The Sun. — London, England, 1834-07-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The L ORD CHANCELLOR and Lords DINORDEN and CLAN WILLIAM• sat in the H ouse o f Lords to-day to hear appeals. Their L oLuships proceeded with the arguments on the part heard case o f T olemache v. the Earl of Coventry, the argu tents on which had not concluded when the Lord Chancellor rose to attend the King's Levee. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) The whole of the cases having been disposed of, the Recor ta,tr, accompanied by the Common Sergeant, the Sheriffs, and usual authorities, proceeded to the New Court, and passed sentence on the convicted prisoners in the following order : T 3. Jharn_Thomas Hollingstead (returned convict), George. ttontson, Robert Barnes, and John Robinson (robberies from B e P er son), James Mill e r (mali c i o usly stabbing), and William arton (robbery from the person). Et•LIPE.--J o seph Chambers, John Robinson, Sarah Hall, L Elizaßeth Kirsch, Ab ra h am C un d ee , Th omas B un d y , Th omas ee ' John Baseman, Thomas Yates, William Stringer, Tho mas (aged only 10 years), Thomas Birkett, John irildger, Solomon Nathan, John Arscott, George Wright alias D ired •Thrussel, Joseph Denny, and Charles Myers. FOU R rEztt YEARS.—Elizabeth Pinkerton ; Edward Page ; Nor VVilliams; Watts Edwards ; John Rose ; Charles Hobbs ; ... . h Denny; Robert Taylor; George Woodgate, and anlas Lewis. p StvzN YEAns—Sarah Williams; Henry Seekings ; George J Jane Lane ; Charlotte Kinsman ; John Wright ; I e-- " nond • Mary Chancel ; William Hester ; James Brom ; John George ; Mary Morgan (convicted on two indict- Mseents, seven years transportation on the first, and a further indict sent of seven years on the second conviction); Robert ast, Henry Edward Welch ; Emma Bolton ; Sarah Knight ; i,aopas Edwards (aged only eleven years) ; Thomas Ed 4:s (aged 16) ; Joseph Hutton ; Mary Ann Hoseman ; Ed- Willi Pink ; John Young ; Joseph Beard ; George Walker; McWilson ; Thomas Jones, otherwise Clarke ; William ur ch ; Hannah Johnson; Michael Simmons;Charles Wal i,ne; Rebecca Hiscock ; John Croly ; Henry 'Herrick ; J ones ; J ames Wil s h aw ; H enry Cl eaver ; Mary Law ; intwil,liam Taylor • Henry Chapman; William Williams • Ben un 41 J oyce ; Robert Nicholls ; William Clarke ; Richard' Ro tis°ll; William H o l mes ; R o b ert May ; John Clarke ; Daniel ~ John Wilson ; George Pilter ; John Johnson ; John ater; Martin Fletcher; Timothy Morranne ; William De ns rand Jesse Daniels. BrAlexander Jenkins, Mary Jackson, John Nicholls, Henry "'la, Elizabeth Macarthy, Leith Adelaide Cooper, Jane three Cooper, William Stanley, and Richard Cooper, to 1?" Months' imprisonment and hard labour. On ' Y 'nrY Ann Jones, William Williamson, and Henry King, to Dear's i mpr isonment and hard labour. N• av i, d Keith, F ranc i s A mor , Elizabeth Wetmore, and Twills Staples, to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. jantes Jansen and Jane Smith, to one month. on e ," Chapman, Susan Smith, and Edward Rackman, to i e nr's imprisonment and hard labour. en Anin 'George Webb, William Gee, Mary Barnett, CY Ashton, and Maurice Cronin (manslaughter), to three 0. 4 ' i mprisonment and hard labour. Elizabeth Richmond, to two years' imprisonment and hard 'bur. R Sltzfluel M ason, Christopher Javis, Ellen Callant, Eli za ea l , and Sarah Collins, to six months' imprisonment and ard ',b out Joh n Kelly and James Glass, to six weeks. n eo ar Y . , Barnes, Benjamin Pearton, and Ann Roberts, to six ben Imprisonment and hard labour. f rY Gordon, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour oar rtlonths. So 411 n Hescott, John Roberts, William Brown, and Susan rhwood, to one year's imprisonment and hard labour. W m Stroud, Wm. Pegg, Sarah Clarke, Joseph Royer, hie " Sales, and Francis Phillips, to six months' imprison tit and hard labour. ham El i ze beth Timmings, to eight months' imprisonment and ,Lahour (nr. lilXOll and Mary Conway, to be imprisoned 14 days in - nue. K A" Davis,_ George Block, Mary Dolby, Martin Thomas imennefeet, Mary Leader, and Ann Archer, to three months' rsonrnent and hard labour. I nes Henry Dalton to be imprisoned two months. Benjaminckso to et imprisoned one month. lah nur Moore, to wo years' imprisonment and hard thr G ee e°r ge Turner and Arthur Drummond were sentenced to k,orrecti rnonths impriso nmen t and hard labour in the House of on. h ar i t 7 h n Fowler was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to juc lahnur in the House of Correction for one year. b avid giner: was respited until next session upon W. Childs, Gree 111 e, and Bonfield, _ Rosa Russell, W. Bluck, alias Joh n Freeman, Thomas Edward Loddington, and - SH regret ion of ly short, remains readily. aeration our, 50 sack& count tO o 1 :/t . ood ri. 555. $ ,nd Regi c : l for fine , gars a re a 5 95 " Sale s , m andeu• 1 25 bags ono. Jaratici 1 Jungles , tvouraole 221., ,stitutra a Buons' sister a ess Paw suo 01 ends do e 70 1816 Wily fro' kg retro' i ue of t. cireuir ig of the retie des s whic h Londe° lent of 6 de to th e .trs ; take inverted of Pr e ' L delicatei but we l 3 of th ig , tok lat eiu coloute4 at the ison, ne st ! . es t vess e l fight ir°,.„ ll ' depth :bv will c~ which if e of ii° 4 now;Pre' h eir w when t bei hats Or .° was Iwo no a Catb' P his styli Pe weilit ching b- ot ) . lo pre of • IPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYDS.) AL, JULY 6.--Wind W. S. W., moderate.—Remain the "overnor Harcourt, Manchester, Hortensen, and a brig. , The rse, s,t'l4l of the out ward bound sailed at 5 a.m., 5 p.m. Several are in sight off the North Foreland, for the River. ePorrsmOUTH, JULY B.—Wind W. to N. N. W.—Passed by aristina, Martens, from Balisca, sailed 18th a e h, and Helena Chr St. Helena, N. l3th Alay ; Carolina, Arenaut, and Majesty's ship Rolla, from Lisbon. PL YMOUTH, J ULY 7 . —Wind S. W .— A rr i ve d the B etsey, 4ones, from Corfu. FALMOUTH, JULY 7.-5. S.W. to S.W., fresh breezes._ anmil'ived hi s M a j esty's ship Espoir, from Lisbon, sailed 22d ult. 10 porto 27th. Off port the ' Paragon, Ravely, from Jago ' eta ' ll ba ; Sympathy, Jacobson, from St. Thomas's; Isabella, , from Quebec ; and Isabella, Brown, from Sicily. PENZANCE JULY 7.—Arrived the Brazilia, Taylor, from QU ebec. Ch L IVERPOOL, JULY 7.—Arrived the Colombia, Bretton, from arleston ; and Robin Hood, De Centra, from Lisbon. S HIELDS, JULY 7.—Arrived the Anna, Wilson, from Riga. hL I hRLII., JULY 7.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Woodcock, from —"(1 ". Off port the North Foreland, Cumming, from the LisuoN., JUNE 21.—1 n consequence of some cases of ~a r i a tio cholera having appeared, clean bills of health are is DUNKIRK, JULY 4.—The Jenny, Delham, from Cette, l ',ported to b e on shore near Calais. Ne r oajsmotTn, JULY B.—The Norfolk, Reynwood, bound to ;7, South Wal es , h as put b ac k , an d i s or d ere d to be docked, 1 00 se e gud brgoeoken. on the stern-post are supposed to be either or broken The V, suit esta, *Kos"' rom — Antwerp to St. libe . 's, having l i„. e iz on some rolls on f the 24th ult., and filling with water, run on shore near Brest. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) Char CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. so leston Papers have been received at the North and A t e h e AM erican Coffee House to the 4th of June. alre a e mi ts from Mexico state that a fresh revolution was e i visibl e in the political horizon of that country, and that limee was brought about between the clergy and the Ac e° outs from Demerara state that the Commissioners ap -7 For that colony, under the Slavery Abolition Act, for fro m 'p i ling the average prices at which slaves were sold, w e : net.o 6 ; a seo n di u sa ar :vi y ibl l : , :h l . B s 2 ltee 3 ftr , li t no o gff. December 21, 1830, had closed, and THE FUNDS. yesterday at 038 1, receded 1 per feu to erred at 92 8 I. Sp an i s h, whi c h left off at 481 It, it 87 47 i 48. Portuguese, which left off at 84 89, opened ; at present it is 88+. HALF-PAST TWELVE. egi!rBolshave improved to 9381; Spanish, 48+ ; Portuguese, Li tter , ' oru Chancellor was expected to have sat in w as 6- L Inn Hall t o -d ay , b ut , t hi s morning, an intimation b e tge r v t ell at the door of the Hall, that his Lordship would not • HALF-PAST ONE. nistWraetiliave nothing official as yet respecting the new Admi es e ar cli l , but great anxiety prevails to ascertain who the new ere e : t ils°lB, which w ere i n th e ear l y part of the morning 921, 8 p r esent 92 for the Account. A P r i sh 4 8 ; Portuguese 88 to +. isbon Mail has ' lo fre s h arrivals a arrived but it is of an old date. t present. - C OUSOIs for the Account, 92/ 1. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. . I._ THE FUNDS.— CLOSING PRICES. BRima FUNDS. 0 65% Kt',Stook ..216g India Stock' 0 7 pm. , ent R e d. 91 Ditto Bonds 1 314 9',1,4 South Sea Stock 3'` pet Cons 904 3 imr Cent. 98% Ditto New Annuities ....... - 1,/ Per Cent Red 1 ~....e " ,,4 Per Cent B., Ex. Bills, ill'.. '''" %,ent. Assented lOl% tUtto 500/ 54 pm. Ditto i 56/ 54 pm 1.0 0 . . Dissented Bank Stock for Act............. 216 jaklatiities to expire , 17 5-16 India Stock for Opg. ............ 27‘,/ ja;Oct 1;7. ************************* 17m Consols for Opg. ................... 02X, ,szT . ..... .. ................. 17 7 s I MU . ....... . .............. , tUstria n FOREIG.N rait ttina,n , s s per cent l9l sopenrdcse!.. churiii'llsAyres, 6 per cent 331 ColtZgi: Per e ent 33 t0i..., ..J). 8 per cent. • 29!.4 t4:::17;41 .. .................. .• ° eek B;; .......... ••••...... atexi nds, 1 825,5 per cent 36'4 Ditt n 4 r , ~„. 6 Per cent ~1825 3 4 34 ttrUvia:d per 6 crenlnt. _ .. . EX, FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per c ent. 87;4 Ditto, New Ditto. .... ...... BB% Prussian. 5 per cent... lolv. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent logii Ditto, Metallic 105 q, Spanish, 5 per cent 474 i Ditto, 1823 4114 French, 5 per cent.......... 108 f. w c . Exchange .............. 25f 40e• French, 3 per cent.......... --c Dutch, 2. percent ....... Ditto, 5 per cent . 97% _CHANG E OF QUARTERS OF THE HOUSE the CAVALRY. —This morning between six and seven o'clock_g ljtbaggage belonging to the Ist Regiment of Life Guard :ill the ' 4l e b ICnightsbridge Barracks for Windsor Barracks, and ds a ggage belonging to the 2d Regiment of Life Guar kel proceed from Windsor Barracks to the Regent Barracks, 7._ ant's Park. At six o' c l oc k to-morrow morning the officers utsthe roops ,1 me t w ill exchange q uarters (i t b e i ng t h e annual exchange ( ), in th e following order :—The Royal G uar d s tit' 4l4 e) will march from out o f t h e R egent ' s B arrac k s, Re 011s Park, under the command of Colonel Sir Clements ...;° Knightsbridge Barracks ; the Ist Regiment of Life c o us will march from Knightsbridge Barracks, under the 2 : 3 , l ,nand of Colonel II B. Lygon, to Windsor Barracks ; the ' e girLeAt of Life Guards will march from Windsor Bar lit__l43, under the command of Colonel Lygon, to the Regent Vie, Regent's Park. LITERATURE. THE LIFE OF MRS. SIDDONS. By Thomas Campbell. Effingham Wilson, 1834. _ _ The impress of the immortal genius of the author is vi sible in every page of this work. In sentiments manly, dignified, and ennobling ; in feelings warm, generous, and enthusiastic ; in language pure, natural, and classically elegant —the life of Siddons by the bard of the " Pleasures of Hope," is a book of great, of transcendent merit. It is, in one word, a pattern of biography. The reader will look in vain through its pages for a specimen of the Boswell and I'iozzi love of lollypop anecdotes, so humourously dramatized by the witty Dr. Wolcot. The author was no spy on the conduct of the amiable, accomplished, and highly talented female, who had the judicious discernment to enrol his name among her best friends. He does not pollute his ethereal plumage by stoop ing to pick up materials for impertinent curiosity, low scandal, and mean malignity to prey upon. What the public is really interested to know, Mr. Campbell has supplied with a re gard to truth and fidelity ; and with a degree of tenderness and self-denial which will insure him the real respect, and sincere esteem of every man who sees merit in modesty, vir tue in veracity, and right feeling in preserving unbroken the hallowed seal of mutual confidence. But to say only that the work is well written, and a faithful portraiture of the greatest female tragedian that ever graced the English stage, is to omit, perhaps, its greatest excellence. The " Life of Siddons" comprises a great deal of useful stage and critical information, respecting the state of the British drama from the accession of Charles 11., with anecdotes of the most celebrated female actors down to our own times. It is further enriched by notes, from the pen of Siddons herself, on Shakspeare's " Macbeth," which will not fail to place the memory of that extraordinary woman in a new and brilliant light before the world. Those who admired her as an actress, and knew her as an amiable, tender, and virtuous mother, will be astonished to hear that, without neglecting her duty as a Christian, a wife, a pa rent, and a stage prodigy, she found time to write strictures on the leading characters of the Bard of Avon, which Dr. Johnson, with all his pomp, has not equalled. The following extract is from the pen of Mrs. Siddons herself, describing her second appearance at Drury-lane in 1782. We recommend it to the attention of play-goers, who are too often unconscious of the dreadful pain which they inflict : " For a whole fortnight before this (to me) memorable day, I suffered from nervous agitation more than can be imagined. No wonder ! for my own fate, and that of my little family, hung upon it. I had quitted Bath, where all my efforts had been successful, and I feared lest a second failure in London might influence the public mind greatly to my prejudice, in the event of my return from Drury-lane, disgraced as I formerly had been. In due time I was summoned to the rehearsal of ' Isabella.' Who can imagine my terror ? I feared to utter a sound above an audible whisper ; but by degrees enthusiasm cheered me into a forgetfulness of my fears, and I unconsciously threw out my voice, which failed- not to be heard in the remotest part of the house, by a friend who kindly un dertook to ascertain the happy circumstance. The countenances, no less than tears and flattering encouragements of my companions, emboldened me more and more ; and the second rehearsal was even more affecting than the first. Mr. King, who was then manager, was loud in his applauses. This second rehearsal took place on the Bth of October, 1782, and on the evening of that day I was seized with a nervous hoarseness, which made me extremely wretched; for I dreaded being obliged to defer my appearance on the 10th, longing, as I most earnestly did, at least to know the worst. I went to bed, therefore, in a state of dreadful suspense. Awaking the next morning, however, though out of restless, un freshing sleep, I found, upon speaking to my husband, that my voice was very much clearer. This, of course, was a great comfort to me; and, moreover, the sun, which had been completely ob scured for many days, shone brightly through my curtains. I hailed it, though tearfully, yet thankfully, as a happy omen ; and even now I am not ashamed of this (as it may perhaps be called) childish superstition. On the morning of the 10th, my voice was, most happily, perfectly restored ; and again The blessed sun shone brightly on me.' On this eventful day my father arrived to comfort me, and to be a witness of my trial. He accompanied me to my dressing-room at the theatre. There he left me ; and 1, in one of what I call my desperate tranquillities, which usually impress me under terrific circumstances, there completed my dress, to the asto nishment of my attendants, without uttering one word, though often sighing most profoundly. "At length I was called to my fiery trial. I found my vener able father behind the scenes, little less agitated than myself. The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and all around, may perhaps be imagined, but can never be described, and by me can never be forgotten. " Of the general effect of this night's performance I need not speak ;it has already been publicly recorded. I reached my own quiet fireside, on retiring from the scene of reiterated shouts and plaudits. I was half dead; and my joy and thankfulness were of too solemn and overpowering a nature to admit of words, or even tears. My father, any husband, and myself, sat down to a frugal neat supper, in a silence uninterrupted, except by exclamations of gladness from Mr. Siddons. My father enjoyed his refreshments ; but occasionally stopped short, and, laying down his knife and fork, lifted up his venerable face, and throwing back his silver hair, gave way to tears of happiness. We soon parted for the night ; and I, worn out with continually broken rest and laborious exertion, after an hour's retrospection, (who can conceive the intenseness of that reverie ?) fell into a sweet and profound sleep, which lasted to the middle of the next day. I arose alert in mind and body." Mr. Campbell has ably defended the drama in this work. We are obliged to deny our readers the pleasure of more than a brief extract : 6. To say that the stage is liable to abuse, is to say nothine , more than is applicable to every other source of human pleasure.' You cannot excite men joyously without some contingent dangers. The playhouse, say its enemies, is the resort of great numbers of the vicious, the idle, and the dissipated. Unhappily, so are all po pular assemblies, not excepting every Methodist meeting in the kingdom. In fact, if you proscribe theatres, you are bound, in con sistency, to persecute Methodism, to uproot vineyards, to destroy breweries, and to abolish music and dancing. " And religion says as little as sound morality against plays and players. The Scriptures no where stigmatize them, though, in our Saviour's time, there was a theatre in Jerusalem. That theatrical establishment, we know, was forced upon the Jews, at the expense of several lives, by Herod the Great ; and, after his death, if Jesus Christ had thought a theatre among the evils to be extirpated by Christianity, he would have found no topic more popular than an innovation so violent to Jewish feelings. But he has left upon it not the slightest denunciation ; and, in this circumstance, he is imitated by all the apostles : St. Paul even quotes a dramatic poet, and chews that he was well acquainted with the Attic Drama." AN ABRIDGEMENT OF ZU3IPT S LATIN GRAMMAR. By the Rev. J. Kenrick, M.A. Fellowes, 1834. A re-abridgement of this school-book would make it of infinitely more service to children. At present it is too long—too critical —too full of nice distinctions, above the comprehension of mere boys. One hundred and eighty two pages of a book intended for a simple abridgment of the detail of the first principles of a language, is rather an extraordinary quantity. For our part, on looking it care fully over, we were not struck by any superiority which it might claim for facilities of being learned over a Lilly's, Whettenhall's, Ruddiman's, or a hundred others. THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MAGAZINE, M'Phun, Glasgow ; Simpkin and Marshall, London. Heaven help us ! will the demons, bigotry and fanaticism, with their attendant horrors, never be banished the earth ? Will the mantle of religious and fraternal love never en velope the human race ? Are we always to continue tor menting each other in this world, and dooming each other to eternal perdition in the world to come ? Ought such to be the conduct of Christians indeed? Yet now—now in the nineteenth century, a land which boasts its superior in telligence over the most favoured on earth, sends forth a publication, intended as a vindication of a national church, in which will be found all the bloody rant, and perversion of sacred scripture, recorded in the drum-head sermons of Cromwell and Claverhouse ! It is inexpressibly painful to us to speak in this manner of any periodical, but we must perform what we conceive to be our duty to the public. The Church of Scotland must be very weak and very de fenceless, if she need such assistance ; and we intreat the members of her venerable synod to look to the evils which must result to them from being considered the supporters, if not the authors, of such firebrands now being attempted to be hurled among the people. A few days ago a man named Archbold went to the Armagh Branch of the Provincial Bank and requested a check on Belfast for 2001., but having counted down the money, it was observed that there were 1601. of it in notes of the Water ford Bank. The clerk asked him where he had got them, when he answered from his brother, and hurried out of the bank ; however, he was followed and taken into custody, and 1,350/. in notes found on his person, the chief part in his boots. He had a female with him to whom he had been lately mar ried, and it was supposed it was their intention to proceed to America. He has been committed to Armagh gaol.—lrish. Paper. The Wachler, a Swiss paper, gives an account of a great musical festival which has taken place at Sulgen. The number of performers, vocal and instrumental, exceeded 1,000. The choral society of Thurgovia alone amounted to 700. Amongst the spectators attracted by this interesting meeting were the Queen Hortense and Prince Lucien Bonaparte. This musical fete did not pass off without a slight tincture of poli tics. The Pastor Bion addressed the meeting in a fervid spirit of patriotism, and in the course of his speech compared the present situation of the country to that in which it was in Ministers ar c ," h e sa id, "f0r 1397 us"wThhaet t i h lo e te h s ate of of ti G ie ess F l o e r r e x i v g a n s for our ancestors. Shall we," he added, "like degenerate Swis s , b ow down our heads under this new yoke ? " Unanimous cries of " Never, never," burst forth from the assembly. THE SUN, LONIR WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1834. WINDSOR, JULY 8. Yesterday the King took his accustomed airing in his pony phaeton in the Great Park. Prince George of Cambridge, with some of the Royal Suite, accompanied his Majesty on horseback. Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta also enjoyed a car riage airing, accompanied by her Lady in Waiting. The Field-officers of both regiments, Lady Gomm, and Mrs. Chaplin, had the honour of dining with the King yester day evening. The Queen's chamber musicians performed in the Music Room after dinner. The King and Princess Augusta took a drive this afternoon through Eton and Slough to Maidenhead. Baron Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister, arrived at the Castle this morning, to pay his respects to the King, with whom he remained some time ; and after partaking of luncheon left for his residence in town. _ Viscount Ashbrook and Sir Jeffrey Wyatville will have the honour of dining with his Majesty this evening. To-morrow morning the King will leave the Castle for St. James's Palace, where he will hold a levee at two o'clock. His Majesty is expected to stop to dine with the Marquis of Lans downe, on his way back to the Castle in the evening. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Cumberland honoured the Countess of Guil ford with his company yesterday, at the grand entertainment given by her Ladyship. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria rode in the Park yesterday morning. The Cabinet Ministers assembled last night at nine o'clock, at the residence of Earl Grey, in Downing -street. All the members of the Cabinet attended the Council. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office. Lord Sandon and a deputation had an interview yesterday with Mr. Youlett Thomson, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Right Honourable Charles Grant had a dinner party last evening, at his residence in Great George-street. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Countess of Mansfield and Lady C. Murray, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from Brighton ; Sir Charles Henry Coote, Bart., in Connaught-terrace, from his seat Ballyfin, Queen's County ; P. Hughes, Esq., at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from New York ; James Fenning, Esq., and Mrs. Fenning, at the Berners Hotel, Berners- street, from Tunbridge Wells; G. Wal ford, Esq., and Mrs. Walford, at ditto, from their seat Chipping hill, Essex ; Admiral Gosselin and family, at ditto, from their seat Bengeo Hall, Herts ; John Smallpiece, Esq., and family, at ditto, from Guildford, Surrey ; H. Drummond, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Albury Park, Surrey ; N. S. Nesbitt, Esq., at ditto ; Captain Wellesley Ashe, at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, from York shire; Edward Simeon, Esq., at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermvn street, from his seat, near Reading; the Rev. H. and Mrs. Dunci.ne, at ditto, from Tunbridge Wells. DEPARTURES. Sir George and Lady Leith, for the Continent; Count Baron Hohenstein, for ditto ; Sir H. Wheatley, for Windsor Castle ; Captain St. John iNlildmay, on a tour ; Lieut.-General Sir Richard and Lady Jones, for Worthing ; Rev. Vincent, Mrs., and Miss Fosberry, from the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, for the Conti nent ; G. Roebuck, Esq., from ditto, for Bath ; Richard Eaton, Esq., from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for his seat, Steckworth Park, Nev;market ; Miss Eaton and Miss Lane, from ditto, for ditto ; the Hon. Champion and Mrs. Dymoke, from the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square, for their seat, Scrivelsby Court, Lincolnshire. NORTHAMPTON, JULY 8. The Commission was opened here yesterday, and the busi ness of the assizes commenced to-day. Mr. Justice Allan Park presiding on the criminal side, and Mr. Justice Taunton on the civil. There are eleven causes entered, and twenty seven prisoners for trial. In neither county is there business of any importance, save the trial of some persons for breaking the windows of Mr. Grimshaw, who kept the Flying Horse in this town,'at the election of Sir Robert Gunin, in 1832. The indictment has been several times preferred, but is now ex pected to be sued. On Mr. Hill's appearing in court this morning he was warmly congratulated by the learned Judge on having ob tained his Majesty's gracious patent of precedency. Lord Dalhousie, on Monday, took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords. Mr. Pendarves, M.P., has been approved by his Majesty as Recorder of Falmouth. The Corporation sent up two names to the Home Office for approval ; the other name was Lord Wodehouse, whose late father was Recorder. Sir Peter Laurie and his family are about to visit Vienna, Rome, and Naples, but will return to England early next spring. The appointment of Col. Commandant of the Royal Engineers has become vacant by the death of Major- General Pilkington. Yesterday it was determined by the Portuguese merchants resident in London to promote, by public subscrip tion, the Portugal fund for the erection of a monument at Oporto, in commemoration of the patriotic exertions and per sonal courage of Don Pedro. THE ARMY.—Lord F. R. Somerset's list of visiters yesterday morning included the Earl of Caledon, Major-General Le Mesurier, Sir W. B. Proctor, Sir William Summerville, Colonel Anderson, Colonel Daubeney, Colonel Sir M. M'Creagh, Colonel Horton, Colonel Rolt, Colonel Eckersley, Colonel Cooke, Colonel Young, Colonel Tayers, Sir John Morris, Major Ratcliffe, Major Thornhill, Major Reed, and about 40 other officers. General Lord Hill, as Commanding-in-Chief, will hold a levee to-morrow at the Horse Guards. The opening of the English Opera House is fixed for next week. The opening piece will be an operatic drama, founded on Mrs. Sheridan's story called " Nourjahad." Mr. Serle is to be stage manager. Mr. Laurent, the late enterprising lessee of the Italian Opera, will take a benefit at the King's Theatre on Monday, the 14th of July, and Mademoiselles Taglioni and G. Grisi, and Rubini, Tamburini, and Ivanhoff, and all the strength of the company, will appear. Mr. Bunn has kindly offered the assistance of the Drury-lane and Covent-garden company, and Perlet will perform, positively for the last time, in a favourite French piece. This representation is likely to be fashionably attended. The profits arising from the Musical Festival will amount to about 8,0001., to be divided among the following institutions, according to their rank :—The Royal Society of Musicians, the New Musical Fund, the Royal Academy of Music, and the Choral Fund. The members of the Choral Orchestra at the late Royal Musical Festival at Westminster Abbey, have deter mined to present a handsome silver-gilt quart tankard to J. T. Harris, Esq., as a token of their esteem, and as a memorial of their sense of the great ability displayed by him on that occasion. The Bishop of London, attended by Prebendaries Hale, Watts, Parker, and Wodsworth, held a visitation at St. Paul's Cathedral, on Monday morning, which was most nume rously attended by the city clergy; an appropriate sermon was delivered, from the text " Be ye wise as servants, and harm less as doves," by the Rev. Dr. Russell, Rector of Bishops gate; after which the Bishop, attended by his clergy, delivered in the chapel of the cathedral, an admirable charge, in which he adverted to the evils of non-residence and pluralities, and the unequal distribution of the ecclesiastical revenues, the rights of the clergy to those revenues, and the just appropria tion of them without spoliation. From the whole tenor of the charge, it was apparent that the Bishop of London sees " the signs of the times ;" and that if the abuses now existing in the Church were timely and judiciously rectified, the establish ment would have no cause for fear or apprehension from its most vindictive opponents.—Morning Paper. The library at Munich is said to be one of the richest archives in Germany, and to be one of the greatest libraries in Europe, the number of books being about 600,000, exclusive of duplicates, to which 5,000 or 6,000 volumes arc annually added. There has lately been a vote come to by the Chamber of Deputies at Munich, to grant 200,000 florins, to enlarge the building, and make it suitable to the vast col lection. At the same time it also resolved, that henceforth a copy of every work printed in the kingdom must be de livered to the library. - - Died at Cheltenham, on the 24th of June, John Aldiss Roper, Esq., aged 27, who for several years moved in the most abject poverty ; but owing to the death of an uncle, residing in India, he came into possession of upwards of four hundred thousand pounds. This upright man immediately used every means to find out those persons who had given him credit, and has paid several indigent tradesmen their debts, with compound interest upon them, residing in the metropolis. The principal part of his fortune he has left to the daughter of a fruit-saleswoman, living in the vicinity of the Borough market, on whom his most ardent affections were placed. The rest of his property he has bequeathed to his brother, an in dustrious artisan, living in Lambeth. HENRY SALT, ESQ.—The task of writing the life of his Britannic Majesty's late Consul-General in Egypt, has been undertaken by one in every respect qualified to do justice to the memory of so enterprising and honourable a cha racter. Mr. Halls, his intimate friend through life, has, by the assistance of several distinguished individuals, been enabled to lay before the public the present Memoirs, which are con nected and arranged in so admirable a manner that the reader can trace, with infinite satisfaction, the whole career of Mr. Salt ; whether during his voyage to Abysinia as Lord Valen tia's secretary, his subsequent embassy to that kingdom on the part of our Government, or his residence in Egypt as British Consul, for filling which important office he was peculiarly gifted. Mr. Salt was not only an extraordinary man, in the sense in which that term is commonly understood, but his life was one of unceasing activity, of varied adventure, and per manent public usefulness. The present is, without excep tion, the most interesting biographical work which we have bad the good fortune to peruse since the appearance of Lord Col lingwoed's Memoirs. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. .Mr. George Gor don, farmer, Ballater, Aberdeenshire, was at Leith in the beginning of the week, on a visit to his friends ; and on Wed nesday evening, while proceeding up Leith Walk, for the pur pose of going off with the coach in the morning, he fell down and died instantly. The deceased was in his sixty-third year, and was in excellent health up to the hour he was thus sud denly deprived of life.—Edinburgh Paper. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 8. The Russian brig Carolina, J. M. Arenant master, arrived this afternoon in thirty days from Lisbon, having on board 177 refugee Spaniards, of whom 92 are officers. From circum stances Admiral Parker suspected, that the cruisers of the Queen- Regent of Spain would intercept this vessel, and there fore to insure the safety of persons who had sought a sort of refuge, and had embarked under the guarantee of the British flag, he sent the Rolla brig of 10 guns, Lieutenant Glasse, to escort her to England ; but strange to say, no sooner does she anchor here, than the Russian Vice-Consul delivers a letter to the Russian Commander, from Mr. Bankhausen, the Russian Consul-General in London, telling him that these Spaniards will not be allowed to land at Hamburg, to which place they are destined, nor at any of the Hanse towns. Surely this must be a gratuitous assumption on the part of Mr. Bank hausen ; or is it a secret Article in the late Continental Con ferences, that all the free towns in the Germanic States are to be under the commands of the tri-partite Powers ? As the ship wants provisions, the Spanish Consul has written to Don Carlos, stating the dilemma these refugees are thrown into. Perhaps they may be compelled to land, in which case it will be an odd coincidence if they should be obliged to partake of the 10,000/. grant to the Poles—a sort of olla podrida refu gees from absolute pursuers in the North, sitting down at a charity dinner at Portsmouth with refugees from liberal pur suers in the South. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. LIST OF THE MAJORITY Of 33 (Tellers included), who, at a quarter-past four o'clock in the morning of the 3d of July, voted for the bringing up of the re port of the Lord's Day Observance Bill. Baines, E. Hughes, H. Baring, F. Inglis, Sir R. H. Brotherton, J. Langdale, Hon. C, Cayley, Sir G. Littleton, E. J. Cayley, E S. M•Leod, It. Ewing, J. Marryatt, Sir J. Fenton, J. Murray, J. A. Forster, C. Pease, Joseph Gladstone, W. E. Peter, W. Gishorne, T. Philips, M. Harland, W. C. Sandon, Viscount MINORITY. itutbven, E. Vigors, N A. Warburton, H. Shaw, F. Shell, R. L Steuart, R. Sullivan, R. Talbot, J. Thomson, C. P. Wason, 'Wallace, H. TELLERS. Poulter, J. S. Howard, P. H. Blake, J. M. O'Dwyer, A. C. O'Connor, Fcargus O'Reilly, W TELLRES. Aglionby, H. A. Ruthven, G. S. LIST OF THE MINORITY Of 73 (Teller included), who, on the 4th of July, voted for Mr. Hume's motion against granting any money from the Consoli dated Fund for the Tithe-holders in Ireland; and for appro priating the Surplus Revenues of the Irish Church to supply any deficiencies in the Tithe Collection. Aglionhy, H. A. Hall, B. A ttwood, T. II ,miley, B. Bainbridge, E. T. Hawes, B. Baines, E. Hodges, T. L. Barry, J. S. Humphery, J. Beauclerk, Major Hutt, W. Renew. R. Id. Jacob, E. Bish, T. Jervis, J. Blake, M. Kennedy, J. Bowes, J. I.ister, E. C. Brocklehurst, J. Lynch, A. H. Brotherton, J. Nagle, Sir R. Buckingham, J. S. O'Connell, 1). Curteis, Captain O'Connell, Morgan Dashwood, G. H. O'Connell, M. Davies, Colonel O'Connell, John Duncombe, T, O'Connor Don Ewart, W. O'Dwyer, C. A. Fenton, J. Palmer, General Fitzsimon, N. Pease, Joseph Gillon, W. D. Philips, M. Grattan, H. Potter, R. f3ronow, Captain Richards, J Guest, J. J. Rider, 'F. Gully, J. • Rippon, C. Robinson, G. R. R• elle, W. Roche, D. Romilly, J. Russell, C. Ruthven, E. Ruthven, E. S. Shawe, R. N. Sheil, R. L. Staveley, T. K. Thompson, Ald. Fooke, W. Trelawney, Sir W. Turner, W. Vigors, N. A. Vincent, Sir F. Wallace, H Walter, J. Wason, R. Watkins, J. L. Wilks, J. Williams, Colonel TELLER, Hume, Joseph LIST OF THE MAJC Of 76, who divided in favour of Mr. Ward ing an Accurate and Authentic Account House." Baines, E. Barnard, E. G. Beauclerk, Major Bellew, R. M. Bernard, W. S. Bevies, Blackburne, J. Blake, M. Blamire, W. Brodie, W. B. Brotherton, J. Buckingham, J. S. Chapman, M. L. (lay, W. Divett, E. Dobbin, L. Dundas, J. W. D. Ellis, W. Evans, G. Ewart, W. Faithful, G. Fenton, J. Fergusson, R. C Fitzsimon, C. Fleetwood, H. I RITY 's Motion for " Secur )f the Divisions of the Gishorne, I'. Goring, 1 - 1. D. Grote, G. Hoskins, K. Hume, Joseph Humphery, J. Jacob, E. James, %V. Jervis, J. Lister, E. C. Lloyd, J. H. Lynch, A. H. Murray, J A. Nagle, Sir R O'Connell, D. O'Connell, J. O'Connor Don O'Connor, F. O'Dwyer, A. O'Reilly, NV. Oswald, J. Parrott, J. Pease, J. Plumptre, J. P. Phillipps, C. M. Potter, R. Richards, J. Rider, T. Robinson, G. R. Roche. 1). Ruthven, E. S. Shaw, B N. Shell, R. L. Sullivan, R.' Talbot, J. H. Tennyson, C. Torrens, Colonel Tower, C. T. Vigors, N A. Walker, C. A. Walker, R. Wallace, T. Walter, J. Wason, R. Williams, Colonel Williams, W. A. Wood, Alderman Young G. F. Ward, H. G. (Teller) Hawes, B. (Teller) Berkeley, C. F. Boiling, W. Bruce, C. L. C. Calvert, Nicholson Cartwright, W. R. Cayley, E. S. Ellin., Captain G. Forster, C. Gladstone, W. E. Graham, SirJ. R. G. Grosvenor, Earl Hardy, J. MINORITY. Harland, W. Knatchbull, Sir E. Lefevre, C. S. Lefroy, A. Lefroy, Dr. T. Littleton, E J. Lyall, G. Mangles, W. L. Newark, Lord Peel, Sir R. Pcpys, Sir C. Reid, Sir J. R. Rice, T. S. Rumbold, C. E. Tracy, H, Tyrell, U. Villiers, Viscount Vernon, G. Wynn, Rt. Hon. C. TELLERS. Ridley, Sir M. W. Ross, Charles Ross SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET JULY MEETING. Tuesday Afternoon, Four o'clock. Lord Lowther's annual sale of yearlings took place this morning, when the following lots were sold:— Chestnut filly by Partisan—Pasta, 43 guineas. Filly by Partisan—Florence (Lord Chesterfield), 100 ditto. Bay Filly by Partisan—Scribe (Mr. W. Edwards), 50 ditto. Bay colt by Partisan—Raby's dam (Mr. Howe), 205 ditto. Grey Colt, Brother to Protocol, by artisan (Mr. .1. Day), 230 do. B a y Colt by Partisan—St. Julien 's dam (Mr. Stephenson), 100 do. Chestnut Colt by Partisan—Bizarre, 70 ditto. Lord Lowther has sold the yearling Brother to Glaucus to Mr. w. Chifney for 500 guineas. ARRIVALS. -Duke of Grafton, Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Tavistock, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl Verulam, Earl Jersey, Earl of Lichfield, Earl Godolphin, Lord Berners, Lord Or ford, Lord G. Bentinck, Lord S. Osborne, Lord Lowther, Lord J. Fitroy, Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, Hon. General rosvenor, Hon. Captain Rous, Sir M. Wood, Sir S. Graham, Colonel Udny, Mr. C. Greville, Mr. Cooke, M.P., Mr. Worrall, Mr. Batson, Mr. Payne, Mr. Sowerby, Mr. Thornhill, Mr. and Airs. Spalding, Mr. C ottre ll, Mr. Hunter , Mr. A. Hunter, Mr. Sloane Stanley, Hon. B. Craven , Mr. Hawker , Mr. Stonehewer, Mr. Irby, Mr. New ton, Mr. Portman, &c. The list for to-day contains only two races, which were as fol lows Sweepstakes of 50 so vs . eac h, f or 2- y r.-o ld s, not engage d i n t h e Ju y Stakes ; colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b. New T. Y. C. Lord Chesterfield's f., by Sultan—Eliza Leeds Nat 1 Mr. Spalding named Madame de Jeck, by Langar 2 Duke of Grafton's Florin, Sister to Fidalgo Won by half a length. Betting-6 to 4 agst. Lord Chesterfield's filly ; 7 to 4 agst. Madame de Jeck ; 2 to 1 agst. Florin. Fifty Pounds, for 3-yr.-olds., 6st. 91bs. ; 4-yrs., Bst. ; 5 yrs., Bst. 81b. ; 6-yrs., Bst. 121bs. ; and aged, 9st. D.I. Duke of Rutland's Amadillo, 3 yrs Young Boyce 1 Sir M. Wood's Vespa, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Sowerby's Catalonian, 4 yrs 3 Kinston House Rooms, Tuesday Night. GOODWOOD GOLD CUP, P. P. 4 to 1 agst Glencoe, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b. 11 to 1 agst Colwick, 6 yrs, 9st. 21b. 11 to 1 agst Glaucus, 4 yrs, 9st. 71b. (taken). 12 to 1 agst Rockingham, 4 yrs, Bst. 101 b. (taken). 12 to 1 agst Carnaby, 4 yrs, Bst. 101 b. 13 to 1 agst Nonsense. 14 to 1 agst Liston's dam, 6 yrs, 7st. 91b. (taken). The rest as befOre. GOODWOOD STAKES. 2.0 to 1 agst Emir (taken). DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 14 to 1 agst Shilelagh. 15 to 1 agst Powlett's colt. 16 to 1 agst General Chasse. 16 to 1 agst Touchstone. 16 to 1 agst Bubastes. The others as before. THE HERBY. 20 to 1 agst Angelica (taken). 25 to 1 agst Stockport. 30 to 1 agst Varennes. 30 to 1 agst Luminary. 30 to 1 agst Bee-in-a-Bonnet. 35 to 1 agst Spinning Jenny (taken). 16 to 1 agst Spinning Jenny and Luminary (taken). GRAVESEND PIER.—A few days since the bene volent Foxonian Society for providing the necessitous poor with bread and coals, took a trip in the Hero, to Gravesend. As their object was to increase their charitable fund, they pe titioned the Corporation of Gravesend to reduce the heavy demand of sixpence per head for landing and embarking the company. In other words they called upon the Corporation to give the charity the benefit of a reduction, offering at the same time Si. for the dues. The Corporation refused to abate one farthing. The Directors having communicated the fact to the company, the majority landed at Northfleet. Those who went on to Gravesend landed in boats, the watermen charging only twopence per head. Forty only out of 450 landed on the Pier. When the company returned to London not more than thirty went from the Pier. This example will no doubt be followed by other parties of pleasure made up to promote charity. - - - - - One of the commercial letters from Mexico, with the perusal of which we have been favoured, dwells at some length on a recent bill transaction to provide a large sum in dollars, supposed to be on behalf of the British Government. It is complained that a certain house in Mexico had secret in formation previously, through their correspondent in London, that such a transaction was meditated, and were thereby en abled to prepare for it in such a manner, by drawing bills on London, that in effect they purchased the dollar at 3s. 71d., and sold it to the Commissioners of the English Treasury at 4s. id. We describe the transaction to the purport, divested of technical language, of the Mexican letter, because, if any such information was given it ought to be exposed, as an un fair advantage allowed to one merchant over another. At the same time it ought to be remarked, that these appears some doubt whether this large transaction was really for the account of the English Government, which would materially alter the case. Some correspondent, perhaps, will be able to throw some further light on the subj e ct. If that were the case, the course was a very unwise one, of sending a Commissioner natural., be s uspected,im le com for th a t p urpose , w h ose erran d would p - and cau se th e mar k e t t o b e ra i se d upon hi m . A : 1 mission to any of th e l arge mercan til e h ouses in Lon'',.„ con nected with Mexico would have effected the same object 1" quietly, more expeditiously, and certainly much cheaper, MADEIRA, It has already been stated that the Governor of Madeira, on finding that Don Miguel's cause was lost, had thought it at last prudent to recognise Donna Maria. His despatch on the occasion to the Portuguese Government, of which we have received a copy, is a curious example of political tergiversa tion. This man, whose name is Alvaro da Costa, was one of the most violent partizans of Don Miguel, by whom he was created Count of the Island of Madeira. He was the first to raise the standard of revolt against the Queen and the charter in April, 1828, at which time he was Governor of St. Übe's. He now addresses Don Pedro in the language of flattery and sycophancy. The answer returned to him is spirited and proper : " Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor,—l have to request that your Excellency will do me the honour to submit to the august presence of his Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganz3, Regent in the name of the Queen, the enclosed documents relative to the pro clamation of the Senhora Donna Maria 11., Queen of Portugal and Algarve and the dominions thereto belonging, and to the taking of the oaths of fidelity to her Majesty and the constitutional charter granted by his Imperial Majesty to the Portuguese nation, all which acts have been performed in fulfilment of the royal order which that Imperial Senhor addressed to me under the date of the 13th of May last. These documents are—the report of the act of the Camara, at which I was present with the bishop of the diocese; and of that by which I administered the oaths to the staff, the commandants of corps, governors of fortresses, civil officers, and heads of depart ments ; of those, also, by which the commandants of corps adminis tered the oaths to the several officers and the rest of the troops. " The sailing of the schooner does not allow time for the trans mission of documents from the other Camaras of this province ; but I beg of your Excellency to assure his Imperial Majesty that this happy proclamation took place without the slightest interruption of public tranquillity. It would not be easy to describe the immense applause, rejoicings, and festivities by which was celebrated this event, so memorable for the inhabitants of this island and Porto Santo, who begin to experience the blessings which the Impe rial munificence dispenses to those who have the good fortune to live under the system of liberal institutions of the monarchy, and under the safeguard y of his Imperial Majesty's protecting Government. _ _ " Count of the Isle of MADEIRA. Funchal, June 8. " To the Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor Bento Pereira do Carmo." " PORTARIA. " The Duke of Braganza, Regent in the name of the Queen, orders it to be notified to the Governor of the Islands of Madeira and Porto Santo, that there have been presented to him the docu ments respecting the proclamation of her Most Faithful Majesty the Senhora Donna Maria 11., and the taking of the oaths to her and the Constitutional Charter by several public bodies, and by the Camaras of the city of Funchal and the villa of Santa Cruz, to which answers direct to themselves will be returned, expreisive of his Imperial Majesty's satisfaction, and the opinion which he always entertains of the loyalty of the people of that archipelago, who have proved themselves so worthy of his Imperial Majesty's regard, by the peace and good order which they maintained in pass ing through this great political change after having been so long and barbarously oppressed. His Majesty also orders to be notified to the said Governor his displeasure at the irregularity of using in his sig nature a title as illegal and ephemeral as was the Government by which it was conferred, and which has been completely annulled by the acts of her Most Faithful Majesty's Government. This communication is made to him for his information, that he may re frain in future from arrogating to himself titles which he is not au thorized to assume. " BENTO PEREIRA DO CARMO. " Palace of Queluz, June 20." The Duke of Braganza, Regent in the name of the Queen, wishing to give a high testimonial of his approbation to the gentlemex composing the Spanish Legation in London, for their services in the conclusion of the treaty of the 22d of April, 1834, has been graciously pleased to name and appoint the Marquis Miraflores a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Christ; the Chevalier Jabat Commander of the said Order; and Messrs. Burgos and Sandoval Knights Companions of the same Order. THE CROPS. EARLY HARVEST.—On Friday, the 27th ultimo, a field of ripe barley was cut down by Mr. John Gray, at Elgin Haugh, near Dalkeith. FIFESHIRE.-A gentleman who has had occasion to travel a good deal throughout the county, has favoured us with the following remarks regarding the crops in Fife :—The corn crops, upon the whole, look tolerably fair, rather earlier than usual. Wheat is certainly small in the ear, and late sown barley on hard lands has brairded unevenly, and will show an unequal sample; but so much depends upon the weather that we really do not feel ourselves warranted in giving our opinion thus early. Of the potatoe crop we can speak with more certainty ; inasmuch as we know. that in many parts of Fife, particularly about the eastern district, fully a third of this valuable esculent has never brairded at all; and even where it has got this length, it is in many instances so weakly, that we fear it will not come to much account. Turnips have brairded well, and promise an abundant crop with seasonable weather. Beans and pease that were a very short time ago thought past recovery, from the long drought, have recovered amazingly, and now promise a fair return, though we cannot help remark ing a short breadth sown of this crop, as also of oats.—Fife shire Journal. STATE OF THE CROPS IN CARRICK.-FOr several months the weather has been most favourable for every thing con nected with agriculture. Seedtime and spring have been equally favoured with a due admixture of drought and mois ture, and the genial heat which we now enjoy is producing a rapid and luxuriant vegetation. With the exception of pota toes, which, as in other parts, have partially failed from some mysterious defect in the seed, the various crops promise to be abundant. Wheat is now generally in the ear. Beans are in full blossom, and have a very fine appearance. The turnip braird is regular and strong, and oats and barley never exhibited a healthier blade. The rye-grass hay har vest has commenced ; and although not so heavy as was at one time expected, the crop will still be equal to, if not better, than an average one. BARRIIILL, JUNE 30. —The crops on the Water of Stinchar, and on the Water of Dusk, never had a more promising ap pearance than they have this season. Not the slightest symp tom is exhibited of failure in the potatoe crop, which looks remarkably healthy. The farmers in this neighbourhood have already begun to cut their hay, which will be a heavy crop also ; and if this week keep dry, many will have their hay in ricks before its close. THE TAILOR'S STRIKE. BY THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. I weel remember in the year wan, a like visitation in the forest. It wasna on sae big a scale, for the boonds wouldna admit of its bein' sae ; but the misery was nae less, though contrackit within a narrower circle, The tailor o' Yarrow Ford. without havin' shown ony symptoms o' the phoby the nicht afore, ae mornin' at sax o'clock--strack The misery was dreadfu'. It was just at the dawn o' the season o' tailors, when a' owre the forest there begins the makin' o' new claes, and the reparin' o' auld—the maist critical time o' the haill year. At sax he strack, and by nine it was kent frae Selkirk to the Grey-Mare's Tail. A' at ance—no ordinar claes only—but marriage-shoots an' murnins were at a deed stawn. A' the folk in the Forest saw at ance that it was impossible decently to get either married or buried. For would ye believe't, the mad body was aff owre the hills, and bat Watty o' Ettrick Pen ! Of course he strack—an' in turn aff by a short cut to the Lochs, and bat Bauldy o' Bour hope, wha loupit frae the boond-like a puddock an' flang the guse in the fire, swearin' by the shears, as he flourished them roun' his heed, an' than sent them into the awse-hole, that a' man kind micht thenceforth gang naket for him up to the oxters in gnaw ! The three Tailors then formed themsell's intil a union, an' boond themsells by an aith, the words o' which hae never transpired, but nae doot they were fearsome ; an' they ratified it, it has been said, wi' three draps each o' their ain bluid, let oot wi' the jag o' a needle, no to shue anither steek gin the Forest were a' to fa' doon afore them on its knees. Never was there sic a terrible treeo as them o' Yarrow Ford, Ettrick Pen, and. Bourhope ; three decenter tailor lads a week afore, ye micht hae searched for in vain owre the wide warld. The streck changed them intil demons. They cursed, they swore, they drank, they danced, they fought—first, wi' whatever folk happened to fa' in wi' them on the stravaig ; an' then, casting oot amang themsells, wi' ane anither, till a three got black een, an' siccan noses ! Ye never saw a Tredd's Union like it. Some folk began tailorin' for theirsells ; but there was a strong prejudice against, an' to them that made the attempp, the result was baith ludi crous an' painfu'. Imagine a pair o' breeks wi' the back part afore—an' you see they shaped them sae, without bein' able to help it, for it's a kittle airt cuttin' oot. There was Dandy o' Dryhop, in breeks o' his ain gettin' up, rashly daured to ford the Yarrow ; but they gripped him sae ticht, that he could mak' na head 'gain the water comin' doon sae strang', an' he was swoopit aff his feet, an' tarn out mair like a bundle o' claes than a man. But a' yerthly things hae an en', and sae had the streck. To mak' a lang story short, the tailors gied in, an' the Tredds Union fell to pieces.—Blackwood for July. The Worcester Herald says, that " the barristers who attend the Worcestershire and Warwickshire sessions have decreed among themselves that, on future appeals, two counsel must be employed on each appeal, and consequently that in each case there must be two briefs, and double fees." The at torneys must be great fools, if they submit to such a rule. BONE MA NURE.—It appears that on dry sands, limetsone, chalk,' light loams, and peat, bones are a very highly valuable manure; they may be laid on grass with great good effect—that on arable lands they may be laid on fallow for turnips, or used for any of the subsequent crops—that the best method of using them, when broadcast, is previously to mix them up with earth, dung, or other manures, and let them lie to ferment—that if used alone, they may either be drilled with seed or sown broadcast—that bones which have undergone the process of fermentation arc decidedly superior to those which have not done so—that the quantity should be about twenty-five bushels of dust, or forty bushels of large, increasing the quantity, if the land be impo verished— that upon clays and heavy barns it does not yet appear that bones will answer. With respect to price, it is not important to note any particulars beyond the calculation of the expense of a dressing of bones compared with farm-yard dung. Twenty-fire bushels of dust at the present price of 25., would amount to 21. 10s. Forty bushels of large bones at is. 10d. would amount to 3/. 13s. 4d., and these are shown to be equal to an ordinary dressing of eight or ten loads of fold manure, which at los. would amount to 4/. or 51. But the most material saving will be in the car riage, and in the difference of expense between drilling bones with the seed and dressing the land over with dung in the usual manner. A still greater advantage accrues from their use in the saving of time, which may enable a farmer to pu t in the turnip seed sooner ham where there is so much carting to perform..—Report of the Doncaster Agricultural Associatiov. HANDWRITINGS. • ( -1 C From the fifth volume of a new edition, jiist published, 4 {2)15- raelli's Curiosities of Literature, peibano e. anos rooting and judiciously chosen collection of anee \ clo ' en *th po litical and literary history in any languag 0 Oldy's, in one of his curio us n otes , was ruck by the dis tinctness of character in the handwritings of several of our kings. He observed nothing further than the mere fact, and did not extend his idea to the art of judging of the natural character by the writing. Oldys has described these hand writings with the utmost correctness, as I have often verified. I shall add a few comments. " Henry VIII. wrote a strong hand, but as if he had seldom a good pen." The vehemence of his character conveyed itself ii,to his writing ; bold, hasty, and commanding. I have no doubt the assertor of the Pope's supremacy and its triumphant destroyer split many a good " Edward VI. wrote a fair legible hand." We have this promising young Prince's diary, written by his own hand ; in all respects he was an assiduous pupil, and he had Scarcely learned to write and to reign when we lost him. • " Queen Elizabeth writ an upright hand like the bastard Italian." She was indeed a most elegant caligrapher, whom Roger Ascham had taught all the elegancies of the pen. The French editor of the little autographical work I have noticed has given the autograph of her name, which she usually wrote in a very large tall character, and painfully elaborate. He accompanied it with one of the Scottish Mary, who .at times wrote elegantly, though usually in uneven lin s ; when in haste and distress of mind, in several letters during her imprisonment which I have read, much the contrary. The French editor makes this observation :—" Who could believe that these writings are of the same epoch ? The first denotes asperity and ostentation ; the second indicates simplicity, softness, and nobleness. The one is that of Elizabeth, Queen of England, the other that of her cousin, Mary Stuart. The difference of these two handwritings answers most evidently to that of their characters." " James I. writ a poor ungainly character, all awry, and not in a straight line." James certainly wrote a slovenly scrawl, strongly indicative of that personal negligence which he carried into all the I:ttle things of 1 fa ; and Buchanan, who made him an excellent scholar, may receive the disgrace of his pupil's ugly scribble, which sprawls about his careless and in elegant letters. " Charles I. wrote a fair open Italian hand, and more cor rectly perhaps than any Prince we ever had." Charles was the first of our monarchs who intended to have domiciliated taste in our kingdom, and it might have been conjectured from this unfortunate prince, who so finely discriminated the man ners of the different painters, which are in fact their hand writings, that he would not have been insensible to elegancies of the pen. " Charles 11. wrote a little fair runniog hand, as if wrote in haste, or uneasy till he had done." Such was the writing to have been expected from this illustrious vagabond, who had much to write, often in odd situations, and could never get rid of his restlessness and vivacity. " James 11. wrote a large fair hand." It is characterized by his phlegmatic temper, as an exact detailer of occurrences, and the matter. of-business genius of the writer. " Queen Anne wrote a fair round hand ;" that is, the writ ing she had been taught by her master, probably without any alteration of manner naturally suggested by herself, the copy ing hand of a common character. ( ‹c 7 : - ) fl/4T3 • I ~ 4 SNAKE-STONES. It is well known to sojourners in India, that a certain class, or caste, as we call it, of Hindus, are snake charm ers, or catchers. They are called Sanzpoori—and perhaps by other names, derived from their " dreadful trade," as it. may seem to be. But they "bear a charmed life," as they tell you, by virtue of the " snake-stone ;" this being taken out of the head of the reptile, he is no longer venomous. It is the beautiful species that the Portuguese, and we after them, call cobra capel, which exclusively, I believe. " wears the precious jewel in its crown." It is usual for the samporee, when exhibiting his tamed snakes to gri f fin,. as newly-imported writers and cadets are called ; and who, by their air, gape, &c., are at once known to the shrewd impostor—to suffer himself to be bitten by the seemingly enraged reptile, till he bleed. He then, in haste, terror, and contortion, seeks a " snake stone," which he is never without, and sticks it on the wound, to which it adheres. Ina minute or two the venom is extracted, the bitten re covers, and the stone falls off, or is removed. If put into a glass of wafer, it sinks, and emits small bubbles every half-score seconds. This is the usual test of its genuine ness ; and it is odd if no one will give a rupee, or half a rupee, for such a curiosity. I have bought several when I could ill afford it. They are usually of a dark hue ; but not always of one colour ; flat, like a tamarind stone, and about the size, and nearly round. These are the genuine ones ; and I declare that I am by no means certain at this day, although I have called the sanzpuri an impostor, that they are not genuine ; that is, not actually taken out of the reptile's head. Be that as it may, I have been suffi ciently often imposed on by my friends the sampuri, to warrant my application of the term. I will add a word or two of particulars. After having purchased, perhaps, half-a-dozen genuine snake-stones of the above descrip tion, duly tested, one of these gentry brought me one nearly transparent. This I bought ; and another, and an other, till I acquired a score or two, of different sorts and sizes—and I began to suspect I was not one of the wisest men in the world. I still retain the box of stones, and have not altogether relinquished the suspicion. Those beautiful creatures, the cobra capella, sometimes lodge in or about your house or out-houses. On being seen or sus pected—your shrewd servant may suspect, on being feed by the sampori—you send for the artist, who, on promise that you will not kill the snake, proceeds to catch him. This he effects by piping on a calabash all about your premises, espe cially about your diminished poultry-yard, diminished, pos sibly, by the carryings of your said servant. When you may not be very intently observing, a sudden shout, spring, and fall by the sanzpori, announce the caption of your intrusive neighbour. He is produced—the exulting captor holding him at arm's length by the nape of the neck, the eyes of both sparkling and starting ; the reptile writhing and wrig gling itself round the man's arm, neck, &c., till the col lected family are frightened half out of their wits. The victor now squats down, and, with an iron stile, forces open the jaws of the snake ; and, before your face, compels bins to disgorge the bloody " precious jewel." If bitten, he ap plies it as before described ; and reluctantly accepts half a rupee for it, if more cannot be obtained. The reader man, or may not, guess that this is all a farce. There was no, snake. The servant ate the fowls ; got a quarter of a rupee from a friendly samporee, who brought a snake in his sash ; and at a favourable unobserved moment loosed it, and at another favourable unobserved moment caught it. Amid the writhings of the snake, and its suitable accompaiui' ments, a little manual dexterity is sufficient to elude your vision ; and the stone is, or seems to be, cleverly extracted. But sometimes there is a snake really domiciled with you. I lived at Byculla, two miles from the fort of Bombay. The foundation of my nice little house was raised a foot or two with masonry ; and, from between two large stones in the front, we often saw and watched the protrusion of a snake's head and shoulders. We could never find him wholly out, so as to give any chance of chace and capture ; nor could I catch him with a noosed string. I did not choose, from certain feelings or prejudices, to have him shot, and resolved to send for a sampuri to catch him. My old and esteemed friend General Benjamin Forbes, then a captain in the 75th Highlanders, was my very near neigh bour ; and I invited him to come and see the tanuzsha, or amusement, of catching my snake, at whose head and shoulders he had more than once wished to direct his gun. The sanzpori came—and, after due piping, seduced the snake from his hiding place, caught him, and extracted the stone, in the way already described, before our faces. A clever Parsee servant had reminded us that we had lately lost many fowls, adding that he should not wonder if there was another sanzp, somewhere near the fowl-house. Thither we went ; and, after the usual ceremonials, sure enough another was caught. I smelt a rat ; and, causing the exulting catcher to bring his writhing captive into the veranda, watched narrowly the lithotomic process. At the proper moment, I, to the great astonishment of my friend Forbes and the other spectators, seized the snakeless hand of the operator, and there found, to his dismay, perdue in his well-closed palm, the intended-to-be-extracted stone. The fellow made a full and good-humoured confession of the trick, as touching the second snake and the concealed stone ; but stoutly maintained that he fairly caught the first ; and that, although the semi-transparent, amber-like stones were altogether fictitious, the opaque concretion was sometimes, though not often, found in the reptile's head ; and that it really had some of the virtues ascribed to it. He good-humouredly blamed me for exposing him, hinting that credulity was the easy parent of craft ; and some what slyly said something Hudibrastically equivalent to the assertion that— .The pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. After all, I repeat my confession that I, unphilosophically, retain a portion of my early belief, that some individuals of the serpent tribe elaborate a concretion in their palate ; nor can I entirely shake off the belief that it has some anti-poi sonous virtue. lam clearly no chemist. I f an y such have a desire to analyse snake-stones—(J nev er read of its been hav ing sem semi-transparent les are ,confessedly,sedly, of a compositio n mine shall be at his disposal. The called in India, and, I believe, in England, sandarac-1a or false amber.—Oriental Fragments. Yesterday afternoon, while some men were em ployed in digging the ground in front of a new house in a E ag l e - p l a ce, ms i ks h ti e l y en , te d oen is . c o o sfT v oa e mh r e e emr d ea , sun o removing : fa h : ige murderedatf: lee r a m 'ci e rt former cust o m , circumstance ali street leading from Jermyn-street to a stable-yard, and ot h ers, was e s - t Y i ard' ll some hair on the head ; but it was evident t h at t he body the m e u art st h h a t :e m b ak een e Th oving committed su icid e, w e re many conjectures respect interred mail), years. posed it to be the remains o that it was of an individual w attended the an he d er h o a ss d -ro te . n b erh uri e 7l, accordhig umation, prior to a Coroner's body. inquest on parish bea ;tock case Ipoll, lbOtle 'hair, Pang, ity to ir t of ntrol, on of 111•1