The Sun. — London, England, 1842-08-03 00:00:00

'EW AND POPULAR WORKS, Just published by MR. COLBURN, - - TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. I. The MARQUESS of LONDONDERRY'S STEAM VOYAGE to CONSTANTINOPLE, by the RHINE and DANUBE, in 1840-41. 2 vols. Svc, with Illustrations. MASSANIELLO, an Historical Romance. Edited by ItORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House,' &c. 3 vols. The FOURTH VOLUME of MADAME D'ARBLAY'S DIARY and LETTERS. (Also, New and Revised Editions of Vols. 1., 11., and III.) THE MANCEUVRING MOTHER. A Novel. By the Auttioress of " The History of a Flirt." 3 vols. LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. 4 vols., New and Revised .Edition.— N. B. Vol. V. will be ready in a few days. HAMBURGH, JULY, 184'2. H IS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINt: BRO THERS, at HAMBURG H, are now Selling Genuine and WkRRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DISTIUBU rIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with full PARTI CULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. As we receive frequently applications for CERTIFICATES, we must bug to observe, that a CERTIFICATE is QUITE DIFFERENT from a BOND, and that there is a great dif ference again between BONDS and SELECTED BONDS —the SELECTED BONDS ONLY TAKING PART IN rHE DISTRIBUTION WHICH FOLLOWS THE SE LECTION, and which should never be overlooked, being of the greatest importance. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 3. The Performances will commence With CAPERS AND CORO NETS.—Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Granby, and Oxberry, Miss Pineott, Mrs. Granby, and Miss Murray. Will be presented the 11Iusical Play of THE EXILE —Raron'Al tradoff, Mr J. Bland ; Count Calmar, Mr. Barker ; ?attar Servitz, Mr. Barley ; Daran, Mr. J. Vining ; Alexina, Miss Faucit; Cathe rine, Miss Murray After which, YELLOW RlDS..—Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Vreen. and Oxberry ; Mrs. Granby, and Miss Stanley. To be followed by LGST AND WON.—Le ton, Sir. Diddear ; tottered, Sir. W. H. Bland; Mistress Layton, Miss Faucit. titter which, the New Burlesque ',Atte, called G RIZELLE ! Characters by Signor Oxberrim and Madlle. Louisotta Fairbro. tr. erint. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 25.--;Gallery, is. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence 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 Bally, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 3. Will he uprefen:ed Donizetti's Opera of THE LOVE SPELL supported by the First Vocalists of the Day—Miss Romer, Mr, W. Harrison, Mr. Leffler, Mr. J. Webster, Mrs. Serie, and Miss E. ferrey. Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury. After which THE QUAKER.—Steady, Mr. Leffler. To conclude with THE ARTFUL DODGE.--Demosthenes Dodge, Mr. G. Wild. Places and Private Boxes may be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Cox Office, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully Informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS, (1 RAND EVENING FETES will be given, in which will be em. bodied all those popular Entertainments that have given to this favou rite place of recreation its peculiar celebrity, with additions and in troductions, which render them m•re generally attractive. Tile MENAGERIE has been enriched by - many valuable and lin portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds. Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some Instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'actiois ' repre senting the Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nohles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. . _ The BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, con lurted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES Af OSIC ALES selectedf rom the noblest works of the great Masters. The I LLU MINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnificent introductions that have calledforth sr clammations of delight and admiration on each evenina or their ex hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyroter',lnie splendour, the CASCADE of BRILLIANT FIRE, Slri X FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Musicales, Illul - nination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, &c., will be giv,cn on Mondays, Tuesdays, wEA 1 h ursdays. Admission One Shilling, - HIGH WATER AT LOWDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning '29 minutes ao.er 101 Evening 9 minutes after 11. attain this end there is a universal struggle. The enter prise to which it gives, rise is boundless, the energy un faltering, and the skill matchless. It has spread our commerce over the world, and opened the natural wealth of every nation to our use. It has planted for us colo nies in almost every quarter of the globe. It has added some five or six Great Britains to the soil at our com mand, from which we nay obtain subsistence. Never before, perhaps, was any nation blessed by such a com bination of boundless skill and means of exercising it, and never before, perhaps, was any nation more afflicted with grievous distress. As by corruption the sweetest things become the most offensive, so by the misdirection of these extraordinary advantages has our country be come the prey of the most alarming poverty. For these mighty evils we have to thank the Parliament; for the vast power and skill which that Parliament has misdi rected, and for which we can sever be enough grateful, we are indebted solely to Divine Providence. There are some men, however, who exclaim against the progress of the nation, and call on the Government to take measures to prevent the increase of the people, or, as they call it, " temper the progress of manufac tures." They regard the starvation of the multitude with indifference, if not with complacency, and think that an artificial famine, like war or pestilence, is of ad vantage in keeping down the numbers of the human race. If death, by starvation, came like a thunderbolt ; if it were even like the stroke of pestilence, painful but sud den, an all is over ; if we could say of millions of human beings they were but they are not, starvation might be considered a passing calamity ; but of all the visitations by which population is kept in check, an arti ficial famine, such as is caused at this moment by the law, is the worst. It is not merely that a multitude are actually killed, and die on the highways, as in Wales, or in cellars, as in Manchester; it is the terrible debasement of class after class which makes the evil so sore. The road to death is long and wearying. It is through lingering pauperism, which kills the spirit sooner than the body. There may be no sign of this misery to those who ride in their carriages from the Parliament-house to Grosvenor-square, and visit only the parks and the mansions of other opulent persons ; but to those who traverse our thoroughfares, and come into contact with the lower classes, it presents itself in much loathsome, and yet piteous beggary. Houses both in town and country are besieged by mendicants, and the supplica tions for food and clothing bespeak the last extremity of wretchedness. Immediately above those who actually perish of hunger, there is a class who yet subsist, but suffer all the pangs of want and degradation. At a procession of paupers, we are told, which took place on Sunday last at Burslem, when they sat down to a scanty meal of dry bread—and some had a little cheese—" tears streamed from all eyes to see the state to which thousands of industrious, intelligent, and sober workmen were reduced." At Aberdeen, we are the " tradesmen do not like the work of breaking stones, and murmur at the pittance they receive." There is great bitterness of spirit, as well as physical suffering, amongst those who are saved from starvation. A class above those who receive relief, who con tribute to relieve others, see in the demand thus made on them, and on their crippled trade, the ruin of all their hopes. They are great mental sufferers. They must deny their children education, and themselves the comfort that age requires, and they look forward with dismay for their offspring, as they see every avenue to subsistence crowded with jostling competitors. There is actual starvation at one end of the calamitous chain, and at the other there is sickness of the heart—there is hope blighted—there is an impossibility of providing for families—and there is gloomy, corroding despair. It is this succession of misery, visiting nearly all classes, which makes the process of thinning the human race, by an artificial famine infinitely worse than even war or pestilence. We de hope, however, that the worst is now passed, that legislation has, for the present, reached its acme of mischief, and that the ever-watchful and restoring hand of nature is about to heal some of the wounds which the law inflicts. She will give man food though the law withholds it. To labour under a suspicion of causing an artificial famine, with all its mighty train of physical and moral evils, is enough to draw on the legis lator the indignation of mankind,; to be convicted of that great offence, by the plain fact that he now keeps the food that is in our ports from coming into use, will heap on him universal execration. Escape it he cannot, and it must—unless men have come to love wretchedness, and admire the hand that inflicts it--be fatal to his power. In the House of Commons on Monday night Mr. T. DuNcomsE moved for a Committee to inquire into the circumstances of the arrest of Dr. M`DouALL by the police, and the preventing the inhabitants of Deptford from holding a public meeting on the 26th ult. We have already published all the particulars of this case in The Sun, as well as the examination of Dr. M‘DouALL before Mr. JEREMY, the Magistrate. The motion, after an interesting debate, was refused, by a majority of 89 votes to 30—Sir ROBERT PEEL'S objection being, that the proper place to seek a remedy was a Court of Law, where, at a trifling expense, a precedent can be estab lished. The Premier did not, however, promise that he would instruct the Law Officers of the Crown to conduct the prosecution of Superintendent MALLALIEU, who, upon his own authority, construed a meeting to be illegal at which the words " the tyrant aristocracy were trampling on the rights of the poor " were used. Now he ought either to have done this, or granted the inquiry, especially as neither himself nor the Attorney- General were prepared to affirm the legality of the policeman's conduct. Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. SHELL, Mr. HAWES, and Lord PALMERSTON, all contended that the police were not justified in dispersing the meeting, nor did they find any apologist in the House but Sir J. GRABAra, whose recent interpretation of the law, in the case of the Staffordshire constable, prompted the com mission of the Deptford outrage against the liberty of the subject. We confess that we look with great alarm upon these new functions with which the Home Secretary has clothe'd the police. If every ignorant constable is to be constituted a judge of what language shall be used at public meetings—if he may at his discretion confine the speakers in dungeons, strip them of their property, interdict communication with their friends ; and if Ma gistrates, without finding them guilty of any crime, can compel them to find bail, rendering them liable to heavy penalties, we would not give much for the peace of this country. The national safety-valve was found in the freedom of public discussion. Men's grievances were lightened by telling them openly, and listening to the remedies suggested by their neighbours. Prevented from openly discussing their wrongs and oppressions, they will form secret societies, and enter into illegal com binations. Deprived of the salutary advice of practical public men, they will become the dupes of revolutionary anarchists. Where this will not take place, violent collisions with the police and loss of life may be appre hended. Sir JAMES GRAHAM has taught the people to regard the police with suspicion, to see in them nothing but spies and informers, whose most questionable acts will be countenanced and defended at the Home-office. They see them armed with a discretionary power to disperse all popular assemblages for political purposes, and to arrest and imprison all persons daring to dispute their authority. They only are authorised first to in terpret and then to execute the law for the punishment of sedition. As the case now stands it is a highly criminal offence to walk in a contrary direction from that pointed out by a policeman. Take, for example, that of Dr. M'DouALL. It was proved, in evidence, and stated last night by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, that when Superintendent MALLALIEU dragged him down from the pump, whence he was addressing the people, he was de sired to go about his business, and a passage made for him. He had, therefore, up to that time done nothing which the Superintendent regarded as authorising his arrest. Dr. M‘DorrALL, however, refused to walk in the path pointed out, alleging, most unpardonably it ap pears, that his home lay in a contrary direction. This, therefore, constituted his crime ; for. it was for this he was arrested, imprisoned all night in a felon's cell, and held to bail by the Magistrate. Had he walked sway as the Superintendent ordered him, nothing that followed would have taken place. Disobe dience, then, to the orders of Superintendent MALLALIEU constituted his real offence—an offence only to be expi ated by arrest, incarceration, and bail on the part of the offender, and two sureties not to transgress so in future. We trust some eminent lawyer will bring this case before the Judges. If the conduct of the pollee be judged legal in Westminster Hall, Parliament must come forward, and by a suitable enactment protect the liberty of the subject. Unless this be done, scenes will take place in England which no good man can contemplate without alarm and even horror. There must be some very waggish people in what the Exeter-hall saints call the " religious world." Such, at least, is the impression -made upon us by the droll peti tions which they now and then address to both Houses of Parliament. On these occasions they make mouth pie, es of their jokes of the most solemnly dull men in the 40 Houses, as if to give practical zest to the creations ..I' a sportive fancy. In the House of Commons on Monday Sir It. INcus tried the gravity of that assembly, by presenting a petition from some humorous Irish gen tleman, setting forth that he found in the estimates no money for paying Ministers of the Gospel to preach the word of GOD to his benighted fellow-countrymen. It would .13c wonderful, indeed, if he bad—more wonderful than a grant for carrying coals to Newcastle, or supply ing the Thames and the Liffey with water. The Pro- FRANCE. ~,~, .~•- ~~:; HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1842 testant priesthood in Ireland quietly pocket their mil lions without saying a word on the subject to the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. If they do not preach the Gospel it is not for lack of being well paid for it—better paid, in fact, than any other priesthood in the world, that of Spain, in the palmiest days of Popery, not ex cepted. We know nothing of SAMUEL GORDON, the petitioner in this case, but were a £wIFT at the head of the Irish Church, he would cer tainly promote him to the first vacant prebend, and recommend him as a candidate for a mitre. Now that Mr. FERRAND has resigned the Punchship of the House of Commons, might not some of the Irish boroughs be persuaded to enliven the dullness of Parlia ment by returning that practical humourist, SAMUEL GORDON, who amusingly wonders that no money is voted to preach the Gospel in Ireland. Advices from Madrid of the 25th ult. state that M. ARGUELLES has resigned his situation of Guardian of the Queen of SPAIN. The " divine " ARGUELLES is, we fear, a very vain and rather impracticable old man. He has been always quarrelling with the women of the Pa lace, upon whom his eloquence makes no impression ; and latterly he has been at daggers-drawn with the Lady High Chamberlain of the QUEEN. Philosophers are the last persons in the world to whom we should entrust the rearing of a couple of girls of the respective ages of ten and twelve years. There is an absence of political news of in terest in the Paris Journals received. The Journal des Debate devotes nearly seven columns to remarks sug gested by the death and proposed funeral of the late lamented Duke of ORLEANS. We entirely agree in all the praises which the Debate bestows upon his memory. As a son, a husband, a brother, and a father he had few equals in France. All good, and many great men de plore his loss, not only as a domestic calamity, but as one worthy to be deplored by Europe. Of the actual state of parties nothing definite can be known before the Chambers are constituted, and the business of the session regularly entered upon. There is some talk of a reconciliation between M. DUFAURE and M. TRIERS, on a basis for the ejectment of M. GUIZOT from the Cabinet. Much as we regret. we begin to fear that M. GuizoT's retirement cannot now be much longer retarded. No Minister could withstand the combination formed for his overthrow. The Journal des Villes et des Campagnes says—" Yester day, the 29th of July (the twelfth anniversary of a resolution made in the 'tame of the freedom of the press), the manager (Gerant) of the Gazette de France was condemned in default to two years' imprisonment, and a fine of 24,000 francs. This is a flagrant contradiction to the promises made in 1830. Let us hope that the jury will not satisfy the triumph obtained by the public prosecution." The Gassendi steamer arrived on the 26th from Algiers, which it left on the 23d. It touched at Cette on the 25th, where it landed 450 soldiers ; it has brought despatches. On the same day (the 26th), the Gregeors steamer arrived from Bona, which it left on the 23d with 91 soldiers as pas sengers, and despatches. It left there the Lemprore Phitor, Ramier, and Styx. The Veloce steamer has arrived from Naples, which it left on the 23d. This steamer brought the three eleven of the French navy who were implicated in the affair of the duel which took place at Naples, on the 13tk.— Commerce. GOOD NEWS FOR ALDERMEN.—We learn from the Hants Advertiser, that " some twenty turtles were landed from the Tweed on Wednesday, and taken to the Custom House to be weighed."—This news will occasion a prodigious sensation among the Court of Aldermen. Had twenty poets landed—or twenty philosophers—or twenty scholars—or even twenty patriots—the Worshipful Court would have received the intelligence with sovereign contempt; but twenty turtles— this indeed is quite another matter ! Mere is abundant capse for rejoicings and mutual congratulations ! What shout ings and clapping of hands will there not be at Guildhall —what crowing of lungs at the Mansion-house ! Alder man Humphery will sing " 0 be joyful !" and the Lord Mayor exclaim, in full conclave, " This is the proudest moment of my life !" Indeed, we should not wonder if, in the ardour of his extacy, his Lordship were to have the Mansion-house illuminated, in honour of the arrival of the illustrious foreigners. It has been often observed that in process of time husband and wife grow like each other; and no one will be hardy enough to deny that, in nine cases out of ten, the older an Alderman grows, the more closely he assimilates to a turtle, in face, figure, and in tellect. We know one Alderman, at lenst, who bears so astonishing a resemblance to this amphibious animal, that it would be difficult to say which was which. MORE TORY BARRACKS.—An Evening Paper, of Mon day, informs us that Government " has decided to build a very extensive barracks, in addition to the one already at Brecon, at a cost of from twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand pounds."—This, we suppose, is one of Sir Robert Peel's remedies for the distress now raging, like an epidemic, in South Wales—the Tory mode of calming what, Lord Castlereagh used to call, the People's " ignorant impatience of taxation." There is nothing like barrack-building to comfort an impoverished country, more especially when it is called on to pay the expenses of such erections. To give the people bricks, when they demand bread, is an in genious device every way worthy of the "Peel of Peels," as, in the excess of his admiration, Sir John Hobhouse once called our present straight. forward Premier. Blessed, as the country now is, with Whig Unions and Tory barracks, it must be its own fault, if it is not happy, flourishing, grateful, and contented. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—We understand that the Bishop of Exeter will shortly publish, in two volumes octavo, a Journal'of his recent Voyage to the Scilly Isles, with portraits and memoirs of those Native Chiefs whom —at the small expense to Government of ninety six pounds—he succeeded in converting to Christianity. NEW ZEALAND.—According to Parliamentary Paper, Nn. 493, the probable revenue of New Zealand available for Government purposes for one year is 38,3171.; of this 1 , 3,917/. comes from the sale of land, and 13,0001. from Customs duties. In the same paper the expense of the Government is estimated at 50,9221. It begins, there fore, with a governmental establishment, numerous fiscal regulations, and an expenditure which exceeds a large revenue. So did not the flourishing colonies of New England take root in the wilderness, land gradually extirpate it. OV ERLAND MAIL. Great Western South Eastern and Dover... York and NJrth Midland... This match commenced on Monday with some brillian The India Mail, with letters from Bombay of the 18th June, reached Marseilles at six o'clock on Sun day morning. The Journals of the Opposition recommend a re conciliation between M. Dufaure and M. Thiers. The former finds his party augmented, and is said to be inclined to oppose the Ministry should an opportu nity offer. Holiday—no Bourse here. Rentes and Spanish about the same as on Saturday. SHARES. Viscount Palmerston gave a grand dinner on Sunday, at his residence on Carlton House-terrace, to a numerous party of the House of Commons. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose arrived in Belgrave square, on Saturday, from Paris. The Earl of Coventry is staying at his villa in St. John's NVoed, in improved health. MISCELLANEOUS. The cage, measuring 2 feet 8 inches in length, and 2 feet 4 inches in depth, in which the unfortunate Mrs, Noble was confined for six weeks by the Chinese, when she was *reeked with her husband and child on their shores, has just been brought home by the Wellesley. It is made of rough fir-staked, and will be sent to the British Museum. Five of a desperate gang of burglars were captured last week at Lancaster. Their names are Henry, James, and Richard Atkinson, John Vesey, and Robert Palmer; the last a re• turned transport. The Rev. Mr. Drummond, of the Chapel Royal, Brighton, at the close of the service there on Sunday, gave the unusual intimation to his congregation that there were two notorious pickpockets in the chapel, and all eyes were at one turned to two well-dressed strangers in the middle aisle, who were fol lowed to their cab, and surrounded by several hundred persons. On the strangers inquiring the cause of this, they were told they were the parties pointed out as pickpockets. One of them, however, proved to be a clergyman of Burton-on-Hum. ber, and the other, a fellow of St. John's. The matter has been put into the bands of a solicitor. INTONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The English Funds improved slightly towards the close of business, and the market closed firmly with every indication of a further advance ; Consols being 91g 911 for Money, and 911 buyers for the Account ; Bank Stock, 1694 1701 ; India Stock, 249 250 ; Exche quer Bills, Old, 52 54, New, 50 52 prem. The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1011 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 514 51i ; the Five per Cents., 1011 1014 ; Danish, 811 824 ; Brazi lian, 63 65 ; the quotation of Mexican was 354 354. London and Birmingham Railway Shares were 180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 48 50 ; Great Wes tern, 88 90 •, the Half Shares, 631 641 ; South Western, 61i 62i ; North Midland, 59 60 ; the New Shares, 29 30 ; South Eastern and Dover, 224 234 ; Eastern Coun ties, 84 94 ; Northern and Eastern, 40 41 ; Blackwall, 994 ; and Brighton, 334 34 per Share. Rather more bills were negotiated on 'Change to-day, and the:rates exhibited a rather more favourable state than on Friday. The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 204 211 ; Peruvian, 15k 168 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 33 4 1 334 ; the Three per Cents., 19k 20; Spanish Five per Cents., 20+ lk; the Three per Cents., 20k 24 Merchants are quite on the qui vice for the letters by the India mail, the arrival of which at Marseilles on Sunday was noticed in The Sun of this evening. They may possibly be delivered to-morrow morning, but the time usually occupied for the passage through France renders it more probable that it may be Thursday before they will be received. The " post estafette" generally takes 104 hours for the journey between Marseilles and Calais. and by which they are usually forwarded, if the contents be only of ordinary importance. Should the intelligence he of great interest, or in cases of emergency, a courier is employed who accomplishes the distance in 64 hours. It is expected that this dispatch will be of consequence, and likely to bring intelligence of great extent from China, where, from the last dispatches, it is likely that some extensive operations have taken place. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The late extensive purchases appear to have satisfied operators for the present; scarcely a bargain has been made to day in any security, English or Foreign. The market, how ever, is extremely firm, and prices well sustained. Consols, 91i 91i for Money, and for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced 91i 92;_ Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1001 101; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 1001; Bank Stock, 169 170 ; India Stock, 249 251 ; India Bonds, 32 34 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 52 54 ; New, 50 52 premium. The only transactions in Foreign Securities have been Bra zilian Bonds at 64 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 51% 51%; and the Five per Cents., 101% 1011. Nothing having been done in Mexican there are no official quotations, but they remain nominally the same as yesterday. In the Share Market, South Western have been sold at 89 ; South Eastern, 23 ; and the New Shares in the York and North Midland line at 37i. The conversation in the House of Commons on the subject of the forged Exchequer Bills has been very freely commented on to-day. The delay which has already taken place has been much censured, and it is thought that if it be the inten tion of the Government to refuse relief to the holders of these documents, it would have been morestraightforward to have done so at once instead of keeping the report back until it was too late to discuss it, or to bring the subject forward this session. It is promised next week, if it be possible so to do, and a rumour is current that the prorogation will take place on the 10th instant ; if so, it appears likely that the matter must of neces sity be dropped. It is understood that the commercial treaty between this country and Portugal is now finally arranged, and upon terms highly advantageous to each. The reductions about to be made in duties are not exactly known, but they have been as certained to be such as will insure a much greater demand for our manufactures. There is another class of persons, whose claims to relief, it is to be hoped, have not been overl , oked, namely, the English creditors. It has been objected to the interference of Government in such matters, that the bargain having been made between individuals, it cannot be recognised as a national affair ; and it has been urged in answer that a nation, being the debtor, no sound reason can exist why such claims should net be made the subject of am bassadorial negotiations. This latter view certainly appears to be more correct. If it be not exactly within the sphere of our representative there to insist upon payment being made, yet the opportunity of making such large concessions to the pro duce of Portugal might have been used to require that some particular branch of revenue, or a portion of Custom-house duties should be set aside, to be divided among the unfortunate bondholders who have now been so long without a dividend. This has been done in other States, to the great benefit of the parties interested. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. 65 - 50 ..... 23 50 20 - .. 29h ...... to [ANGE, AUG. I.—We have had not undergone much alteration. to•day is —Manchester, Bolton, PRICES. .FUNDS] India Stock 250 pm Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities ... 90 Ditto New Annuities... 89A Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 11. 50 pm Ditto 500/...... pm Ditto Small ...... 50 pm Bank Stock for Acct.... India Stock for 0pg.... Consols for Acct. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto... 33i Prussian, 5 per cent Russian, 5 per cent Ditto, Metallic ...... . ISpanigh, 5 per cent 2l Ditto, Deferred.....— French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange —f —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent. sli Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 104 • 41P • , s Yr - 31 -.4 , lk .! 14wpr (itiC -SUM LONDON: WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1842. Our paper of yesterday recorded the last meeting of the Anti-Corn-law Conference ; and we cannot witness its separation, warmly as we welcomed its assembling , without saying one word of its c o nd uc t. It h as , we own., rather disappointed us. We expected from it, as we think it once promised, an organized plan to.resist the Bread-tax. The members had proclaimed that tax to be iniquitous ; they had shown, with an overwhelming force of facts and arguments, that it is ruinous ; and we anticipated that they would have followed their prin ciples and facts out to a just conclusion, and refused obedience to such a law. We believe that they might ° have evaded or overturned it, but they had no heart for such work. They knew that they would gain no support for measures which took the hue bf disobedience, and, when they had said their say, their task was at an end. We do not blame their caution ; it is evident that the Conference is not well supported in the country. It has not spread its roots far and wide through the land. We see in the provincial papers that employers of labour are bent on reducing wages. The turn-out of the col lime, caused by such a general reduction, is one example, but it is by no means the only one. The Middle classes, it is plain, prefer making common cause with the landed aristocracy to promoting the welfare of the people. Instead, therefore, of making a vigorous and united effort to procure the repeal of the Corn-laws, they are struggling to save t:neir fortunes at the expense of the working classes. such being unhappily the views and conduct of the mi,adle classes in the manufacturing districts, it is pi -An that the Conference would have found no sufficf,ent support in carrying out the vigorous measure it e'ace hinted at, andit prudently confined itself • -to explaie:mg to the public and to the Parliament the pre sent condition of the manufacturing districts. We re peat the .t we do not blame the Conference, but, never theleas, we are disappointed at the meaningless results of retell expense and trouble. 'The members of the Conference are not singular in being apprehensive of bold and vigorous measures. There are other classes who have been buffetted, deceived, and insulted, and yet, fir a reason somewhat similar to the fear of the half ruined manufacturer, they bear such con duct with patience. We all remember the Duke of RICH - - moen's threat against Sir it. PEEL. Sir Hone RT has abated the agriculturist's protection ; Le has allowed corn to be groend in bond, which, in principle, annihilates it ; and the proud Dukes and Squires, even though prices are falling, have scarcely murmured their disapprobation, much less turned out their Premier. He has run counter to their expectations on the question of education, and still he is as quietly obeyed and followed as if he had never deceived a hope. The landowners, like the middle classes, dread any thing like agitation or commotion, and they submit to be gulled and snubbed by a clever official man rather than run the smallest risk of endangering the Government. Like travellers in the Alps, they quiet all their emotions, and almost suppress their breath, lest they gon themselves the avalanche of revolution. .They re mean and tame, because they know that the Arste they are intent on supporting is no true thing. If t e sales of cotton, - says the Liverpool Times of b f i,yesterday, confirming the accounts of revived trade '''s‘hich we have already borrowed from the Manchester 'Guardian and the Leeds Mercury—" the sales of cotton - week were very great, and the improved feeling ‘ ll ationgst the commercial classes still continues." The weather is'reinarkably fine; all the "accounts from the country sPeak favourably of the harvest; and we would fain hope, therefore, that the protracted suffering of the community has reached its extreme point. Amendment is about to commence with the bountiful harvest, and plenty— the great source of gladness—which has latterly been denied to us, though not by Providence, is again to lessen the distress of the people. We give no credit for this to Sir R. PEEL. He has not bestowed sunshine and fertility on the land. We owe him nothing for the harvest,. be its amount what it may; we are only indebted to him for a law which has lessened that plenty, the approach of which lightens up the countenance of the people. Till the year 1842 the curse of inflicting dearth and starvation belonged to other law-makers; now, it belongs exclusively to him, and :,will cling to him to remote posterity. But for his law .• the food at our command might at this moment be increased to the extent of 1,500,000 quarters ; and but for him organising and leading the monopolists on to :victory, it is impossible to tell to what extent abundance would now be the lot of our yet starving people. To him we are indebted for that stagnation of trade, which was caused by his uncalled for plan of revising the whole tariff. In February the nation was in distress, and be sharpened its agonies by stopping trade, in order apparently to make the little relief he was ultimately to give . more sensible. For the improvement which we hope i s coming, the nation is, we repeat, in no wise indebted to the Parliament or to him, who guides its decision. E x cept the inhabitants of the United States, there never wa s perhaps a people more intent on promoting t h e i r . o wn welfare than the English. The go-ahead • —iole is almost as active here as on the other side amide. From the Prime Minister himself to lest agricultural labourer, there is a strong improve the condition of the individual. To ri1vti.,.,,,,,: tizetr •owis ~ -3 PA PE "nciple i •Tr --- 7" - - - 77 - „ , , ' the At 4 1 / 4 1010 . :I'.7(r- ' humbl le I:WA u: . to • 'tc ; . SPAIN. Madrid news of the 25th represent the quarrels of the Palace, i. e. between Arguelles and the Grand Lady Chamberlain, as not appeased. It was rumoured that Arguelles had resigned. Rodil's Ministry is not likely to last. The Infante and Infanta have continued to get leave to tarry in Madrid till the end of the month. GRAND CRICKET MATCH. KENT AGAINST ALL ENGLAND.-FIRSm DAY'S INNINGS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) playing ; the progress of the game, at present, is asto nishing. The Kent men got their number of runs " easy," and that in spite of the bowling of seven fine hands, viz :—Lillywhite, Sewell, Good, Barker, Fenner, Hawkins, and Dean. Below are subjoined the runs:— KENT. A. Mynn, Esq., not out W. Mynn, Esq., caught by Box N. Felix, Esq., caught by Box Pilch, not out Hillyer, stumped by Box . Adams, caught by the Hon. F, Ponsonby Overs, &c. 97 Baker, Bayley, Whittaker, I)orrington, Wenman, Hon. F. Ponsonby, Good, Butler, Barker, Box, Fenner, 236 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND littbitt elptittOn• " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Overland Mail from India, bringing news from Bombay of the 18th of June, arrived at Marseilles on Sunday morning. There was some talk on Monday in Paris, of a re conciliation taking place between Dufaure and Thiers. This would tend greatly to the downfall of the Cabinet. Letters from Toulon of the 28th announce that Admiral Hugcn's squadron reached that fort on the 27th, corning from Naples. The steamer Veloce left Naples on the 23d, and had brought back the three naval pupils engaged in the fatal duel of the 13th uft. at Naples. Steamers had arrived also from Algiers and Bona with dates of the 23d ult. Madrid letters of the 25th report that M. Arguelles has re signed his appointment at the Palace, in consequence of some disputes with the Grand Lady Chamberlain. Don Francisco de Lujan, Member of the Congress, and a friend of Senor Gonzales, the ex-Minister, has been appointed by Senor Arguelles, the Queen's guardian, Professor of His tory to her Majesty. The Augsburgh Gazette has letters from Bucharest, an nouncing that the collisions which had broken out between the Boyards and Prince Ghika on the one hand, and between the Ottoman Commissioner and the Russian Commissioner on the other, had fortunately ceased. _ _ PAELLIAMENTAILY. The Lordi read the Insolvent Debtors Relief Bill a third time, and passed it. After Lord Brougham had, in the name of such debtors, thanked the Lords, Lord Campbell proposed an amendment, and was somewhat mortified to find that the Bill had passed. The Suspension of the Slave-trade Prohibition Act, as relative to Portugal, was read a second time. Lord Brougham moved a resolution that it is expe dient to take measures to prevent the employment of British capital and British agents in the slave trade. The Noble Lord gave an eloquent description of the in crease of the trade, and referred to several instances in which British capital had been engaged in it. The Duke of Wellington admitted the evils, and declared they ought to be remedied, but also said he saw no means to remedy them. Till they were devised, the sanction of the reso lution was not advisable. After a short conversation Lord Brougham withdrew his resolution. Their Lordships forwarded a considerable number of measures a stage, and adjourned at Half-past Eight. In the Commons, Sir John Easthopo obtained a re turn, after some little bickering by the Saints, of the amount of Church-rates in every parish. Sir R. Peel admitted that he was not satisfied with the law, but he could not promise a measure next session to amend it. In answer to Mr. Cobden, Sir R. Peel stated that two vessels were fitting out in the river for the Mexican Go vernment, and that our Government had refused to allow them to be manned by British seamen. In any contest which may take place, Sir R. Peel said our Government is to be strictly neutral, and no English officer is to be allowed to serve in the Mexican fleet. Mr. O'Connell alluded to the. internal regulations of Texas, but was told by Mr. C. Buller that the internal regulations of a State were not to preclude us from forming a treaty with it. The Bribery at Elections Bill (No. 2) was read a third time and passed. The House was engaged, for the principal part of the evening, in discussing the Copyright of Designs Bill on bringing up the Report. During the discussion Sir Robert Peel excited some amusement by adverting to the mode by which patterns are distinguished, se lecting for the purpose one marked Richard Cobden and Co., and which he, appropriately for him, styled an ugly pattern. The House sat till One o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Times gives the following advice to the opponents of the New Poor-law Bill :—" If Ministers have declared themselves during the recent debates, upon any one point more decidedly than another, it has been in their reiterated professions of ab solute, unlimited confidence in the wisdom and humanity of the Poor-law Commissioners. Who can doubt, therefore, that whatever review of the question may take place, it will be directed, superintended, and controlled by these officials ; that Sir James Graham will look to them, and them only, for information upon every point ; that they will, in effect, determine what new legislation shall be pro posed, that they will have the preparation of the Government Bill, and furnish the reasons to be assigned for every clause of it ? Under these circumstances, we advise all who do not place absolute confidence in the Poor-law Commissioners, to hope nothing, but to be on their guard against further en croachments. Let the opportunity afforded by the recess be taken such advantage of, that, when Parliament meets, an im posing expression of the sense of the people upon the general question oxiay be ready to,.lse brought -forward. Some people, we know, are very indifferent about petitioning, on account of the contempt with which petitions, however numerous and re spectably signed, appear to be treated when they thwart, in stead of backing up, the views of a Parliamentary majority. We think this a mistake." The Herald says—" The Conservatives of Southampton, Nottingham, and Belfast may be assured that the " purity system" is the only successful one in the long run : it is, like honesty, their best policy ; and though adherence to it may produce one or two defeats at elections, and one or two con tested returns, yet persistence in it is the road to permanent supremacy. Let the Conservatives leave this " dirty work" to the Whigs and the Radicals. They can beat the Destruetives, they may rest assured, by union, resolution, and perseverance, without following their venal example. Let them neither bribe nor treat—neither give head-money, basket-money, ticket-money, nor drink. Let them rely principally on the greatness and justice of their cause, and secondarily, let them vigilantly watch and note the dishonest practices and the mer cenary tricks of their opponents. The return of a Conservative to the House is not worth purchasing by bribery and treating, or through drunkenness and gluttony, or intimidation and coercion ' • and the success of the very best candidate that ever professed Conservatism at such a cost and by such means is in reality a source of weakness instead of strength to his party. Never had the Conservatives a more favourable opportunity of inrifying their cause than at present; their present strength in the House of Commons, their existing majority of ninety, affords them means which for ten years Fast they have not pos sessed." The Post observes, in reference to a proposed American loan—" The speculators of the United States are, it should seem, anxious to borrow a few millions more of English money. Proposals for fresh American loans have been recently circu lated with considerable vigour. If these schemes shall be crowned with success, the English lenders will deserve to be, once mere, duped and cheated by their American debtors. The policy of lending, in any circumstances, masses of English capital to foreigners may admit of grave doubts. To supply foreign nations with the means of calling their indnstrial ener gies into fuller action is to assist in c onv e r ting for e ign nati ons into formidable rivals in the arts of peace, or, it may be, in the arts of war. The capital of England is created by the labour of England ; and, therefore, so long as any portion of the labour of England lacks profitable employment, so long must the withdrawal of any portion of English capital from the sphere of native productive industry inflict severe injustice on that most numerous class, of which the well-being is lessened by every movement that tends to lessen the market, and, by consequence, the dem nd for labour." Alluding to the expunging of one of the most important pre visions of the Bribery Bill, the Chronicle remarks—" Only one plain effect from the rejection of that clause can be pro duced, or by any shrewd intellect calculated upon; and that is, to diminish most materially the chance of detecting bribery. That is what the Government Law Officers have achieved, that distinctly, and nothing more. They have saved no one from false crimination or unjust punishment. They have only pro tected the guilty and the crime. The majority of the House went with them very readily, and another impulse is thus given to the public mind, driving it onwards in the course it had al ready taken very decidedly, as to the political morality of that House. Nobody believes it to have any earnest purpose of grappling energetically with electoral corruption. Faith in it is gone ; cast to the winds ; leaving merely a curiosity to see how much of cant is yet to be uttered on the subject, and what show to be made of ineffectual remedies. The restrictions, however, that bear upon individuals, often fail as to large bodies. The conscious briber may be muzzled in his loquacity, or sheltered in his silence, by a rule of evidence, but no rule or power can now prevent the House of Commons from being self-criminated, as to the tolerance of bribery, in public estimation." MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. Seven Gravesend steam-boats on Sunday, averaging 600 each vessel, conveyed upwards of 4,200 passengers there, and the same number back. Twenty others conveyed to the same place, in thirty-six trips, 12,000 persons. More than 1,500 persons were taken to Canterbury; and the Woolwich and Greenwich Companies carried to and from those places 30,000 individuals. A meeting of the creditors of the firm of Messrs. Acraman, Morgan, and Co.'s bankruptcy took place on Monday, at Bris tol. A proof on behalf of Messrs. Hulbert, Layton, and Co., of London, for ten promissory-notes of 1,000/. each, was re jected. Messrs. Baillie, Ames, and Co., bankers, were then elected as treasurers ; and Mr. W. D. Bushell and Mr. W. Tothill, merchants, assignees. A great meeting of the colliers and others took place on Mon day evening, at West Bromwich, Staffordshire. Upwards of 20,000 were present. A variety of resolutions, declaratory of their determination to enforce their just demands upon the masters was passed, when the vast assemblage broke up quietly. _ _ LAW AND POLICE. The third trial of Mr. Samuel Gray, for shooting at James Cunningham, in November last commenced at the Monaghan Assizes on Thursday. There being no hopes of the Jury agree ing at a late hour on Friday, the Judge discharged him. Gray's defence was an alibi. The case of William West, a broker in Nelson-street Shoreditch, charged with having illegally distrained a quantity, of furniture belonging to Mrs. Mary Evans, a widow, was finally disposed of on Monday at Worship-street, and a peremptory order made upon the defendant for the payment of 141. 10s., the sum at which the goods were estimated. Two medical students, named Henry Freeman and Alfred Mogier, were charged with furiously driving a chaise, one of the wheels having run over a woman named M'Carthy. Fines of 40s. each were inflicted on the defendants, independently of compensation to be made to the p oor woman, now lying in the hospital. Mr. Webber, of Devonshire -street, Kennin g ton, applied at Queen-square, on Monday, to get out of the custody of two maiden-sisters of applicant's wife, residing in Camer on - s t ree t, Chelsea, a young girl, who, in addition with her brother, had been paid for by their father to have every necessary and comfort sup plied to them while in their keeping, but who had starved them almost to death, and made by them to endure the most severe privations. The boy, who had escaped from their custody, was present in Court, and presented a dreadfully emaciated appear. ance. Application is to beloade to the parish officers, and the case taken up on public grounds. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. There will be five music meetings in the autumn. Those early in S e pt em ber at Preston, Norwich, Worcester, and New castle-upon-Tyne, and that at Reading in October. The leadin g mu,ical novelties at Covent- g arden and Drury lane this sea son , and Purcell's King Arthur at the latter : the celebrated song, will he Rossini's Semiramide at the former, " Come if you dare," is in that opera. SPORTING. The last match of the Thames Yacht Club this season took place on Monday, but from want of wind was left undecided. The prize thus undetermined consists of a handsome silver tea service. COVET—FASHIONABLE. Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived in -town on Monday from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn at the Priory, Stanmore. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford left Goodwood Park on Saturday. The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans arrived last week at Redbourne Hall, Li nco lnshire. His Excellency Earl de Grey left St. James's-square on Sun day, for Germany. Th. Dowager Countess of Essex intends to pan the autumn at a cilia near Windsor. Not yet in. ENGLAND. Guy, Hawkins, Lillywhite, Dean. Sewell. The harvest has already begun in this district, with the most encouraging prospects; the weather being all that could be desired for ripening the crops; and, owing to the al most entire absence of tempests, they are standing in an excel lent state for the sickle. On certain soils (more especially in Herefordshire) the wheat is described as looking thin, but we believe that on the whole a full average will be realized. In this market the price of wheat has been for some time ranging between b6s. and 685., the average of the kingdom, published for the last week, was 6.55. Bd. From the promising state of the weather a decline is now expected ; and, it is hoped, that the result of the approaching harvest will be so favourable as to preclude the necessity of exporting much of the precious metals, withdrawn from the currency of this country, for the purchase of foreign food.— Worcester Journal POSTAGE OF LETTERS.—The following notice has been issued by command of the Right Hon. - Lord Lowther, the Postmaster-General, in consequence of the inconvenience and delay that are caused in the transmission of letters from the neglect of the parties :—" It having been a frequent prac tice to leave foreign and ship letters at the post-offices and re ceiving-houses with a penny, while the clerks and receivers are engaged for the moment with other parties, notice is hereby given, that letters subject to higher rates so left by the parties posting them will not be forwarded, but will be sent to the dead-letter office to be returned to the writers." TIIE NEW TARIFF.—A most remarkable instance of the effect of the new tariff has been afforded in the port of Exeter. A mercantile house entered at the Customs a cargo of hides, and paid about 40/. for the duty, according to the new scale; but had duty been paid on the same cargo two days before, it would have amounted to 4001. It is easy, therefore, to anticipate the extensive influence which the change must have on the affairs of commerce.—Devonport Ir deFendeatt. Ditto New Shares JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia.. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCH a quiet market, and prices have The only transaction reported 1 and Bury, 541. CLOSING BRITISH Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons.— 9ll 3/ per Cent. Red lOl New 311 per Cent... lOO/ New 5 per Cen' Lone Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 12 9.16 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 l4 FOREIG. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent Brazilian Bonds... 64 BuenosAyres6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent 35/ Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... — Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid 3i Great Western Railway (65 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall ( paid) ...... ..... 9A London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 30 paid) 34A Northern and Eastern (45 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... _. ._ . Ditto New Shares (20 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 7,1 Gibraltar ... Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .........2 U. 12 8 Genoa . 25 90 Antwerp l2 7/ Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice Altona Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 120 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 26 Frankfort on Maine... 151 i Bahia Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin 7 New York, 21days sight 46i Vienna, effec. IL 3 M 957 Philadelphia 46 Trieste, ditto 9 58 PRICE 4 OF BULLION, PEA OZ. Madrid _ _ . __ Cadiz 36i Bilbao Portal Golci Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons OO 0 Barcelona Seville ... 36 New Dollars... ......... 0 4 10 ,Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11 A most destructive fire broke out this morning, at a few minutes before one o'clock, at the Rose wine vaults, Great Wild. street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, which was com pletely destroyed, and three others considerably damaged. THE STATE OF BIRMINGIIAM.—We regret that we cannot corroborate the accounts of some of the Birmingham newspapers in respect to the trade of the town. It is not, as far as we can learn, better, but rather the other way. The merchants, as a body, are comparatively without orders. The manufacturers, on an average, do no more than half employ their workmen, and their difficulties in procuring wages and bearing stock for those they do employ are weekly increasing. The shopkeepers, with a few exceptions, have little else to do but dress and undress their windows, curtail their expenses, and scrape together as they best can their rents and taxes. The streets are daily crowded with objects of charity, some unde serving, but many, very many, really pitiable : whilst thousands are pining, unseen, in cupboardless and bedless abodes. That such is the cruel condition of very many may be inferred from the melancholy report of the Pawnbrokers' Society, handed to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, in which it is stated that their shops are daily beset by numbers of poor creatures, craving loans of one penny, even upon some worthless rags, not fitting for dusters. In a word, nearly every class in the town is suffering, and this without any visible hope of a favourable change. Even those that are well off do not contemplate without fear the approach of winter. The best informed of the real state of the country dread it. Such is the condition of Birmingham, said, and we believe truly said, to be the most prosperous town at the present moment in England. —Bir • mingkam Journal of Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT.—HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINT MENT.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Mrs. S. Old, residing at Chapel-place, Belgrave-square, London, had a bad leg and foot, which, by disease, became entirely shapeless, resembling, in ap pearance, the trunk of a tree, and covered with knots, rucks, and rolls of hard flesh ; the case was such, that for three years the lady could scarcely walk across the room. Surgeons of great eminence were consulted, but afforded no relief ; she, however, now declares that by the use alone of the above me dicines she can walk miles in a day. To be had at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, near Temple Bar, where advice may be had gratis. Sold also by every respect able chemist throughout the kingdom. By a Parliamentary return of all mates of the Royal Navy, it appears that the total number who have passed their examination for Lieutenants, up to 3d of March of the present year, is 357. COURT CIRCULAR. - _ WINDSOR ; TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Save Coburg Gotha, enjoyed their usual morning waik to Adelaide Cottage, through the Slopes and Little Pa fir. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken out, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttehon. The Duke of Cambridge and his daughter, the Prineos . Augusta, drove to Frogmore in a pony phaeton. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and the Princess of Saxe Co burg, rode hi a. carriage in the afternoon into the Great Park, followed by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Augusta Somerset, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the lion. Miss Devereux ; Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Prince, were on horseback, attended by the Marquis oi Exeter, Marquis of Ormonde, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Wylde. lier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, and Sir George Copper, Bart.., will dine with her Majesty this evening. The Marquis of Ormonde has arrived at the Castle to succeed Viscount Sydney as the Lord in Waiting on her Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge left town on Monday evening for Leeds, to join his regiment. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday morning for Wind sor Castle, to have an audience of the Queen. ' The Right Hon. Baronet returned to his residence in White hall Gardens, soon after three o'clock. Ali Effendi, the Turkish Ambassador, and Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, transacted business yes terday afternoon at the Foreign-office. Mr. Dehany, Solicitor of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci has returned to town front Cheltenham. THE MAGAZINES, MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Another change of proprietorship and editorship has, it seems, taken place in this veteran periodical, which is no longer under the conduct of Mr. Benson Hill. We trust that it may benefit by the change, though the fate of the Courier newspaper is a proof that frequent changes are seldom advantageous to literary publications. In the opening article on "Drummond of Hawthornden and Ben Jonson" occur some judicious remarks on the mental calibre of the late Mr. Gifford, who—says the writer—" exercised in his life a very strong and undue influence in the literary world. Of his original works, none seem to have a hold on the public, for they have not been re printed for many years. As a commentator, he has been much overrated, and has justly been accused of sacrificing truth to the maintenance of his own vio lent prejudices. He had all the acerbity attributed to to Dr. Johnson, but there is no life in four volumes to prove him the wit and philanthropist." Of the re maining contributions, the most amusing is one headed " Chapters on Wine," which is the production of Mr. Cyrus Redding. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The " Notes on the Army," with which the Num ber before us commences, the writer observes, while speaking of the conduct of officers towards their su periors, " men on sentry in a barrack-yard see every thing that is passing, and their two hours' silent pacing gives full time for reflections on what they see and what they hear. The worldly knowledge and cunning of an old soldier are proverbial. It is, therefore, quite impossible for any officer to acquire the respect and confidence of a regiment unless he deserves them, for the happiness of the officers and men depend upon the commanding officer, and when a soldier pronounces his commanding officer to be a real gentleman, you may be quite sure he is a very superior man." These are very intelligent observa tions, -and would seem to be the result of the writer's own personal experience. "Forcing the Khyber Pass" is an animated narrative of some recent military operations in Affghanistan. In a gossiping biographical sketch, entitled " Passages in the Life of a Sailor," we find a high tribute of respect paid to the memory of the late Lord Collingwood. BRITISH MAGAZINE. A monthly register of religious and ecclesiastical 49rwatign t ,,,pmocl?ial history, documents respecting the state of the poor, &c., well suited to the tastes of clerical readers, for whom it is chiefly intended. POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. The expediency of establishing hydraulic propul sion on railways is set forth in an article which re views Mr. Shuttleworth's statements on the subject. The speed expected to be attained by the patentee's plan is estimated at 27i miles per hour, and the gross annual cost for one mile of way, conducted on this system, is stated at 4501. Economy, safety, and speed ap• pear to he promised by this method of propulsion. The subject of " Gas-meters" directs the attention of con sumers of that article to the loss which they sustain by being compelled, under the present rules, to burn the gas they require by measure, and points out the causes of the increased expense attendant on it. " Rodway's Patent Concave Horse-shoe" appears to be an invention amending this neglected, and, for the most part, mal-constructed piece of equestrian furni ture. The new shoe, by reason of its peculiar shape, ensures to the hoof a greater hold or purchase on the ground; a faster tenacity to the foot, preventive of its being thrown, and other advantages, which ought as suredly to cause it to supplant the common shoe in use. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. " The Sporting Life of England," by John Mills, Esq., proposes several remedies fin• evils at present existing on the betting-course, and shows how cer tain " full-grown thistles" may be eradicated from the " emerald turf." " Prospects of the Game Sea son" holds out good hopes to the sportsman, it being the writer's opinion that " a dry spring followed by a dry summer, cannot fail to produce abundance of game "—and such a one has been the present. An engraving of Alice Hawthorne, the celebrated racer, winner since 1841 of three several sweepstakes and two cups, decorates the number. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. This Magazine reached us at so late an hour that we must content ourselves with just glancing at its contents. There are several prose tales in the Number, and one or two pleasing bits of versification ; but, on the whole, there is too little variety. " Savindroog " is the best story in the Number. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. " Jack Hinton, the Guardsman," continues his military reminiscences this month, and, as usual, re lates them with spirit and humour. There is a dash ing, off-hand air about him, that proves him to be a genuine Patlander, and the apparent truth and earnestness of his narrative greatly interest us in it. " Nuts and Nutcrackers" is a collection of miscel laneous remarks, chiefly suggested by the passing topics of the day. Some of them are lively and satirical, and some distinguished by sober good sense. The "Memoir of the Bishop of Exeter" seems to be penned by one who is perfectly familiar with the par ticulars of the Right Rev. Prelate's public career. It is highly eulogistic, as might be expected from such a determined Tory periodical as the Dublin University. THE THAMES TUNNEL. This undertaking was opened on Monday for the first time on the Napping side of the river, and upwards of 500 visitors of all nations passed through the tunnel as far as the shaft on the Rotherhithe shore. The High street, Wapping, was thronged with people, who were allowed to view the shafts and the double staircase for foot passengers. The shaft is about 90 feet in height, and is surmounted with a handsome dome, which is glazed, and light and air admitted. There are two stair cases, one terminating close to the 'Western arch, and ' the other leading to the Eastern arch. The Western arch only is opened for visitors ; but the Eastern one appears likely to be appropriated to the same purpose in ei few weeks, and a great number or workmen are now actively employed in preparing it for the reception of the public. The descent to the tunnel is now easy and con venient, and the Western arch is very dry and com fortable. At midday there were upwards of 100 visitors promenading in the tunnel, and upon an inspection of the visitors' book, the names and residences of more than 30 Americans from different parts of the United States were found to be entered, toge ther with those of parsons from all parts of Europe, and many from Asia. One-half of the visitors yester day were foreigners. The erection of the circular staircases in the shaft on the Surrey side, now closed to the public, will be commenced forthwith by the con tractors, Messrs. Peto and Grissell, who have completed the staircase on the 'Middlesex shore. The time allowed for the performance of the contract is three months, when the tunnel will be opened as a thoroughfare for foot passengers ; and the toll to be charged is, we understand, to be Id. each person. Some time, however, must elapse before the circular staircases and inclined planes for horses, cattle, and vehicles can be formed ; but the plans are already framed, and the works will be con ducted with all possible expedition. Several visitors were permitted to pass from one shore to the other on Monday, and Mr. lage, the superintendent of the works, became the cicerone to a large party of ladies and gen tleinen invited by the directors to pass from Rotherhithe to Wapping and vice versa through the subaqueous pas sage. The engine and pumps are constantly at work in the Rotherhithe shaft, to clear the tunnel of the accumu lation of water caused by the land syrings. There is a culvert under the Western arch, into which the waters are collected and pumped out, which keeps that side of the tunnel always dry, and as a current of air now passes through the excavation the plaea is rendered comfort able, and by the aid of the gas lights, which are always burning, the temperature of the atmosphere is nearly the same as it is on shore. The hopes of the tavern keepers on the Middlesex shore have risen in proportion as those of their brethren on the Surrey side have declined by the change in the visitors' entrance. Upwards of 400 vensels have arrived at the port of Falmouth since the commencement of tho present year for orders, independent of those which have discharged at the port, and a great number which have received orders outside the harbour and proceeded without coming vonp or t Chronicle: SPORTING IN TELLIGENCR DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE. This very old established wager, on which the mauls: 11 , 11. sisal farce of The Waterman is founded, took place yeetora* The following were the competitors : George Henry Ross Greenwi&h. John William Rugg King Edward-stairs, WaPPlng• George Edward Hose Horseleydown. Lewis Louis 5h011.... Tower. James Liddy........... Wandsworth. William Aleekiff Horseferry, Westminster. Of these, Meekiff, who rowed in the wager for Lyon's so' vereigns a month since, was the first favourite, and Liddy tb! second. At three o'clock, it wanting about ten minutes " flood, the men took their stations in the following order . L' First, or nearest the north shore, Wm. Meekiff; second, rAr , ward Rock (Horseleydown), who bad been substituted for LI H. Rose; L. L. Sholl, third ; Liddy, fourth; Ross, fifth; lw Rugg, sixth. A very good start took place, and having P r*. ceeded nearly as far as Blackfriars-bridge some fouling °, c . ' curred, when a fresh start was demanded, and aecordinglY boats again started, Liddy taking the lead, followed by Shy' Meekiff, Rugg, and Ross, in which order they proceeded asfsi as Chelsea College, when Meekiff shot ahead of Sholl and be into the second place. whizh he kept. Liddy came in first two lengths only. This was said to be the best wager for we coat and badge seen for many years. GREENWICH REGATTA. The 65th annual regatta, under the patronage of her Rile Highness Princess Sophia Matilda, Earl Fitzhatdinge, and M r ; miral Sir R. Stopford, took place yesterday. The day ' S'r was exceedingly attractive the fineness of the weather in dor' ing many respectable families from London to pay a visit 1 1, 1 the numerous steamers that rues the distance almost every te t : minutes throughout the day. The first prize was a new Ws value 23/. ; for the second man, Si. ; for the third, V. Ws'? for the fourth, 21. ; for the fifth, 1/. 10s., and for the 1 0 1 1/. ss. It was a sculler's wager, with sit free watcrmen Greenwich, in five heats, and the following were the air petitors. First Heat.—James Hubbard, green ; John Hogan, re d ; and Henry Ribbons, pink. Second Heat —Theophilus Bagley, dark green; William H. rn, yellow, and John Frenge, light blue. The conditions of the wager were as follows :—The first res it of the first heat, and the first man of the second heat to lay and the four losers row for the third heat; the first two of these ; to rew with the first man of the first heat and the first suatOn the second heat for the fourth heat, and the two first of theft contend for the grand heat. The distance to extend the VP' , river front of the town, the men going once round in each bes i t s i Red won the first heat, dark green the second, light green s yellow the third, and light green and red the fourth. At bah' past seven Hubbard and Hogan (green and red) started!: the grand heat ; green took the lead, but was cut out I?, red, who held the distance but a short time; green then ag ain took it, and, after a sharp race, won by two lengths. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS• (From the rotes and Proceedings Pf the Mouse of Commons.) MONDAY, AUG. 1. DEPTFO 1?D MEETING. DIVISION ON MR. DUNCOMBE'S MOTION• 4ldam, Wililam Bowring, Dr. Brothertoti, J. Bryan, George Callaghan, D. Colborne, N. R. W. Dalmeny, Lord Duncan, George Ebrington, Viscount Escort, F ickh am Ftelden, J. NORITY—AYES, 30. Fitzroy, Lord Charles Scholetield, J. Howard. C. W. G. Sheil, R. 1.. Martin, J. Thornely, Thornal Morris, David lufnell, H. -0, O'Connell, D. Villiers, Charles.* O'Connell, M. J. Wall, C. B. Palmerston, Visct. Wawn, J. T. Pechell, Captain Williams, W. Philips, M TELLERR. Poneonby, C. F A. C. Duncombe, r • • S. Puisfard, Robert Hawes, B. Capt L. Ant robus, Edward Arbuthnot, Hun. H Arewi ight, George Baird, W. Baldwin, C. B. .JORITY NOES, Fitrroy, Captain Fitzroy, Hon. H. Flower, it James koilett, Sir William Fuller. A. E. Gaskell, James Milnes Gladstone, W. E. Gordon, Hon. W. Gore, Montague Goring, Charles Goulhurn, Henry Gr..ham, Sir James Greene, T. Grimston, Lord Grogan, Eslward Hamilton, W../. Hamilton, Lord C. aarcourt, G. G. Hardy, John Hawkes, T. Henley, J. Warner Herbert, Hon. S. Hogg, J. W. .sope, Hon. C. Jennyn, Lord Jones, Theobald Kemble, Henry Knatchbull, Sir Lincoln, Earl of Lockhart, William Maclean, D 89. M'Geachy, V F. t o Marsham, Morgan. Oetavi.; Mundy,E. Nicholl, J. Norreys, Lord Northland, Lora Packe, C. N. d Peel, Hon. sir s- Peel, Colonel .!•,. Polhill, Froter ica Pollock, Sir F. Pringle, A. Richarns,•R Rose, Sir Georg e Round, John G. Somerset, Lo rd Stanley, Lor d Stewart, John Stuart, H. , )1 Sutton, Hon... Taylor, hompson, Trench, Sir F. Trotter, J. Young, John Bateson, Robert Bentinck, Lord G. filacknone, W. S. Bodkin, W. H. Bolder°, H. G Borthwick, Peter 'tuftld, Beriah Broadley, H. Bruce, Lord E. Huller, Sir J Y. Chetwode, Sir John Clerk, Sir George Cockburn, Sir G. Colville, C. B. orry, Right Hon. H Courtenay, Viscount Cripps, W. Darner, Hon. G. ~arby, George Dawnay, W. H. Diok, Q. Douglas, Sir C. LOrd Farnham, E. B. Ffolliot, John TELLE SW gO . , Fremantle, Daring, N.B. '0 REGULATIONS BaL• u i 0 • i Question put, "That the ..ouse 000 I into the said Committee."---Ilie ,JORITY—AYES, 53. .. Flower, Sir James Morris , 111/141 Forbes, William Slcholl, J French, F. Palmer; G. Fuller, A. E. Peel, Jonatbala Gaskell, J. M. Polhill, F. _.., Gordon, Hon. W. Pollock, air P s raw de r Goulburn, H. /Pringle, Ve an Graham, Sir J. Rose, SietsearSe Greene, T. G. Russell,lharles Hardinge, Sir H. Stuart, am 11. l k Hardy, John Sutton, — O . _ A „ r ic Henley, J. W. Tiencbs arht.,l"` Hope, Charles Trottertloy- pots Hutt, W. Virden , Kemble, Henry your,* i n Knatchbull, Sir E. , k ai, Leicester Earl of • •---- g ri T. Lockhart , , William Fremantle, .0 MacGoachy. F. A. Bain, H• J • INORITY—NOES, Pechell, Captain Philips, Murk Scholefield, J. Smith, Ve, non Tancred, Hawes. B. Duncombe, T. S TOBACC Motion made, am diately resolve itsell divided • Aciand, T. D. Allix, John Peter Arbuthnot, Hon. H. A rkwrigo t, George Baird, W ill. am Baldwin, C. Barry Baring, W. B. Boldero, Henry G. Callaghan, Daniel Chehea, Viscount Clerk, Sir G. Colville, C. It Cripps, J. Darby, George Dick, Quintin Douglas, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir C. E. Eliot, Lord Ffolliott, John Bowring, Or. Bruthertou, J. Duncan, George Martin, John EXPORTATION OF WOOL.—It is a fact, not perDer,i known to our readers, that several clips of wool were this Y t . oo purchased in Kelso market for the purpose of direct exPor t; o o to France and Germany. The gentleman whe made L o n purchases, to the amount of 6,00. 4 ., stated, that this ha d a growing trade for these last few years—that our own M i , fr o ol tacturers were not able to purchase—that a quanti t y of, that, purchased last year at Leeds, &c., unmanufacture d—and o el but for the foreign manufacturers' demands, the price of shit of would have fallen this year at least 25 per cent. 'below th e 184 . Kelso Chronicle. THE VICTIM OF A SAINTLY Sc or NDREL of are sorry to learn that the Hon. Miss Murray—the vict'oo the saintly scoundrel, John Knox Trotter, of Rallenden e ;,,,ir was outlawed the other day before the High Court of .'" It ciary at Edinburgh—died on Thursday of a broken hear t' says little for the press of Scotland, whether Whig, V e / e l of Radical, that they have hitherto concealed the senterlcbLo, outlawry on this great culprit, from the view of the r ui in The Gazette is the only paper that has yet named „et her Scotland. He ought to be hooted out of all society , wh i ning at home or abroad ; but because he is a rich man an d a r - t ss elder. very m uch attached to the side of the rebels (at leas ioro he often and pompously pretended), his atrocious transg ee tor e , are winked at, and the Presbytery of his bounds make o°,..„i'" o r/ for his excommunication. Infamous!—Scotch B e ft' Gazette. i a -t $ SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.-011 Thursday -j o b pavement stone on the road leading through o b' which had been laid down in the month of March, sca f „ v otl served to be raised upwards of an inch from its bed , and'itt'7,o examination, was found to be resting upon three large, o ir two of which were each upwards of three feet six inches i ll ao rts cumference. or about four teen inches in diameter. Th i l,hese which was thus raised by the protusion from the eart h 0, ' in enormous mushrooms, measured three feet nine incOolf length, one foot eight inches in breadth, and four and $ le j# inches in thickness, and, we are informed , could not be than two and a half cwt.—Edinburgh Witness. : LINCOLN'S INN.—III consequence of the contilloc accession of members to Lincoln's Inn, the benches of tio l ar,eient and learned Society have resolved on b u ilding I , or s hall, and a contract has been entered into for that p tbe The site chosen is nearly the centre of the terrace Ids , western side of the garden overlooking Lincoln's In n "' s ee A council chamber and library are to be added to toed fot erection. The old hall will, it is presumed, be reserv e 0 the use of the Lord Chancellor when sitting out of Knoll hitherto. This Society was established in 1310 iel of ranked among its members many of the first lumins e I the law. NEWTON AND TOTNES BANKS.—We are autieitti to state that a further dividend of 15s. in the pound vlos, shertly declared payable to the private creditors of Alt. c ptli' and which, with the ss. to be paid on the 3d of next nicere will constitute the full sum of 20s. in the pound upon his rate estate.— Western Times. !, tV THE LATE STORM.—The storm which visix- 0 metropolis and a few other places with such devastating e tT riti on Wednesday night and Thursday morning last, apPearesie the provincial newspapers not to have been by any nieans g ral throughout the country. On the 29th ult., at Heathfield THS House, near Liverpoo l the lady of James Bourne, Esq., of a son.ty e On the 29th ult., at Osnaburgh-street , Regent's - p a W , lady of Lieutenant Munro, of the Royal Horse Guards (P of a daughter. the 0 , the 31st ult., in Ger , e-street, Has lure, Jr) _.„., .... eorg_ .-,.ct, ..over-sq' Lady Katherine Fleming, of a daughter, still-born. aeari On the Ist inst., at Gibson-squa r e, I s li ng t on , Mrs , .' Bradley, of a daughter. Clitr ie° On the Ist inst., in Notting-hill-square, the wife of - Knight Murray, sq., of a son. __-------- f MARRIED. ~tor - o On the 23d ult., the Rev. Reginald Courtenay, R e goo' Thornton Wades, Yorkshire, son of the late RifP, o r of Thomas Peregrine Courtney, to Georgiana, second datig o " e i r ss , Sir John Beresford, Bart., at the seat of her aunt, Miss Bedale, in the same county. DIED. On the 28th ult.. at Murrell-green , John Adair •-a • Esq., of Great Marlborough-street , and Lewell, DorsetelZ- On the 29th ult., at Calais, George Raby, Esq. , afe d On the 30th ult., Thomas Homer, Esq., of Upton - Pl ace ' Ham, aged 80. On the 30th ult., Alfred, infant son of Mr. Alfred Can tos 39 of St. Martin's-lane. On the 31st ult., Mr. John Tilley Wheeler, of the G r&nge' road, Bermondsey, aged 67. On the Ist inst., Margaret, relict of the late Okey Esq., of Lincoln's Inn-fields. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. w. E . Lieut.-Generals—Hon. J. Ramsay, Col. of 79 F. ; Sir Carrol, C. 8., K. C. H. , Nenagh. Major-General—R. Home, C.B. E.I. C. Sere ., M a dras. Colonel—Lord Rodney, North Hants Mit Ger' Lient.-Colonels—Tyler, Kit H Dep. Qua. Mas,_t• „ 71 Windward and Leeward Islands, Barbadoes : Reed, D. • F. ; alker, late 9 Vt. Dubli. WO ; Majo W rs—Kershaw, e 13 F. (killed n in acticn at J ellala Meech, R. M.; Dent, formerly of 10 F., Notting-hill. Captain—A. Graham, h. p. 25 F. late Ma L c i p e l u ie te r n so a n n : ts— .22 H F o . b , h c ou a s m e, p l , 3KFu.r(rakeilhleede J. on at Jt,elllab2ativ); Vet. Bn., Kensington ; Short, h. p. 21 F. ; Magee , F., Tan-y-vollt, Cardigan ; Adams, h. p. 50 F. / 1 " 115 Second Lieutenant, Cornet, and Ensign—A. Mar. ; Fisher, 3 Dr. Jellalabad ; Story. 44 F., C" 1/ " . "' Cameron, h. p., 40 F. ; Ridsdale, h. p. 47 F. Quartermasters—Clue, 52 F., Fredericton, New Brum W. Clark, h. p. 61 F. (Barrackmaster), Trinidatl. „ Medical Department—Assist. Surg. Dr. mackintosh,. West IndieS. 'West Indies; Assist. Surg. Dr. Greer, Staff, Provost Marshal—James Mitchel, Burton; 9, London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNO,, No. 112, Strand, at The Sign Office, No• 112, Strand the County of Ididdieses, Wednesdays AnjUlt :31842 ~~1 ~~e Ira to _. __ th lb lie :e th a tn.( or I it% Pi th th Si! tei lip Pi is Ali pri cic du abi OP tp I 11 r flax th, 11 - 11 fal be'