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REYNOLDS, Author of the First and Second Series of " The Mysteries of London," " Robert Macaire," " Faust," " Pickwick Abroad," Om &e. " This extraordinary work gives the fullest and most fearless ex posure of the Amours of the Family of George 111., avid contains the most startling revelations in connexion with the profligate and voluptuous career of George IV." —Sunday Paper. The Vo ume now advertised contains 424 closely printed pages, illii4trated with 52 beautiful Woodcuts. It may be obtained at all the Circulating Libraries. London: published by John Dicks, at " Reynolds's Miscellany" Office, 7, Wellington-street North, Strand. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. FAREWELL NIGHTS. TUESDAY, August 14, THURSDAY, August 16, and SATURDAY, • - , _ August 18. It Is respectfully announced that the FAREWELL and LAST RIGHTS will take place on TUESDAY, August 14, THURSDAY, August 16, and SATURDAY, August 18. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mesdms. SONTAG, PARODI, and ALBONI. It is respectfully announced that on TUESDAY, August 14, will be revived Mozart's ce'ebrated Opera, LE NOZZE DE FIGARO. To conculde with various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment. Applications tor Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-ofllce of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained as usual. price 10s. fid. each. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. . Last Night of the Subscription. TO-MORROW EVENING, When will be presented Donizetti's Opera of LTICREZIA BORGIA. After the Opera the National Anthem, by the Principal Artists, To conclude with LES PLAISIRS DE L'HIVER. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Ticke 3 to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as mow, price 103, 6d. each. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sale Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENIN4,, Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN BII3IIES ; or, A Hundred Years Age. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Miss E. Chaplin; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a novelty In the shape of A MOST UNWAR RANTABLE INTRUSION, which will be committed by Mr. Wright to the Annoyance of Mr. Paul Redford. To conclude with THE DANCING BARBER. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATER. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert. &c- M. Jean Klare in his extraordinary performances on Le Globe Roulant. The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever engaged in this er any other establishment at one time : Atdlies. Adelaide Hinnie, Valentine, Louise Tonlrnaire, La Jeane Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand, Davidson, Avery, and La Petite J eanette. In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in announc ing that he has engaged that peerless equestrian Marie Macarte, whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac quired for her the appellation of the 'Equestrian Enchantress. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOOJERAT ; er, the Conquest of the Seikhs. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE rincLE. in which Marie Macarte will appear, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a favourite Melodrama. Boz-dlice open from Eleven till Four. , tare Manager, Mr. W. West. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. railer the patronage of her Mos: Gracious 31ajesty, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. The Public Press has unanimously pronounced the Storming of Badajoz to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition. Celebrated German Band and Chorus. Engagement of Mr. Roberts, the celbbratcd Welsh Harper. Last Week of Miss E. Rowland and Mr. G. Tedder. The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. Danson's gigantic modelled Panorama of the TOWN AND FORT AF BADAJOZ, pronounced by the voice of public Opinion to be the most perfect and life-like exhibition ever pfesented—Splendid Menagerie—German Band and Chorus—Vo cal and Instrumental Concert—Several Favourite Songs and Ballads by Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder — Solos by Richardson (Flute)—Violin and Violoncello by Viotti and George Collins, varied alternately—and other at tractions, concluding with a vivid representation of the Storming of nulajoz, pourtraying the advance of the British army—bombard ment and attack—gallant defer —rush to the breach ny real troops —and final talleaux in honouf of the " Hero of a hundred fight..." REFRESHMENTS.—The frequenters of these Gardens have long complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only could be procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinct portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had of the first quality, and at the usual Prices. Doors open at Nine o'Clock. ix. ' • feeding of the animals at Five ; Pelicans and White Bears half-past Five ; Concert at Six ; Storming of lladajoz, at Dusk.—Admission One Shilling. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " F. E. W., Port du Louvain, Brussels,"—Must by some extraordinary hallucination have mistaken The Sun for a Tory journal. We can assure our correspondent that we are not exactly disposed to become the apolo gists of the Count de Neuilly and his miserable Government, for the sake of caricaturing Repub licanism. _ _ " Jl, W. 0., Brookeboro', Ireland,"—Will find an an. swer to his communicatio❑ in a notice "To Corre srondents" inserted in our impression of yesterday. TrIE WEATHEIL—ScN OFFICE, Aro. 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 59, Highest, 69, Noon, 73. BAROMETER, 29.91. Wind S. W.—fine weather. tilW wATtli AT LONDUN BK1.1)(1.E. Tine DAT iorning, 40 min, after 5 Evening, 2 min. after 6 To- ' , toßaow—Morning, 23 min. after 6 I Eveninv, 49 min. after 6 i t li,, ..- 1 7 -,-,- ' 4;.: , 'r i of. -' • - -•-• c ' - ' \ II, ' " - t te r e 0 4 ;, - ":.: e . € 1 , 4 „: A'•,,•. , -- ,- , 11111 : 7; , , ,, :',,, 1, gif-,„ '...' - ... IOW 1 - k. ''. 'PI-L: 1 5.)% ::::ie . ".. it.t • 71 . 1-IA. i , - - - - • - ' ' -- 01)in-dna LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1849. Apart from the contributions which are still swel ling the amount of the Hungarian Testimonial, the people of England, both in the provinces and the metropolis, are striving by every means to express their sympathy for Louts KOSSUTH and his compa triots. Meetings have already been held in the city of London, in Marylebone, in Westminster, and at ; others have been convened at Birming ham, at Cardiff, and at Edinburgh. By our impres sion of this evening, moreover, it will be observed that a similar assemblage is to be held to- day at Chel sea, and another on Monday, the 13th inst., at Derby. Considerable, however, as this progress in the good cause is even now, and worthy as it is of our congratu lations, we cannot but view these proceedings as merely the commencement of a long series of still grander demonstrations, and as the beginning of a movement such as must ultimately command the ac quiescence of the British Government in the resolu tions of the British multitude. Of this we are fully satisfied. The result is inevitable, the more espe ci Ally as we have already secured so many able and energetic champions in the House of Commons, and still more particularly, seeing that our aspirations are shared in by the greatest statesman in the Cabinet, the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Foreign Department. Remember the derision thrown at first on the agitation for Parliamentary Reform, and yet remember how, in spite of that derision, the Bill of Earl GREY passed through both Chambers of the Legislature I Remember the scorn expressed for the advocates of Catholic Emancipation, and yet remember how the Catholics of the United Kingdom were emancipated through the indomitable energies of the Irish Liberator, and through the unconquerable perseverance of his few but devoted fellow-labourers ! Remember the ridicule expressed for the first disciples of ADAM SMITH and HUSSIS SON, and yet remember, too, how the question of Free Trade was forced upon the attention of the popular representatives by the annual motions of the Hon. C. I'. VILLIERS, how the logical truth of the ' ndoctrine s was em bl azone d i n th e " C a techisms" o Colonel P. THOMPSON how the blessings, inevita bly flowing f rom the liberation of commerce, were chaunted inprtho project was of E l s a n . s E t how the NE ELLIOT, and realised Eß by the self-sacrificing patriotism of these schemes, at first scoutecltrilis:"Eßr PEEL All absurdities, were those demands, at at last recognised as victories. first derided by the administrators, were at last ac quiesced in by the Government. And set n o f them, no not one, ever commenc e d with su:aclelthae , s udden and universal display of enthusiasm on part of the Whole population as this one for the ac knowledgment of emancipated Hungary. In regard to the question of English sympathy for the independ ence of the Hungarians, there was no neces- KWS * y for argument. It was only necessar y to strike with a bold hand the chord that vi• brated thrb h every generous heart in the British isiA, __Luis. I pus only necessary to br eath the first syllables o , tenth, and the words would rever bera te iu every creyie of the land. It was only necessary tolii4lat the first torch of fraternity, and the whole kivtdom would be in a conflagratio4 of ardent and sympathetic brotherhood. So it has been. That chord has been touched, those syllables have been articu lated, that brand has been ignited. The response has burst forth with spontaneous devotion from all parts of the community. Lord PALMERSTON himself, the foremost man of all Englishmen in the consideration of every foreigner, has so spoken from the floor of the House of Commons that his language has carried dismay to the council chambers of Vienna and St. Petersburgh. These things borne in recollection, no one can have the temerity, or rather we should say the absurdity, to doubt that the movement in behalf of the Hungarians will not prove ultimately successful. Among the provincial meetings already men tioned, we must be permitted to particularise the meeting held on Monday last at Edinburgh, and the meeting to be held on Monday next at Derby. We are solicitous to make one passing allusion to those assemblages, for the purpose of commending to the attention of other constituencies the earnest. ness of the language uttered, and the amount of the subscriptions collected at Edinburgh, and to express our particular satisfaction, as an organ of the great English people, at the unanimity displayed by the intelligent inhabitants of Derby. What Edinburgh has already done, will be done, we are satisfied, with sympathetic generosity by the citizens of Derby. While the provincial population is thus replying to the ardour of the metropolitan, the latter is by no means relaxing its energies after its first admirable exertions. Indeed, we are sanguine that the demonstrations already made in four dif ferent quarters of the capital will prove merely the prelude to others of an equally enthusiastic cha racter elsewhere. An aggregate meeting should be convened, for example, at Exeter Hall, as a build ing at once central in position and spacious in pro portions, for the purpose of enabling another section of London to breathe forth its aspirations for the freedom of the Hungarians. Not only the voice of the orator and of the journalist, but also that of the musician, has endeavoured to ex press the sentiments of the multitude upon this supreme question of Hungarian independence. For it will be observed, from one of the item s con tain ed evening's list to the Test i mon ial , that upwards in thoi th i s 81. have been o n f contributed Magyar aas t . !I: u se proceeds at the of fio h a concert n-st re e t given in aid Literary Institution, Fitzroy-square, the use of the apartment being given gratis to further the objects of the occasion. We would here earnestly suggest to other similar establishments the emulation of the pro ceedings at the John-street Institution, satisfied that the members of such places would eagerly respond to the demand made upon their sympathies. By the multiplication of such means the sum total of the subscription will be at length raised to an amount worthy at once of England and of Hungary. While the British multitude are endeavouring in these different ways to proclaim to the Magyars the fact that England is regarding their heroic struggle with mingled admiration and solicitude, the Hun garians themselves are fulfilling their glorious desti nies in a manner which surpasses even our own most sanguine expectations. By the combined aid of un surpassed valour and of consummate generalship the army of liberation (insignificant in numerical strength when contrasted with its antagonists) is thoroughly worsting the united forces of the Imperialists. BEM opposed to LUDERS in Transylvania—Gu Tort to JELLACHICH in the south near Peterwardein— —GEORGEY to PASKEWITCH in the north, near the frontiers of Gallicia—Deasnussai to HAYNAU in the centre—have all successively or simultaneously proved triumphant. As will be seen from a statement in our foreign intelligence of the position of the several corps of the several armies, the Austrians and Russians have been completely and irreme diably checkmated. This very day the accounts received from all parts of Hungary are so astounding as to have been scarcely credible, but that their authenticity cannot be called in question, coming, as they do, through the channels of the Austrians them selves. Raab has been taken by AULICH—so that the Imperialists are now completely cut off from Vienna! Cronstadt and Hermannstadt have both been taken by BEM-so that his opponents were utterly routed, being obliged to fly with a loss of 10,000 men in killed and wounded! DEMBINSKI has completely vanquished FREYTAG, and taken him prisoner. The imperial army of the coalition is surrounded on all sides, by BEM in one direction, by GEORG EY in another, by Auucit in another, and by GUYON in another; while the possibility of the concentration of the cir cumvented Russians and Austrians is effectually prevented by the interposition of the Hun- (garian head-quarters, presided over by the master spirit of this wonderful and ever-memorable campaign—DZMBINSICI. Henceforth the name of DEMBINSKI must rank with those of the first captains immortalised in history. His plans have proved in every respect effectual—so that the legions of FRANCIS JOSEPH and NICHOLAS are entirely cut off from communication with their imperial masters. Besides which, in consequence of the command of KOSSUTH, the wells have been choked up, and the provisions carried away into the fast nesses of the mountains, so that the Austrian and Russian soldiers are perishing from hunger and thirst, and from the ravages of the diseases attendant upon famine. Already the vengeance of the oui raged Hungarians—unaided except by the blessing of the GOD of Justice —is smiting down the pride of two terrible and rampant despotisms. Such are the achievements, such is the position, such are the prospects of the heroic warriors of KOSSUTH, that glorious race of freemen whom his thrilling voice apostrophised, saying, " Arise, my mighty, my gi• gantic people !" That cry has thrilled to the hearts of fourteen millions, and Hungary has arisen in her majestic unanimity to conquer her independence under the banners of her great Tribune. When we first commented on the Irish peat dist lation project, as introduced to the notice of the House of Conrnons by The O'GORMAN MAHON and by Lord ASHLEY, we did it purely on public grounds; we knew nothing of Mr. OWEN or his operations; we hailed it as a discovery calculated to confer vast advantages upon Ireland and the empire. The high auspices under which it presented itself to our con sideration, the numerous experiments under the most scientific men, by which its merits.had been accurately . . tested, the immense value of the products resulting from those experiments, induced us, in the exercise of our duty as public journalists, to give every aid in our power to a project teeming with so many advantages to the commercial, manufacturing, and agricul tural interests of both countries. Every new system will have its opponents as well as its votaries. The wildest theories, the most absurd systems, from the pilgrims of Mecca to the Love-birds of Agapemone, all have found followers and supporters. The soundest projects for the benefit of mankind, from the days of HARVEY to the present, have met with op position. The great scheme under our con sideration at present has not escaped the corn mon fate. One gentleman issues his caution against it, because, somehow or other, there has been a failure at Dartmoor, where an experiment had been at tempted on inferior peat (not Irish) with cumbrous and expensive machinery. With this gentleman's letter we dealt in a former number, and, we believe, fully disposed of his objections. Indeed, the letter tself bore internal evidence of the cause of the failure, for which the writer e him ar s g el u f m a e p n p t e s are w d h u ic n h Is.- I a.be then un able put a forth ccount, and th have been fully borne out and for tified the roceedings o f st l at a e e m qu en ai t nt o e f d f w ac it ts fromm p a gentleman He says— t apparently ified by wel another part of our p a the Dartmoor fmth Company,eresN si ao w pnt h .h i ° ch ic, w om il p l an b y e , a f s o f u a n rd asin i " The operations o t m h a ey de w • experiments were The O'Gor m an M a hon. Extensive Commons corroborative by o L f 0 t r h d o A statements i e n ni, th w e e H re ou ci s u e ite of made by two p rac ti ca l c h em i s t s (b es ides Mr. Fret.),uc much of Oxland an d M r. P r id eaux, who d i scovere d so m various ki n d s o f product as to induce a lavish expendi ture, without attempting to bring any of their products into a market Able st a t e; t h ey expended their capital in . • 1 Cutting immense quantities of peat, in laying a railway 1 to the b ogs , i n large and expensive retorts and furnaces, 1 &c., which were afterwards found unfit, the shareholders were disheartened, and the works ceased for want of means before it was ever properly set to work." Our readers will now agree with us that Mr. SHAMAN'S puzzle as to the cause of failure of the Dartmoor Peat Company has been satisfactorily solved; we believe we strongly hinted the probability of these causes having produced the effects consequent on the ill-managed experiment at Dartmoor, and we are much gratified to be borne out by the plain and honest statement of facts in Mr. FREAN'S letter, a gentleman who, in his own words, is "pretty well acquainted with Dartmoor, and what has taken place there for some years past." Another gentleman, through the columns of a morning Contemporary, under the assumed signature " VERITAS," conveys to us the gratifying intelligence that "He was considerably amused at Lord Ashley's state ment in the House of Commons respecting the conver sion of peat into various products, and thought, from its being so much at variance with facts, that it would carry its own antidote. I see, however, in the Times of to day a letter from a Mr. Oxland, confirming to a consider able extent Lord Ashley's sanguine expectations as to the gross value of products into which peat is capable of conver sion, but disagreeing considerably in detail." This pretty considerably inconsiderate gentleman then goes on:— " Allow me, then, with regard to his Lordship's state ment to select the article of carbonate of ammonia, of which .1 am a manufacturer, where be states, on the authority of a Mr. Owen, that 6001b5., or as he says, upwards of 301. worth, can be extracted from 100 tons rf peat. You will, I am sure, be astonished when I tell you that I obtain for that quantity (6001b5.) only ab,)ut 91. 10s." Now Lord ASHLEY'S statement was that 100 tons of Irish peat produced 2,6021b5. carbonate of am mania, which at VERITAS'S price of Dl. 103. for 6001b5., would produce about 41/. 3s. 11d., exceed ing Lord ASHLEY'S statement of value by 81. 13s. Od. So much for the statement of " VERITAS," on the only article selected by him to show the exaggera tions of Lord ASHLEY. Why, he clearly proved that his Lordship understated the market price of this product. " Cuiquesua arte credendum est." The testimony of men of practical science, such as Mr. OXLAND, should outweigh " a whole theatre " of those who have raised objections to the project. The " Dartmoor Tradesman" may be afflicted with the fears of the burnt child ; the "Ammonia Manu facturer" may have before him a wholesome dread of a reduction in the price of ammonia; but we, who stand beyond those influences, and merely look to the public good, feel it our gratifying duty to promote an object calculated to confer peace and happiness on Ireland, and prosperity on the empire ; and we trust we shall ere long hear that the now peat-covered soil of Ireland will be blessed with as good crops as those of Prince-hall, Dartmoor; and if The O'GORMAN Manox did no other service to his country than aiding this good work, the constituents of Ennis should rejoice in their selection. We understand from undoubted authority that immediately on the marriage of Lieutenant Heald with the Countess of Landsfeldt (Lola Montes), the Marquis of Londonderry, Colonel of the 2d Life Guards, took the most decisive steps to recommend to her Majesty that this officer's resignation of his commission should be insisted on and that he should leave the regiment, w hich this unfortunate and extraordinary act might possibly prejudice.— Times. [lt is earnestly to be hoped that her Majesty will, on the contrary, insist upon the resignation of every antiquated imbecile, be he Field-Marshal or Colonel, or Marquis, who shall evince the i nca p ac it y o f seni lity, or the prudishness of parvenu pedlarism.-- ED. Sun.] DISTILLATION OF IRISH PEAT TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Being pretty well acquainted with Dartmoor, and what has taken place there for some years past, my neighbours have called my attention to a letter from Mr. Seaman of this town, which appeared in the columns of one of your contemporaries, and upon which you commented in The Sun, on the 4th instant. 'The operations of the Naptha Company, as far as they went, were quite corroborative of the statements made in the House of Commons by Lord Ashley and The O'Gorman Mahon; extensive experiments were made by two practical chemists (besides Mr. Drew), Mr. Oxland and Mr. Prideaux, who discovered so much of various kinds of product as to induce a lavish expenditure; with.. out attempting to bring aRy of their products into a mar ketable state, they expended their capital in cutting immense quantities of peat, in laying a railway ;to the bogs, in large and ex p ens i ve retorts, and furnaces, &c., which were afterwards unfit, the shareholders were dis heartened, and the works ceased for want of means before it was ever properly set to work. The committee at first was composed of men clever in their business, no doubt, but as to the management of this, there need not any more be said than what has already been stated. The fact of different committees having been appointed to supersede each other, shows the opinion of those interested. My observations and experiments are quite in favour of the opinion that the peat of Ireland and elsewhere will soon be an article of vast consumption, not only as producing much that is useful in commerce, but as decayed vegetable matter it can be used with advantage in agri culture. If dried and crumbled, or charred, and deposited in drains and cess-pits, it absorbs the feculent matters, and is at least equal to guano as a fertilizer; or if even dried and reduced to something like powder, and drilled in with the seed, it will be one of the most certain manures in its effects. qua n ba t um i t t i eass willingoa f i I different htoe hcoo pm epa there e e t s p sp r a o nr d tos u m e o e i f d s t a a pk r e eea t v b e a r ur y et available, su rTp hries t i f h e only p o r n e e s h f indeedca n abebrpigrohdt prospect for Ireland.ucedforthesu A sum mentioned, to the fertility of the land, when the peat is removed, we have here sufficient proof of this. Mr. Fowler, of Prince-hall, Dartmoor, had last year the finest crop of turnips in the county, and obtained a prize for them, and will, in all probability do the same this year; there is no soil so favourable for vegetables. I fear I have trespassed on your valuable space, but I very much dislike any ungenerous attempt to blight a cheerful prospect.—l ani, Sir, your humble servant, GEORGE FREAN. Plymouth, Aug. 7, 1849. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It has hitherto been gratifying to the inhabit ants of some of the more favoured localities of England, that during the rage of the present epidemic, and even under the fearful ravages of the malady in the years 1831 and 1832, certain places entirely escaped cholera, and amongst the more conspicuous ones is that of Chelten ham, where, in the periods mentioned, and to the present time, not a single case has occurred. We would desire to see the same exemption wo enjoy the characteristic of the whole kingdom, and we trust the day may not be far distant when the result will be obtained. The foregoing remarks lead me to the observations made by Dr. Rowe, of Cavendish-square, London, in reference to the disease of cholera, as recently pub lished, which cannot be too extensively circulated. Dr. Rowe commences, or states, that " prevention is better than cure," and also that it has been proved by the most able and scientific practitioners; that the blood of cholera patients is defective of those saline " properties which are furnished by the liver, and that it is but fair pre sumption to conclude that that important organ contri butes, by its healthy or morbid secretion, either to the restoration of health or the production of disease— thus, then, (he proceeds to state) the preventive means will consist in avoiding all fruits and vegetables, substi tuting rice and other farinaceous matter, with moderate uses of brandy, wine, and beer, and also to take mild and undebilitating doses of aperient medicines." Now, the established fact, as admitted by men of medical science, that the blood of cholera patients is deficient of those saline properties which are furnished by the liver, and in which the efficacy of saline aperient medicines are considered as prevention', I submit it is not irrational to conclude that the elementary actions of the seine properties as are to be found in the mineral waters of Cheltenham, when diffused through the atmo sphere, cannot be less efficacious and conducive to health than their ordinary and accustomed use proves them to be in all liver complaints or impurities of the blood, and therefore it is that Cheltenham, with its sanitary ar rangements, and diversity of mental attractions, may attribute its exemption from the epidemic. Conceiving it 'important, as most places are publishing the general health of their several communities at the present eve nt:ul crisis, and also to prevent any mis statements m e to request calculated theto create insertionprejudicial of th eforegoing confusions, induces remarks.—l remain your very obedient servant, GEORGE SMITH. Sussex Lodge., Cheltenham, Aug. 9. IRISH PE vessel arrived in the river from one of the Irish :ports, has brought 17 casks of peat as a Portion of b, Q r c al ge. The manufacturer of ammonia ought to be authority on the price it brings in the market, and we give him the full benefit of his experience. We would, how ever, caution him before he again rushes into print , to see that his data are less " at variance with facts.' It will require stronger proofs and sounder reason intz than those advanced by " VERITAS " to shake the public faith in the practicability of a scheme sustained by such strong facts and unimpeachable evidence as the one introduced to the notice of the House of Commons by such men as Lord ASHLEY and The O'Gonmkri MAHON. We have bad no communica tion with any of the promoters of this project; we have taken it up as a great and important discovery, likely to effect a large measure of good ; we have ex amined all that has been advanced for and against it, and have given to the public the calm and un biassed result of our judgment. All the men of science who have - written upon the subject agree as to the extent and variety of the products from the distillation of Irish peat. Mr. OXLAND, a practical chemist at Plymouth, in a letter to a morn.- ing Contemporary, says— " I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the general correctness of the statement of the value of the products obtainable from Irish peat, as reported by Lord Ashley last week to the House of Commons." FRIDAY THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Patrie says :—"lt was yesterday stated at the Assembly that General OUDINOT had been recalled by the Government, the army having nobly termi nated its mission at Rome. The action of diplomacy must terminate the task of civilization and pacification in the states of the Church." On the same subject the National has the follow ing:— A letter from Rome of the 29th contains the follow ing significant passage:—' The communications of General Oudinot with personages whose pious design s are opposed to every liberal idea; his relations with the Austrian counsellors of the coterie of Gaeta; hi s cordial understanding with --; all tend to render th e General, if not suspected, at least impracticable in til t , eyes of the French Cabinet—so seriously impracticable that M. Oudinot will be recalled before a fortnight has, elapsed. This prediction is already realised, for we, in fact, hear that the order which recall M. Oudinot Paris yesterday, but in order not to wound his suscepti bility, no successor has yet been appointed. The coin. mand of the army of Rome will be handed over to the oldest general of division.' " The Evenement says that the real motive of Om tecr's recal is his decree re establishing the ecclesias tical tribunal. The conduct of General OUDINOT, who is a much better Catholic than Frenchman, has been throughout directed to neutralise the views of the French Foreign Minister, and to restore the POPE and the Priestly Govern ment, with the Inquisition, without conditions. lle deceived and betrayed M. DE LESSEPS, and both M. D'HARCOURT and M. DE COURCELLES are loud in their complaints of his conduct. He would never have ventured to set his orders at defiance as he has done had be not some powerful protector in the back ground, whose inspirations he has obeyed rather than the positive orders of his superiors; and even now that protector has sufficient interest to break his fall, by procuring for him the effice of Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, vacant by the death of Marshal MoLITOR, an office which, according to the rules of the service, should have been conferred on Marshal GERARD. The funeral of Marshal MOLITOR took place on Wednesday, at the Hotel des Invalides. The chapel was fitted up as on the funeral of Marshal BUGEAUD, and escutcheons surmounted with flags taken in various combats bore the names of the principal engage ments in which the Marshal figured. Previous to the commencement of the ceremony cannon were discharged and the bells tolled. The mass wal celebrated by the chaplain of the Invalides and several clergymen. Among the persons present were the family of the deceased, General PETIT, the President of the Assembly, several representatives, the President of the Council, the Minister of War, Generals BEDEAU, GOURGA.UD, FABVIER, and a great many other superior officers. The pall was borne by Ad miral MACKAU, Generals CHANGARNIER, ST. MARS, and ACHARD. After the ceremony General FABVIER delivered a speech in the court-yard over the coffin, which was then deposited in one of the vaults. The Patrie says : " At the moment at which the chaplain of the Inva lides was throwing holy water on the remains of the Marshal, it was announced that the Government had learned by telegraph that the Marshal's wife had died at her château, near Nancy. If this rumour should be confirmed, the words which the wife of the Marshal pro nounced some months ago have become prophetic:—' It is there,' said the Marshal in conversation with his wife, 'it is there,' pointing to heaven, that I shall soon go to wait for you.' Pressing his hand she replied sadly, I hope you will not wait for me long!' And her wish has been accomplished." In the Assembly on Thursday, the Minister of War brought forward a proposition for bestowing a reward on certain ex-officers of the late Republican Guard who had distinguished themselves in June, 1848, in suppressing the insurrection, and who, by the recent dissolution of the Republican Guard, had been left without employment. This proposition was strongly opposed by the Legitimatists, who seemed to imagine that it was a matter of regret rather than otherwise that the insurrection of June, 1848, had been put down, and ultimately it was rejected, so that it was decided by the Legitimatists that those who fought against the insurgents in June, 1848, are unworthy of reward. This is another proof that the insurrection was encouraged, if not caused, by the intrigues and money of the Legitimatists, and, coupled with the sus picious conduct of M. DE FALLOUX in reference to the Atelier s N a ti onaux, and w i th the fact of several of the Legitimatist nobility having been found disguised in blouses fighting behind the barricades, goes far to prove that the Legitimatists would not shrink from destroying society itself, if on its ruins they could rebuild their old edifice of royal and priestly tyranny, aristocratic privilege, and tiers etjt serfdom. The Lyons Railway has been, it is said, conceded to Mr. BARING. The Journal des Debate says— " The company will be constituted with a capital of 240 millions, and it will engage to terminate the works and to open the whole line within the shortest possible time—in lour years at the utmost. The state will gun , ran tee to the company 5 per cent. interest on its capital, and will grant it a lease of 99 years. It will, besides, abandon to the company all that it has already expended on the line from Paris to Chalons (said to be more than 150,000,0001'0. The State, however, will stipulate for conditions of repurchase, and a share in the profits after the shareholders shall have received 8 per cent. We cannot vouch for the exactitude of the above terms, but we believe them to be in accordance with the cahier des charges. We shall wait for positive information on the subject before we enter into any discussion on it." Orders have, it is said, been issued for the recal of a considerable portion of the army from Italy, the Government having determined to confine the French occupation to a few parts of the Roman ter rity. Accounts from Gaeta state that the POPE (or more properly speaking the Camarilla, for Pio Norio is in fact a captive in their hands,) still continues ob stinate, and refuses to accede to the conditions pro posed by the French Government for his re-estab lishment. The organic law on the state of siege was yesterday presented to the Legislative Assembly. It is pro posed e Assemblyate e shall al siege, ha andth e exclusive Executive right eti ve Power the of exclusivehe pronouncingthe t right of demanding it, when ever theret ha ttmay be imminent peril for internal or external safety. While the Assembly thus guards the right of authorising the Executive to declare the state of siege, it will give full latitude to the Exe cutive to exercise this power when once accorded. Thus, it will not be necessary for the Executive to come to the Chamber to ask leave to apply the state of siege to such and such parts of the territory, but may in that respect exercise its own discretion. The Committee of the Bill refuses to grant any exception in favour of the press, which must submit to the consequences of the state of siege whenever declared, and for the time be deprived of the benefit of trial by jury. Immediately after the passing of this Bill, declaratory of the principles affecting the state of siege, a project will be presented for relieving Paris from the exceptional position under which it is placed. PARIS BOURSE, AUG. 9.—Five per Cents. closed at 89f. 90c. ; Three per Cents., 54f. sc. ; Northern Railway, 4251.; Rouen, 537 f. 50c.;, Havre, 245 f.; Bank of France, 2,275 f. ; Strasburg, 3551. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. AUGUST 9. East Indian, 3 % — Luxembourg.2% ex in. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived. Senor ORLANDO, the Government Commissioner to Catalonia, has left Madrid for that province. MADRID BoLSA, AUG. 3.—The market has been much animated today, and prices have improved. The Five per Cents. clos€d at 111, and the Threes at 26 9-16. Exhange on London, 50 70. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. CAPTURE OP RAAI3_I3Y THE HUN- GARIANS. priety by On the n i g h t of the 4th instant, the Austrian Government at Vienna was frighted from its pro . the Gove rnor of Pres b urg h, annou ncing th a t th e the receipt of a telegraphic dispatch from Hungar ians had taken R aa b an d were a d vanc i ng against P res b urgh, and d eman di ng i mme di a t e rein forcements. A considerable portion of the garrison of Vienna was di spa t c h e d th a t night by forced marches to the seat of War. The Imperialists in Presburgh were in a state of th e greatest cons t erna ti on a nd alarm. It was said that Auncir commanded the troops which took Raab, other accounts state that it was taken by a portion of the garrison of Comorn during a sally. It is clear that for some time past the force under AULICU has been gradually augmenting, and that he has been co-operating with the garrison of Comoro. The object of the manoeuvres of the var ious Hungarian Generals is now become ob. vi°"s, GEORGEY has been leading PA SK I EWITCH a wild.goose chase in the North, GUYON has been PlaY ir g the sa me ga me with Harman in the south ; and having thus weakened them by dividing their forces, and l ea di ng th em to such a distance as to render it impossible for them to give any assistance to the garrison of Raab, AuLicri has appeared in force befor e th e city, the inha bi tants o f w hi c h were b u t too happy thus cut o ff' b ot h P AS KIEWITCLI and Hal NAU to open its gates to him, and has from all commun i ca tion with Vienna. The tables h ave b een comp l e t e ly turned on the Im perialists ; they who were to have surrounded the Hun gar i ans are themse l ves surrounded. Their communication with Vienna is cut off byAtuacn at Raab. P ASKIEWITCH ' S commun ication with Gallicia is cut off b y GEoIwLY, hi s communication with HAYN AU is cut off by DEatnnisnr, and HAYNAU'S communication with the BAN and with Servia is cut off by GUYON, while their communications with LUDERS in Transylvania are cut off by BEM. We may form an opinion of the state of affairs among the Imperialists from the following account, which, coming from an Imperialist source, is not liable to suspicion :—, " A Russian courier reached Pesth from Vienna on the Ist, bearing dispatches for General Paskievvitch. When he got to Pesth, there was no one who could tell him where the Russian General was. Tne courier went on at a venture to Mitkolcz. The battle at Miskolcz is given out by the Hungarian party as a great victory. Lloyd's Pesth correspondent reports that it lasted three whole days. The same authority states that a hotly-disputed battle took place between Felegyheza and Kia-Telek. A third engagement is mentioned between the troops of Dembinski and Schlick. The heat is intolerable at Pesth, and the troops of Haynau had suffered greatly on their march through the marshy waste between the Theiss and the Danube. The water springs on the way were all turbid and foul: the soldiers used vinegar to m x wi h the muddy drink." While Auracn has been taking Raab, and DEM• BINSKI has been defeating PASKIEWITCH at Mis kolcz, BEM has not been idle in Transylvania. A letter from Constantinople, of the 25th, states that a courier, who had arrived from Galata, had brought the following intelligence :—The Austrian Russian army, 60,000 strong, which, after it had compelled the Hungarian General, PEacznn, to retire, and had occupied the cities of Hermanstadt and Cronstadt, and other small places, advanced as far as Sarcani. The errors and imprudences of PERCZEL in Tran sylvania, induced the Hungarin Government to send General BEM to retake the command of that most important part of Hungary. He (Blot) collected all the forces under his command, amount ing to 40,000 men ; marched immediately against the enemy, and on arriving at Sarcani of fered battle to the Russian General LUDERS. The battle commenced on the morning of the 10th, by a stragetic movement on the part of BEM, by which he cut off the whole of the left wing of the Austrian army, attacking the right at the same time, and compelling it to tall back upon the centre. General BEM, seeing the disorder of the enemy's lines, ordered the reserve to advance, which by a de termiried and gallant charge decided the day in favour of the Hungarians. The Austrian-Russian army took to a precipitous flight, leaving on the field 10,000 dead and wounded, nearly all the artillery, and 8,000 prisoners, among whom is General AULEMBERG. After this battle General BEM again took possession of Cronstadt and Hermanstadt. In Gallicia General DEMBINSKI is also reported to have gained a victory, and taken General FREYTAG prisoner. The last accounts from the seat of war state that the Hungarians had pushed on a detachment of horse to Wieselburg, and were within sight of Altenburgh, twelve English miles only from Presburg.: At Gorgii and Raab the Hungarians found large stores of victuals and ammunition, 80,000 bushels of oats, and 2,400 head of cattle, which they carried off to the fortress of Komorn. Besides this, they cap tured two companies of Austrian foot and six pieces of artillery. It is said that KLAPKA commanded the troops who took Raab, which city they did not garrison, but pushed on at once. Probably they may ere this be in possession of Presburg, perhaps of Vienna itself. FRANKFORT. Intelligence from Frankfort of the 6th states that serious and important conflicts had taken place be tween the Austrian and Prussian soldiers in garrison in that city and its neighbourhood. PRUSSIA. OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS. The Prussian Chambers were opened on the 7th in the White Hall of the Palace of Berlin by Count BRANDENBURG, the Prime Minister, who, standing on the left of the throne, read the following speech : " Gentlemen—His Majesty has commanded me to open the Chambers in his name. " The Ministry welcomes the moment which gives it the satisfaction to proclaim, before the representatives of the people and the country, the principles by which its course of action has been guided. "We have conceived it our duty to oppose with strength and vigour that domination of terror which a misguided party begun to exercise over Prussia and Germany. We have sought to re-establish the tran quillity and order which have been so much disturbed. But we have laboured, on the other hand, with the same resolution, through recognition of the true needs and just demands of the nation, to lay the ground of a lasting quiet, and in this way to deprive new attempts at resolution of all foundation and pretext. "In the stable organisation of the common father land lies an indispensable condition for the riddance of the wide-grasping confusion which perplexes the state of Germany. " But the more intimately we were convinced that the erection of a German federal-state, with the due power (iii the Executive), and with the due freedom guaran teed to the people is of the highest importance for the future of Prussia, the more have we conceived it our duty to resort only to just and honourable means for the attainment of this nit.. The Government of his Ma jesty the King has avoided even the appearance of in - tended coercion against the confederated German Go vernments, and, confiding in the insight and devotion of the princes as well as in the sense of justice and national feeling of all German races, has made the attempt to bring about the political regeneration of Germany, from which no German state can long escape in the way of free agreement. " The establishment of political order, the corner-stone of which is the foundation of a German federal state, we regard as the chief function of our activity. " We have been mindful of the patriotic devotion in which the people have vied with the royal house as often as the historical mission of Prussia required sacrifices. "From you, Gentlemen, we may expect that you will grasp and examine our aatious, not singly, but together, while you contemplate the results attained not without regard to the difficulties which were to be vanquished. " It is known to you in what manner, for the suppres sion of open rebelli o n, P russ i a h as a ); ffded successfully the aid of her arms demanded by allied German Govern ments, upon the ground of existing treaties, and how upon this occasion the excellent spirit which animates our army has given fresh tokens of its existence, to the glorf of our country. " The heir to the throne has, at the head of the troops led on by him, shared their dangers and labours; and a young prince of the royal house has shed his blood in their reeks. "If the attempts to arrive at an understanding with the German National Assembly broke down, to our great regret, iu consequence of the turn which things took at Frankfort, the Government of his Majesty has not acknow ledged with less candour the labours of that Assembly; and used these as the groundwork of their earnest and zealous endeavours to promote the work of the Constitu tion, so far as was compatible with the benefit of the whole, and with the rights of single parties. The unity of Germany, with an unitarian executive power at its head, which will represent its name and in terests with dignity and strength, and the freedom of the German people, secured by a popular representation with legislative power, was and continues to be the aim of our endeavours. "We have recognised the complete compatibility ef both conditions with the secure political existence of all German countries. The draft of the federal Constitution attests that no sacrifices are demanded from Prussia or any other German state, as far as its independence is concerned, but such as are inseparable from the erection of a truly national federal state. " For the formation of such a federal state, negotia tions have been entered into with the plenipotentiaries of the German Governments. The results already ob tained, concerning which complete information with justificatory documents will be laid before the Chamber, inspire the hope that, aided by the co-operation of up right and enlightened friends of the fatherland, and par ticularly of the men who aro here assembled in order to represent the Prussian people, our endeavours will no remain fruitless. " The passions which, during the first half of this year, had been mixed up with the discussion of the German question, have given way to sedate deliberation, and the necessary delay which has attended the meeting of the Chambers will in this respect be followed by good con sequences. " It has not been possible to convoke the Chambers so early as is prescribed by the 49th article of the Con stitution. " While the deplorable occurrences in May occasioned the elections to be put off, during the negotiations on the German electoral law, it breame evident that a modifica tion of the law of December 6 and 8, 1848, under which the deputies of the Second Prussian Chamher were chosen, was indispensable. In having effected these alterations by the decree of May 30 of this year, the Government has yielded to an urgent necessity. No citizen has thereby been deprived of his electoral right, while, by the publicity:of voting introduced, the im pure influence of party intrigue has been as much as possible averted, and, by the formation of three divisions of voters, the abrupt contradiction has been reconciled in which the exercise of universal suffrage hitherto stood to the real circumstances of life. The execution of these new electoral regulations demanded, in the absence of a general system of direct taxation, a longer interval for the convocation of the Chambers. "In the consciousness of the extraordinary respon sibility which we have incurred in the whole of this matter, we shall expose the grounds of our conduct com pletely in a special document, which will be laid before the Chambers. " The Government has also in the meantime sought to avert by some other ordinances the return to a state of anarchy. Having thereby guarded aga i nst the imminent danger of continued abuse of th e people's liberties, and supplied provisionally several legislative gaps, which had become sensible by the change of circumstances, it hopes to have preserved from interruption the continuance of the activity o f thi s Chamber, before which all ordinances promulgated on strength of the 105th article of the Constitution, will be immediately laid. The revision of the Constitution, the discussion of the projects of law for a new municipal arrangement of the law for th e or d er i ng of circles, dis tricts, and provinces, of the ordinance for facilitating the abolition of burdens on landed property, and many other Bills will furnish other subjects of laborious occupations to the Chambers. "Knovrn events, the reaction of a disturbed time, have occasioned the Government, upon ground of Art. 110 of the Constitution, to suspend in certain places and for certain times the exercise of fundamental rights. "In proportion to the difficulty with which we could reconcile ourselves to the adoption of those measures, will Le the readiness with which we shall lay an account thereof before the Chambers. " In regard to the budget, the representations made to the Chambers at their first convocation may be re peated on this occasion. " Notwithstanding the great pecuniary sacrifices de manded by extraordinary circumstances, we may re gard with satisfaction and tranquillity the state of cur finances. " The country has riot been so deeply shaken that the revenues of the state did not suffice to answer, even heavy requirements, without resorting to hazardous financial experiments or exhausting the means of taxa tion, in order to seek a precarious assistance. " The public works have continued without interrup tion. The Government will lay before the Chambers propositions calculated to employ many industrious hands in profitable occupation. " In the foreign relations of Prussia no prejudicial alteration has occurred. "By the conclusion, under the mediation of Great Britain, of an armistice and provisional conditions of peace with Denmark, a way has been entered upon for putting a stop to that war, which, apart from possible complications with other powers, laid upon the German north and Baltic coast, the heaviest, and, in the long run, intolerable sacrifices, while it required, under the given circumstances, a disproportionate expenditure of force. The documents hereto relating will be laid before the Chambers. " All the wishesof the duchies of holstein and Schles wig it was impossible to comply with. "The internal condition of Germany will obtain a more thriving development in propottiou to the peacefulness of our relations to the other members of the great European family of peoples and states, as well as to the progress of those states in bringing to a pacific and stable determination their own internal distractions. " Among the manifold motives which will induce the Chambers to set without delay about their most urgent business, and settle it as soon as possible in the most advantageous manner to the country, the near approach of the first German Reichstag assumes a foremost place. In order that this Assembly may bring to a speedy conclusion the great work of the Constitution, the Chambers, in conformity with a roy a l ordinance shortly to be expected, will have to appoint half the Prussian members. " The Government will, to the utmost of its power, further, facilitate the activity of the Chambers. " By command of his Majesty, I now declare the Cham bers of the kingdom to be opened. and I beg the deputies of the First Chamber to resume their labours, and those of the Second Chamber to proceed to the constitution of their Assembly." After the close of the speech, the Assembly gave three cheers for the KING. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. HAMBURG, AUG. 6.—The following communication has been issued by the Commercial Deputation of this city : By an official writing received from Copenhagen the royal Danish Minister of Marine has given orders that the blockade of the Elbe shall be raised on the 21st of this month.—.Hamburgh Correspodent. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, AUG. 6.—lt appears, from the general opinion entertained in Schleswig-Holstein, that hopes are still cherished there that the Schleswig. Holstein cause is not lost. This is partly founded on the return of Dr. BALEMANN from Berlin, and the determination that the National Assembly shall be immediately convoked. There seems to be a deter mination not to suffer Schleswig to appertain to Den mark. At a popular assembly of the National Represen tatives held this day, the following resolutions were passed : " We declare, first, we expect from the Lieutenancy and the National Assembly that they will act with the greatest energy, and employ every warlike power, not only that of Schleswig-holstein, but that of the German nation, for the salvation of the country. " Secondly—The chiefs of the departments, Jacob sen and llarbon have not the capability, nor do they possess the confidence of the people, for remaining any longer in these important posts, without endangering the country in its present perilous position." These declarations are to be presented in Schles wig by a numerous deputation, to the Lieutenancy and the National Assembly, on the 10th of this month. It is generally reported, and apparently with good reason, that General VON BONIN has tendered his resignation to the Lieutenancy as General of the Schleswig-Holstein army. It is also stated that the Minister of War, JACOBSEN, will resign his post, and be succeeded by the Prussian Major SHAVENHAGEN, formerly member of the German National Assembly, if we mistake not. The mission of Count RAVENT-, LOW PARVE is said to have been attended with con, sequences not favourable to the German cause. The result of the meeting of the National Assem bly to morrow is looked forward to with intense interest. The armistice has been acknowledged de facto by the Lieutenancy. It is said that Dr. BALEMANN, in the preliminaries for the negotiations for peace, aims at substituting a line of demarcation for the indepen dence of Schleswig. HOLLAND. TEE HAGUE, Aug. 6.—ln the sitting of the First Chamber of the States General the committee of re porters presented various projects, among which was that relative to the revenue of the Crown. The statement of the committee runs thus : " This project has been most favourably received in all the sections, and great importance is attached to his Majesty's generous offer to reduce the supplies of his revenue of the Crown to be paid by the Treasury De partment." THE CHOLERA.—At Amsterdam on the 6th only three cases were reported, and 39 remain under treatment. At Utrecht there were 42 fresh cases en Sunday and Monday. At Arnheim, on the 4th and sth, 24 new cases and 96 under treatment. At Rotterdam the number of deaths from cholera during the last three months amount to 700, of which 462 took place in the month of June.—Dutch Papers. DUTCH FUNDS.—Arasitanass, Aug. 7. Money. nulls Actual Debt, 234 per Cent •••••• •• • • • 52% 5314 Ditto, 3 per Cent ••••• • • • •••• • • • • 614 61% Ditto, 4 per Cent.•• .• •• • • •••• • • • • 50 % 811,4 Amort Syndic, 3y4 per Cent •• • . Commercial Company, 434 per Cent • Spanish New 5 per Cents. ..... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1n1and......... Exchangeon London, at sight •• • • 12 02 Two m0nth5......... ••.• .• II 97 On Hamburgh, at sight ...• 35 Two m0nth5..........• •• • • 34 87 On Paris, at sight.....• • S 7 93 TwOmonths... 56 56 BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, AUGUST 8.--We are sorry to state that fears are entertained for the health of Baron CHAZEL, who has been attacked by the cholera. On the 7th, as his MAJESTY was returning alone from Brussels to Lacken, in his carriage, he disco- vered that a warehouse, containing goods of an in flammable nature, was on fire. The KING instantly dispatched one of his servants on horseback to the engine stations at Brussels, and he himself took the necessary measures for the preservation of the goods. The manufactory was close to the railway, and a fearful explosion took place at the very moment that a train was passing. The KING was exceedingly active, and in about two hours the fire was entirely subdued, without the occurrence of any accident. ITAL Y. TREATY BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA. The definitive treaty of peace between Austria and Sardinia was signed at Milan on the 6th instant by Marshal RADETZKY and the Minister BRUCE on the part of Austria ; and by Count PALORMO, General DE LA BROMIDA, and the Senator BURN COMPAGNI, on the part of Sardinia. Austria, in consequence of the remonstrances of England and France, gave way on the subject of the amnesty to the Lom bards, and has accepted the terms proposed by Sardinia; this acceptance was mainly brought about by a declaration on the part of the representa tive of the French Republic, that any attack by Austria on Sardinia on such grounds would be con sidered by his Government as a casuB belli. The same evening a courier left Milan for Turin to submit the treaty to the King of SARDINIA for ra tification. On the following day, the 7th, the Council of Ministers having met, it was decided that King VICTOR EMMANUEL should ratify the treaty, which was done accordingly. GARIBALDI has appeared in the neighbourhood of Bologna, and has produced a perfect panic among the Austrian garrison, who have sent off in all haste for reinforcements. Several Hungarians have left the Austrian camp and joined him since he left, and the people of Rimini have risen in his favour, so that it is not improbable he may have entered that city and have there fixed the head-quarters of the Roman Republic. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 4th instant an nounces that the GRAND DUKE of Tuscany has named a commission for the compilation of a military penal code, as also of a code of procedure. MM. MARTINI, Sardinian ex-Envoy to Gaeta, GALETTT, ex- President of the Roman Constituent Assembly, and COSTABILI, ex-Deputy of the same, left Leghorn on the 29th ult., for Genoa. The Siecle (Paris paper) states that it has received information that three United States ships entered Venice with money and provisions for the besieged. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 21.--The two new Hospo dars of Moldavia and Wallachia have had their solemn audience of the Grand Vizier, in which he presented them with the forms of their installation, swords of honour, decorations, &c. Speeches replete with Turkish compliments were made on both sides, and both parties seemed mutually pleased. The foreign ambassadors have also commenced their visits of ceremony to the two new princes ; the first who waited upon them was Sir STRATFORD CANNING, the British Ambassador. SMYRNA, JULY 23.—Intelligence has been received here from Alexandria, that a fearful fire that took place there will oc c a s i on th e St a t e a l oss o f 40,000,0 0 0 piastres. - ABBAS PACHA is still at Cairo, whither his mother lately returned from Constantinople. The FO3S of MEHEMET Am, who is perhaps already dead, since he was dangerously ill when the post quitted, are, together with the sons of InnAnist PACHA, at Cairo. They are the best hostages for ABBAS PACHA. BOSNIA, END or JuLy.—The insurrection in Bosnia is in full progress. The hotbed is on the river Unna, at Bihae, close to the Austrian boun dary. Here the insurgents gained several advantages on the 21st and 22d, took the village of Gonave, and shut up the PACDA in the fortress of Mae, round which there was much fighting on the 23d and 24th. The rebel chief, KERICII has 12,000, and the detested P ac h a w ill be compelled to surrew der. The demanded succours have not yet arrived from the Vizitr of Travenie, who, as we have before stated, would not venture to send us any troops till he had received authority to do so from Constanti nople, as the whole of Bosnia was in a state of in surrection. An official account in the Agram Gazette states that the Vizier commanded MUSTAPHA PACBX to lead an army against the insurgents, that the Turks refused to join his standard, and that he could collect only a handful of people. Everything proves, adds the Agram Gazette, that a grand revolution is brooding throughout the whole of Bosnia.—Hamburg Papers. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday amounted to 8.000 bales, including 4.000 American on speculation and for export. The transactions comprised 6,500 Awe rican, at 4d. to 6d., 350 Pernams, &c., at sid. to 200 Bahia at sid. to sid, and 500 at 31d. to 4d. Th e market closed' firmly at extreme pri ces .—Th e m arket for Railway Shares was heavy at declining prices. The Corn Market is flat again, the raising of the Danish blockade this day, and the generally favourable advices from different parts of the United States with respect to the crops having an influence. The arrivals of Foreign Wheat this morning are 7,5 50 quarters, and of' Oats 18,130 quarters. Respecting the growing crops in some parts of Germany, the intel ligence received scarcely justifies the expectation of a very abund int 3 field of Wheat. At Bros' eels on Wednesday the price of this article fell 1 franc 18 centimes per 11 bushels. The accounts from the various provinces of Turkey arc very encouraging. The continental reports from the different stock markets are this morning in substance as follows:—The dates are the latest by the second delivery of letters. Frank' fort, the 7th, Austrian securities slightly declining, vie" to 76i, except Bank Shares, which were steady. Berlin the same day, some sales caused a Flight decline in shares , and generally there was less animation. Amsterdam , the Bth, sales mado to realise profits on the late advance occasioned a slight decline. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 13.16 to Paris, yesterday, the Bourse rather decidedly tending upwards, owing to the Sar' dinian peace. The commercial news from the continent is cheer' : ing. At Bresl a u, P est h, Vi enna, an d other INA°: fairs, good s a l es are b e i ng mado at fuller rates. Hamburgh last Tuesday the rate of exchange .011 London was without a lt erat i on , b e i ng 13.9. B i „, - on London were in request. Trade was "' peeled to be brisker. The blockade was already virtually raised, several ships having passed th e Danish cruisers without let or hindrance. By an Wl' perial Russian ukase, the privileges of a free port are continued to Russia for five years. A communication from Venice, given in a- Gorman paper, states that the city h a d b een set on fi re i n se veral places by the Austrian batteries. There are Cape of Good Hope advices to-day of June , being about a week later. The whole colony Ive s up in arms still about the proposed intro' duction of convicts, and thousands of signs' tures had been affixed to tie different petitiono• Besides . this a large sum had been subscribed to weei the expense incurred by the governor in sending back th e convicts, who upon arriving tram Bermuda were not per witted to land. On the other hand very great satisfactio n was expressed at the class of emigrants arrived out at Natal, for they consist o f p ersons h av i ng a li tt l e capital' and bringing out with them domestics and labourers. . 1 is apprehended that they might experience some disalr pointment at th e sma ll grants o fl an d g i ven them, inasmuch as many parties already in the colony had extensive grants, but preferred remaining at the port; but mil e will depend on the system of location, and if the no; comers remained together, th e y might s.2on form a lit tle settlement that would obviate th e o bj ec ti on o f i s olated farms. The Lalla Rookh had arrived out in 64 dai s ' and the Wanderer was off the coast. The business done this week in the Mincing-le ne Markets has been rather limited, but British Pl a ntatio n Sugar has commanded a goo d sa l e , an d h o ld ers do n°: generally press sales of other articles. Rice is some_ what cheaper. Coffee has been v er y qu i e t, and cott m. looking up. In the English Funds there is this morning not 11 :g r _ c :: deal doing, either for mon e y or ti me . Consols hay to ranged from 92i to 92i for t:ansfer, and from 9 2 1 ie 92j- for the 14th instant. Exch equer -bill s are a 111 " t heavy a t 46 5 . t o 48 s . prem i um. T he New Three - a n"' a , Quarter per Cents. have been 931 to Foreign St oc k s h ave b een very inactive. Span-.9 h Five per Cents. are 18k, an d P ortuguese Four per Ca . : 29. Brazil Bonds are 85 to 85i. Austrian Five per Cents. have been quoted 77. Dutch Two-and-a-J.llllf per- Cents. are 524 to 53i. Railway Shares are yet very dell, but North-Western and Midland look better. Great Western heavy. ONE u'OCV_Ii. •tcluEB OF IaTISH FUNDS n rzs.. 3 ~er Cent. Reduced Arms...—. 92;14 7g 5 ,6 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 %% 93 gew 3 1 4 per cent. Anne....... V 3'l4 Br* %7/8 % 935 Long Anne. to expire Jaa.lB6o ••• 87/8 India Bonds, 1,0004 - ...... . 82 88 P p Ditto under 1,0001... ...... 80 82 p 88 P South Sea Stock Consols for Account ... 92 7 / 8 34 92/' ,4 s Exchequer Bills. laid. & 2d. 1,0001. June ..... 96 48 p 491 3 500/. June ................. 99P 46 49 p Small. June 46 49 p 49 P PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS °NE OLOSIIV 'C 7 L OCK. T 1 1 1" Austrian, 5 per Cent. ........ ....... O 7 77 Brazilian, ttonds ..... .... ...... 85% 85 85 Danish R0nd5,1825,3 per Cent ... Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849.. Do. Bonds Equador Bads Grenada Boat's, 1 per Cent. Ditto, Deferred 3 1,4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 51 3 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Active — Portuguese 5 per Cents - d. Ditto, 4 per Cent. 29 Ditto, Account 18 29314 4 Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2'4 per Cent., 12 Guild. s3 '/8 523: 1 53;i 53 52 3 /4 PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE eroslNa RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE`'' Aberdeen Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 6 ...... Ayrshire and Gallow- ay.. 7% Belfast & County Down 25 Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 - ford Junin, a calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, withoutguarae tee 20 ... -- Sliming, MY olverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... Do. without guarantee 10 Birming.,Wolverh'pton , ••••••• ........ and Stour Valley 131. 145... Birkenhead, Lancashire, _ min Cheshire June.... 20 Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 7/. 4s. tiristol and Exeter 9O ...... —_. ............ Ditto, Thirds .... 2 7 1 /i -- . ............. iiuckinghanr%hire ... 161. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares 121 Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 - Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference Clarence - Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 - Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 - Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent. - Direct London & Ports mouth - ........ „••• t ..-- Dublin and Belfast June. 40 — Dundalk & Enniskillen 22 1 / 2 — East Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D....- 25 — Do., 181., E. &IL ... 18 ...... 3 A P ... , 23ii 11% t Do., 3/. 105., Pref.:. 3 1 ,4: 2 ... Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 8% B 5Ai Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10 Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... % p s' p Ditto North. & E to ditto,No. a3 2 t . e .. r 6 n l ; 13s. 4d... Do. 6 per Cent. - Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares - Do. New - Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto 3 %2 — - Do., Class B (1. & B.) 25 Ditto, Class 0, ditto... 22 1 A. .... . -- • Do. Scrip (6 p er cent. ) 20 ..... East Lancashire ......... 2 . 5 Ditto, New ...-. 16 1 h x.i....„_,..... li ils'" . Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4 — - Do., 6 per Cent. Pre- 7 ference Quarters ... 6 1 A — East Lin c oln s hire cdinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ... ...... ....., Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. .- E.din burgh and Northern 25 Ditto, Newport t , :xeter,Yeovil, & Dorch 9 3/g — Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Gla.gew, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ... -8/.65. 8d.... Glasgow,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 Do. Preference Consol. Great Northern - ... 9 1 4 ... Do., :',„ A Deferred D0., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent... 734 -... Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 5 treat South. and West. (Ireland) _- Great North of England 100 ... . Ditto, New, 40/ 4O ~....• Ditto, ditto ....... .....- 85 --• •• • • .• • • ..... r 3 THE SUN, LONDON, EVENING-, AUGUST 10, 1849