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V that the deceased had permitted familiarity with the other sex some time before. The Jurors put several questions to Mr. Fuller as to whether he could judge of the state of the mind of the deceased from the appearance of her countenance after death ; to which he professed himself unable to give satisfactory answers. • Juror—Do you think it possible for a person whose countenance is so placid as that of the deceased, to have been deranged in her mind when she threw herself off the Monument ? Witness—lt is quite impossible for me to say. I can only say that I have seen persons whose features were much distorted with pain and ill ness just before death, and in a very short time after- Wards they were as placid as could be. Juror—Yes, but that was in a case of natural death. Do you know any' similar instance in a case of violent death ? Witness—No, Ido not. The next witness called was Caroline Bottrell, an interesting-looking young woman, dressed in deep mourning, who, on being sworn, stated that she was step-sister to the deceased, and that she had seen but very little of her for the last four years. The de ceased, she understood, was in her 17th year, having been born on the 23d of September, 1825, and she (witness) was not aware of any circumstances which could have led to her committing such an act. Mrs. Louisa Edwards, another sister of the de ceased, and who is a widow, deposed that she had not seen the deceased for twelve months, and that this was •owing to her not knowing where she ,dived. This . -witness here said there were some circumstances in ale case which she feared were withheld from the Comner and Jury, and which she wished should be strlctiv inquired into. The circumstances she alluded to, and which had been withheld were, that there were two o'g'entlemen lodgers in the house of Mrs. Rowbo them, with whom her unfortunate sister might have ferreed an intimacy, and she (witness) should be glad if the Coroner and Jury would inquire whether either of those gentlemen were from home on the Thursday night. The CORONER, upon this suggestion, had Mrs. RO'ivbotharn re-called, and in reply to the questions of the Coroner and Jury, she said, that two gentlemen hal lodged at her house, but one of them left last month, and the other, she swore, had not been absent from home on the Thursday night. This witness de nied in the most indignant manner the imputation of Airs. Edwards, the last witness, and complained of having been grossly insulted by her while waiting to be examined. The witness, in conclusion, said it was her firm conviction; from a close observance of her conduct and manner, that so far from the deceased forming any improper intimacy with the gentlemen in her house, that she was perfectly spotless, chaste, and pure. The CORONER—The surgeon who has given his evidence has declared' her to be otherwise, and that, too, for some time. Mrs. Rowbotham (evidently much surprised and affected)—l could hardly believe it possible, and I can only say, the opinion I have expressed of her was the one I have always entertained. In reply to the question of a Juror, Mrs. Row botham said, that Mrs. Edwards, and, she believed,. the other members of the deceased's family, were per fectly well aware of where she lived ; yet for the 12 months she had been in: her service neither of them came to see her. Mrs. Edwards was again called, and it appeared from her own admission that she had not the slightest round for making the imputation against Mrs. Row hotham, or the inmates of her house, and the Coroner and Jury expressed it to be their unanimous opinion that there was not the slightestlmputation against the character of Mrs. Rowbothatit,'-, - Sarah Timmins was here 'recalled by order of the Coroner. She said she became acquainted with the deceased by her living as servant to a tenant of her fa the:, and that she corresponded with her occasionally, but she was not aware of her having an acquaintance With - any young man, nor any improper intimacy with any one. The deceased left her house on Thursday evening after ten, and after being there about an hour and a half, left for the purpose, as she (witness) believ ed, of going home to her master. She did not hear any about Camberwell Fair, nor did she observe any peculiarity in manner on that occasion, and she had no idea where she had been that (Thursday) night, nor any cause which led to the rash act. The witness was here questioned about some expressions in a note which she had sent to the deceased in April last, but the answers led to nothing particular. The beadle here remarked that he had made in quiries, and found that the deceased bore a very ex cellent character in the situation which she had been in previous to going into that of Mrs. Rowbotham, and her mistress spoke very highly of her. He (the beadle) had used every exertion to ascertain where the deceased had been from six o'clock on Thursday evening until half-past ten, when she presented her self at the Monument, but could not get any informa tion on the subject. Mr. Deputy Pewtress said that, upon hearing of the unfortunate accident, he went to Guildhall to ex amine the minutes of the Committee who had been appointed on the occasion of the former fatal accident at the Monument, with the view of preventing a re currence of such offences. By those minutes he found that the Committee had left the matter in the Int,ds of the Clerk of the Works to report oa, which he did. The report recomme n d e d two things for the prevention of smcides,—the first was the appointment of a person to accompany those persons who wished to view the monument; and the next, that the iron railing at the top, which was then four feet high, should be raised four feet more, but as the latter would somewhat diminish the architectural beauty of the pillar, the former recommendation was adopted, and the man Fletcher was appointed to the situation. He (Mr. Pewtress) had been to the top of the Monument since the melancholy affair, and it was to him a matter of considerable surprise that a person so short in stature as the deceased could have got over e iron railings, such as they were. On making a rainute inspection, however, he saw that it was easily accomplished, for he found that the flag-staff had been made fast at two places with bindings which formed a resting place for the feet, and by their means a per son of almost any stature could have surmounted the railing. Had this shelf not been in its present situ ation he (Mr. Pewtress) was of opinion the deceased could not have accomplished her object. • Mr. Hall, Chairman of the City Lands Committee, slid a Committee were summoned to meet on Mon- day next, to take the present unfortunate occurrence into consideration, and he (Mr. Hall) might with confidence assure the Coroner and the Jury that such means would be adopted as would effectually prevent the recurrence of such tragic scenes. The CORONER, in summing up the evidence, ob served there could ba no doubt the deceased came by he- (Intl' by an act of her own, as it was impossible to suppose that she could have fallen off by accident, and the only question the Jury had to consider was the state of mind in which she was at the time. With respect to the Monument itself, he (the Coroner) was glad to find that two gentlemen who stood high in the Corporation was in attendance, and the jury had heard what those gentlemen had said on the subject. For his own (the Coroner's) part, he felt satisfied, frem the assurance given by those gentlemen, that something would be at once done to effectually prevent further deaths of this description. It was impossible to prevent suicides, there were so many means of accom• plishing self-destruction, but something should he done to prevent .the outrage done to the public and public feeling by acts like the present. It was stated that, on the present occasion, a man who was acci dentally passing had narrowly escaped, for had the deceased fallen upon, instead of close by him, his life must have been sacrificed. By the evidence, it did not appear where the deceased had spent her time from six o'clock oa the Thursday evening until near half-pastten on the following morning; but if the Jury should be of opinion that an adjournment of the case would bring forth this fact, he (the Coroner) was willing to ad journ the case to a future day. If, however, they were satisfied with the evidence before them, the only question for their consideration (as there could be no doubt of her having committed the act her se lf) was as to the state of mind in which she was when she committed it. The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, re turned a verdict—" That the deceased came by her death by injuries, by throwing herself off the Monu ment ; and that she had committed the act while la bouring under temporary derangement, occasioned by indiscretion and stopping out all night." A Juror, after the verdict was returned, said he considered the Jurors would not be doing their duty if they did not add to their verdict their disapproba tion of the City authorities in appointing to the situa tion such a person as Fletcher, a man who was so worn out and decrepit as to be incapable of preventing persons from throwing themselves from the top of the building, if they even attempted to do ao in his presence, and who was a perfect specimen of the old watchman. The CORONER remarked he had no doubt the evil -would be immediately remedied. At Calverton, on Tuesday last, a meeting of frame wolk.knitters was convened, to take into consideration the best means to be adopted, to put a stop to an in ifring,ement, which several of the hosiers are practising upon them, by shifting four stitches instead of three, in the narrowings of the heels and toe-ends, without any remuneration, when a resolution was proposed, and car ) ied unanimously, that sooner than suffer themselves to —, l vnaz , tr be, imposed upon any longer by their masters, they ' 74 ' ''''`-'4VOnld strike, and never return to work again until the 44<- 'arter becomes the law of the land.—Nottingfiam fid: r- - - ;Re view. -\ ►ez! The transport barque Numa. „ez r . t ,.. x Amuorr4,'AuG.lB.---. -, 1 4 : Lori Barbadops, with invalids, put in here this afternoon ' '` 'f ur provision; having been 47 days from Barbadoes ; 1 -, -: , just as she anchored one of the poor creatures on board .died. The Tweed, West India steam-ship, left this yes si terday with the mails ;we regret to report that she had only a very few passengers, lIIIIMMIII HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Her Majesty's Theatre closed for thepresent year on Saturday night; "the season" having, as our readers are aware, closed with the previous Saturday's perform ances. There were two nights in the past week in which the house was open, and the entertainments were, if anything, more abundant in quantity' than on the preceding evenings of the season ; and yeC•the prices of admission to all parts of the house were little more than half the charges made during the season. On the night of Thursday the Puritani was offered to one of the most crowded audiences of the year, being filled to repletion, and not a single inch in its vast space being unoccupied; while on Saturday night, the programme presenting still more attractive features, the crowd was, if possible, still greater. In short, the last two performances may be termed the season of the middle classes, and they seem to have availed them selves of the opportunity with an alacrity, and enjoyed the treat with a gusto that do them the highest credit. It is also creditable to the good feeling of the manager, Mr. Lumley, to have thrown open his theatre under such circumstances ; although there may be some difference of opinion as to the policy of making the Opera as popular, or rather as common, as an ordinary theatrical enter tainment. That, however, is a question between the manager's feelings and interests, and the prejudices of a class or classes in the community ; and in any case it does not impeach the credit due to Mr. Lum ley for good feeling towards those in the humbler walks of society, and an honest desire to afford every gratification in his power to what is known in common parlance as " the public at large." The musical per formances of last night were the first act of the ever pleasing Cosi Fan Tutte—that most congenial work of the immortal mind of Mozart, though it be anything but congenial with the circumstances under which it was produced, namely, bodily sickness, men tal misery, the pressure of debt, and the wearisome load of grinding poverty : the second act of La Sonnambula—the sweetest and the gentlest of the sweet and gentle productions of poor Bellini's soft spirit : and the last scene of II Pirata—this latter being introduced expressly to afford Rubini an oppor tunity of singing his famous aria, "Tu Vedrai," which he did to the point of perection. Nothing could have more completely hit the taste of the audience than this combination : all through the evening they were in a furore of delight : now tar ried along with the joyous current of melody that a?arkles and flows through every scene of Cosi. Fan Tutte, laughing up like a gushing rivulet in the sun, now subsiding into the most sober sadness, as though " the melting mood" was with them— " Native, and to the manner born," . the while the sweet but meretricious music of La Sonnambula filled their cars ; and then bursting out into a wild and tumultuous torrent of applause at the energy and force with which the prima tenore of the age, Itubini, poured forth the skilfully construc ted and not unmelodious combinations of Il Pirata. As far as their enjoyment went it was, in fact, one un alloyed round of gratification and pleasure—the mu sical performance of the evening—and it would be injustice to the artists engaged in it, as well as to the manager, not to add that this gratification was well founded, and the pleasure of the audience the echo of good taste ; for at no period during the past " season" did there appear more manifest a disposition on the part of the one to put forth their powers, and on that of the other to promote their application to the de lights of the thousands assembled within the walls of her Majesty's Theatre on this occasion. The Choregraphique portion of both evening's en tertainments was equally abundant and equally ex cellent. On the night of Thursday the gorgeous ballet of Alma and an intermezzo of the Warsovienne, and another popular national dance, gave the greatest delight to the audience ; while last night the ever agreeable Soiree de Carnival, the Warsovienne, a pas de Trois, and the last act of Alma, were introduced as parts of the performance. The elasticity and grace of Cerito, the lithe and elegant movements of Camille, the fancy and finish of Guy Stephan, and the strength and youthful energy of JE leury, were all called into full action, and each received her due meed of the most rapturous and unbounded approbation ; while the agility of Perrot excited no small share of the general admira tion, and received, as it deserved, no niggard por. tion of the public applause. " God save the Queen," sang by all the company, closed the evening's entertainment, and with it her Majesty's Theatre for the year. The ensuing season is expected to be of the most brilliant character. We trust it will be correspond ently profitable to the manager, Mr. ,Lumley, who has, during the season that is just over, been an inde fatigable caterer for " the subscribers," and to whom the musical public of the country is also much in debted for the introduction to its notice of so many new and accomplished singers. We wish his arduous undertaking every possible success, sure that, if he goes on as he has begun, he will well deserve all the favour that can be bestowed upon him by a discerning public. -4 - 0. - 4- r • • ," - • SUS 9 LONDOIst, MOVDAY MORNING AL usT 22, 1842 • NEW WORK BY MRS. HOFLAND. Immediately, in 3 vols. post Svo. THECZ ARIN - A; An HISTORICAL 'ROMANCE of the COURT OP RUSSIA. By MRS. HOFLAND. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, and to had at all Bookseller•', VOLUME FIVE of " THE LIVES OF THE QUEENS of ENGLAND," By AGNES STRICKLAND, Comprising the Lives of Queen Katharine Parr and Queen Mary, and illustrated with a Portrait of Queen Katharine, &e. ••• New Editions of Vols. 1., 11., 111., and IV., are also now ready. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. • Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. M•AS A N I E L L 0. Edited by HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. " The whole romance is full of spirited and well-sustained action, which gives it the deepest interest."—Weekly Chronicle. " Tke romance reading world is much indebted to the author of this work, and his edit°• ial friend, the Author of • Bramble tye House,' for bringing before it a rich and glowing picture of one of the most extraordinary outbursts of popular fury that the historian has 'ever been called upon to record. To the great advantage of full and local knowledge, the writer of Masaniello suceradds great powers of description and of imagination. His hero and other characters are fai hfully and forcibly drawn. Salvator Rosa is brought very prominently upon the canvas. Victoria, the high minded daughter of the Duke D'Arcos, the Spanish Governor of Naples is a very beau tiful conception, and there is a sweetness, a devotion, a self sacrifice in Ursula, the wife of itlasaniello, that can never fail to produce the most touching effect."—Court Journal. Henry Colburn, Publisher, l3, Great Marlborough-street. IJAMBURGH, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. MAJESTYIS the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Having A UTHORISEDand GUAttANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDEND.:;, by which, though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURG H, are Selling GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE. The season will commence at Covent-garden, as we stated some weeks ago, on the 3d of September, but it is not finally decided what will be the opera selected for the re-appearance of Miss A. Kemble, now Madame, or the Countess Sartoris. We have some reason to believe that it will be Bellini's Sonnambula, the principal parts all to be filled as the A piece was performed last year. Many of Miss A. Kemble's friends are for a repetition of Norma, and tho point is really of little consequence, since, even if it were Elena cla Feltri, the least popular of Miss A. Kemble's characters, the house would be sure to be filled. One point has been decided, viz., that Madame, or the Countess Sartoris, will still be called Miss A. Kemble in the bills of the day. There are a number of stories current respecting her marriage, and the immediate cause of it, not one of which we believe to be true, and we shall therefore add to the currency of none of them. As we said a fortnight ago, her father was • quite taken by surprise, and at first ap prehended that it would interfere with his project at Covent-garden, but he was soon undeceived upon that point, and it has from the first been our opinion that the effect of the marriage before Miss A. Kemble has quitted the stage will be to keep her longer before the public than was originally anticipated. If M. Sartoris has no objection to his wife's con tinuing on the stage immediately after his union, we can see no reason why she should not remain there as long as she finds it profitable. It now seems certain that the members of the Co vent-garden company, or the principal performers in it, will hire the Lyceum as an experiment, in order that they may play there on the alternate nights when Covent-garden will be closed. We are told that this arrangement does not apply to the vocal department, and that C. Kemble has engaged them at proportionate salaries, on condition that they do not appear else where. We apprehend, however, that a license will be necessary from the Lord Chamberlain, and that, under the circumstances, it may not be a mere matter of course to procure it. The Surrey Theatre has lately been carrying all before it by the introduction of regular operas on that side of the water. A new opera, called Little Red Riding flood, has been brought out there with great success, the principal vocal parts having been excel lently sustained by Miss Romer, Harrison ' and Leffler. The enterprise does great credit to Mr. Willis Jones, who is now at the head of the establishment ; and, although the additional expense incurred has been very considerable, it has been so amply repaid as to leave the lessee a very large profit. Macready begins at Drury-lane on the 24th Sept., his arrangements not being sufficiently complete to enable him to open for the season earlier. Extensive preparations are making for the production of Dry den s King Arthur, with the old English music, on the first night. This is the opera which was post poned last year. Comm is also to be revived with the cast nearly as " underlined" last season, when it was withdrawn in consequence of the produc tion of it at Covent-garden by Madame Vestris. Now Madame Vestris will lend her assistance to the piece at Drury-lane. It is stated in several quarters that the play at the opening this year will be Shakspeare's Richard the Second, but we are not enabled to speak positively on the subject. Managers do not like to pledge themselves, lest some accident should intervene to prevent the execution of their design. If Richard the Second be not acted on the first night of the season it will be produced very soon afterwards on a scale of most extraordinary splendour and completeness. Macready is resolved to spare no money upon these revivals, and to follow up his designs commenced at Covent-garden, and which, on his second season there, so well answered the purpose of the u lessee. S nday Paper. SUICIDE.— Shortly after four o'clock on Saturday morning, as a ballast engine was conveying some police men and excavators along the . Eastern Countiesßailro th ad e from the terminus at Shoreditch to St rat f or d , they no ticed what appeared to them a man silting against pailings which divided the line from the Old Fo r d- roa d Bow, apparently asleep. They, thinking it a v ery dan gerous place for a person to be, particularly at that time of the morning, immediately stopped the engine and reversed it ; and on coming to the spot where the man war, they soon discovered that he was su,pended by a rope, it being made fast to some hooks on the top of the palling to prevent persons getting over ; and to carry his design into effect, he was obliged, the pailing not being high enough to extend his person in a sitting po sition, to tighten the rope round his neck and strangle himself. He is about forty years of age, and was dressed in a blackfrock coat, black waistcoat and trowsers, awl his hat had a piece of crape around it. No proi,erty was found in his possession, except a pocket book and a duplicate. The engine-drivers and stokers of the various engines, who were going up and down the line all night, have been questioned as to whether they had seen him before, but not the slightest informa tion could be obtained. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) FOREIGN WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUG. 18.—There has been very little business transacted in this branch of trade during the past week, in consequence of the disturbances which have taken place within the last few days. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUG. 19.—The proceedings of the turn-outs in other places, as well as in this town, during - the present week, have en grossed so much attention, that business -has been quite suspended. Indeed, so long as the mills are stopped, it is not to be expected that the manufac turers will buy wool. We trust, however, that tran quility will shortly be restored, and trade resume its ordinary course. DUBLIN WOOL MARKEF, AUGUST 17.—We have had much more business doing in wools this week, particularly on English account, but we cannot quote any alteration in. prices. Buyers purchase freely at our former rates, viz. :—Hoggetts 16s. per stone; wethers and ewes 15s. per ditto. TRADE or LEEDS.—The alarming state of the manufacturing districts has brought business to a complete stand. The cloth markets on Saturday were below an average even of the dull markets we have had of late, but on Tuesday there was literally nothing done. he same remarks apply to the state of business in the warehouses ; very few buyers have visited the town during the week, and those who have come with the view of making purchases have purchased only for the present need, and with the greatest caution. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY, AUG. 16. Our market to-day opened amidst the most gloomy auspices, all the numerous mills in the immediate neighbourhood having ceased working, and the im mense population employed therein standing idle in the streets and the highways, or being worse em ployed in stopping the very few establishments which have not yet been visited by the rioters. No business seems to be thought of to-day. Manufacturers and merchants are collected in groups outside our Cloth hall, earnestly engaged in discussing the recent occur rences, and looking with fearful apprehensions to the Ito the 'future. Though the proceedings of the mis guided operatives have succeeded for the time being in arresting the usual current of business, it is grati fying to know that the untoward circumstances by which trade is at present affected, have merely a tem porary origin, and, though prostrated for the present, it will recover its elasticity when the dignity of the law is vindicated, as it will be. We would indulge the hope that the peaceful aspect of our political rela tions with America, and the benign influence of the seasons, will ere long conduce to a better state of things. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The attendance of merchants to-day in the Piece market is far below an average, and the business doing is of the same limited character, which is fully accounted for by the stoppage of mills on Tuesday, since which time no goods have been manufactured. The demand still continues on the mixed fabrics of cotton, wool, mohair, and alpacas, both in plain and fancy goods, merinos, &c., the product of wool is hardly so of ready sale— prices of all kinds remain very firm. Since Monday last the production of yarns has been nearly extinct, owing to the stoppage of the mills by the mob rioters, who caused, with very few exceptions, the total to be idle till this morning, when the whole of the mills in the towns and the immediate neighbourhood resumed work, with generally a good attendance of hands, who appear very anxions to be out of the riotous tumult. in sales we cannot hear of any marked increase or improved prices. During the week the spinners have done but little in the purchase of any kinds of wools, consequently no marked alteration in prices. BELFAST ELECTION. FOURTH DAY, AUG. 18. The numbers at the close of this day were— Mr. Ross Mr. E. Tennent 798 Lord H. Chichester SEIZURE OF THE MEXICAN MONTEZUMA STEAM-FRIGATE AT BLACK WALL. About ten days have elapsed since, at the in stance of General James Hamilton, citizen of Texas, affidavits were laid before the Board of Customs by S. Amory, Esq., solicitor, of 25, Throgmorton-street, setting forth certain facts as to the manning, arming, equipment, general ob jects, and destination of the beautiful and power ful Montezuma steam-,rigate. Immediately those affidavits were lodged at the Custom-house, two officers were sent on board the Montezuma, and there continued until Monday last, when Mr. Forsyth, Custom-house searcher, seizrd and took formal possession of the vessel. The affidavits before alluded to were grounded upon violations both of the Navigation and Foreign Enlistment Acts. The Foreign Enlistment Act (59 Geo. 111., c. 60) renders subjects enlisting or engaging to enlist or serve in foreign service, &c., or per sons luring others and without licence front the Crown, guilty of a misdemeanour, and punish able by fine or imprisonment. Vessels having such persons on board may be detained by officers of customs or revenue. Masters en gaging to take such persons on board forfeit 501. for each persen, and the vessel may be seized until the penalty be paid, or bail given. Persons fitting out to such vessels are guilty of a misde meanour, the vessel may be forfeited, and officers of customs or revenue may seize it. Aiding the warlike equipment of vessels of fo reign states is a misdemeanour. Under those provisions of the law the Montezuma has been seized. The allegations of the affidavits upon which the seizure has been effected are to the effect— That the Montezuma has been built as a war frigate at Blackwall, for the Government of Mexico—is under the cotnmdnd of Richard Francis Cleveland, a Post-Captain in her Ma jesty's Royal Navy—has eight or ten officers, boatswain, gunners, and 150 seamen, in addition to twelve marines, all of whom have been in her Majesty's service. Her armament consists, or was to consist, of four long 32-pounders, two short 32-caronades, one 68-pounder, 500 muskets, rockets, shells, &c. The Montezuma in her construction, equip ment, and steam-power and crew, is a very for midable vessel It was observed by_ one of her crew, an old man-of-warsman, that she was " as warm a thing as he had ever seen." The crew had received 61. each in advance; they were en gaged for a term of teree years certain, at 3/. a month, with permission to terminate the en gagement at the end of one year. Each man on retiring from the service was to receive Si. be sides his wages to carry him home. A somewhat similar vessel was constrncted at Liverpool, called the Guadalupe, except that her material is iron. General Hamilton's arrival in this country was, howelTr,:too -late to intercept hea, and she is now (fully equipped and manned) on her way to Mexico. Relatice to her similar affidavits have been laid before Government, hut to what purpose remains to be seen. Both ves sels are so built as to draw only nine feet of water : thus admirably adapted for their pur poses of running in with troops, &c., to the B a y of Galveston and other shallow harbours on the coast of Texas. The crews of both vessels are picked and ex perienced men, and those of the Montezuma, whom we saw on oue of the days appointed for sailing, looked as happy as if they were going to a ball. CORONER'S INQUEST.—SHOCKING SUICIDE OF AN OLD MAN, 77 YEARS OF AGE.—On Friday afternoon an inquest was held before William Carter, Esq., at the Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower, Ashstead, Surrey, on view of the body of John Tanner, aged 77 years, a gar dener, who died in consequence of a desperate wound he had inflicted on his throat with a razor, under the fol lowing circumstances!—Emma Tanner, daughter of the deceased, deposed that on the afternoon of Friday, the 12th inst., her mother requested her to seek her father, who had been out of doors for some time, and on going to a shed, at some little distance, she saw the deceased coming out of the shed with the blood pouring from a wound in his throat. Witness gave an alarm, and a neighbour came to her assist ance , w h o asked deceased why he did it ? To which he replied, "I did it ;" and putting his hand up to his throat, said "He wanted to feel if it was asunder." Deceased had before attempted to commit suicide, but had been pre vented, and a careful watch was set over him. Mr. Maw ry, a surgeon, deposed that he attended the deceased un til his death, which took place -on Tuesday last. lie found an incised wound in the throat, about three inches in length and two inches deep. There was a treat dea; of movement of the muscles of the left side of his body, indicating disease of the brain ; also considerable wild ness in his manner. The Jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from disease of the brain, accelerated by cutting his throat, being at the time of unsound mind." BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, AUG. 19.—Our market wears a heavy and lifeless appearance, and not the slight est disposition to purchase beyond what is immediately wanted ; but the firmness of the merchants sustains prices.—Bristol Mercury. " Have you filled up your Schedule ?" is the ques tion one hears asked now by every body of every body. This puzzling tax has given a new turn to the com mon intercourse of society. People don't ask now after each other's health, nor do they talk much about the weather, glorious as it is ; nor do you hear a great deal even of the alarming riots •in the north. There may be, now and then, a slight glancing at these things, but ther e i s a mat ter of de e p er i m p or t, a weightier mystery, which sits upon men's souls, and " harrows up their thoughts." The people you see going about the streets with an ab stracted air, the solemn groups at the turning speaking sotto voce, young tradesmen looking prematurely care worn, and here and there an elderly gentleman appearing disgusted with the werld—especially if he is a Tory, and so feels himself caught in his own trap—all of them are in !`en internal ferment about their Scliedules.—lVest Briton. for the said DISTAIBU HONS. Persons desirous to purchase may re'...eive, PREVIOUS o giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing - , WITHOUT DELAY,_ a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMIIURGH. P.S.—NEXT PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION on 15th OCTOBER, 1843. NEXT POLISH DISTRIBErTION on 15th MARCH, 1843. NEXT AUSTRIAN„ DISTRIBUTION on Ist of NEXT MONTH. SELECTION for the PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION on ist JULY next. SELECTION for the. POLISH DISTRIBUTION on Ist MARCH next. The SELECTION for the AUSTRIAN DISTRIBU TION has already taken place, namely, on Ist of JUNE, THE DISTRIBUTION TAKING PLACE ON THE FIRST OF NEXT MONTH. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH- OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 22. Will be performed i l RS. A HlTE.—Ch,rac er. by Messy:. Gran by, Cieen, Oxuerry, Miss Stanley, Miss Crisp, -nd hiss Aft r THERESE.—Carwi,,, Mr. Did&ar ; Miss Faucit • To which mill be added, the Farce of DEA} AS A POST.— Tristram Sappy, Mr. riarley ; Sally Maggs, Miss Stanley. To conclude wi , h the iitulatta of BLUE BEARD.—BIue Beard. Mr. J. Bland; tinaAtoblack, Mr. Oxberry ; Fatima, Miss Crisp; Irene, Miss Stanley. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s.— Gallery, Is. Doors open at Half-past Six ; comme:xe at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office ; and of Messrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS. EVENING, AUGUST 22. Will be presented HE BEGGAR'S OPERA ;to which will be added, the splendid New Gratint Fairy Opera, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.—The Overture, and the whole of the Wl sic, composed by Mrs. G. a'Becket, and executed by Miss Romer. Mrs Serle, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Leffler, an increas:d Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. G. Stansbury. To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE.—Demosthenes Dodge, Mr. G. Wild. Places and Private Soxes may be I ad of Mr. J..Kerschner, at the Fox Office, from Eleven till Four daily. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. tiorning 43 minutes after 2 I Evening .... 57 minutes after 2. " 1.11 1 J 1 fi lfr* l4 7* .ar; t ..45'4 1 "1 k , f : 1 :4 4 - Ztt ,':,atit LONDON: MONLDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1842. We learn with satisfaction from Manchester and its neighbourhood that the people are ,returning rapidly to their work. Notwithstanding the threatening ap pearances in some othei quarters we are steadfast in our hopes that the crisis is over, and that we may look day after day for a return of tranquillity and the resump tion of useful labour. To this speedy termination of what has been a very alarming, not to say, terrific, turn out, the abundant harvest, with the prospect which, that affords, has contributed, we believe, quite as much, as the energetic measures of the Ministers. Had the circtimstances been different, had there been no strong temptation to return to work, the restora tion of tranquillity would have been a much more diffi cult task. The view we have already taken on this subject - has been so well expressed by Mr. B. HEY WOOD, a gentleman long known for his philanthrophy —we may almost call him, we believe, the BIRK BECK of his district—that we beg leave to transcribe it. In an affectionate letter, addressed to the work ing men of Manchester, he says— I believe you to be men of sense, intelligence, and right feeling ; and not even the sad events which are going on around us, have been able to shake my confi dence in you. I have felt deeply for you in your long season of distress ; you have been sorely tried, and have borne patiently sufferings almost beyond human endurance. How stands the matter with you ? By an unlooked-for movement you have been driven from your work, and are called upon not to return to it again until you have secured higher wages, and obtained the People's Char ter. At the very moment when better times seems to be at hand, and trade to be reviving, and when, by the blessing of Providence, a good harvest appears to be in store for you, bringing with them, as they assuredly kvould do, both higher wages and cheaper food ; at the moment when, from long distress, your resources must be exhausted, you have been thrown out of work, and told that, by a suspension of labour, your condition will most speedily be bettered. The workmen have seen, as well as Mr. HEYWOOD, that better times are at hand, thanks to the beneficence of the ALMIGUTY, and the patience of the people them selves, but no thanks to our heartless rulers, who have indeed praised that patience, buthaVe obstinately and wantonly refused to relieVe the deepest distress that ever was inflicted on a people by the legislation ;of a so-called paternal Government. Now,:however, that the storm has subsided for the present, be the cause of the lull what it may, the question arises how the people are to be treated. To enable the public and the Government to form a just and a kind opinion on the subject, let us at once remind them that the Turn-outs have, in fact, had at their mercy the bulk of the property of the great towns of the north, and that they have committed comparatively very few outrages. Not less, we believe, than half a million • of persons have been involved in these com• motions ; they have perambulated the country for ten days, and they have in the manufacturing districts been guilty of few or no acts of robbery or personal violence beyond . those necessary for obtaining their object of stopping the mills. • Our columns (says the Leeds Mercury) are filled with particulars of the strangest and wildest Holiday -Insur rection that has ever been attempted,—an Insurrection conducted in the name of "peace, law, and order !"—an Insurrection the most extensive, yet in some respects they most harmless, known in the modern history of Eng land,—an Insurrection more foolish than wicked in the dupes who have caught the contagion, but we fear much more wicked than foolish in the leaders who planned it. We rejoice (adds that journal) to perceive—and we mention it to the credit of the bulk of the turn-outs-- that there has been so wonderful an abstinence from all violence but that required to suspend labour."'They have not injured machinery, nor damaged work 7 nor plun dered counting-houses or warehouses. In Lancashire and Yorkshire, at least, the mischief done by so exten sive an insurrection is incredibly small ; and the absence of all cruelty, of all malice, and of all rapine (except in some cases a kind of half-begging, half-taking, to sup ply the immediate cravings of hunger), is one of the most 'astonishin g things we ever kn , w, and speaks wel for the hearts of a population who nave suffered so mucl distress. In the same Journal is a letter, dated Barton, near Manchester, Aug. 17, of which this is an extract : AUGUST 17:4Vire are here almost as tranquil as in the purely agricultural districts. All that we see of the public agitation is to be found in bands of men, women, and children, assembling in small bodies, and visiting the farmers to excite their charity and obtain their bene volence. I will give you a specimen :—We had here yesterday one of these bands, consisting of about forty persons, the half of whom were children, and .the other half men and women, about hi equal numbers. Their conduct and demeanour was perfectly respectful and or derly. They said that they came to ask for advice and assistance; that they were in grew, distress; that some of them had been ordered to leave their work by the turn-outs, and others could not obtain work froth the warehouses be cause their masters refused to give out weaving till the dis putes weresettled. Others seemed to be voluntary turn-outs. The answer returned to this application was, that their situation was much to be pitied—that they had no doubt great cause of complaint from the high price of pro. visions, and the low rate of their wages ; but that these were evils that were not to be remedied by such con duct as had lately , taken place at Manchester. This advice they received with no rudeness or ill-temper, and they retired without a single expression of incivility or disrespect. It is remarkable that whatever interruption has been g;ven .by the turn-outs to other kinds of labour, none whatever has been interposed in the way of the hus bandman, at this import a nt cri s is of the harvest ; nor have I heard of any depredations committed in the way of plunder, or of wantonness upon the crops. The bands of men that are passing from place to place have no arms, at least none visible, except that many o f th em carry a kind of rustic walking stick ; they avoid stu diously marching in anything like military order, and they have a sort of police of their own, to whom they confide the preservation of the peace. Now, considering the situation of these people, their great and long-endured distress, tantalized with the sight of property that would relieve their wants, we agree with the Leeds Mercury, that the general con duct of the Turn-outs speaks well for their hearts and their morals. They have been beguiled—perhaps they are in error ; they have been grievously mis taken—and so has, in our estimation, Sir R. PEEL been, without being exposed to their severe tempta tion to go astray; they have foolishly expected to better their condition by throwing themselves out of work, but beyond this unfortunate delusion, their con duct has rarely been censurable. Such people deserve to be treated with great consideration, even with great kindness by the Government, and we should hope that their temporary aberration will not be thought to call for either temporary severity or the permanent establishment of a military tyranny. Let Sir R. PEEL not listen to the demands of factious writers, or timid men of property, who are at any time ready to sacrifice the public liberties to their own selfish and fancied security, but let him do justice and deal generously and confidently with the intelligent men of the North, and the Government will have no reason to repent of departing from the hackneyed and always mischievou employment of severity. The Turn-outs have displayed not only great for bearance but great power. They have startled the country from end to end. They have already put the Government on its metal. Ireland and the agricul tural districts, no very safe places, have been left un guarded with troops to collect a large army in Lanca shire and Yorkshire. The funds have been shook,bu siness has been suspended, pi operty has been alarmed, and a repetition of such a turmoil may not pass so lightly away. It is impossible but that railway engineers, railway guards, police, shopkeepers, and a great body ofmen not now connected with the Turn-outs must deeply sympathise with them and be driven to side with them if they be treated with harshness. To enforce the law with rigour, which, by the people, is somewhat despised as a mere tool of a class or a party, to stretch it beyond its ordinary line, to do which w see a disposition in some Magistrates, will only irritate the masses and provoke greater and more fatal insur rections than the present. The system of terror has long been tried both here and abroad, and has led in variably from bad to worse. From public meetings untimely suppressed have grown partial risings like that at Newport, and from partial risings, successfully, indeed, put down by the strong hand, while nothing was done to conciliate the people, have sprung a general insurrection. Our people, we have said before, and we insist on it now, cannot be governed by terror, they cannot be coerced into obedience to an unjust system by a military force, and there is no safe alternative for the Government, but to treat them with kindness and confidence, and begin as speedily as pos sible to undo its own acts of injustice. Some uneasiness was occasioned on Friday in town by a report that a party of rioters had attacked Drayton Manor, but the latest accounts received from thence, and dated Friday evening, show that the report was utterly without foundation. Not the slightest symptoms of an attack had been manifested; indeed, all was quiet in the neighbourhood, and con tinued so up to the period when the last ac counts came away. From oth er quar t ers the intelligence is nearly equally encouraging, The Potteries, where some of the most serious disturbances took place, ex hibit everywhere indications of returning order, and, indeed, generally throughout the disturbed districts, matters are wearing a more cheering aspect than they have worn for the last ten days or a fortnight. To be sure, attempts were made on Thursday, at Leicester, to get up a riot, and in the dusk of the evening a large mob assembled in the market-place, where they were addressed, in most inflammatory language, by one of their chosen orators ; but the activity of the civil au thorities soon dispersed them, and since then the town has remained perfectly quiet. At Nottingham, a similar attempt at disturbance was made on Friday by a Chartist lecturer from Stockport, who addressed the mob in the most valiant terms, observing that he would fearlessly do his duty, even "if a dungeon was the result," and would " exercise his right while he had a tongue to speak and an arm to raise." Un luckily, while the orator was thus boasting of his perfect readiness to become a martyr in the cause of patriotism, a body of police made their appearance, which occasioned a total and instanta neous eclipse of his courage ; and he disappeared from the meeting with a speed that must have greatly pe'- plexed and disconcerted all those who, but the moment before, had been applauding the boldness and disin terestedness of his sentiments. With these two ex ceptions, there have been no fresh outbreaks, or attempts at outbreak, in any of the mining or manufacturing districts. The good sense of the Turn-outs seems at length to have convinced them that nothing is to be got by setting order and decorum at defiance, and that their sole chance of bettering their condition consists in their keeping strictly within the limits of the law. Meantime the late serious disturbances—for nothing can well be more serious than the aspect they assumed about a week since—will not be without a beneficial effect, if they shall serve to impress upon Government the necessity of legislating henceforth for the interEsts of the many, in stead of the privileged few. Sir R. PEEL must now we should conceive, be persuaded .that he can no longer with safety consult the feelings and prejudices of party, but must be guided in all his remedial schemes by a consideration of what is due to, and what is wanted by, the community at large. It is not by making one timid, hesitating step, in the right direction—as in the instances of the Corn-law Bill and the Tariff—that he can hope to restore peace and prosperity to the country; he must advance boldly and promptly forward, careless whether the Monopolists walk side by side with him or not. We look upon the late outbreaks in the North, as ominous signs of the times, which no Mi nister—no matter how overwhelming be the majority that he can command in the House of Commons — can neglect, without endangering the very fabric o society. The Paris Papers have been received. They are altogether destitute of political news, except that the debate on the Regency Bill had been opened in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, when the fol loWing took place : M. Ledru Rollin began the debate, who opposed it on the principle of its being necessary, in his opinion, that the nation should sanction it through the medium of a constituent assembly. M. Hello, who succeeded M. Ledru Rollin, said, that he should not follow him in hi 3 subtle theories about the alleged rights of the nation, but maintained that the present Legislature had full power to pass such a law. M. de la Rochejacquelin, who spoke next, began by entering into a sort of protest against the legitimacy of the reigning dynasty, which, he said, had been seated on the Throne by a victorious popular insurrection,' and a Chamber only consisting of 219 Members. This declaration excited loud murmurs in the Assemby, and AL Larochejacquelin, refusing to retract the offensive expressions, was twice called to order by the President, and ultimately compelled to quit the tribune, without being able to conclude his speech. A tier the uproar occasioned by M. Larochejaquelin's ords had subsided, M. Schuzenberger read a manu script discourse in favour of the Bill, and was succeeded by M. Lamartine, who advocated the right of the Duchess of Orleans to be the Regent of the Count de Paris, and was still speaking when the despatch left. Sub . ;oined are extracts : The Council of Admiralty has just adopted, with some modifications, the plans of M. Bernard for the works of defence and improvement of the port of Algiers, as recommended by the mixed Commission which had been appointed on that subject.—Galignani's .Messenger, Aug. 18. The Courrier Francais observes on this subject—=' It is difficult to comprehend the conduct of the Ministry. A month ago it th oug h t M. B ernar d' s p l an impracti cable, as in fact it is, without incurring an expense out of all proportion to the result that may be expected from it. Marshal Soult even sent to Algiers M. Parrel, the engineer, with instructions to execute the plan which he had proposed, which is an efficacious and not expensive plan. Is this decision revoked ? Is M. Parrel, after being preferred to M. Bernard, to be abandoned in his turn ? Is spending time in giving orders and counter orders the way to carry on the Administration ?"—Le Commerce, Aug. 18. The Madrid Journals publish the text of a law pro mulgated at the Carraccas, in virtue of which the mortal remains of Simon Bolivar, the Chief of the Independence of South America, are to be removed from Santa Maria, where they lie at prsent, to the metropolitan church of Carraccas. The anniversary of the funeral is to be henceforward a day of public mourning, and the statue of Bolivar is to occupy an honourable place in the Parliament House. The Prince of Leiningen arrived at Cologne on the 12th, on board one of the Cologne Company's steamers. He continued his journey the next day for London, whore he is going on a visit to his august mother, the Duchess of. Kent. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, AUG. 18. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents.... 119 60... 119 60... 119 50... 119 60 3 Per Cents 78 60... 7i 65... 78 ,60... 78 60 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5047 50...5047 50...5047 50...5047 50 Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 ... 775 Belgian Fives 1840' lO3 ... 1031 ... 103 .... 1031 Spanish Active 2ll ... 221 ... 21i ... 21i Roman RAILWAY SHARES, St. Germain B4O ... 840 ... 840 ... 840 Versailles, R.B ...... 290 ... 290 ... 290 ... 290 L.B 9l 25... 91 25... 90 ... 91 25 Rouen Orleans. 560 ... 560 ... 560 ... 560 Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 25... 201 25... 200 ... 200 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vublit Opinion. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The riotous proceedings of the working classes in' England are noticed at considerable length by most of the Paris journals. Some of them take a very gloomy view of the subject, and seem to anticipate a deter mined and well-organised resistanpe to the Govern ment; whilst others, judging froii the past, and ap preciating the powerful means 01 repression in the hands of the Government, imagine that whatever may be the ultimate consequenies of 'the present lamentable state of society in England—with luxury carried to the utmost limits of refinement on the one hand, and a mass of human misery on the other— the struggle against law will be oQ short duration. The Courrier Francais, after reviewing the causes gleged by the English papers for the breaking out of the present riots, concludes this :—" We have no doubt that the public force will triumph over the agi tations which the English journnls relhte in such frightful colours ; but the disorders, though put down in one point, will break out in :another. England is entering on a period of domestic troubles, which is pregnant with embarrassments and perils ; and ere long she will be in a state not to express . pity for na tions living in a state of social commotion. This na tion, which used to be represented sunder the figure of a ship at anchor, is henceforward delivered up to storms, and tossed up and down in the !intdst o the deepest seas." The proclamation of the Queen, offering a pecu niary reward to informers, is noticed by the Presse almost with an expression of contempt. It observes that everything is done with money in England, even to the means of enforcing thelaw. The Courrier says that in France such an act as putting a price upon the head of an enemy, and rewarding the betrayer, would be regarded as immoral and odious. A private letter, received in Paris from Madrid, un der date the 11th inst., contained the following pas sages :—" The days of the present Ministry are numbered. The Conde Almodovar in a!private con iersation lately declined to:enter into a money matter left unfinished by Surra and Gonzales, candidly de claring, that he was old, in poor ;health, and begged to be left at peace for the few weeks that he yet must remain in possession of his office." Two doubles (as you call them at the opera) are, however, said to be already placed in private nomination, with the good will of those chiefly concerned. A Paris letter just received dwells, at considerable length, on the alarm which the increasing heat of the weather was beginning to occasion. At four o'clock on Thursday the thermometer (Fahrenheit) marked 94 in the shade. Our Madrid accounts are of the 'llth inst. The Gazette contains a circular' of the Minister of Finance, relative to the application of several holders of the floating debt. The Regent had consented to extend by one month (to the 7th of September next) the period fixed for the centralisation of their claims. The Patriota states that it was agreed, at a recent Cabinet Council, to reject all the financial propositions submitted to the Junta, and that, considering the urgent wants of the Treasury, the Government should dispose ofthe Treasury Bonds as it should think proper. From Madrid we learn that the heat was much greater than at Paris, and at Seville still more intense. The thermometer (Reaumur) stood at Madrid at 32 degrees (104 Fahrenheit), and at Seville at 38, or 1171 of Fahrenheit. According to a return published in the Madrid Gazette, 52,619 lots of national property had been sold down to the 20th of June last, and their pro ceeds amounted to 1,960,740,133 reals (nearly 20,000,0001. sterling). MONEY-TRADE-COIVIIVIEIZCE. The rope-makers of the Navy, in consequence of the hard labour they have recently experienced, have been ordered by the Admiralty to have their super annuation pensions in future from 201. to 241., accord ing to their services. The cabinet trade at Liverpool, now that the woods for home consumption are admitted at reduced duties, is said to be likely to revive greatly, and if spiritedly taken advantage of will soon largely interfere with the import of foreign furniture into this country. NAVAL AND MILITARY. The keel of the Royal Albert, first-rate ship of war of 120 guns, will be laid on Friday next, the occasion being the commemoration of the birthday of the Prince. LAW AND POLICE. An action was tried at the Devizes Assizes on Fri day last, in which Miss Rooke, the daughter of a tradesman in Salisbury, aged 28, sought to recover compensation in damages of Mr. Conway, a consider able merchant at Poole, aged 67, for a breach of pt.,- mise of marriage. The defendant was a first-cousin of the plaintiff, and a widower with a grown-up family. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff —damages one farthing. Anne Baker, a respectable young woman, was charged with having thrown a quantity of vitriol on the dresses of two young females, by which their shawls and silk dresses were quite damaged. The de fendant was ordered to pay 4/. 10s., the amount of damage done, or in default to be imprisoned two months. PINE ARTS. Landseer, the artist, is at Windsor Castle, painting a portrait of the Princess Royal, with a favourite dog and the diminutive horse recently presented to the Queen. A German artist is also taking full-lengths of her Majesty and the Prince. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Cambridge ode, recited on the late installation of the Duke of Northumberland, by its author, the Rev. T. Whitehead, Fellow of St. John's, has been set to music by Professor Walmesly, and is spoken of as a fine composition. The beauty of the scene, in the account given by Captain Currie of his balloon ascent with Mr. Green, from Dorset, on Friday, is said by him to have been indescribable. The clouds below had the appearance , of an interminable ocean of snow. The balloon was shadowed by reflection on the clouds, and both the aeronauts were astonished to find it also surrounded by a double halo, with all the prismatic colours of two rainbows clearly defined. THEATRICAL. The Opera closed on Saturday with the first act of Mafan Tutte, an act fr om th e S onnam b u l a, and M ozart's theCosi t last scena of 11 Pirata. Divertissements, and the ballet followed. SPORTING. Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., is on a visit to the Marquis of Abercprn at Ardverykie, the Noble Mar quis's shooting-box in the Highlands. Lord Vane Powlett has joined the party assembled In the Highlands, for the purpose of grouse-shooting. COURT - FASIIION.B.33LE. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are expected to be present at the marriage of Lord Prudhoe to Lady Eleanor Grosvenor. They leav e Sion House the following day for Alnwick Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort returr 1 to Beaufort House early this week from Brighton. The Earl and C oun t ess o f Li stowel left Pset rave square on Monday last for Cowes, Isle of Wight. The Marquis of Hertford is daily expected •at Dor chester House from Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westmi• aster re turned to Grosvenor House on Thursday las t. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor had a dinner party on Friday in Grosvenor-square. - The Earl and Countess Powis are txres 2ted daily from Powis Castle. The Earl of Loiudale still remak as in town in good health. Lord Eliot and Lady Jemima Er a day or two for Ireland. The Earl and Countess of G' for Caher Castle, Irel an d. Lord and Lady Beauvale iengall have left town left town on FridAY for Brocket Hall, Herts. A large rerolite, or mr.iteoric stone, P Ai at BUSCE LT.ANZOITS • s since. furrow gate, Belfast, a few dry s ' aissed through the air during the storm, and was sf en to fall like a dark object. It was warm to the tone' a - w hen taken uP, and weighs about half a ton. Dr. magill, w ho ex amined it, says it is Composed of I B asalt, The of flint, and album Gra n m. The Duke of Cambrid,-fe has af ;cepted the invita tion of the inhabitt nts a s , :inclel :land to a banquet with small fixed for the 9 4th instant. His i Trace also honours the Mares. and Marchioness of Londonderry with his presence at Wynyard Park, of i the occasion of the festivities of Lord Seahana's cone ' ng of age. _lot leave town in MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, SATURDAY EyENING• The general opinion held in the City upon the sub ject of the outbreak in the North is, that as far as present consequences are concerned, nothing more is to be feared ; much gloominess, however, hangs over the future, but chiefly as far as the men themselves are concerned. Business is now apparently about to recommence in the usual track, the exhibition b! daylight last evening through the principal thorough: fares of a number of boys and girls, having taught the citizens exactly the danger they have to fear. The Money Market became heavy at the close of business, occasioned partially by some sales, and by the intelligence from the North of 'Europe, published in the second edition of The Sun. This corroborates a piece of intelligence which appeared some days s ince, of an attempt having been made on the life • of the Emperor of Russia, by means of instruments con cealed in a chair. Consols left off at 91i sellers for the Account ; Bank Stock, 170.171 ; India Stook. 250 251; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 .5 1 prem. The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian , 1014 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents., 52 521 ; the Five per Cents., 1014 1021 ; Danish, 8 2 1 834 ; and Brazilian, 65 66. The quotation for Mexican was 344 for Money, and 35 for Time. Business in Shares concluded very dull—Londo n and Birmingham we're, 180 182, ex div. ; Bir mingham and Gloucester, 48 49 ; Great Western, 87 88 ; the Half Shares, 62 62k ; South Western, 62i 63 ; North Midland, 56 58 ; the New Shares , 27k 28k ; South Eastern and Dover, 21k 22k; Eastern Counties, 9k 91 ; Northern and Eastern, 38k 391 ei div. ; Blackwall, 819 k ; and Brighton, 331 33i P er share. The Weekly Average of the Liabilities and Assets d the Bank of England, during the twelve weeks ending the 13th inst., when compared with that for a like period terminating the 16th ult., gives the following results : LIABILITIES. Circulation, now .£18,952,000 ... last time 18,279,00 Increase.— Deposits, now £ 9,330,000 ••• last time 8,565,000 765,000 Increase.— Increase in Liabilities X 1,4:;S. 001) ASSETS. Securities, now £22,525,000 ••. last time 21,713,000 812,000 Increase-. Bullion, now X 8,496,000 "• last time 7,818,000 678,000 Increase Increase in Assets .. £1,490.000 Balance of Assets now last time 2,687,000 Increase £52, 0 09 0 These figures pr esen t th e p o i n t s wor thy of notic' The one, the i ncrease i n th e c i rcu l a ti on an d i n the se : curities, which i s t o b e att r ib u t e d t o a rev i va l in traw!. the expansion consequent u p on th e J u ly dividends having appeared in the for mer return, when it exul d . bited an increase over that for June of 484,00 01 :9 913 , which consequently has to be exc l u d e d f r om this ac ct count. The other, the amount of bullion wilic", this peculiar season of the year, with the prospec' c i e the harvest, and the states of th e exc h an ges Pr eelu + o f the probability of any great d ra i n f or th e payrneu" foreign corn. Compared with August, 1841, the circu lation has increased by 1,724,0001., the deposits bjci 1,374,000/. ; the securities ar e l ess by 487,0001, en the bullion more by 3,390,000/. a The Income-tax in itself i s su ffi c i en tly odiou s ' -11 1, was only made palatable by the promise tha t working-classes would be relieved by the ame7f necessary for the purposes of th e St a t e being 'lL' s by a more equal distribution o f th e burden are° ll , those who were better able to bear it. A repo rt been current to-day, which, if it be cor rect, is to deeply lamented—it is to th e effect that a firm, ra nking . , among the first of any in the metropolis, are abo n this evening to deduct one shilling from the % vages each of their workmen, avowedly to enable the m aster to pay the tax, and that next week others will follow their example. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have a t length resolved upon the expulsion of two of its won' bers, who were mainly instrumental in negotiating, the forged Exchequer tills. After a careful peros7 , of the evidence, it appears difficult to exculpate anY ° the parties from a want of common prudence in ti le various transactions, but it is equally difficult to als" cover, by the same authority, why these should hs' been particularly singled out. Such a mass of over reaching money-getting trickery was, perhaps, never disclosed in any history ; that in the first commercial capital, forged instruments, lodged by parties of sucli a standing, and under the most suspicious circum stances, should have been allowed to circulate, for upwards of five years, to the amount of nearly six millions sterling, and without the slightest reserve, avowedly for the purpose of gambling in Foreign Bonds. The Committee have frequently been called upon to remove some of these from the official lists, and strong memorials were sent in not to allow a place in them for the coverted Spanish Stock ; had they. thus been attended to, much of the present evil woul d have been averted. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) The money market has been very quiet, with bud little doing. Prices, however, are firm, Consols being 913 92, for Money and for the Account. Three per Cents. Reduced, 92i ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents, Reduced, 101 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.' 1003 ; Bank Stock, 170 171 • India Bonds, 3 4 ; El` chequer Bills Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51, premium. Foreign Securities are without business beyou' a purchase in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cats.' at 52. ceg? No transaction in Mexican h a s b e en officially noti Shares are firmly held ; London and Birraingle, at 182 ; South I , l' estern, 62 4 ; Great Western, 8 ° ' and Cheltenham and Great Western, 24. A. in Spanish Three per Cents. a re the only ben"" „ 0 . which time bargains ha ve been made. The opeluP° quotation was 201 and it has since fallen to 203. The private letters from th e di s t ur bed districts 211 but few to-day, but their contents are satisfac to li and warrant sanguine expectations that tranquilli t y about to be permanently restored. 'a Cfir MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. by market is exceedingly depressed ; indeed, the dal passed over without a single transaction. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ...... p 0 Bank Stock .170i India Stock ............ 3 l ei: 3 per Cent. Red. .. 92 Ditto Bonds ....... ..• ....., 3 per Cent. Cons 9li Ditto Old Annuities '" 3i per Cent. Red 100 i Ditto New I nnuities;• • 51 cal-- New 3} per Cent... IOOA Ex. Bills, ~ 000/....2u• 4 9 plo NQIN 5 per Cen' Ditto 500/..• .• - pol Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ..... Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 9-16 Bank Suck for A ect..•• ..._ Oct. 1859 _ -9; Jan. 1860 — IConsol s ,or Acr.l. ***** FOREIGN FUNDS. . ...- Austrian, 5 per cent. ... 113 IPortuoese, 5 per ea"' -.- Belgian, 5 per cent DittotNew 1 Atte ......... .... Brazilian Bonds — Prussra, 5 per c ent. ..• Buenos A yres 6 per cent — Rusran, 5 . per cent. ••••• ~.... Chilian 6 per cent - -Di f .b, Metallic ..... .. ••" 201 Colombian, 6 per cent — •9,psrish, 5 per cent...••• , Ditto, 1824 •-•• Dtto, Deferred.-- , ..... 0 ‘ Danish, 3 per cent. ... Freich, 5 per cent. ....., ~..e, Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. —. Expange ........... J.. .....c.• Mexican, 5 per cent 34i French , 3 per cent' 59 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Duni, 21 per cent..... ..... Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. •• "' SHARES. 23 Cheltenham. and Crest W es t ern (80 psid)••• 8 61 Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 621 Ditto :New Shares ( 50 paid). * ......... ... .., Londeti and Brighton (50 pail)) „. ......... .• jo t Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid.) ........ )1 LorAdon and Birmingham (90 i ....... • Ditto New Shares (2: paid) ... ........ ... f ai London and South Wft, tern (.11 6s 10d pd) ...... Manchester and Leed s . (70 pa d) ............ 4 Ditto Quarter Shrces ( 2 laid) ..•......... 3E4 Northern and Eastern (45 pail) ............ ...... North Midland Railway (100 ............... • HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.---lire 11 1, 31 e; heard a rumour that the expected gratification of Majesty's loyal subjects north et' the Tweed is tO here postponed. Probably the state 'of Scotland, icheic,, the colliers do not exhibit themsd.ves as the most cile of human beings , has induct; ed her Majesty ilthe visers to recommend her Maj(esty to countermand 5, orders for her excursion to t'aat part of her dom inion EXPENSE OF Commismoss.—By the Parliamentar y Paper, No. 449, it appears that the cost of Coninn'e, sions, appointed within the last few ye ars, to pr°s4 cute various inquiries,_ and carry on new branchespui. the Administration, has been no less than 1,128,6'2,°A Of this sum the Poor-1 aw Coruniss ion has absorn 359,1181., exclusive of 6,5651., the cost of the Conr, mission for the i'a i n quiry into the operation of the o!'01 Poor-laws. •Tfre Commissioners for inquiring .18b.2;, public chasitif,s have cost the cou ntr y , since 79,3671. The expense of the Commission to inqu ir into the best system of railways for Ireland, the 1 -i i , e ; port of which remains a dead letter, was 24,842/. I\ lets than 140,722/. has been expended on the C° 111 : mission for settling the claims of the slave-ownerst; and 20,4141. has been swallowed u p bya Comm the to adjudicate on claims of British sub j ects on ti' French, Spanish, and Danish Governments. • - , ING AND CROWNING.—M ur d e r upon HANG CRoWNING.—ure • a sm all scale—no I that is not good: Why ? Be cause we oft; used to see men hanged for it. Murder on the large scale-0, that is must excellent ! Why ? Because W are used to see men crowned for it.—Bentham. The Duke of Richmond, accompanied by the Ear l of March and a party of friends, has, during the weel‘o been at Glen Fiddi ch, and some hundred head of 051 have been killed. The Duchess and family had r eacho l Gordon Castle, all in excellent health when the last letters were received from the north. WINDS Prince A took thei] The 1 3 ] taken out In the the Duke four to B attended phaeton. Baron the eveni Her R Charlotte and the circle in This rcl the Duke the Chu,' Knyvett Hon, and Mr. Stoi The Rev raon fror. Paul to t to pleasE Ir. Boy( 'Cre e d, D lelajah C The R Norfolk, tyron, I Aberdeer Buckley, This ( Lady C. The Rey, Gent and Anthem, Parts by sustained His Rc residence ing to ho clooderry Durham. Sir Ja• until a 11 visited bi had also 1 alained Sir F] tived at t air. Mau Wards a Sir *if Sir Rol Windsor Sir Jo tended al Despal received Despal Governor LORD ZZoughat the Assi2 BitnUltanE Of their .p C ENTI3 Twei noon, at sorted by way THE Inorninf hall, an thew th the evi'