifications of the death of the Duke of Orleans. The body of the Duke of Orleans will be removed from the church of Notre Dame for Dreux, on Thursday morning at four o'clock. It will pass through Sevres, Vert:ailles, POnt chartrain, and Haumian. The prefect of the Seine-et -Oise has ordered that, as the funeral car passes through the towns of hit department, the line shall be formed by the National Bulk Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ........ 92 Ditto Bonds ....... A per Cent. C0n5 . ... 3 , 1 per Cent. Red... 101 Ditto New Annuities... - A,M , 31 per Cent .. lOO/ lEx. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 52 pm N'w 5 per Cent I Ditto 500/...... 52 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 52 pm Jan. 1860 ... l2l Bank Stock for Acct.... Oct. 1559 Jan. 1860 — Consols for Acct....... 91} FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. — i Portuguese, 5 per cent. 55 Belgian, 5 per cent ;Ditto, New Ditto 33i Brazilian Bonds... — !Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 'Russian, 5 per cent ll4/ Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Meta11ic........... Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 2Ol Ditto, 1824 — ,Ditto, Deferred.....— Danish, 3 per cent — !French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — 'Exchange --f —c. Mexican, 5 p er cen t 3f ,French, 3 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2/ per cent. 514 Pei uvi an ,lB2s, 6 per et. !Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101/ SHARES. Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid)... 27 Emiern Coanties Railway (2. I aid) ... — Ditto New Shares ( paid) .... 6l 10s Od D tto Debentures .. .... lO/ 9s 2d Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid),..... ... 47?. Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 64 London and Brighton (50 paid) . '.;3'. London and Black wa ll ( pa i d) 9i Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... Ditto New Shares ( 30 paid) 344 Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) Midland L.ounties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) . 17 North Midland Railway (tut)) .............. Paris and Rouen (18 paid) lbi ;,oath Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ............ Ditto Scrip. (10 paid) - ..... 8 Bell's Life in London of yesterday contained f our of their long folio c olumns of the Goodwood Races, with an En' raving of the Goodwood Cup, desig ned by Mr. C o t ter i ll, drawn by Mr. Herri ng , an d engraved by Mr. Orrin Smith, Bell's Life also gave nearly two folio columns of the Grind Cricket Matches between the Eleven Gentlemen and the ElevA n Players; the Eton, Harrow, and Winchester Contests; The Eight-oared Match of Eton: and Westminster; and a full re port of the Pugilistic Affair at Woodstock between Maley and Cross. Bells Life of Jtily 31 will be kept en sale Ell the vieek, at the Office, 170, Strand; the prices Guards. The clergy of each place will also assemble on the occasion. ADDRESS OF THE CHAMBER OF PEERS AND THE RING'S REPLY. His Majesty came yesterday to the Tuileries, and received the grand deputation of the Chamber of Peers, with the Chan cellor at its head. The Chancellor presented to his Majesty the address in answer to the speech from the Throne, voted on Thursday by the Chamber. It is couched in the following terms : " Sire—The Chamber comes to unite its grief with that of a king,.with the despair .of a mother and venerated Queen, and with the mourning of a nation. A great misfortune has fallen upon u°. That Prince whom your care and your example had formed for the glory and happiness of France, to whom situa tions so difficult and circumstances so diverse had given the education of experience—who grew up in respect for the laws and in love of his country—whose valour .On the field of battle our soldiers were proud of, and whose wisdom, when he took part in our councils we acknowledged—this Prince has been torn from, us so suddenly that we can scarcely believe that he whom we loved to see by the side of his father is there no more. If paternal grief admits not of'consolatioa, it is a duty for us to say what ought to sustain the courage and constancy which have never: abandoned the King in the most severe trials of his life; it is a duty for us to proclaim what ought to maintain the natien hi its security, even when it is profoundly affected and afflicted. Yes, Sire, this grief which unites all classes and all opinions in one sentiment is undoubtedly a sad, but it is. also a powerful, proof of the attachment which France has Conceived for the dynasty which she has called to the throne, and to 'which she has entrusted the preservation of her liberties and her honour, Yes, Sire, in this public calamity it cannot he douhtful•that we all love the monarchy that we have founded ; it is placed above the storms and discussions inseparable flow the panic:al existence of a tree people. It is the fixstl point to which cur rights end our affections are attached. It has new beceme indispensable to fill up a chasm in our institutions. Our confidence in the future has been betrayed. Providence has tops severe towards us; but we should be ungrateful it we forget how frequently it has preserved vs. It wia prolong for many .years the life of your Injesty. God still protects Fiance, to which you are so necessary ; tne Royal child, whose birth was asource of public joy, will grow under your eyes ; he will gather the lessons of your wisdom. Your sons, those sons of France, those faithful anti devoted servants of the Stare, will constantly set him the example of love of the country and et the fulfilment of duty. His mother, that Princess who shared our love and confidence with the husband for whom she for tao few years was the cause of happiness, will devote her life in rearing the King of our children for the future welfare of France. And the whole nation, surrounding him with its love and its hopes, will prove to him that it is a noble task to reign by the laws over a great and powerful empire." The King replied— . Messieurs les Pairs-1 am much affected by this address. I . find in it the expression of those sentim en t s w ith which my own heart is penetrated, and a new pledge for that union of all the powers of the State on which is founded security for the present, and a guarantee for the future, against the dangers. to which they might have been exposed from the cruel blow which has fallen upon me." Most of the Members of the Chamber had joined the grand deputation charged with the presentation of the address. All the Peers had crape on their arms, and on the hilts of their swords. BOURSE--PARIS, SATURDAY, JULY 30. • First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 117 90... 118 ... 117 90... 118 4 per Cents 104 40... 104 40... 104 ... 104 3 per Cents..., 77 75... 77 90... 77 75... 77 90 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5020 ...50 20 ...5020 —.5020 Belgian Fives lO2l ... 1021 ... 1021. ... 1024 1840 1034 ... 1034 ... 103 k ... 1034 Spanish Active 224 ... 224 ... 223 ... 221 Passive Roman ' 103/ ... 1031 ... 103* ... 1031 DUTCH FUN 0: - .-3iSTERDAM, JULY : 9. ?donee. BP's. Actto '2 1 4 per rent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amos t Srndie,4;4 percent. 934 544 Ditto, ditto, 3% percept Cernmercial Company, 4!•4 icor cent l4l , 145 Ditto (1335 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, b per cent. 99 1 , 9)4 • Exchange on London, One month l2 15 Two months Harnburgh, One month 35 7.) Two months Dutei Papers, July 30. tsELOJAN UND3-13nuf•s) Ls, JuLti• Aiwa) Debt, 2;4 per Cent. ttothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl4 Loan of Thirty 'Millions, 4 per Cent. 9 0% 3per Cent. _ . THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1842. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The fierce and uncompromising Toryism for which Maga was so long remarkable, has of late assumed a very sobered and tolerant character. We hear no more blus ter about " standing on the ancient ways," &c. ; for it is now discovered that those " ways" cannot be stood on with safety, unless they be subjected to considerable re pairs. " The Conservative majority," we are - now told, " of the present and of every future Parliament, must have its root in the principle of Reform, and must par ' take more or less of the nature of the soil from which it springs." - So says the writer of the article on the " Ses sion of Parliament," adding in a plaintive mood, " we cannot annul the Reform Act ; we can at b. st restrain and regulate it ; but restrain or regulate it as we muy, a change has come over the spirit of our policy." A change, indeed, when even Blackwood bears testimony to the irresistible power of Reform, and Sir Robert Peel 'sanctions the anti-Tory doctrine of Free Trade ! We can feel for the situation of a Tory of the " good o'd " Eldon bread. How completely out of his element he must be in public life, when the political prejudices in which he was reared, and which have furnished him with themes for his eloquence for nearly half a ceatury, are treated with sovereign contempt ; and things are become absolute matters-of-fact, which, in his earlier days, were the wildest impossibilities ! What humiliation must such a man experience at finding himself dragged a captive at the triumphant chariot-wheels of Reform ; and forced, by the conjurations of his necromantic Pre mier, to vote with Whigs and Radicals—the Devil's spawn, as he has been for years in the habit of calling them—in favour of an anti-anon ;poly tariff!! In speak ing cursorily of the Income-tax, the writer confidently anticiprtes that it will be productive of -" blessed fruits." This will be a great consolation to those who have to pay it, and we trust will r e c onc il e John Bull to the vex atious and inquisitorial nature of the impost. "Why not Colonise Cabal ? " advocates our taking possession uf this fine kingdom as a convenient country residence for the citizens of Calcutta. We have no treed to murder the natives, says Mr. Gilbert Young, to whom we are indebted for the suggestion, "there has been enough of bloodshed," so we will merely kick them out of house and home, and coolly and comfortably domiciliate our selves in the vacated territory. This Idea is not amiss, but we had better first ascertain how the Atfghans may be disposed towards it; We fear they will not much relish a summary process of ejection being served on them, in order that the Calcutta cockneys may be pro vided with country houses, but will be apt to make the same sort of resistance that the • Cireas shins are now' snaking to Russia, who is playing precisely the samb :genie with - those heroic 'noun taieeers. "Sketches of Italy " are rough and vigorous bits of colouring, clashed off hastily. We should be glad to see the author's descriptive powers occupied with a more novel and exciting theme. " Human :!..‘acrifices in India " is a singular account of a populous nativelndian tribe--of whom till lately little or nothing has been. known—who are in the constant habit of - offering up human victims to their chief deity, Berd Pannu, or the Earth God. This tribe, the Khonds, inhabit a tract of country two hundred miles long, and nbaut one hunClied and seventy broad, and lying between the valley of the Ganges and that of the Gadavery. From the statements respecting them recently published by Capt. Macpher son, of the Madras army, they would seem to be as su perstitious and remorseless, though not quite so merce nary a set of scamps, as the Thugs. Our readers will, doubtless, thank us for the following extract : "-The earth," say the Khonds, "was originally a crude and unstable may, unfit for cultivation and for the convenient habitation of man. The Earth God said " Let human blood be spilt before me !" and a child was sacrificed. The soil be came forthwith firm and productive. And the deity ordained "that man should repeat the rite and live." The disposition of this god is malevolent; and it is only on condition of de precating his malignity by the cea,eless effusion of human blood, that the Khond enjoys the ontinary bounty of nature. The rite of human sacrifice is the very foundation of the Khond superstition, and all must contribute, according to their means, to its support. It is considered essential that every farm should share the blood of a human victim at seed-time and harvest, and also on various occasions, according to the promise of the year, between those seasons. General suffering from disease or the ravages of wild beasts, and any calamity affecting the fortunes of the A bbaya, or Patriarch, equally call for public ex piations to the Earth God. Private atonements are deemed necessary when any extraordinary misfortune marks the anger of the deity towards a particular houSe, as when a child watch ing a flack perishes by a tiger, the form which is assumed by the Earth God for purposes of wrath. The priest is always consulted, anti generally demands an immediate victim. The. Khonds do not sacrifice victims of their own reople, for such offerings are unacceptable to the divinity. The victims or " illerias," are procured by a elasa of inhabitants of the hill country who are not Khonds; and these miscreants pur chase them upon false pretences, or kidnap them, from the poorer Hindus in the low country, to the order of the abbayas or of the priests, or upon speculation ; when in difficulty they sell their own children for sacrifice, and for sacrifice under a religious system which is not their own ! A few Meriaa arc always, if possible, kept in reserve in es cry district, to meet sudden demands for atonement. Every victim must be bought by the Khonds with a price, an unhought life being an abomi nation to the deity. Victims of either sex are equally accept able to the Earth God ; children, whose age precludes a knowledge of their situation, being for convenience sake pre ferred. The Meria is brought blindfolded to the village by the procurer ; and is. lodged in the house of the abbaya; in fetters, if grown up; at perfect liberty, if a child. He is regarded during life as a consecrated being; and if at large is eagerly welcomed at every threshold. Sometimes he is suffered to , grow up in ignorance of his situation, and he is presented with farm-stock and land, and mitts a wife of one of the'eastes upon the mountains, not of Khond race. Should a _family. be the result, it is held to be born to the fearful condition ofs the sire ; and should the deity require atonements not easy to be afforded, the father and his children are sacrificed. without hesitation. " Chapters of Turkish History" give a brief tiartr.tive of the career of the famtiue Barbarossa of Algiers=--a successful Corsair-King, to %ilium Robertsow has'alluded in his " Charles the Fifth." ." Sonnets" are by Mr. Prior, author of the " Life of Burke. The one entitled " A. Remenstrance to Time" contains a sentiment, the truth and force of which all must feel, who have reached middle age. Time does indeed fly swiftly when a man has once rounded his fortieth year. Up to that : period the flight of the hours is scarcely marked ; sometimes they oven seem to flag ; but after forty they hurry on at railroad pace, and fly the swifter in exact proportion to the value we set on them. Hence the frequent disincli nation among elderly people to keep birth-days, which, like mile-stones, remind them of the number of miles they have travelled along the road of life. " Recollec tions of a Ratable through the Basque Provinces" is a spirited biographical memoir of Martin Zurbano, one of the most celebrated of th e Ch r i st i no Chi e f s in Spain. " Poems oil Palestine" is a quizzical review of a recently published Pastoral, entitled " Pan," the scene of which, strange to say, is laid in the country round Bethlehem I The author might have located " Pan" in the Regent's park with quite as much propriety. Mr. Moir's p o e m " The Norman Conscript," is in his happiest manner ; and of " Caleb Stukely" we may say, that it exhibits no falling off in point of interest. The " Song on the In come-tax" is an amusing poetical squib. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Mrs. Butler, like Mrs. Trollope, is by no means ena moured of the manners and customs of Yankee-land, as her present narrative of " A Winter's Journey to Georgia" shows in every page. And, indeed, we do not wonder at her disrelish, for, according to her account, nothing could supass the dirt, discomfort, and rudeness she encountered in the course of her journey. The rail roads were rough, tumble-down a ffai rs — t h e steam boats leaky and ill-ventilated—the inns the very perfec tion of uncomfortableness. A clean towel was a God send—a clean bed a phenomenon—and when our tra vellers, hungry ;'nd way-worn, asked for breakfast, they were told they must wait till " the public hour !" Truly, it seams scarcely worth while to take the wings of the Great Western, and steam across the Atlantic, in order to encounter so much personal inconvenience. A traveller may be annoyed to his heart's content much nearer home. Let him take a trip to Connemara in the rainy season, or to Marseilles and Avignon, when the fleas and musquitos are in full vigour, and he may de pend on it he will be quite as much inconvenienced as if he had voyaged three thousand miles to Georgia. Of Charleston, the capital of North Carolina, Mrs. Butler says :—" This city is the oldest I have yet seen in America ; I should think it must be the oldest in it. It abounds in rickety,. dark, dirty, tumble-down streets and warehouses, with every now and then a mansion of loftier pretensions, but equally neglected and ruinous in its appearance." We congratulate Jonathan on his possessing a city which bears such undeniable tokens of a venerable antiquity. Washington Irving, in his " Sketch Book," hinted that he envied us our majestic and picturesque ruins ; blithe need do so no longer, since in Charleston his coun try may boast that she possesses, nut a baronial edifice or abbey merely, but a whole capital, in ruins ! " Don't be too Sure" recounts the disasters experienced by an elderly Benedick on ;is wedding-day. At ten o'clock, A. 31, he was marriA—at noon he lost his wife—in the evening he was thrashed by a tremendous Irishman, whose sister r,e had mistaken for his own spouse—and at night Iv; was ta k en up o n suspicion of f o r gery ! These incidents—we say nothing of their are dex.Lerously put together, and told with much drol lery IA manner. I n th e " Visit to Malta" o ccurs a gre.phie sket c h o f th e c hief town of Valetta, and its cAthedral c h urc h o f S t . J o h n . • " Pope Joan" is a tal e by Peake, founded on the old apochryphal legend, that a clever, aspiring female once disguised herself as a monk, gained hi g h reputat i on for l earn i ng and sanctity i . n that character, and ultimately obtained the Papal chair. w e see no great reason to doubt this legend, for many of the Popes have been old women. " Hours in I.liudost an " are an ent er t a i n i ng ser i es o f anecdotal reminiscences. We subjoin a description of a fight between a mungooze and that d rea df u l serpent t h e c obra capello, which the writer himself witnessed, in the presence of a snake char iner these of the ki n d. Beir:g el , sirous of seeing a combat between a snake and its inveterate .EgH at o e f ene_my, the mungooze (au animal similar to the ich neumon , instantly fight only snakes, but mungoozes with them) , and led us out into the compound—the field attached to almost every theho pusearitnven;tchttiments. Having expressed our f ears l est any of be injured by the reptile, he proposed that the exhibition should take place under an enormous pheasant coop of worked wire, which w,,s lying unused in the court yard. This arrangement was acceded to, and, at our suggestion, the snake first taken in the morning was selected fir the en counter. The mouth of the vessel in which he was enclosed was placed under the edge of the coop, and the covering sud denly withdrawn. In a moment after the cobra capella darted out. The kedgeree-pot was then taken away, and the edges of the pheasantry let down. During two or three minutes the monster poked his nose all round the enclosure, evidently wishing to escape ; hut, finding this impossible, he quietly coiled him;self up, freeing , however, his magnificent head from the folds, and remained in a sort of listening attitude. Presently the man produced the reungooze; anti let him in to his adversary. Never was I more surprised. This was the first time I had seen one. I had expected to behold a some what powerful opponent. Never could I have fancied that so small an animal would have .dared to cope with Serpents of the largest and deadliest kind; such, however, was the ease.• The little ,creature which now sniffed round the edge of the coop, was abbot half as ltirge agliti as- an Engliah rat, of a it mottled colour, with small red eyes, and %radii ha+e been a very ugly animal had it not been for its tail, which was long,. and bushy in circumference near the centre, almost as large as the little body to which it was attached. For a time the mon goose ran about without going direct up to the snake, which, however, having perceived its tormentor on its first entrance, had prepared to give him battle. Suddenly the tiny creature, which seemed to be little more than a single mouthful to its adversary, saw the snake, and without hesitation ran at. So apparently unequal a contest I never beheld. '1 he cobra cabella had reared itself, and 'spread out its hood, a sort of fleshy cape it inflates when irritated, and which has given rise to its desig nation. The marks round its eyes resembled a pair of spec tacles. Its marble-stained scales seemed all alive, as it raised itself some three feef high to meet the attack cf the little savage, whose fiery eyes seemed suddenly tc glow like red-hot cinders as it rushed towards its mighty enemy, and bit it. The snake dart, d at it, squeezed it, inflicted its dreadful wound, and then threw itself back. The mungooze was evidently disabled. Faint and almost dying, it retreated. Many of us fancied the battle over, and regretted the 'untimely end of the courageous little beast. Alter limping about for some time, and even lying down w bit exhaustion, the mungoeze began to poke its nese on the grass. What it swallowed none have ever been able to trace, though large rewards have been offered for the discovery. What the herb is which this little animal partakes of, none can tell, hut certainly its erects are miraculous ; for, no sooner did the creature im bite the sought-for antidote, than it suddenly recovered its pristine strength, and again attacked the serpent.• This scene was re-enacted no less then seven times ; each time the cobra appearing weaker and weaker, till actually tired out. The mungooie at length succeeded in caching the monster by the throat, and destroying it, to the surprise and admiration of all present. " Adventure of a Blue Jacket " is a true story of a sailor, of the tough old :school, who took a garrisoned fort near. Calcutta., by mistake, when he was drunk, having swain off from his vessel, scaled the walls at mid night by way of a fralie, frightened the Dutch garrison, who thought that the English had effected a breach, and set them scampering out at the gates as that as their short, squat legs would carry them. The old tar then composed himself for a nap on the ramparts, and having slept off his drunkenness ; began wondering how he had got into the film , Alittt.had become of the garrison, and how it was that lie was absent from .his ship, which was lying in the river hard by. The rust of the story shall be told in the writer's own words-: Jim subbed his eyes. He pinched his legs, and walking up to a tank, actually drank three mouthfuls of water before he could believe that he was awake. He then strutted up to the rampartS ; and convinced himself he was is his proper senses, for there lay the two frigates, and there floated the union-jack, for - which be had often risked his life. "Shiver my tanbers! but this is a queer go!" said he, and with that he twitched up his trouscis as usual, and shook the pigtail—which then hunt from every sailor's he ad. The vessels, perceiving a man thus expose himself, began to .fire at him. " Avast there I" shouted Jim ; but, as they did not hear him, or attend to him, he ran to the principal battery, and, climbing the flag staff, pulled down the Dutch colours, and hoisted up a ragged cid turban, he found lying in one of tne streets. The commanders of the vesel.thought this extremely odd. Something strange had evidently happened ; so they sent a boat on shore, bearing a flag of truce, carried by the First Lieutenant of one of the frigates. Unmolested the party marched up to the fort; and, as the gates were open, till_ molested t ey tnarcted into it. Not a soul did they inert till . • Jim strutted up to them. flolloa, you sir, what's the meaning of this ?" said the First Lieutenant to Bunting, in a voice of anger; for it was sadly infra diy. for an officer of his rank to have been thus sent off to parley with a common *allot. " What's the meaning of this ?" " Please your honour, I hope you won't be angry, Leeftenant, but, somehow or other, I've taken this pace. The enemy have cut the painter, and sheered off." "What !" cried the superior, " You took the fort !" m nodded. " And pray who the devil'gave you leave to do so, I should like to know ? Get on board, Sir, directly." " Ay, ay, Sir," re; lied Jim respectfully, instantly doing as he was desired. In the meantime the Lieutenant went, and formally took pos session of the place-by running up the British colours; then writing a most pompous despatch, in which be recommended the real captor to be tried for leaving his ship without per mission, he sent it back by a young midshipman, remaining be hind himself, with half-a-dozen sailors, in order as he expressed it, to garrison the fort.. Strange to say, his recommendation was attended to, and Jim Bunting brought to a court-martial, who most reluctantly were compelled to find him guilty, adjudging him, however, to undergo the least possible punishment that could be inflicted fer so glaring a breach of discipline. Jim felt highly indig nant at the turn things had taken. He could not help thinking himself an ill-used man ; but he bore it stoically. When, however, he heard the verdict delivered ; when he heard him self pronounced guilty, he once more hitched up his netber garments, and exclaimed in an audible voice as he left the cabin, " Damn my eyes if ever I take another fort as long as I live." Richard Savage " exhibits, as usual, some spirited incidents. The "Philosophy of Oratory " ,is poor, con:- mon-place stuff in which humour is constantly aimed at, and as constantl missed. The illustrations, however, are excellent, and tend in a great degree to redeem the deficiencies of the ktter-press. We close with an ex pression of thanks to Tho nas Ingolthby for his quaint, comical legend of " Netley Abbey." 'PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, JULY '26. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bond , , WO, percent I 2%. -- Excl , ange on ',Anion — 6 22% Pruseian State Gazette, July 27. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt Optitton. " Who runs may read." POREIGN. The funeral procession for transferring the remains of the late Duke of Orleans from Neuilly to Notre Dame, took place on Saturday. The troops of the National Guard and of the garrison were all under arms, and lined the road the whole length of the procession. The clergy, both on foot and in carriages, were far more numerous, and in greater pomp, than at the funeral of Napoleon. The heart of the Prince, con tained in an urn, covered with crape, was borne in a State mourning coach, with four ecclesiastics, The hearse followed with the body, &awn by eight horses. The cords of the pall were borne by six grandees on horseback. - Marshal Sault, and three ether Marshals, bore four of these cords. The Princes, the Ministers, the Deputations of Peers and Deputies followed in a long line of mourning coaches. The editor of the Gazette de France was on Friday prose cuted for alleged seditious libels which peared in that paper on the 19th and 20th ult., in, articles referring to the contem plated Begency, and sentenced by default to two years' im prisonment and a fine of 24,000 f. The funeral sei vice for the repose of the soul of the Duke of Orleans was performed on Wednesday in the Jewish syna gogue. A hymn, in French verse, composed by Ilalevy, was sung•, and produced a great sensation. This ,is the first time in Paris that the French language was ever permitted to be used in the religious ceremonies of the Israelites. Baron Larrey, the eminent surgeon whom the Emperor• Na poleon pronounced to be the most honest of men, died oil Monday last, at Lyons,, in the arms of his son, who had at:- ceinpanied him on his inspection of the troops in Africa, front which he was returning. Two days previously Baroness `Larrey, his wife, expired in the arras of her daughter at Bievre. The Baron was seventy-six years of age. The Madrid Gazette of the •2.3 d ult.:, a decree specifying the fortifications erected during the late civil war, which should be demolished and which should be maintained. Amongst the former are the Castles of Molina de Arragon, the Fort of Guadalaxara, and all the principal towns of the twelve military districts. MONEY—TRADE—CONLMETICE. Ihe expected turn-out of the col:iers in the neighbourhood of Wolterhampton, Bilston, and Wednesbury, the second within the last mouth, took place on Saturday night ; it is feared that strious disturbances may be the consequence. LECTXOWEERING. The writ ordered for the election ofa Member, arrived in Nottingham on Saturday. In the evening, Mr. Sturge and Air. Vincent addre,,secl the electors, and Alr. Walter chiefly on the Poor-law. On Sunday morning the writ was proclaimed by the Sheriff. The howination is lid for Thursday, and the polling for Friday. The - eleetion of a Member for Reading will take pine about next Tuesday week. The writ will be moved for either to-day or to-morrow. N.&VAZ .81173) WILIT.ARY. The Admiralty have ordered 31r. Oliver Lang, master ship wright of the Woolwich Dockyard, to submit a plan of a steam vessel of 1,650 tons burden, and suitable for engines of 800 horse-power, with a crew of 300 men. The largest first-class steam-frigates at present in the navy, do not exceed above 1,000 tone, and 400 horse-power. LAW AND POLECE, The trial of Mr. Owen Lynch, the principal in the late fatal duel at Galway, took place at the assizes there on Friday, when he was adjudged Not Gulty. Whelehan, who was convicted for the murder of his wife at Tullamore, King's County, and the day of whose execution was fixed for Friday, is said to have been reprieved ; but, according to other statements, only for a limited time. THEATRICAL. 'Mr. Beverley, the late manager of the Sunderland, Durham, and other theatre•, died at Scarborough last week. He was born at Hull in 1772. COUV.T—PASHIONATILE. 'fhe Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have arrived at Raby Castle, Durham, for the season. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton arrived at the Clarendon on Saturday, from Goodwootl I'ark races. The Ditfce of Devonshire leaves Chiswick to-morrow for Chatsworth. Lord and Lady Winehilsea are en the point of leaving Eng. land for the Continent. Lord and Lady P , nsonby left the Clarendon on Saturday, on a visit to the Bishop of Oxford, at the Deani-ry, Canterbury. The Countess of Leicester and the youthful Earl are now making a Continental tour. rtt ESCELLA.TtEOUs. A grand banquet' was given on Friday by the Lord Mayor to the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England, the East India Company, the East and We,it India Dock Com panies, and several other large mercantile and commercial bodies, in the Mansion-house. Nearly 200 sat down to dinner, among whom were the Dukes of Cambridge and Buecleuch, Lord and Lady ,Sandon, &c. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LoNnos, Ann UST 1.-Wind this day at noon E. N E. DEAL, JULY 30.—Wind N.W., by N. fresh; 31, N. N.W. moderate.—Arrd. Lord Goderich, Halifax ; Anelesea, Row lan Rio; Louisa Baillie, Secudem; China, St. George. Sld. Boyne (transport), Halifax. The wreck of a ship, about 300 tons, totally dismasted, apparently North American build, was passed, 24th inst., in lat. 51 len. 10, by the Anglesea, art iced in the Downs. OFF KINCSBRIDOE,:JULY 30.—Brownley,Knox,Al go aB a y. OFF DOVER, JULY 30.—Napier, Sandford, Baltimo re , for Amsterdam. PLYMOUTH, JULY 30. Wind N.N.W. Arrd. Mary, Bickingham, Sierra Leone; the Sarah (sloop) Sweettnan,from Liverpool, with salt and flour, wa; lost last night on the rocks near the stays—crew saved. GUERNSEY, JULY •_>B.—Sld. Adolphus Yates, Rio. SWANSEA, JULY 30.—Arrd. Enchantreis, Forster, Cuba. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 30.—Wind N.E. to N,W.--31 N. to E.—Arrd. Plantagenet, London, for Calcutta; Wellington, London to New York. Sid. Moffat, Plymouth and. Hobart Town ; and H.M. S. Resistance, Cork. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 30. Sld. Lady Mary Wood (steamer) Gibraltar. CORK, JULY 29.—Sld. Albion, Quebec. DUBLIN, JULY 28.—Rolla, Quebec, ABERDEEN.—Arrd. Albion, Leslie, and Caroline, Meuth, Dalhous'e. PENTLAND FRITH, JULY 26.—Arrd. Thames, Bell, Dal housie. BERWICK, Junr 29.—The Rhine, Leith to Rotterdam, has been assisted in here, with loss of mainmast, head topmasts, &c. GIBRALTAR, Juts- 21.—Her Majesty's steamer Geyser, arrived here from Patam, took fire on the 18th, which was fortunately extinguished, and proceeded on the 19th for Malta. OFF SALCOMBE, JULY 29.--Edmund, Scinta, Valparaiso; Cherub, Demerara. FALMOUTH, JULY 29.—Wind N. to N. E., fresh breezes; 30, N. W.—Arrd. Liverpool steamer, Gibraltar, left 21st inst., Cadiz 22, Lisbon 24,1 Oporto 26, and Vigo 27. Arrd. off, North Esk, Allen, Rio ; Sarah Maria, Oldridge, Buenos Ayres, e ft May 14, and sailed for London. Orr ST. ALBANS, JULY 25.—Arrd. Ottord, Bogadius, Bernina for Rotterdam ; Barend Willem, Ricketts, Java for Amsterdam. LIVERPOOL. JULY 31.—Wind N. 'by W., light.—Arrd. Swiftsure, Tasker, Africa, left Cape Mount May 23 ; St orm King, Laguna. Ski. Gardner, Calcutta ; Palmyra, Deme rara ; Agitation, Mirarnichi ; Pursuit, St. John's, N. 8.; Aristocrat, Montreal; Lockwoods . , Quebec; Mersey, New York. The Hannah, for St. Petersburg, and five, for Geneva, have put back leaky, having struck the bar of the Victoria Channel. EXPECTED NEW BEACON ON THE PENTLAND FRITH. THURSO, JULY 9.7.—The Skerry of the Island of Stroma (Pentland Frith) has been , surveyed, with the view of the erec that thereon of a beach. CAUTION TO MARINERS-A SUNKEN ROCK OR WRECK. The Pearl, I.overing, from Nantes to Falmouth, was assisted into Scilly, and ran on the Beach at St. Mary's, being very leaky, having struck on a sunken rock, or wreck, about fifty ladles from Pambccuf, lizetic Island, bearing N. E. half E., distant three miles. THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of English Grain were tolerably good, and considerable of Foreign Wheat and Oats; and there was anether good fresh supply of English Wheat. The fair weather, together with the large stock of Wheat on hand, rendered the Wheat trade excessively dull at 4s. to ss. per quarter reduction from last week's terms, and Foreign 29. to 3s. per quarter lower, with a limited demano. Barley, Beans. and Pease meet a very slow sale at former prices. Oats very dull, and hardly supported their former currency. Flour is expected lower, but the top price has not settled. itttIVALS OF ONAIN IN LONDON DURINII LAST WEEK Wheat. Barley. (sat.. , Flour English Irish - - 6,5 8 Foreign 38.931 egt; 46,880 FitiCES OM BOARD OF SFIP Wheat,Bed (old) s. --s. j Beans, Sinall(new) ...375.385. --- White (01d)... --a. -8.1------ (old? - -s. ------ 11080841) 465. 50s. '-- Tick (new ) '27 ' 525. Fine s,j s. 50. -- (oldi -1.-S. ----Superfine 55,. (.Os. - Darrow (new) 31..24.. .-- White (184 I)... 483. 523. -.- (old) 385.42 f --- Fine `iis. 60s. , Brank ...-5....1 --Superfine Ws 6.54 i Oats, Feed -s. 1. -Foreignfree 48 ._.. 68i., ---,-- Nets 165.245. Ryt •itss. 40: -- Poland ilarlry. .5s 32s ----New 225.:251. - Grinding , 6a 30s, - Potatoe ' -s. -e. - Malting .1os. 325. Malt s6s. 60. - Scotch 4 26,285. -- Fine New 628. 645. - Irish 158.... 16..225. Pease, Grey, New 10s 325. Flou 7 Town (persack).... Mi. 575. ..--- Maple New. 31.. 345. - Seconds "Os. 545. -....... White 34s 365. -....... North Country.... 48s Ms. .......... Boilers 368 ..3Ss Bran Bs. Vs. SMITHFIELD. Although the number of Beasts was small yet trade was not very brisk, and but little alteration in prices from our last quo tations. Prime Down Sheep were in demand, and sold readily at full rates, but other sorts anti Lamb trade were exceedingly heavy, and prices were lower. Calves being few the trade was brisk. The Pork trade was slow without any alteration. Beef, 2s. Bd. to 4s Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; Veal, 3s. 2d. to is. 2d. ; Pork, 25.28. to 4s. 4d. ; Lamb, 4s. 4d. to 4e. 10d. Beasts, 3,710; Sheep and Lambs, 29,700; Pigs, 345 ; Calves, 171 1 7.6,630 TEA MARKET. The prices were firmly sustained. Some low Congsu so!d at Is. 9d., and good at 2s. per lb. Company's Congou Is. 91d_ per lb., cash, but there is now so little remaining, that it is difficult to make a purchase. TALLOW MARKET. The demand on the spot was very limited, but purchases cou'd not be made under 465. Fine YeliowCandle, and 4Ss. 6d. for delivery in the last three months of the year. . PROVISION 31ARKET. The demand for Irish Butter was dull, and prices gave way. Fine qualities 665. to 89s. per cwt. Foreign Butter slow sale, and the best Friczeland was at 965. to 98s. per cwt. Bacon went off more freely, but at very low rrices for the inferior sorts, viz., 425. to 4Ss. ; the best qualities realised 50s. to 525. per cwt. landed. BOP MARKET. The accounts from the plantations were unfavourable, but a continuance of the present weather, it is thought, will restore the plant, and the duty is backed at 140,0001. The demand for the article is confined to the choice kinds, which bring full prices ; infcrio; sorts neglected. Ills Excellency Earl de Grey, Lord-Lieutenant of' Ireland, and suite; Mr. Justice Pennefather, Captain Acme, Captain Osborn, and tir John Becket took their departure yesterday afternoon, from the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell, in the General Steam . Navigation Company's steam-ship, for Antwerp, The General Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Soho arrived at the Brunswick Wharf, yesterday, from A►►twerp, and the Rainbow at seven this morning-, from the same place. The Columbine mail packet, from Rotterdam, landed her passengers, &c., at the same wharf. She brought win' a number of NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. • In a diverting tale. with the ad captandwn title of the " Grimsby Ghost," Mr. Iltiod thus whimsically discus ses the theory of apparitions. " Ghosts In! hanged ! No such things in nature; all laid long ago, beton , the wood pavement. What should they come for ? The colliers may rise for higher wages, and the Chartists may rise for Reform, end Joseph Sturge may rise f r his health, and bread may ri,e, and the rising generation na isi•; but that the dead should rise only to m a ke one's hair • rise, - is more than I can credit. Suppose your: el! ,a ghost. Well,, if you coire out of yotir grave to se eve a friend, how are you to help him ? And if its an enemy, what's the use of appearing to him, if you can't pitch into him ?" This is excellent logic, as far as male goblins are concerned, but Mr. Ho .d forgets, that ''O f i l it e. • tin , r is More : . likely . than dat female appatitiozs ould rise and visit their .old acquaintance, if only for the purpose of showing off their new dress ! One of the best authenticated ghost stori, s on record, is that of the wooden Highlander at a tobacconist's in Hol born, who Walked. up stairs into his owner's bed-room one night, and assured him, on the honour of a gentleman, that he had just had his head knocked off by the Marquis of Waterford ! The tobacconist rose in a fright, rushed down stairs, and there, sure enough, was the Highlander, standing at the shop dour without his head, which is . a proof—as all the old women in the neighbourhood as: erred—that the story must have been true ! Mr. Hood relates an anecdote quite as authentic as this—namely, that the figure-head of the ship Bri tannia appeared early one morning to a drunken boat swain, and informed him that the vessel of which she formed a portion, had been wrecked the previous night off Cape Cod! Capital stories these to relate by ChriStmas fire-side, when the clock is striking twelve, the wind is howling down the chimney, and coffins are bouncing out of the grate. " Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus" is a series of brief aphoristical remarks, some of which evince much worldly sagacity. The author is Mr. Horace Smith, who, unlike Swift and Rouchefoucault, adopts the most favourable views of humanity in all his observations. Indeed he plainly tells us he is an Opti mist, though not of the Doctor Pangloss school. "Remi niscences of a Medical. Student" is a thrilling narrative of a two-fold murder, perpetrated under the most toys terious circumstances, The story exhibits much of that truthful, earnest, matter-of-fact air which arrested the reader's attention so forcibly in Mr. Warren s" Physi cian's Diary." The "Five Incumbents" is an amusing series of sketches of character, in the conr,e of which an anecdotels told of the late Lord Eldon, which—if true, and we see no reason to doubt it—redounds greatly to his credit as a man of feeling and generosity. The pre sent chapters of the " Barnabys in America" are heavy and wire-drawn, with the sole exception of the scene wherein the clever, intriguing widow is represented as reading her manuscript Journal of Travels in the United States, to a party of American slave owners at New Orleans. This scene, though somewhat caricatured, is full of rich humour.' We quote Mr. Hood's quaint sketch of the " Undertaker," which - is in the punning, pointed, obsolete manner of old South or Butler : As a Neighbour he is to be shunned. To live opposite to him is to fall under the Evil Eye. Like the Witch that forespeaks other Cattle, he would rot you as soon as look at you if it could be done at a Glance ; but that Magic being out of Date, he con tents himself with chcosing the very Spot on the House Front. that shall serve for a Hatchment. Thenceforward he watches your going out and your conning in : your rising up and your lying down, and all your Domestic Imports of Drink and Vic tual, so that the Veriest She Gossip in the Pariah is not more familiar with your Modes and Means of Living, nor kn nW3 so certainly whether the Visiter that calls daily in his Chariot is a mere Friend or a Physician. Also he knows your Age to a Year, and 3 OUT Height to an Inch, for he bath measured you with his Eye for a Coffin, and your Ponderosity to a Pound, for he bath an Interest in the Dead Weight, and hath so far in quired into your Fortune as to guess with what Equipage you, shall travel, on your last Journey. For, in Profess,onal Curi osity, he is truly a Pall Pry. Wherefore, to dwell near him is as melancholy as to live in view of a Church yard; but to be within Sound of his Hammerings is to hear the Knocking at Death's Door. . . To be Friends with an Undertaker is as impossible as to be the Crony of a Crocodile. He is b, Trade a Hypocrite, and deals of Necessity in Mental Reservations and Equivoques. Thus he drinks to your good Health, but hopes, secretly it will not endure. He is glad to find you are so hearty as to be Apo plectic ; and rejoices to see you so stout,—with a short Neck. He bids you beware of your old Gout—and recommends a Quack Doctor. He laments the malignant Fever so prevalent —and wishes you may get it. He compliments your Co.r.i plexion—when it is Blue or Yellow; admires y0urup127,1,4 Carriage,—and hopes it will break down. Wishes yo u Gd Day, means everlasting Night ; and commend s his Re spects to your Father and Illother—but hopes you do not .s honour ; i them. I n s h or t, hi s good Wishes are treacherous h Inqui ries are suspicious; and his Civilities are dangerous ; , as when he preffercth the Use cf his Coach—or to see you Home. For the rest, Naturalists, he is still at odds with Humanity ; at constant issue with its and its Philanthropists, its Saes, its Ceunsellors, and its Legislators. For example, he praises the Weather—with tie Wind at East ; and rejoic es i n a wet Spring an d Fa 1, for Death and he reap with one Sickle, and have a good or bad Ilar.est in common. He objects not to Bones in Bread (being as it were his own Diet), nor to ill Drugs in Beer, nor to Sugar of Lead or arsenical Finings in Wine, nor to ardent Spiiiis, nor to Interment in Churches. Neither loth he discountenance the Sitting on Infants; nor the swallowing of Plum Stones ; nor of c6id Ices at hot Balls—nix the drinking of Embrocations, nay he bath been known to con tend that the wrong Dose was the right one. H e a pp roves , contra the Physici a n s , o f a d amp lied, and wet Feet—of a hot Head and cold Extremities, and lends his own Countenance to the Natural Small Pox, rather than enc , urage Vaccination— which he calls a flying in the Face of Providence. Add to these, a free Trade in Poisons, whereby the Oxalic Crystals may currently become Proxy for the Epsom ones; and the cor rosive Sublimate as common as Salt in Porridge. To the same End he would give unto every Cockney a Privilege to shoot, within ten miles round London, without a Taxed Licence, and would never concur in a Fine or Deodand for Fast 13! iving, except the Vehicle were a Hearse. Thus, whatever the po pular Cry, he runs counter : a Heretic in Opinion, and a Hy pocrite in Practice, as when he pretends to be sorrowful at a Funeral ; or, what is worse, affects to pity the ill-paid Pcor, and yet helpeth to screw them down. To conchole, he is a Per , onage f ill rresage to of Life.: a Raven on the Chimney Pot—a Deathwatch in the Wainscot-.-a Winding Sheet in the Candle. To meet with him is ominous. His Looks are smister ; his Druz is lugu brious his Speech is :prophetic ; and his Touch is mortal. Netettheless he hail. one Merit, and in thiS our 'World, and in these our Tittles, it a main one; namely, that vihatever he Undertakes he Performs-. MATS WOR 7 ll' S MAGAZIN E. More than half this number is takeirup with Mr. Ains worth's tale of the " Miser's Daughter," which figures in ell the glory of large type. in order that its merits may be set off to the best advantage. This is a fashion of recent date among the monthly periodicals, and is one more honoured in the breach than the observance. Let each article stand on its own deserts, and be left to make its own way with the public, instead of being indirectly puffed, through the artful medium of large, showy print. Mr. Ainsworth etory needs .no such help to popularity, for it is really very clever, and would be read with inte rest, even were ft .rs6t. printed in a more conspicuous type than the rest of th e a efeles. The scene where the Miser is discovered bugsying his tr:asure in the earth, is power fully written ; and we like it ti".~e more, that there is no visible effort made to produce effect. The Sketch of Rare high, as it exietsd in the year 1740, is net less striking ; and the occount of the duel in Tothillefies, between Randulph and Beau Villiers, le minds us, 11l snl.:e o f its minute, characteristic touches, of the fr• e and easy ; 1111 3' of Steele in the 'Fader. This is high praise, but it is not unmerited. The "Songs of Italy" is a eery se s sO paper. A much abler essay on the same subject appeared in Bentley's Miscellany some months since. " Mary O'Brien" is from the pen of Lady Harrittte D'Orsay, and will please, by reason of its touching and unefkcted plicity. The " Angel of the Flowers" diSplays more botanical knowledge than poetical ability. The " Co qusktte's Week" is a whitnsieal journal of seven days' conquests, supposed to be penned by a fashionable flirt. Some of the hits are very pointed, and will be appre ciated at the West-end—that paradise of coquettes. " A Vision of CoVentry:" is an ingenious idea, ingeniously wrought out. The " General Cemetery at' Elenetie green" is an exceedingly interesting article, wherein a minute description is given of the different tombs and mausoleums in this picturesque place of interment. We have long projected a summer afternoon's visit to this - cemetery, if only to see the last resting-place of Doctor Valpy—one of the mist liberal and enlightened of men. and sincerest of Christians. Besides, there is nothing like a quiet evening's stroll through such a seem., to calm the spirit, and teach us to set a just Value — and - 1M more—on existence. Do es e toil Laker wealth and sta . tion ? Here, about us—each tomb speaking eloquently and directly to the heart—lie' the results of all worldly toil I Not a heap of ashes in this newly-erected cemetery but, ten years since, was informed by a living spirit, alternately-elated or depressed by fortune's smiles or frowns. But their day is past—their sun is set —and even while we stand musing beside the graves of the departed, our sun, too, is verging en its decline Thoughts like theSe are useful, not as inducing melancholy, but as tending to trim the mental balance. and impart an equable tone to the spirits. To sespeeciate Life pro perly, it is necessary at times to keep J)eath in view ; and where can he assume a more cheerful end benign aspect, than in this sylvan field of sepulture, where so sound strikes the ear—no sight meets te.:.‘? eye, but such as conduce to peace and con tentment ? The Report of the "Twelfth Meeting of the British Association at Manchester" is as dry as a ship biscuit. "A Gossip about England's Helicon" is a tasaiful critical paper by Mr. Robert Bell. This gentle man—if we may judge from the tenor of his criticism-- is an ardent admirer of the writers of the Elizabethan age ; a race of giants, certainly, but, with the exception of Shakspeare, Jonson, and one or two other luminaries, rude, clumsy, and of very ogre-like proportions. Who can read the vigorous, saturnine Webster, without find ing something to shock his taste and ,oddment in every page ? Ford's "Broken Hart." ii deservedly admired for its frequent bursts of passion and tenderness ; but was there ever such a prepusterous dcnouentent ? - Cyril Tourneur's " Revenger's Tragedy," where a lover is represented making a long complimentary. address to the skull of his dead lady—what an object for love to linger on with admiration if possible still inure ridicu lous and revolting. We admire the E izabethan writers, but ours is a qualified admiration ; we protest against enthusiasm in such a cause. The " Shrift on the Raft" is an impressive story. The hero, Count de Burieny, has been wrecked off Notway, in the ship Dronth a eini. Unknown to himself, his daughter was in the same vessel when, she foundered, and the Count is almost the only one of the crew:who escapes. After swimming about for some hours, he encounters a raft whereon a 'priest is sitting, who had also managed to effect his escape, and assists the Count to climb up the sides of the raft. The following scene then takes place, from which it would seem that the priest was no other -than the Devil himself disguised in the decorous attire of a cler gyina The Priest made no reply, but pointed to the water. A sudden and wondrous change had taken place upon its surface. In lieu of the foaming and dashieg . billowe; the sea had become ca mas a mountain lake. The res. of the waves was hushed, but in its stead, had arisen a hew, droning, arid distant sound, which brought with it a fear the mind owned, but could not explain. The raft had hitherto been .arried swittl along, but its speed was now increasing tenfold. The consternation of the Count became evident, butt to all his exclamations the. Priest gave no answer. That strange droning sound grew gradually loud. r, but the ear struggled in . rain to discover how it was Cu.: posed. Still the raft burned on with lightning speed. Darkness was all around it. save the bright red gleam of the Pliest's lamp. Suddenly the 111011;21 - d of his ilaught , r recr , ssod the C. uni's brain. He gaspea—tur the sw if ness of their course now Ven d, red speaking oiffi. ult— t. ! 1 implote .ydu, Vllt.ktiow yin top;,:iiia?" Once more the Priest Silently to the watt e, And as the k unties eye ficloweJ i4eirg beheld a f ,rm v ttieiLt , g by his side in a content. the ihLSrise f4reeness of Nhich ren• . dered its surface smooth There was tbe corpse of a pale and beautiful girl, lovely even in death.. Long and golden locks clustered around her Leek and shoulders, hut the leeks were wet arid tangled, 0. , ,t1 the atahaster skin was becemieg blue mitt, exposure to the. water. , The (ass were clo.,ed—it was well they were so. That form wss foleasing the raft, but the increasing velocity of the latter lett the corpse behind in a moment ; that moment had sufficed for a father to. recog nise his daughter. lie uttered no word, but gazed steadily at the Priest. The terrible and indescribable sound had now .incr-ased to a roar. which would have rendered the ..oice inaudible at the shortest distance: 'I be speed of the raft was no.. terrific ; yet it neither swerved our swayed, and the Priest sat unmoved, re turning, the stultified 'gaze of the Count ! Suddenly one side of the raft became depressed, and in that position it continued its furious career. 'The roar had now become more hideous than any noise which can be conceived, and yet it was of a nature that baffled the ear. The Priest rose slowly to hi feet, and preserving his balance, apparently unconscious of the frightiul slope of the hurrying raft, he leaned to De Liurigny. and in a low tone, which, in spite of the humble noise around, cal ried the full meaning of its words to the Count's under standing, said— " We are in.the Maelstrom !" They 'ere indeed in that dreadful wlairlpool— the most awful abyss which do.figures the face ot creation. ['bat hideous roar, so strange and so appalling, was the sound of the waters which whirl and rage in the. unfa.honiable gulf. Louder and louder still it waxed, until the ear could bear no addition to the noise, and faster and faster flew the raft, but every i.istant it went deeper down the vertex. The wretched De Burigny struggled with the cord which held him to the raft, and sought to break from it in vain. The link which he had demanded when exertisn would have saved him, was now the means of dragging him more surely to destruction. For one instant he looked upwards, and, to his horror, beheld the red light of the lamp, reflected on a sloping wall ot raging waters, rising a hundred yards above him, down the side of which he was hurrying to an abyss on which be dared give no glance. Then his eye turned to the raft—there was no one upon it; hut in the maddening agony of that moment De Burigny heard, ac companied by a hellish laugh, the words—" l't,e Priest's dues for thy shrift arc paid l" The next instant, the cords gave way), the raft shot violently forwards, and De Burigny was alone—in the Maelstrom. F.R.ISER'S MAGAZINE. I The author of an essay on the "Characters of celebrated • Authors, Ancient and '2lodern," which stands first in the present Number, while discussing the qualities of Poly , bins as a historian, alludes incidentally to Xenophon, of whom he remarks that . "we always seem to taste the honey of the Attic bee in his flowery page. Vehemence and passion are unsuited to his gentle nature ; there is sweetness even in his fire. It is the lightning qin the aromatic shade ; perfume and flame intermingled." We do not exactly understand the meaning of this last sen tence, or how it applies to the style of the " An, basis" and " Cyropeedia," but we suppose the essayist means to Say that Xenephen is deficient in strength, and that his man tier is uniformly placid and equable. Vigour is certainly not his chief characteristic ; but he has occasional pas sages of uncommon spirit, as all must acknowledge who have the slightest recollt•etion of his episode of Panthea, which is quite - as remarkable. for its vigorous, as for its pathetic qualities. Th e r e are twine spirited touches, too, in his account of the death tjr Cyrus ; and his well known allegory of the " Choice of lieri;:iles," is as manly in its style as in its sentiment. Wi t h 3 ,,.ting , schhlars Xenophon is always a favourite, far the ease, toe cleu Hess, and the unaffected simplicity of his sty e, as Quintilian justly observes, " seems as though it han been fashioned by the Graces themselves." (Jr Polybius, whom the Essayist praises with much animation, we can say nothing, for we do not happen to be acquainted with his history. In the ." Ittustraions of Mirtibeitu," there is a eulogistic memoir of the father of the famous leader of _the French Revolution. The author makes out his case with great ingenuity, and dis creetly deals in generalities, when alluding to the elder Mirabeaa's persecution of his scape-grace son, being well aware, apparently, that tha subjeet will not admit of a close investigation. The lett-e-de-eaehet which th father can-eel to he issued against the sun, is a Freof of his vindictive nature, the force of which no special Foolid ing can diminish. The " Two Victories "is a tale fitunded on the first civil ivar in La Vendee, of which Madame de la Rochejaquelin •has written such an inte resting account. The %%titer has not made so much of his theme us might have [wen expected, considering. the materials he had to work with. " British Popular Vuga ries" describes in an arch, sarcastic manner, some of the recent foliies of which John Bull has been guilty—such fur instance, as his sudden admiration of the late Rev. Mr Irving, without a why or a a herelbre ; and his pre sent part-image of the hydr-pathic system and its pro fessors. Hen st John generally makes an ass of him sell; once every four or.tite years. Sometimes his folly takes a moral tutu, and theta a .1.3) ron must be sacri ficed to it ; another time, nothing will catch his atten tion but some astounding quackery, and the n a St. John Long must'be his idol. Now . he is a Methodist, and now a Puseyite ; to-day a Whig, to morrow a Tory; but it is remarkable that he never fails, in his lucid inter vals, to abuse all whom ha has petted during his halluci nation. We (pinto from Nitnrod's " Life and Times" a graphic portrait of the late Bishop Butler, Head-master ut Shrewsbury. School, and who was a conteMporaD with Nimrod, at Rugby " But a word touching Bishop Butler. I slept four years in the same room with this learned,man, when he was in the upper school and I in the lower; but how he became so learned I am unable to s• , y. te,l-ss it were that h.., was OINCI a i‘up:lay 14eileVe teas the case, read very h ar d a t Cambridge, where he carried all before him. I can only say this, that as far as school-reading or stncl}ing was conce!ned, an ai parently idler fellow con td . scarcely be tuned at Rugby. In the first place h e was a g reat fisherman, in the season, which lasted three parts of the year in the Avon, and a great reader of novels and play:• riass then did he acquire the reputation of being the best scholar in the school; anti how was it that ' Play for Butler' (1. e. & whole holiday for the bet exercise of the week) was oftener proclaimed for him than fur any other boy ? I cannot answer the question; but this I know, that awaking' in the morning: he bid me cr some other boy fetch him half a sheet of paeer and, taking . a novel or b o ok of plays—often Slsakspeare, of course—from- under his pillow, he would write his exercise off hand; and which, whether in prose or in verse, Greek, Latin' or English, was almcst certain to be the best of the day. Then I was given to understand that his proceedings at lesson •we rn much after this form :—He would a s k the place, say a I ) rti " of a Greek play ; look out a few words in the lexicon, shut the book, take a novel out of his pocket, and await the ( *mice of bis being called up. If he were called up, his author was beauti fully displayed by him • and when others were' Jam e* would often appeal to Lem for his interpretation of a ya , Fsgt, In fact James was proud of his scholar, which be well joill" have been. " Alas! the: e are no pictures without shades. Butler most unpopular in the school. In fa,t, partly because he' was the son of a small shopkeeper in the small but beautiful villag e of Kenilworth, and at Rugby as a foundation buy ; and partly on account of his churlish temper, we of the same boardioN" hr use voted him nothing better than a snob, and the ineatirtes 6 of his personal appearancit gave a colour to our proceeding`' ogee wou'd he offer to do us a verse or two, or construe an over: but he wou d sit with his elbow on his knee, and Ins face scanning on ore hand and a book in the other, for hours to' get her, an.: never of en his mouth. My lumber was near htar in the Echoer', ~laut 1 seldom heard them exchange a m ord ; a r ' d " i t w ill b e remem b.2rete, a good deal of the boy appeared in lb° man. Vt'heu he fi is st commenced schoolmaster, he thrashed his buys so much as to ure the s. hoot, and indeed nothing but his high literary reputation would have re.e.qablished i ts good name. lie, however, )vis , ly profited by the hint given him by parents, that their elrila's - eti were not to be made vie: tims of his spleen. The quern sib; iter odic pedagngurn fig!: was at this time verified; fat the raaMar of Shrewsbury sehom was then hated as much as he was aften: - ards liked by the r' nerality of his scholars, his conduct towards them having ander' gone a great change." - - [From an unusual press of matter, we are compelled to defer the rest of the Magazines till to-morrow•] THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—NEWPORT, •JULY The Queen Dowager will spend the coming winter ID the Isle of Wigi.t. Steephiil Castle, the seat of John hiamborougit, being absolutely engaged for the winter residence of her .Majesty, who is 0, take posses' sion on tln, Ist of October.— Hampshire Advertiser. ARABIC AND SANSCRIT.—)Ir. Lewin &wring, son, of Dr. Bowriog, M.P., won the first prize at liaileyburi College, for Arabic and Sanscrit, after a severe collar' titian, a few ilays ago.—quiesheed Übt:eiver. LONGEVITY EXTRAORDINARY.- , -011 Thursday las t, at Dewsbury, died Flack Gibson, aged 76 yeltrf; Almost up to the period of her death ,she ba,l e njorc i Uninterruptedly good health. She has ilty two broth er and three sisters, whose, respective ages are as f o llow Joseph Wood, 84, Elizabeth Wood. 82, Sarah Crossley , 80, I tannah Barnes,. 74, William Wood, 70, and her own age being added makes their collective ages 486 Yea 7,: The first born of the family, Joseph Wood, serirca i" yhe Egyptian and Peninsular wars against Nopoke° ll ; anti is now' receiving- a pension of 14d. per day.—L-le"' Times. Sours AND LIGHT.—Sir John Herschel says that thunder can scarcely be heard more than twenty or thirty rago from the flash, but that lightning may be seen at a distance , 200 miles. LIGHT FOR ALL NATIONS ON THB GOODWI I4I. SANDS.—By a telegraphic report received on Saturday nigh t " at Watson's General Telegraph Office, information was for" warded that " The caisson lately plated on the Goodwin Sands burst during the evening."—B. L. WATSON, Superili" tendent. AFFAIRS OF HONOUR IN " OULD IRELAND."" Old Sir Capel Molyneux (not the last Sir Capel, but hi,s, predecessor) was one of those "butchers of a silk butto n ' , who would not allow friendship to cool in the very beat of a rencontre. When about 80, he took offence at sornethioi said by the late General Mahon, then a youngster tor e Major in the 9th Dragoons, quartered at Armagh ; and invited the Major to come out to Castle Dillon, to be s °2 t : and then to breakfast with what appetite he might. lu e l fired a brace of pistols, the young soldier taking bed to shoot wide of the grey bead, while the palsied hand of the„ old man was a sufficient security against anything but th at which, they sly, may kill the namely, a chsn shot. Six rounds were exchanged in this manner, the the cock stepping out at each interval during the reloading of t'"' pistols, to interrogate " Mahon," as he familiarly accosted bit about his father's agricultural pursuits, and to enlighten im upon the relative virtues of red arid white Norfoles. At la s i i the young Major got tired of the am vsement, and sent s whizzing by the Baronet's ear, which brought him to e " 1 hank you, Mahon," said he, " that was well meant; b. come alung now, we've had enough of it. hly hand's not It s this morning. Let's finish it some other time." So saying't took the Mejor by the a r m, and they walked together into breakfast-parlour, inhere ady Alolyneux. a pious woman. v 2, waiting with the family p ra y er -b oo k o p en , and wonde r ' " what in the world had kept them so long ? ' A letter from Lussac, in the department o f the ronde says A dreadful tempest has suddenly: destr ° j„ e our standing crops ; the whole are destroyed. Our cosoa h u f - re which is one of the richest in the department, and bc ith agriculture has made immense progress, is overwhelmed 'coo consternation. The hail, the wind, and the rain niece rob vioient, that it is impos,ible to describe the devastation 17); they have caused. The country will long feel Vie effe al° of Lord and Lady Winchilsea are on the V:Lord -I:,aving Eagland fur the Continent. It is said that vit . etinet . Ityplie, at the Foreign-office for his passport O lt , seelu tiay. The noble pair are, we believe, now enjoyiog regret to sion of his Lordship's delightful sea t 'i n K e nt.-- 1 0 e re . - to be compelled to state that we have received no authority contradict the report, which w e no t ice d l as t w ee k, o f a lady of rank having been found in possession of jewellery lost by Lady Augusta Gordon. As the name of the lady implicated in this scandal is in every person's mouth, we think it right to entreat' the of the Earl of Winchilsea to a report in which he must feel the deepest interest.— Observer. SI3tPL2 r .I:IIIiTH.—A ludicrous mistake occurred at a funeral in Alarylebone. The clergyman had proceeded with the service until he tame to that part which says, " Our de pari ed brother or sister;" he then turned to the mourner who stood nearest to him, and asked whether it was a brother or sist. r? The man, imagining it referred to the relationship t . ° himselt, very innocently replied, "No relation at all, Sir -0011 an acquaintance."—John Bull. " A DISCERNING ' PunLic."—Never was there It greater farce than to talk of the public thus. The public thus is a mo-t unjust. illiberal, led-by-the-nose booby ; a fooli,lll goose, without uiscei nment, without sense, without hones!)' without any good quality—a proof of a bid' may be found la their support of that great, lubberly, ill-conducted, villain on : print, the Kentucky Mercury, while this paper, managed w ith so much taste and oiscretion, is left to perish for lack of patron age ! " A discerning public," forsooth ! The public is little better than a long •eared donkey.—Kentucky Warder. The General Steam Navigation Company's vebsel the Columbine fie m Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom it. five o'clock, p.m., yesterday, with the Dutch mail. LUXURIES OF LUNATlCS.—Government allows 30." 6s.Bd per annum toße:blem Hospital, for the maintenanc e ' (in food and clothing) of each criminal lunatic. Ilan this piece of information been known to the " old ladies of the empire, we should have heard less of Oxford a his pretended lukuries.—Berwich Advertiser. THE FLAX. TRADE.—In accordance with a retoht lion come to at the meeting of Flax Spinners, recently; held in this town, all the flax establishments in Leeds* with the exception of one, have commenced running only five days in the week. The consequent reduction in wages, will amottnt, in the aggregate, to betwixt 80 01 ' and I,ooa. weekly.—Leeds DEATH OF A MONKEY FROM EATING LucuErt; MATCHES.—A few days ago a monkey, the property ot a tide-waiter in Leith, met its death in rather an extra- - o. (finery manner. Being on beard a vessel in the Docks. along with its owner, who was on duty, it fell in with some lucifer-matches, which it commenced e ating. Finding itself growing sick the poor animal went to its master who was asleep and awakened him by f rench' opening his eyelids. No relief, however, could he a ministered, and the creature expired, after suffering con siderable pain.—Scotsman. VISIT or THE PREMIER TO ROBS SIRE.--We are informed that extensive preparations are in progress at lledcastle, the seat of Colonel Burnie, 31. P., in this county, in expectation of a visit from Sir Robert Peel , itnnaediately after the prorogation of Parlialaent. Sit Robert is passionately fond of Highland scenery, and : 4 the Glasgow banquet he spoke in terms of the warinet o admiration ef a short tour he had whet a youth in the Western Highlands. There tire diffezences o' op' nO O here as elsewhere, as to the public character and conduct of Sir B. Peel, but come when he may amongst tits, be will receive "a Highland welcome."—dos.;-s'iire Adver tiser. PEDESTRIANISM.—An extraordinary match took place, at Day's Cricket Ground, on 31onday last, at six o'clock in the evening, when a man named B. Cootes, undertook for a wager of 501., to run 1 swipe stalk 1 mile—wheel a barrow 1 mile—trundle hoop , 1 inile—walk backwards half a mile—hop 100 3 taxis-- leap over 50 hurdles, ten yards apart—and pick Ap 4 ° stones, 1 yard apart—being eight various feats in , on' g hour ; which h e accom pli s h e d , h av i ng one minute . 3° ,„, - ..conds to spar e; an d h e was not at all distressed. I t is saj in the sportin circles that he can be . backed for 100 L to 60 ?It loot six miles against any horse in t bis county, eac,,l to take one hundred leaps.—Salisbury Het tibl. BIRTHS. ' On the 20th of March ( in Macquarrie-street, Sydney, Nevi South Wales, the lady of I'. W. Flower, Esq., of a son. On the 28th ult., at the Lodge, Carmarthen, the lady of IL Downman,R. Esq., of a son. On the 2 9:h ult., !tlrs. C. H. Collette, Porchestter-plan e, Hyde-park, of a ,Yari. On ttie 30th ult., the wife of Alexander Henry, rsq., °f John-street. Beilford-t•ow, of a SCI 3. On the 30th ult., in Alyddelton-square, the lady of John Cuxhead, Esq , of a son. On the 30th ult., at Cloxiesley-terrace, Islington, the I td! of J. H. Kettlewell, Esq., of x daughter. 314 XI.ED. On the 2641 ult., at Paris, Oscar Oxholm, Esq., Gentlemr of the Bedchamber. Captain in hi; Alajesty the King of Dei mark's Life Guards, and Knight of th,e Datincbrog, to Adelaic e Maria, the i:aughter of G B. Kay. & - q.,of Acton, Alidalese x. On the 28th ult., Mr. William John, t , on of the late Mr. W. Blake, of Duff.at-hill, Croydon, to Miss A:m Sarah libbutt, of the same place. DIE TI On the Bth of March at the New Zealand gnmPanY' a *s et ' tlement of Nelson, New Zealand, Harry A ngehr Bell, a ged 21. On the 25th ult., at Baldoyle, Dublin, Itulyert Swift, F- s `l" barrister-at-law. On the 26th ult., in York-buildings, Major Tho:nas Dodd, late of the itc.iyal Artillt ry, aged 75. On the 29th ult., at Paradise -terrace, Llicgton, Mr. Edw ard Brooker, aged 60. On the 29th ult., at St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, nit% B. P. Cook, late of Duke-street, Manchester square. Cu the 29th ult., at Highbury- place, :Aar: Ann •Sophi th 4 - wife of Henry Hunt, Esq. On the 31st ult., a t F ores t-hill, Kent., Mary Ann , you Inge t daughter of John Donaldstm, Esq. Loi.t,uu i ruucll unit f übil,bc;l by TiuLWO Y No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Oftioe, No. 112, Sir , infl, the County of Middlesex, Monday, August P 342. w!ng 1 J Day' °I Croy eight fares__ Th e , l'oca 10, Nnti, AILIE T will L e t he sth str eet, a atiat At, a :ery' e very 1 0 14 d 3: 0 9 ' , A t atll , 4 l toT timl r qAl ' Ips; Sul C infoi they T Lf si to be 12 12 ly 12 ;11 i D . ) 'PM ea , VI of r! k