The Sun. — London, England, 1842-08-04 00:00:00

TO TOURISTS. LORD LONDONDERRY'S STRAIN: VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE, By the RHINE and the DANUBE, in 1840-11, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS', in 2 vols. Svo., with Illustrations, - 28s. bound. Henry Cotburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in three volumes Bvo., with numerous Plates, &e. NARRATIVE OF VARIOUS JOURNEYS IN DALOCHISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, and the PANJAB ; including a Residence in those Countries from 1826 to 1838. By CHARLES MASSON, Esq. Richard Bentley. New Burlington-street, • Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. UNRIVALLED DISTRIBUTION !-8,200 MONEY .DIVIDENDS wilrlie divided en 30th No vember next, amongst 8,200 selected Bonds of the Loan nego. 4iated in the year 1820, and guaranteed by the Government and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. Distribution at Carlsruhe, the Metropolis of Baden, on '.3oth November next. 1 Dividend 50,000 Florins 50,000 Florins 1 do. 25,000 " 1 do. 12,000 " 1 do. 10,000 " 1 do. 5,000 " 8 do. 1,000 " 8,000 " 10 do. 500 " 5,000 " 10 do. 200 " 200 do. 110 " 200 do. 105 " 21,000 " 467 do. 100 " 7,300 do. 94 " 8,200 Money Dividends, amounting to 892,900 Florins, or 741,4001. Stealing Money. 8 ; 200 selected Bonds, each of which obtains one of the above Dividends. . • Largest Dividend £4,166 13 4 Smallest Dividend £ 7,16 8 12 florins equal tO trifle more or less, ,as per the day's e'mehange, All "the Dividends payable without any deduction whatever. Direct for the few Bonds which are still oh sale, WITHOUT. DELAY, to., • - HEINE, BROT HERS HAMEII7II,GH. Bonds are on sale' novf at:4l2 10s. After 15th August, if ibigher rate Will be established, since the stock does not suffice for the orders. Those who remit.£l4be.fore a rise in price will have been established, will receive:4n order for the surplus of £2 10,5., together with a warptated SELECTED Bond. To those whose order reaches us - too late for being attended to, their remittance will be returned by first post. • ' HEINE - BROTHERS. H a t u borgh, 2fith- . .liilt, 1842. r , • .'.•, • THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 4. Will be presented • LOST AND WON.—Leyton, Mr. Ditldear ;- Cotterctl, • r. W. H.-Bland; Mistress Leyton, Miss Fauctt. • after which, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER.—BowbeII, )Ir. Harley; Azar, Mr: Barker; Niza, M• s. Hughes. To be followed by.the Musical Play of THE EXILE —llarOn Al tradon, Mr. J. Bland Count Calmar, Mr. Barker; Petroff Servitz, 'Mr. Harley ; Oaran,. Me. J. Vining ; Alexina, Miss Faucit • Cathe. Tin , Miss Murray To conclude with the New.gurlesque vallet, called GRIZELLE Characters by Signor Oxberrini and Madlle. Louisotta Fairbro. toerini. Itoxes, 4s. •Pit, Is: Doors open at Half:past gix ccanmence at Sevey ; Half_price, a Quarter before Nine. Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-olllce ; and - of Messrs. Andrews;Mitchell, Sams, andßally, at their Libraries. • ROYAL, SURREY THEATRE. lu consequence of the immense overflows that have been attracted by'the performanie of"' La Sonnambuta," supported by the first. Musical talent this:country:eon produce,. it will be repeated THIS.EVEMNG AUGUST 4. .• , The performances will comtnence with Be hini's LA SONNA M. BU LA.—Amine, Mimi 'Rener ; • 'Liza, Mrs. Serie; Rodolpho, Mr: Leffler; Elvino, Mr; W. `Harri s on ; with an increased Band, and a powerful Chorus, conducted . _3( Mr. ti. Stansbury. A ftefiv ich THE .0,,L1 A K Elt.Steady, Mr. Leffler. . To conclude with TA4E-';ARTFUE•:l)ol)tdE.—llemosthttrei Dodge, Mr. G. Wild. • 'Pisces and Private Boxes may be bad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Lox Office, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectftilly Informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAY` , , GRAND 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 mere ge nera lly a tt rac ti ve. The ME:I , 7A GE RIE has been enriched by many valuable and im. Fportant 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'action, repre senting the Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. Tls BAND includes some of the most eminent Performers, con. lucted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES USICA LES selectedf rom the noblest works of the great Masters. The ILLUM INATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIRANDOLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgeous Spectacles and magnifieent introductions that have called forth ae clammations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex. hibition, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CASC A.DE of BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX IT FEET in height. The Gardens are open Daily from Ten till Dusk. The Evening Fetes, with the Promenades Mns'cales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Girandola of St. Angelo, fie., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, .'itd I'hursdays. Admission One Shilling. , HIOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. mornifig..i...: 4) minutes after 11 1 Evening 0 minutes after 70. party views, terrified the House of Commons into passing a Bill, the necessity for which . they Cannot judge of, and the effects of which they cannot calculate. The two elections of Nottingham and Southanip ton, which have now commenced, are distinguished by a feature worthy of attention. 'Both are contested on the one hand by the representatives of the most liberal opinions of the day, and on the other by the representatives of the most ancient ultra and thread bare prejudices. At Nottingham, JOSEPH STURGE, the Quaker, tbe champion of Corn-law repeal, and of extended suffrage, fights the battle against Mr. WALTER, the champion of ultra-Toryism. Against the latter we have, we believe, no prejudices. We rejoice to see a man lifted into great power and wealth by means of his connexion with newspapers. Belonging, like Mr. 'WALTER, to the Press, we share, in some mea sure, in his elevation. It is reflected over every jour nal of the empire. At the same time, our class judices cannot induce us to wish Mr. WALTER success in his present undertaking. He goes to Nottingham to carry into effect that compromise which was a vir tual sale of the electors. He is the prominent instru ment for reducing to prac=tice one of the corrupt com promises which a Committee of the House of Com mons has just denounced, and which the House itself was only prevented from visiting with its severe dis pleasure, by its pre-engaged faith : not to punish what ever .delinquencies mightlee s brought to light. For Nottingham, therefore, to elect Mr. WALTER, will .be to ,admit that-its electors are bought and sold, , and that they are unworthy of possessing the franchise. We know' Mr. WALTER: only -thiough his connec tion with the Tithes, and that .lately taken on itself the task of sneering; at those., who have en, `deavoured to procure the repeal dibecorn-laws. has held the Confereuceup..to odium, and defended the abominable law which is ruining Nottingham. To elect Mr. WALTER will be to vote for the. destruction of the town. -- Supporting the principle of protection to agriculture, and appealing to thevrejudices of the people in horror of the old Poor-law, - which . degraded all the working classes into paupers, Ur, .W ALTER iS in every way the friend, of measures, which, pauperise the peoPle. In the speeches; too,- of .his friends,, in opposition to Mr. STURGE, he is held sup t4'the friend . - of :war. He disparages that gentleman as unfit to, represent: Englislnen, some of whom at least are peaceful. He is .a Friend, and , therefore opposed to -War. Mr. WALTER apiClOarS; then, in the field at Nottingham as the advocate of bloodshed and Car . nage. He stands on the . 01d Tory principles of electoral corruption, .of popular' debasement, 'and of war abroad to preserve oppression. at' home...- . STURGE stands on principles the - reverse of these. He is a firm and decided friend to peace, not only because peace is lovely in'itself, biit because men can scarcely enter into war without submitting , to"' be slaves. Ile wishes for the independence of the people, and their enfranchisement ; and while he advocates a large extension of the suffrage, he eschews all those corrupt practices which debase and enslave them. He stands on the democractic prin ciple of free trade and free elections, and may be taken as the representative of principles which are only now beginning to have weight in society, but which are destined to be the guides of future gene rations. The same contrast is visible at Southampton, where Mr. G. THOMPSON, invited by the electors, appears to oppose Mr. HOPE, the rejected, we believe, of Wey mouth, and Mr. MILDMAY. Mr. THOMPSON says, in an excellent address he has published:— "I have nothing to recommend me but humble talents, honest intentions, liberal principles, and a public life, every hour of which has been devoted to what I be lieved to be the cause of justice and humanity.—(Cheers.) Rank, fortune, family influence, political connections, I have none. Gentlemen, I come to take a share in an honourable struggle for an honourable post. A battle is before us. Let me tell you how I intend to fight that battle for myself. I shall fight it—not by bribery— (Great cheering)—not by treating, not by rude perso nalities directed against my opponents, not by fawning and flattery bestowed upon my friends, not by promises or pledges of any secular kind to the poorer members of this constituency. I shall fight the battle before us upon principle. Upon the principle of purity, as regards the conduct of this election ; and principle as respects the political views which I hold. My appeal will neither be to the cupidity of one party, nor the fears of another." His principles he thus announces : " Gentlemen, there are two great measures which I shall earnestly prosecute. The one is the total abolition of the Corn-laws—(Great cheering)—the other is the ex tension of the suffrage.—(Renewed cheers.) I will not cease to demand for my countrymen both food and freedom." He is, therefore, completely one of the democracy, and he stands upon the most enlarged and most mo- dern principles now advocated, to secure the ascen- dancy of the people. Like Mr. STURGE, he appears as the opponent of that terrible corruption which has affixed a stigma on Southampton, as well as Notting- ham. We can form no opinion how these elections will terminate, but it will not pain us for our cause should both be decided against us ; that will only be the continued success of old vices and old arts while should they •be decided in favour of the new men and the new principles, it will be indeed an un- expected triumph. We hope much from the energy and skill of Mr. STURGE and Mr. THOMPSON, and their friends, and their success would be a great honour to Southampton and Nottingham. It would inspire new life and new enthusiasm into the popular party throughout the empire. The electors of Nottingham have, heretofore, been distinguished by their services in the cause of popular rights. We have no recollection that Southampton ever merited such approbation. It has now an opportunity of ac- quiring a great name in history, and Nottingham may wipe away the stain lately cast on its reputa- tion ; for either to miss the opportunity will expose it to censure and disgrace. The eyes of the kingdom will be fixed on them, eager to see which of the great principles, now brought into avowed conflict, the men of Southampton and Nottingham will support, In the House of Lords; on Tuesday, resolution pledging the Government to take measures for the more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade was moved by Lord BROUGHAM. After a long speech from the Noble and Learned Mover, and a short dis cussion, in which the Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord WHARNCLIFFE, and the Earl of RIPON took a part, it was withdrawn, leave having been given to Lord BROUGHAM to prepare and bring in a Bill on the subject. We have read the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord with painful interest ; but very different from that produced in the House of Lords is the impression which it has made upon us. After our long abuse of foreign nations—Portugal, Spain, the Brazils, Mexico, and the United States—Lord Baoualum was last night forced to admit that the great slave traders of the world—the men who sup plied nearly all the capital embarked in this horrible traffic—the men whose ingenuity defeated every at tempt of Great Britain to put it down—the men under whose auspices it was now flourishing to an unprecedented extent, were British merchants Not withstanding our canting at Exeter Hall, and our boasts of the purity of our faith, the rectitude of out principles, and the honesty of our commercial deal ings, British capital purchases fetters for hundreds of thousands annually of the sable sons and daughters of Africa! Now what inference would we draw from that? We answer, the total inefficiency of all legis lation for erasing this foul blot upon modern civiliza tion. With our great merchants covertly, and many foreign States, openly opposed to our efforts in the cause of humanity, we fear it is in vain to expect that 'mere Acts. of Parliament will put an end to a traffic so lucrative' as .to tempt the most ,cautious merchants to engage in it. While slaves bring 851. a head at Cuba, who can be..purchased in Africa for bad brandy,' and good-for nothing fire-arms, it seems to us that there will be , always desperate men enough to, engage in the traffic, regardless of any consequences which may attach to them fiorn British legislation.: To put down the slave trade all nations must unite in a crusade against it, and before they will cordiallyagree to do this, mestic slavery must be totally abolished; This will be' effected when the light of Christianity enlivens and invigorates the social institutio n s o f Af r i ca ; when the kings and chiefs comprehend the,scruel ' Wrong.of selling their people into slavery; when ar t s and industry spring up among them, and they a rr i ve at the knowledge that the sale of their people is the least profitable, as well as the most wicked way in which they can dispose of tbeni ; when domestic SlaVery is un known in the Coloni es o f F r a n ce, Spain, . and, Por tugal, and the continent of A:nerica--then, and then only, may we confidently anticipate , the total sup- „ Fit . \14:,11 • AIMPV,Z,4;M 57r 1 U< , W64011k ) ;;.; 34 'Z . ! • g c olg . . . • _ AL , - 0 ,• ;, ' ili Jtz _Sun, LONDON : TRURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1842. It was properly observed last night by Mr. V. SMITH, that " Lord STANLEY had placed the House of :Commons in considerable embarrassment." At the end'of the session the Noble Lord brings for ward a Bill to annihilate the constitution of New foUndland, and he ushers; it into notice by flaming accounts. of atrocities perpetrated in the colony, all of which he wishes the House to believe are the con sequences of that freedom and independence he is anxious to destroy. He appeals to the prejudices and influences the passions of Members, and leaves them apparently no alternative but to crush the constitu tion at once, or allow the colony to remain a prey to all kinds of mischief. He carries the House with him; because the Members have no time for reflec tion. SUch a mode of getting a law enacted inflicts disgrace on the House of Commons, and is unjust to the colony. The . Parliament of England first bestows a Legis lature on the colony, which implies a grant to the colony of supreme power, and then, at the instiga tion of Lord STANLEY, it plays the tyrant over its creature, and insists on resuming the power of which it had, .as was supposed, for ever denuded itself. The very attempt to put an end to the constitution of Newfoundland, implies in the House of Commons a disregard of the rights it has rather guaranteed than created. .. And why • does it take so vio lent and revolutionary a. course ? Some charges which • have haver been deliberately inquired' into are Made against the Legislature ; at once it is convicted by Lord STANLEY of inefficiency; and at once it is . proposed to annihilate it. Let the reader conceive for a moment a superior power sitting in judgment on our Parliament, conceive it accused and tried unheard, as the Parliament of England is accus ing and trying 'that of Newfoundland, and how speedily .could it be ,convicted? It would only be necessary to point out the purpose for which• 'the - Parliament is entrusted with power, and the present condition of the people, to ensure its instant condemnation. Mr. PAKING TON, indeed, said " that the Legislature ..f New foundland had been charged with three of the greatest crimes of which a Legislature could be guilty— tyranny, mismanagement of the public finances, and tampering with the administration of justice." These offences, perhaps, the reader will sup pose, when he remembers the customary exer- Case of the privileges of the House of Commons, the delapidation of the public revenue in conjunc tion with our enormous taxation, and its present in tention of taking away the constitution from New foundland, can easily be matched at home. Mr: PAKINGTON does not accuse the Legislature of Newfoundland of impoverishing and starving the people: - That is a. crime which is committed onlf.'by the Legislature of which Mr. PAKING ton is a member ; and were its acts to be judged in its absence as severely as the House of Com - coons judges the acts of the Newfoundland Legisla ture, by a superior power, we doubt whether its exist ence would be assured a single day. All that can be alleged against the Newfoundland Legislature is that it favours one party, and that party not being equally predominEnt in our House of Commons, power is to be taken from it andfgiven to another party. , ~ •lii these proceedings we 'see ' somethin g like the wantonness of tyranny in the House of Commons. It resumes a power (Wei.' a legislature .it has pre s . tended to make inde . pendent. Without waiting to hear, the: parties .on whom it sits both as accuser and judge, it passes sentence. It acts on the most narrow . and partial views.—.the views taken by one party in the colony, and perhaps :. even by one person, who : may .be a . military martinet, anxious to substitute military discipline for civil free- • dotm . Our Hou se o f Commons, too, is an assembly composed almost eXClusively of Protestants, and the „ strongest • arguments against . the constitution are founded on its objection. to the Roman Catholic reli s ::gion. It will, hoWdver,Ucceed i n d o i ng wrong. The to llouse dedicled, lasi night, by 68 13, that it wou ld .go into Committee on the. Bill. The Bill was -after , ;_:,(wards: fought through Cominittee clause by clause, • Mr. O'CONNELL resisting. on every question. Lord :c.' , ',. , Sre:istalr was enabled by a majority to attain his ob '-.' + jeFt. has , .., He by his exaggerated,. (and, we think, , c- . , ,) '' IV" .:,1 ' • ' s; THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1842. DUTCH FU N O.I.—AMSTERDANI, Attu. 1. Money. , Bills. Actual Debt, '2% per Cent Jai°, ditto 5 per cent. Amok t Syndic,l 3i per cent 93% 93% Ditto, ditto, 34, per cent 76% . :0% Commercial Co:npany, 4.,,,i "or cent 144,.. 144% Ditto (1805 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 18;x7,'5 per cent. l9 99 -' Exchange on London, One month l2 , l 5 Two months _ _ One month • 35 '75 Two month.... Dula Papers, Aug. 1. . . AUSTRIA N FUNDS.—VIENNA, JULY 23 fiveper - Cents. Metalliquel .-... 10874 Fonrper Cents Three pr Cents. , '76 dank Shares .-... • .... .. ,1608 . Hanaburgh, Theprices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 1011 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i 51f ; the Five per Cents.; 1011 1014 ; Danish, 811 821 ; and Brazilian, 63 65 ; with - very little business. The quotation for Mexican was 354 35k. London and Birmingham Railway Shares were 180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 47 49 ; Great Wes tern, 894- 90fr ; the Half Shares, 631 64i ; South Wes tern, 62 63 ;- North Midland, 59 60 ; the New Shares, 29 30 ; South Eastern and Dover, 221 234 ; Eastern Counties, 84 9+ ; Northern and Eastern, 40 41 ; Black wall, 994 ; and Brighton, 34i 34i per Share. The nominal quotations for the Bonds, for scarcely anything was done in any of them, were—Colombian, 201 211 ; Peruvian, 154- 161 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 331 334; the Three per Cents., 191 20; Spanish Five per Cents., 21 21+ ; and the Three per Cents., 20i 201. _ I - (From The Sun of Last Night.) The prices of most cf the English Stocks are rather better than when they left off last night. Consols have been sold at 91k for Money, and are now marked 91i 91i; and 91i, buyers, for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced, 924 • Three and-a-Half per Cent s . R e d uce d, 101 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 ; Bank Stock, 170 1701 ; India Stock, 249 251 ; India Bonds, 32 34 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 52 54 ; New, 50 52 prem. Nothing has been done in Foreign Securities ; prices, however, remain nominally as yesterday. Mexican Bonds are quoted Wit 35k, at which some time bargains have been made. The transactions in Shares have been limited to Great Western, New, 64 ; South Western, 621 ; South Eastern, Scrip, 8 ; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 47 ; the New Shares, 31. The bonds noticed to-day are Portuguese Five per Cents, 33i ; Spanish Five per Cents, 21k, and the Three per Cents, 20k ; all speculations for time. The arguments in favour of permanently fixing the departure of the mail for. India a few days later than the 4th of the month, according to the present regulations, will receive additional strength from the arrival of the present. The steam - vessel is stated to have arrived at Marseilles at six in the morning of Sunday, the 31st ult., and the letters cannot be delivered before the ordinary course of post to-morrow ; but more probably an extra delivery at an advanced part of the day will be required, thus imposing double duty upon merchants, namely, preparing the outward, and perusing the inward, correspondence. To estimate the extent of the labour properly, the counting-houses of parties eng aged in this br a n c h of commerce, should be visited on the day before and the day of the despatch, and upon the receipt of the letters all business is then completely suspended but that, and scarcely a thought is given to any thing else. Some idea may be formed, f rom paragraphs 1 which occasionally appear, of the number and weight of the packages containing the letters. Now; when making up the bags is put off at a short notice, or when letters are delivered on the same day, most of this correspondence would have to be re written. and even a third time, and in many instances it is obliged to be done ; but in the greater number of cases, the pressure is such that the answers are wholly neglected. All of these inconveniences would be ob viated, were the 6th or 7th of the month fixed for the departure of the mail. fly a chance vessel intelligence has been received from Rio Janeiro a few days later than that by the last packet. The markets for imports showed no change, though the slight improvement noticed some time since had not abated, but the confidence of merchants appears rather to have increased. Some parcels of the new crop of coffee had arrived from the interior, the quality of which was stated to be very superior to that of last season, and from all accounts the quantity was likely to be quite as abundant. The information from the Province of St. Paulo is but scanty, but it may be gathered, that, although the Government had from the first adopted most energetic measures to quell the in surrection, yet nothing but the presence of the troops prevented open violence from being continued. Much ill-feeling was stated still to prevail ; and it is to b e feared that serious events m a y occur bfore tranquillity be completely restored. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS Bank Steck 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Con. 3} per Cent. Red 101 Ditto New Annuities... New 3} per Cent... looi Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 52 pm New 5 per Cen'.. Ditto 500/...... 52 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 62 pm Jan. 1860 .....• ... l2} Bank Stock fur Acct.... Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860 12 5-16 Consols for Acct. ...... 91i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per tent. Belgian, 5 per cent lO2l Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilianponds... Prussian, 5 per cent — BuenosAyres6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ..... .. .... Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent...,.. Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... ... Danish, 3 per cen t — Frenc h, 5 per cent. —f. .—e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —e. Mexican, 5 per cent .... French, 3 per cent 77f. 75c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent 5ll Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... SHARES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 47 Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid .. Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid).. 641 London and Brighton (50 paid) , 34i London - and South Western (40 6s 10d pd) 623 North Midland Railway, (100) Paris and Rouen (18 paid) south Eastern And Dover (50 paid) • Ditto - Scrip. (10 paid) - THE LITTLE HORSE PRESENTED ,TO DER 34- JEsr*.—The diminutive . horse, of which there appeared an accountin yesterday's paper, Stating, that' it had - been presented to,.the Queen, was brought over frinn Java by. Captain Leckney, of the ship Victor. The . captain brought the horse with him inside-a-cab to the Mansion= house, - upon his arrival in London upwards of two months ago, and galloped it up and down the saloon be fore the Lady Mayeresa and some of her friends. .Upon taking leave, Captain Leckey whipped the animal up and ran down stairs with him, amidst great laughter, and depdaiting him in the cab, drove off to the west end of the town. We understand that the present was ac cepted by' her Majesty from Captain Leekey, through Lord Charles Wellesley,. who spoke of the animal as the smallest he had ever heard of. The captain, in speaking of it at the Mansion-house, said it would Carry him in harness at- the rate of ten miles an hour. • EAST INDIAN MAlL.—Letters intended to be for warded by4he overland route will be posted-ta-day, as the POst-office expresses that " the mails for India, Egypt, &c., cia. Marseilles, will be despatched hence on the 4th inst." (this day' pression of that monstrous social wickedness--the African sla,vv,trasie The mostimportnnt news in the French Journals, is the account, of the funeral of the Duke of OnLEAiss, which will be found in another part of The Sun, and to which we invite the attention of our readers. The Minittur of the Ist of August, publishes in its official part an ordinance of the 31st of July, by which M. Quesnel, advocate attached, to the department of the interior, is appointed sub-prefect of Ploermel, in the room of M. Nouel de la Touche. Thus we see the sub-prefect of Ploermel dismissed, because he would not support the election of M. de La. rochejacquelin. Is it thus that the Ministry of the 28th of October pretends to consolidate the dynasty ?—Con. stitutionnet News from Algiers of the 25th of July has been re ceived by way of - Marseilles and Toulon. The Austrian frigate Billona, commanded by the Archduke Frederick, son of the Archduke Charles, arrived at Algiers from Trieste on the 21st. After the customary salute the Archduke landed, and proceeded to Blidah, escorted by a squadron of the chasseurs of Africa, and accompanied by the Austrian Consul and his aid-dc-camps. On the 25th the Governor-General of Algeria, General Bar, and other superior officers of the army of Africa, dined on board the Billona.—Commerce. BOURSE—PARIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 1. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 118 15... 118 30... 118 15... 118 20 4 per Cents 101 60... 101 60... 101 60... 101 60 3 per Cents 78 10... 78 10... 77 96... 77 93 Bank of France 3225 —.3225 ...3225 .. 3225 Laffitte Bank 1,0001 1020 ..1020 ...1020 —.1020 Belgian Fives lO2l ... 102; ...102..... ..102/ 1840 lo3i ... 1031 ... 103/ ... 1031 Dutch 2f per Cents 521 .. 52/ ... 521 ... 521, Spanish•ACtive ... ... 22/ ... 22 ... 22A ... 24 Neapolitan.. • 105 50... 105 50... 105 50... 105 50 Roman W RAILAY SHAR ES. Versailles, R. B .... : i9250... 295 ... 292 50... 295 L. 13 96 25... 96 25... 95 ... 95 Riven Orleans; 560 ... 56) ... 555 ..1 555 Strasburg to Bale 205 ... 205 ..1 205 - ..., 205 ------ • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. - CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING,t.- • Prices of the Funds. kept gradually :creeping up, until,Wpsols left off at,9l sellers, for Money, aud 91i • ford.the Account ; Bank Stock, 164 17.01 ; India Stock, .249.2501- • Exchequer Bills,_ Old,, 32 54 - • Nei; 50 52 Puira. This improved'state - Of the Market may be mainly attri buted to the intelligence from India, which - appeared in . The Sun of this evening. If it be correct that" the Chineie -make sitCh conceSsions as. the payment of .ten millions sterling and the, cession , of haye been gained 4, .bet. fronVt,l3e. subtlety which they have always shown, it.would.appear that some further demonstrations would be necessary before a proper appreciation of our power were arrived at. Like the Americans with regard to their pledges when borrowing money, the Chinese are tricky, and if favourable circumstances for them should occur, the Em peror may refuse to acknowledge the acts of his Minis ters, as the several Legislatures have repudiated their debts. The details, which most probably will be de livered to-morrow, are looked forward to with much anxiety. AEI. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE, TO. TIIE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMEt Sir,—On Saturday last you announced, in the Times newspaper, that you were enabled t.) lay be fore the public a portion of the Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Election Proceedings before it had been issued for the use of Members ; and with such announcement you also in timated that you had obtained that copy at the earliest moment after the document had been confided to the printers' hands. Holding an important public trust, and having been always anxious for the faithful performance of the duties of the trust, we find ourselves placed in the painful position of an imputation of faithlessness hav ing been cast upon us, through the instrumentality and under circumstances which involve the integrity and honour of the public press. We direct your attention to the subject, feeling as sured that you, the unconscious cause, viewing the painful position, will, jealous of your honour, be quick in quarrel with the circumstances that have occasioned it, and prompt to vindicate the integrity of the public press, by sifting and revealing these circumstances, and showing that they had not your sanction—as well as equally prompt for our sake, in the way you think proper to remove the unjust and injurious suspicions which have been created by your announcement, ranking us, unjustly, in the world's estimation, as public servants who betray their trust, either by themselves or by the servants in their establishment—the latter, althougli . not sin im •putOd:act' against us ihdividually,.being 'of consider- . able importance to us, because • our establishment,, being thereby rendered ibsufficient for confidence,: is, eqtialty'Unfittector futuf6 trust; as' if the breach had, been. committed :by.. Or-ivith the sanction .of the prin cipal in Whoni the , trust or <responsibility was con- To assist your inquiry into the circumstances we acquaint you with thelacts•within our knowledge. • Tht facts known - to us :are these That we- were not 'applied to-by: you for the copy ;.'that , We received ne authority t6.supplryou With the copy: and that We did not sanction the delivery to you of the portion 'of the copy of the Repdrt, which evidently 'Came into your possession before the issue to Members. This portion . of the Report, therefol.e.:, must have been par *ivied, and we have..not been able to ascertain who or :which of, our• establishment furnished the copy. in ,question, - although. we are assured that the copy must have been,procuredfrom so:ne• one• or more of _that - establishment by,the , yile means of a base bribe.' It is Out of ourpower :to traee this matter . withoul ;Our asSi§tAnees •• The 'means of tracing it . clearly lif with you, having. 'The proof of the' act which'occa signed tho. , e CircurnStanceS in your - possession ; frohi `whom you receivedit - you will be able to obtain in '`form-ation as•to how and from. Whoni it was:proCured, and so onward, until you arrive at the false servant who has, betrayed ;hi trust. The absence 4 all secrecy and mystery in : the an nouncement'jay, you of , the soiree whence the Infor mation was 'procured, leads us , to the conviction that Ton could:mot:have .cormived,:' , when you directed the publication and -penned , your: observations, either in 'the , slightest degree,` the 'publication was unautho rised,' or 'that the gireinatances under which the copy was proc*red.' , Were'''open to "The, slightest - objpetion. Now, we, knowing as a principte , of thity'Whatoeught _not to have been, feel, and have had occasion to feel, that the announcement has given rise to exception against the printer. Placed, therefore, in these circumstances; unwit tingly as we conceive by yourself, the bare commu nication of the facts cannot but arouse your indigna tion to repudiate alike the act and the actors, which has, or who have, produced them. The immediately active and urgently impelling motive of desire for the public welfare and the instincti ve acu t eness t o dis cover demoralising effects, displayed in that bright array of talent for which your journal is distinguished, will materially assist you. All establishments are liable to suffer more or less from the acts of servants or employees; and if it shall be found that your liberality of reward for that in telligence and activity which are absolutely essential for the procuring early information for the benefit of the public, has been abused and perverted from the intended uses by taxing the shrewdness of some one of the procureurs for the Public Press to demoralising uses, then will you he rejoiced at the opportunity of showing that the gold of the Times Journal shall not be spent to buy, with impunity, of those procureurs of the Public Press, who, regardless of the means they use, care not whether they bring dishonour to that Press, so long as they receive, to gild their shame, the golden fruits of their bribery and corruption. Relying that you will take the' most fitting steps in relation to the facts and circumstances herein commu nicated and observed upon, we are, Sir, your obedient servants, J. and J. HANSARD, Printers to the House of Commons. Thursday, July 28. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Obliged by your prompt consideration and notice of the subject to which we directed your atten tion in our letter of yesterday, we feel the force of your observation, that, if there had b een f au lt, as we supposed, we could hardly expect you to promote the punishment of those by whose fault you, as for your selves, had been benefited ; and we feel therefore that we ought to rest satisfied, as we are, with your assurance of the erroneous character of our suspicions, notwithstanding that, without more precise explana tion, we are left in a seeming mystery as to conjec ture how the act pointed out by us could have been otherwise than we have described. We are, Sir, your obedient servants,_ J. and LUKE J. HANSARD, Printers to the House of Commons. Friday, July 29. MESSRS. HANSARD AND THE ~ TIMES." The Messrs. Hansard, the printers of the House of Commons, have addressed a very curious letter to the Times, which we have copied for the amusement, as well as the information of our readers. It is ne cessary, however, that we should state the occasion of this letter, and add one or two particulars of colla teral information, in order that th e p u bli c may f u ll y enjoy the joke. For the last eight or ten years we have been continually applying to the Messrs. Han sard to let us know how it was that the Times hap pened so frequently to be successful in obtaining sooner than any body else, not excepting Memb ers o f the House, copies of Reports of Committees, and other interesting documents placed by order of the House of Commons in the hands of this firm, in order to their being printed for the use of Members. We could never obtain the least light from the Messrs. Hansard into the nature of this mystery, and all that we could do, therefore, was to take care that so many intimations of what was going on should be given to these tradesmen, that they should not have the slightest pretext for denying, whenever the matter might attract the attention of their em ployers, that they had all along been cognizant of its existence. Well, the matter has at length attracted the notice of the employers of the Messrs. Hansard, or, to speak . more correctly, has been forced upon their attention by the ungrateful, or treacherous, or at the least very blundering conduct of the journal which has for years been enjoying, to the detriment of all its competitors, whatever priority in the publi cation of Parliamentary documents the run of Messrs. Hansard's printing-office could afford it. By long possession, the Times, it seems, had begun to regard so much as a matter of right the exclusive privilege of publishing whatever was sent to the printing-office of the Messrs. Hansard, that our Contemporary actually apologised, on Saturday last, to his readers for his inability to give more than a part of the Elec tion Compromises Report several hours prior to itk being placed in the hands of Memb'ers of Parliament, upon the express ground that this Report had not been sent so soon as it ought to have been sent to the office of the Parliamentary printer. The words of the Times were these, and they certainly have the merit of revealing the whole affair with a degree of clearness that doe:: not admit of misapprehension:-- " We are at last enabled to lay before our readers the greater and more important portion of the Report from Mr. Roebuck's Committee, which will probably be issued for the use of Members in the course of to-day. " Unfortunately, in consequence of the late hour at which the grand inquisitor confided the precious docu ment to the printer's hands, that portion of the Report which relates to the case of Penryn and Falmouth did not reach us in time for our impression." This was so explicit that the Speaker of the House was startled 'by it, and, as in duty bound, the Messrs. Hansard, the servants of the House of Commons, were startled too. The latter, accordingly, • betook themselves to the inditing of eloquent epistles to mys tify' the matter if 'possible, , by pretending that th e whole affidr is a matter of bribery, that the present is a peculiar instance, and that the espy mu s t h ave ,been procured "by the vile, means of a base bribe," given and received .of course by the mere subs, or the subs of subs, in the several offices of the Messrs. Hansard and of our Contemporary. The Times in sorts the letter, upon the principle, we suppose, that it ought not to keep back from its readers any thing that is calculated to make them laugh; but stoutly refuses to lend itself to the Hansard mystification, pre- Terring, as we think very judiciousty, a better and bolder tnyStification of its own. What chance was there, indeed, that a n y b o d y would give credit to the tale of a system of base bribes" between the subs of two. such establishmenti, without the knoWledge of the principal persons, although continued for years, and presenting indicatiorii of its existence tied effi ciency, which no man who did not wilfully shut Phis eyes could fail to perceive? The story, eloquently as the Messrs. Hansard have put it forward, contra dicts itself so completely, that it does not require the farther' contradiction we'are enabled to give it, by the assertion that Messrs. Hansard. were NOrned. not once or twice, but repeatedly, that the Times was r - :' , lll4if OF '`lttstiS AND Vttillte Itltnten• " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The talk at the Chamber of Deputies on Monday was the quarrel which took place at Neuill y ,' at the moment of the funeral procession, b e t ween M. Laffitte and Mar shal Soult. M. Laffitte is President of the Chamber of Deputies by right of age, no President being yet elected. As President, he demanded to occupy the place of honour—in holding the cords of the pall of the Duke of Orleans. The Marshal defended himself as best he could against M. Laffitte's ire. The other Ministers said, that the Chamber of Deputies not being constituted yet, there was no place for its merely temporary President. " What !" exclaimed M. Laffitte, " a Chamber of Depu ties not yet constitue put th e crown on th e h ea d o f t h e present King, and voted the existence of the Chamber of Peers ; therefore, constitue or not, the Chamber of Deputies must be represented at this ceremony, and in ferior to no other body. I will not walk second even to the President of the Chamber of Peers," added M. Laffitte. This quarrel of etiquette was put an end to by the putting eight cords to the pall, and giving one on each side, in equal rank, to be borne by the Presidents of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies. We have received the Madrid journals of the 31st ult. The Gazette and some other papers contain articles on the death of the Duke of Orleans, which are remarkable for•good feeling and propriety. There is nothing very important in the way of news in these journals: A Ma- drid letter states-thatinear OlOt'and Berga, small bands of rebels have made their appearance . ; several have been taken and shot.. The sanguinary order of General Zurbano, at Barcelona. declaring : that any person,falling into. the hands of, the insurgents, and paying a ransom for his release, shall be shot, as having made .himselra party to their offence . , is said to have excited such di4 satistaetion at Madrid, as to have induced the Regent to a,nntil it. * ' Great surprise is manifested 'in the ',Spanish Capital. by 'the appointment of the Countess Money) as lady Of honour to the Queen, in the place of Madame. Beljida; 'is - the former is said to be:notoriOusly of Carlist principles; :otherwise there Can be no objection to:Madame Montejc, as she, is the widow of.a grandee of Spain„and one of the most distinguished vvemen.at Madrid. ;- The commerfq publishes i letter dated the 17th tilt., froin the frontiers of Prussian Poland, announcing that, although the present harvest was , most abundant and , of excellent quality, the price of corn remained high in consequence ,of - the merehants of Stettin • having made large purchaSes at the present price to'be:delivered at the conclusion of the harvest. .• - ' A letter from -Frankfort-on-the-Oder, dated the 21st ult., states that the. fair of - St. Maguinf, which hactjust concluded, was:, well- supplied .with . - goods,: but almost. exclusively ,from States forming the German Union, ,which met with Aree4y sale,,but at rather reduced prices. Letters'from Constantinopleof the 13th-ult., announce. that the Shah of ,Persiu is _Making preparations for .a] War against Turkey, - and that a Persian army, is to. march against Bkiidad, and another against Erzertnn. Troops had already Marched froth Teheran to Arnedani. On their way to Bagdad. It appears that the cause: of quarrel is a disputed-boundary line, and that the Selialo had forwarded anldtimattan to the Porte signifying his: intention ~.to takevissession of the. territory - in dis pute if it,,wergt-119,tAeded to him:by the sth of October:. T4,11-T , ,FILME,NTAS49t:. The Il l otise Ottomliwils was almost exclusrvejy occu pied by the Newfoundland Bill last night. There was some conversation upon other business, which was postponed to make way for it, but that was the main business. The. adjourned debate upon going into Com mittee, which Mr. O'Connell had moved to postpone for three months, was resumed ; and, after several speeches, it was decided by 68 to 13 that the Bill should be com mitted. Into Committee, accordingly, the House went, and Mr. O'Connell debated every clause, and divided on most of them. Performing such work, the House sat till One o'Clock. MONEY—TICADE—COIVITVEZMCE. A meeting of the wine-merchants of Bristol took place in that city on Tuesday for the purpose of adopting a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying for a return of a portion of the duties on bottled wines in stock, so as to place them on an equality with those imported or taken out of bond under the amended duty fixed by the Treaty with Portugal. The memorial was accord ingly resolved to be adopted; and before the breaking up of the meeting a piece of plate of the value of 100 guineas was voted to J. Moore, Esq., the Chairman, in testimony of the gratitude ,of the wine-merchants of Bristol for his efforts in behalf of their trade. ELECTIONEERING. The writ for the borough of Southampton having been issued, Messrs. St. John Mildmay and Tope have ap peared on the Conservative side, while Mr. George Thompson stands forward for the Liberal interest. Tile nomination is fixed for Saturday, and the polling for Monday next. Pun Li e XIVIPM.OVEIidEATTS. The street leading from Farringdon-street for the formation of the line of road to Clerkenwell-green is to be carried on forthwith. The houses on each side are to be second-rate buildings, the frontage of each being about eighteen feet, and the depth about sixty feet, and they are entirely to be finished within twelve months. TirAy'AX. AND rotILITATLY. By a comparison of the speed at - sea, or what may be called the sea-rates of the Britannia, Columbia, and Acadia, which are known as the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ships, it appears that the average passage performed by them to and from Liver pool and Halifax, during the years 1840 and 1841, as calculated by chronometer, gives, the outward passage 13 days and 6 hours, and the home 11 days 3 hours. LAW AND POLICE. John Winnington was finally examined on Tuesday at Guildhall, on the charge of stealing 155 bundles of er mine skins, value 3001., of Mr. Schacht, furrier, and com mitted for trial. . Caroline Mason. a girl of only 14 years of age, was brought up at the Thames Police on Tuesday, for final examination, charged with plundering little children of their shoes and dresses in various parts of the district. Out of a number of charges made against the girl by the mothers of the children, who crowded the office, three of the strongest were selected, on all of which she was found guilty of the felony, and committed for trial. LITEAAR:3r AND SCIENTIFIC. The sale of the Shugborough Hall property com menced on Monday with the hooks of the library. Seve ral high prices were fetched for rare editions, and there was realised for the first day's sale, 4201. 15s. The speculum for the Earl of Rosse's leviathan teles cope was safely removed from the annealing oven, where it had lain nearly 16 weeks, on Saturday last. Dr. Arnold, we are gratified to learn, at the time of his decease had just completed the third volume of his " History of Rome," and his friend, Archdeacon Hare, will superintend its progress through the press. SPORTING. Game of all descriptions, pheasants and partridges, are plentiful in the country throughout Berkshire this year. The Brighton races commence to-day. COVET — rIiSIIZOIVAISLE. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll have arrived at Ar dincaple Castle, from Inverary. The Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury left Grosvenor-square on Tuesday, for Tottenham Park,Wilts. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa have left Whitehall-gardens, for St. Margaret's, Isleworth. The Earl and Countess of Zetland have gone to Upleatham, near Guisborough. The Earl of Lonsdale had a large dinner party on Tues day in Charles-street, Berkeley-square. Lady Peel and family leave Whitehall-gardens at the close of the week, for Drayton Manor, Stafibrdshire. MISCELLANEOUS. A horse from Java, of the diminutive sizQ of only 271 inches in height, scarcely as tall as a large Newfound land dog, was yesterday received as a present by her Majesty at Windsor. The two celebrated danseuses Duvernay and Fanny Ellsler are both in London. COURT CIRCULAR. --- WINDSOR,WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha. ' walked in the Slopes and Little P ar k thi s morn ing to Adelaide Lodge. The Duke of Cambridge and his daught9rs, the Princesses Augusta and Mary, Lady Augusta Somerset, and Baron Knesebeck left to-day. The Marquis of Exeter also took his departure. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Countess of Sheffield, Lady in Waiting, and the Honourable William Ashley, arrived at the Castle in the afternoon on a visit to the Queen, from Bushy House. The'Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal have been taken airings to-day, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. This afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Prince of Saxe Coburg, attended by the Hon. Miss Devereux, Marquis of Ormonde, Colonel Wylde, and Captain Hood, rode on horseback into the Great Park ; the Princess of Saxe Coburg, Viscountess Jocelyn, and Lady Caroline Cocks following in a carriage. The Earl of Liverpool and the Earl of Aberdeen ar rived on a visit to the Queen. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Lady Charlotte Dundas will join the Royal circle at the Castle at dinner this evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left her residence at Bushy, yesterday, on a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness the .Duke of Cambridge ,arrived in town, yesterday, by the Great Western Railway, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle. His Royal' Highness left town in the afternbon, for his residence at hew. Their-Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge returned to Kew, yesterday, from a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. A Deputation f rom the, retail wine dealers of the me tropolis. consisting of Alessrs. Coates, Kislingbury, Watchorn, Gurney, P. Fountain,. Whisson, Budd, N.' 'Whisson, Rawbone, Garrett, Young, and Rockley, ac: , edrnpanied by Mr. D. W. Wire, their Secretary and Solicitor, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel, yester day, at his official residence in Downin g - street. The Right Rev - . Dr. Walsh, Rotian Catholic Bishop 'of Nova Scotia, had an interview with Lord Stan l ey , yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A Deputation on , the subject of International Copp' right, including Mr. G. P. R. James, Dr. Ure, William Howett, Mr. Murray, Mr. Longman, Mr. Colbrirn, Mr. M'Dowall, Mr. .Murray, jun., and Mr.' Dickinson, had an interview IA ith the Right Hon: W. E. Gladstone yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Earl of Glengall and a Deputation on the subject of the Shannon Navigation had an interview yesterday with Sir Robert Peel in Downing-street. • constantly obtaining Parliamentary documents earlier than any body else could get them, and in circum stances which left little doubt that they were obtained at the office of MeWS: - Italisard. The Thnerinysti fication is better, as we have said, than that of the Messrs. llansard, because it is bolder. It consists in the cool assertion that there has been no bribery and no breach of confidence whatever. The Messrs. Hansard know better than this. They know there has been bribery, and boldly come forward to say so. But, then, it was the vile and base bribery of servants. This, however, the Times can by no means swallow. There was no bribery at all; but if there were any, it was all arranged by such good fellows that the Times cannot think of doing anything tending to their exposure or punishment. What we respectfully recommend to the Speaker of the House of Com mons (to whom this disclosure by the Times ha 3, we have reason to know, been the source of some trouble and anxiety) i; to give an order to Messrs. Hansard to send proof sheets of - all important Parliamentary documents to each of the morning papers simultane ously, and as soon as they can be got from the press. This, Ve believe, is the only way to put an end to bribery anti jobbing.—Morning Post. A PYTHAGOREAN TAILOR. A man named Castella, a tailor by trade, bat Si a person of many professions, made his appparan some time since, before the Correctional Tribunal Bayonne, on several charges of fraud, the nature which will appear from the folldwing narrative : Professing the doctrines of Pythagoras, he taught t the souls of men. after death, passed into the bodies ce dogs, cats, an d e th er an i ma l s, in order that they mro be purified by the humiliation. Forhimself, however. he maintained that, although in a former state of bum existence he had fought and gained both glory Pi gold in the wars o f Al ger i a, and was at length Wile" in battle, his life had been so free from guile, OW be was allowed to return to earth and re-assume his pt" tine form. He professed to have made six notabl e discoveries in contemplating the geographical Ing of France, which he had communicated to the himself ; at the same time, assuring his 'augu st ' correspondent that his life was protected from ' all danger, for that h e , C aste ll a, watche d o° ,, his sacred person, and covered it with visible armour. To these supernatural po wer's our philosophic tailo r a dd e d, as h e professed, that°( curing every disease th a t fl es h i s h e i r to, by adminis" tering certain herbs and drugs, unguents and l o tions; plasters and potation s , i mpress i ng h owever upon the minds of his patients, who were not few in Mar - abe t ' that they would owe their cure less to his medicamen t ' than to the influence of good spirits •Nrith whol! he held mysterious communication. (inc rniracle! o l c ; . did perform.. . . . , certainly did perform.. On the application of a 0 4 , woman, whose husband was an habitual Man ofthe metenips . ychoSis. contrived to keep the I of liquor, sober for eight.days. This Made. so deep an Pre4s.i.On. .the wife, : r that: sh e to Castello , ° secret sore by- which she .Was herself corroded, and 0 ; 1 his prescription • appli e d , alt ome l ette m i xed With PePPerl a.nd parsley,'_ he promising_ to., irwbke spirits to her aid.: As the . precious, plaste7 gravated the - sore — to 'an insupportable degre e ' she declared her intention_ of consulting a 'regall', surgeon:;;. Upon' this, 'Orkella protest e d :that i good - spirits would - becoMe -- sO:irritated by her wan t of falth anti„perseverance, th a t . th e most : consequences would : ensue. , L'pon this albrinii!° threat, the weak Womann -- again gave 600 1 e to hi / empiricism, and (as he required in all ' cases ), c°"' tinned to supply him ""so- largely with fee%_ that sb e , exhaused family trea sur y, an d was, {rt i obliged tp,confess to, her.,husband the channel throng' which it had been drained away. The husba rid, liar pening'to be in•his sober senses,-applied-to.th. msgi s : trates; •they-sent theirmyrmidons to arrest !the disci' ple of - ,-Pythagoras, who, upon - the 7testimoily of numerous dupes, was committed to pris on , an d , , beio tried, was condemned to twelVe inonths' meat. On' an - appeaf, hoWei;er, to the Cbur R o yale Pau, thia - penalty was; at a - hearing - on the 17th ins'' reduced to three 'mOrithS. LAUNCH of the GREAT NORTHERN.. This immense new steamer, lately built by Captain Coppin, was launched on Saturday morning last, in the presence of at least 20,000 spectators -from parts of the country, and of many froin 'England and Scotland. - en so ariionswere - the Donegal Grand Jiiry, assembled at LiffOrd, be present, that they obtained leave, on a"special application to the, Judge, for that putpose. The weather Was in the highest degree favourable.to exijoyinent of the.magni ficent._sight. Every. available. spot-.of ground from which a glimpse .of the beautiful vessel aould he had was occupied,- as well-. 'as all -the •.bouse-roofs, and vesseds:-in the: - river. - We counted between 60 andBo boats lying to, at safe distances - from the ves sel,: filled witli'ladieS' and their companions. Flags. and streamers floated in' directions;' and bonds. of military music greatly enlivened the scene '"At eight o'clock the'Worlmens hainmers were first - heard, the wedges Weie driven, and the last obStrUction was re moved. at a,uarter to nine,, when'Xiss Reid, eldest.. daughter of f , the. late . Rey. cl,ward. ffeid; Of Ranaelton, and .niece Joseph- Kelso, broke ,the baffle at her bow, the with the•Nessel s name, " Great Northern," was hoisted, - and the mountain of wood Majestically, glided into' the - Water.- :Immediately a salvo Was .fired froM varlotts piecFesof .cannon. star tioned on the wharfs, and - the utmost excitement and e ['congratulation succeeded: .. No accident of any_ land occurred', : - .Theg*tNOrtherii is 'the largest vessel ever built - in this:country. Ver dimensions are 220 feet in length, 37. feet beam, and 26 feet deep in the hold; burden 1,750 tons, 8.M., she is to be fully rigged as a 50-gun frigate, the length of mainmast to _be feetf; and 33' inche' 'diameter, mainyard 79 feet, and22-l'ihcheS,dianietet in the - Slings; foremastB3- feet, and' mizeninast rp feet ;. she Will be able to spread 6,400 yards of Canvass. There are - three decks, the upper one to be left entirely clear for action, and to be pierced for_ 44 grins ; the windlass and capstan gear willlhe placed betwixt'decks. She is to be pro pelled by. `Smith's Archimidean screw, which ;will "be. 12 fat -diameter,- , and 'l4, feet:'pitob,, but,' •the length will be only ) feed ; tty;make'V iTqv.Oluti4ns per minute ; thee - gearing consists of a cog-wheel 20 feet diameter, working into a smaller wheel of 5 feet dia meter, upon whose axis is the shaft of the screw. The engine power consists of two cylinders, 68 inches in diameter, 4 feet 6 inches stroke, and to make 22 strokes per minute ; nominal power.about 370 horses; there are to he 4 air-pumps, 19 inches diameter, and 4 feet 6 inches stroke, and cylindrical boilers. The engines are to be pl ace d c l ose a b a f t t h e Vessel, leaving +he midships clear for passengers.—Derry Standard. FASITIONS — FOIt A.U.GUST. (From the "London and Parisln'dies' Ifloga,zine DI Foulards; haregei„balzarines, diaphane, mousseline' de laMe, pekins, watered and, organdys, are Il i of now, in .dernandi and ii.Oliqgotes various kinds batiste are - worn, batiste Valgicienne, batiste,d'Ec'os' Java and' japan; ','Prettydresses of the latfer glut e i vial are made with short lint full hanging Sleaies r wise 4 to the shoulder by b u tt ons ; thi s style is termcid 310 Corinne, the corsages of muslin dresses are rot -,l l th la Vierge, with h a lf ti g h t s l eeves, ornamented Crispin of lace ; dresses of organdy are with tures and buckles, with long ends and very d e `` flounces on the s ki r t. S ome h ave four or five: d e ep , tucks, forming alm os t a s ki rt o f tuc k s. Mary have short sleeve; with revers formin g man till e on tb body or the corsage a coulisses ; watered b 3s been made open a t th e s id e w i t h revers of a wate r is silk of another colour, one that harmoni zes we lJ it, the sides connected by an echelle of. ribbon, t 'd under skirt of watered silk the same as the reve 113, 111 : ( made the width of th e h em l onger i n t h e skirt. Pre,t'lo dresses of strip e d pou lt d e sole are trimmed with, deep biais vandyk e d, an d th e s ki rt quite plain at, back. Flowers are very prettily introduced an.T.Ouif mer toilettes of organdy, in the form of cordc,nsf e heath to edge th e d ou bl e an d tr i ple skirts an d bottom of the sleeves ; the same style is also ma de in mignonette, geranium, mysotis ; the coiffure sitrc de r l ornamented to cor res p on d. E m b ro i dery eta sollte,le , (braid) is much in f avour i n P ar i s f or foul ards,! si'"; mousselines de lat he , an d even organdys, znd patterns are being introduced. The cardinal Pel e ' rives, the same as the dress, are not made very deep' the newest amon g th e l arge cama il s are of silk filet in diagonal strip es o f w hi te an d s h ade d green 3 , w i th second pelerine reaching to the waist, small col lar ati lt lt armholes, the whole of which are trimmed w ith fringe matching in colours. Crape bonnets'r bre ve,l fashionable thi s mon th ; not hi ng i s prett i er Pm 'T ea divided by several r ows o f open straw, an d or ?men at the side by a b ouque t o f moss - roses ;vh ith crape•k. is mixed with i n l e t s o f V a l enc i ennes, di v ided by pink Bros de Naples. Wreaths of small wild roses are very pretty for capotes of tulle bouillonnees ; a new bow quet has been composed of small leaves of velvet/ shaded green and brown, from which fall red be rriel; they are intended for straw bonnets trimmed will velvet shaded with green. _ MA GA Z INES—(CONCLUDED). COLONIAL MAGAZINE. This Magazine, as may be imagined from its title, is chiefly occupied with the consideration of Colonial affairs. Among the articles, we find a copy o f th e uew Ministerial tariff, unabridged, and printed, as the editor observes, " with more than common care, from the third or amended Act." This is a useful document, and its insertion here is very appropriate. LONDON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. A well digested number, containing a variety of articl?s in prose and verse, some of which—such as the translaticn from Boccacio's poem of the " Falcon" —are written with much spirit. We lave no space for extracts. THE MARIs.ETS.—(YESTERDAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh arrivals of English Grain have been small, but of Foreign Wheat good. The runs of English Wheat which remained unsold, found buyers, at Monday's prices, but for Foreign there was scarcely any demand. Other Grain as last stated, with little done. The top price of Flour was settled at 555. per sack. COLONIAL MARKETS. The operations were few, but holders werd' firm, and obtained full rates. TEA MARKET. There was little business done, but holders were firm, and obtained full rates. Company's Congou Is. 91d. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices steady, but the demand was limited, at 48s. on the spot. FROM THE FRENCH PAPEAS,. A letter from Vic-le-Comte gives the folio winisoc' count of disastrous storms in that country7:_3 ,, O' the 18th instant, a violent tempest desirovied, t i . ll a few minut es , th e w h o l e o f the gr.mtk, o.f til e lower part of this Commune, in which ~s e re 13111. , finest vineyards, promising an extraordinary' prod/ac'e' and on the next day another came down upon ".1 and for two hours ravaged the entire upy part the commune, so that the whole of our crops of kinds are gone without hope of recovery. N. 7thinfi was spared. House s were unroo f e d and injured parts by the wind and the flood, and numerous tn3e 3 were uprooted and borne to great distances." A few days ago a ca r t, l oa d e d with hay, c: to I,t fire between Les Sales and La Mothe-A.chard, i Vendee, from the friction of the wheels, and wa.!; COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market.day, MI . d. Chester Main 00000 •••••••••• of. lit 3 Holywell Main........ lB 0 New Tantield 1)1oor.. 0000 l3 6 OldTanfield ..... ........ l3 6 Sidney's Hartley l7 0 Townley ...., 16 0 Tantleld Moor 18 6 West Hartley lB 0 Wylani Walls End Heaton l9 0 Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killingworth Walls End Newmarch l7 0 Walls End Wharncllffe lB 6 W. E. Braddyll'sHetton Walls End Hatwell. :0 3 s. d. Walls End Hatton 20 6 Wall? End Lambton 20 8 Walls . End Morrison Walls End Stewart's Walls End Cassop' ...... Walls End Caradoc 20 9 Walls End Heugh Hall 2O :1 Walls End Kelloc Walls End Adelaide 'Walls End Bowburn l7 0 Walls Et d Evenwood 1 1 Wal s Ehd Teeb ' Blythe... 1 -ythe • Garnant Stone 94 0 Howard s Netherton Main 16 9 1 LLOYDS' SHIPPING LONDON, AUGUST 3.—Wind this day at nool fa t Al E. tirely consumed. The carman had his hands 131 J.:, DEAL, AUGUST 2.—Wind, N.E., moderate.—Sld, in endeavouring to save his horses. He succeed t o c 1 „ 1 " Giraffe, Sydney; Bombay, New Zealand ; Sarah, Port detaching the leaders, but the shaft horse was ii iii" Phillip. cated before he could be unharnessed. PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.—Arrd. off, Edward. M'Kenzie, ottr Quebec ; Forester, Kundsen, Bahia, for Hamburgh. Some time ago a mason of Morltdx, named - Pe 1. .„e Arrd. Jane, Baxter, Monte Video. was bitten by a dog which was supposed at i he 1 J P ' ' tbe OFF PORTLAND, AUGUST I.—Care, St. Domingo, for to be mad. The man, after he was bitten, heldi animal down until some persons came up an :".4 , Hamburgh. .. . OFF POOLE, AUGUST 2.—George, Fenwick, Batavia, sisted in destroying it. Immediately after the !ilc cl ; for Amsterdam. dent Peron received medical aid, but at the expi , . -- I t l° , FALMOUTH, AUGUST I.—Wind E. to S.E., light of several days he was att ac k e d w i t h the sym, Wil/ti breezes.—Arrd. Creol e , B a y sor , Rio, std. June 3 ; Li vonia, Reid, Aux C a y es , s td. J une 17 . Sld. Alchymist, of hydrophobi a , w hil st at mass at Morlaix, gs Quebec ; Ladv Ma r y W oo d steamer, Gib raltar. The died last week. Du r i ng hi s ill ness the sight of w3/18. i. Sarah, which was on th e S tag roc k s, h as been brought occasioned severe sp asms , an d i n hi s delirium h( ire' into harbour. I quently exclaimed—" T a k e away t h e dog. " As s ' e ti BRISTOL, AUGUST 2.—Arrd. C over d a l e. F ry, B ar b a- i. , as he had become conv i nce d o f hi s condition, he, b ,o - f does. Sld. Ann, D emerara ; Kate, Grenada. leave of his family, an d b egge d that, as a meantri ' 0 PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 2.—Wind S. E.—Sld. Planta. precaution, they would not go near him. • „le genet, Calcutta. An officer of the army, who had been for so ' a LIVERPOOL, AUG. 2.—Wind Southerly, variable, and time on half-pay, having at length acquired, by la 1 ) ,,,' light.—Arrd. Kate, Scott, Monte Video, left May 14, of time, a title to his pension of retirement, came fr ". Sailed Scotland, Brazil ; Nueva, Yberia, Hava,nnah ; United States, Auxerre to Paris to mak e hi s c l a i m. On Sunday ~,; Boston ; and Hibernia, eth, Ann, and Cr escen t, Newfoundland New York ; Peruvian, he did not app e a r f ora cons id erable time after ,A' Elizab r wentupto his chamber to ascertain the cause„ . 9 ; i ii Arrived off, Glasgow (supposed from), Bombay ; Vic- went him dead on his bed, his head dread tAu V t ., toxin and Francis, Barbadoes ; Winscales and Eliza, Luskman. . fractured by the pistol with which he had shot hi rnsi " OFF CORK, JULY 31.—Arrd. Cassiopa, Hodgson, A letter placed open on the chimney announc ed t : Mauritius. A barque at Hayle, fell over yesterday the landlord that, having become worn out b r th e morning, and received considerable damage. procrastinations of office and spent all his mone\ rp o f BERWICK, AUG UST I.—Th e J o h n (sloop), from New- ad too much p r id e t o h ave recourse to the purs et 1 a castle to Arbroath, in run n i ng i nto N ew Sunderland, his friends, and, therefore, determined t o put an ,4 3 , 1 !. 29th ult. (having spru ng a l ea k), ran on the beach, but to his life. The letter expressed gratitude to I' li is expected off after discharging her cargo (coals). landlord for the kindnesses he h a d rece i ve d f rom h. 1.,"1 June 3, off Adra ; We s tch es t er , o f N ew Y or k , 29th ult., VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Tened9s, from Gibraltar, and craved his pard on f or th e i nconvenience his 1' s'' act would occasion. lat. 51, lon. 10, by the Vigilant, arrived at Cork. Chid .o In consequence . of the late suicide of the per A p mark, Batavia, to London, June 12 ; Young Queen, Rio to London, 27th ; British Queen, to London, and sup- who threw himself from the top of the, a A forcri . ,:hgt : o - f plied with provisions by the Cassiopeia, arrived off Cork. Triomphe, at the Barriere de l'Etoile, th'e Prefect ' er Halifax, of London, New York to Valparaiso, 4th ult., Police has renewed with the utmost lat. 38 N, lon. 60, by the Li orma , arr i ve d at F a l mout h . or d er, t h at no one shall be allowed io ascend to Majestic, off Liverpool, for Malabar, 15th ult., lat. 39, platform alone. lon. 19 ; Baltic, Yarmouth to Quebec, June 30, by the General Graham, arrived in Leith Roads. Orestes, New - castle to St. John's, 29th ult., lat. 48, lon. 8, by the George, arrived off'Poole. St. George, Cork, to Prince Edward's Island, 26th ult., lat. 49, by the Caledonia steamer, arrived at Liverpool. a• v iscoun, ...illwOrtt, Sir Wilt= Pearson, the E. : p e r e the Mr. Mackenzie, %int Reuss, and Count Flahault. ~.0 " • amonging by Vie. r, ehem i Pas`Lengers that left London yesterday r 24 „. 1 4 '1 Steam Navigation Company's ; ' packet t:cean, Capt. J. C. Hest, for Rotterdam. r Tk si .e Mar qu i s o f H unt l ey, C aptain Mercer, . opt Ttiomas and Lady T r o w b r id ge , C o l . P em b erton, Qe Ir. and Countess Daniacki. Rev. John Parkin, and the/ W. Parker l e ft th e B runsw i c k Wharf, Bl .Nackwal/1.. 0, .)terday afterno on , i n th e G e n era l Steam avigativa (1,( pany's steam ship Soho, `Capt. Whitcombe, for .. n t ,y 4 en route for the Rhine. t Kill MURDER OF AN AUSTRIAN NOBLE.—A Vienna letter of July 18, says An atrocious crime has just deprived the Finance department of one of its oldest functionaries, Baron Philibert de Stramitski, Directer Of the Accounts of the' AuStrian. Public.l)ebt, a mr A n nearly eighty years of age ' - 55 of Which -he had passed in office. • M. de Straraitskilad a few days ago taken under his protection a' young Venetian . named Pupella; and given him a lucrative place in his office. In the evening. of • the 12th, the Baron, who was. a bachelor, .and had only two' servants, was alone in his apartment. when Pupelitycalled upon him, and asked him to lend him a hundred florins. The old gentleman consented V) do so, and . went with Pupella to his chest to -take out the - money. He had scarcely applied the key to, the lock when Pupella struck him several blows on, the head with a stone tied up in a silk handkerchief, , and his victim having'fallen to the-ground insensible, he-was filling his pockets with' notes - and gold from -the chest, when he Was disturbed by the valet de-chambre of the flaron,'whO collared him, and,- galling -to his aid the other servant 4, kept- him in -good custody. , Assistance wa, instantly ' given to the victim, but- it was , .too late.. for . already dead. - The murderer,, wii.only a year ar ,s herded BO,OOO florins (200,00 E) from relati: v o all of which he had lost in gainbling, :instantly crime, which indeed could-tot be.denied, c C 4P ~ssed his e - added, that his only motive was to obtain the me .. f.. o ks . n paviniwhat he called some debtaof honour, - - Until within the last iwo Yew% t h er e was not a calf c-xported -fr om Ireland, while 5 exportation of th em amounted to t - . 3 , .n the . year 1840 the 10% and in the last year to 8,900. • , THE lON was stated on Tuesday about the Houses of P'....rhatneut, that the prorogation, by the Queen in persimy w ill anniglit„ -." - take ielace this day 81. TH S. On the 2d inst., in Bruton-street, Berkeley•square, the- Vi countess Newry, of a ion. On the 31st ult., at Amble, Northumberland, 'Mrs. Thorns Browne, of a daughter. On th e 31st it, at Clapham New-park, thelidy of Willa al Thornton Wost,, Esq., of a son; still-born. On the 4t east., at Norwood, .the lady of George Ha.ske Esq., of a son. • • - On the Ist inst., at Nort'nwith-terrace, Maids-bill, Mrs. 1%1. *Reid, of 'a son and train MARRIED. 0z) ti .ie 2d inst.* at Trinity Church, Bath, &Mien et, s econd son of the Right Hon. and R ev . L or d Willi 1 to umerset, and grandson of • t - Tenry; fifth Duke of Beauf.>rt„ only daughter of the late Captai n D ona ld, of h er :ll jilesen4llTe';94 26 thR th " Ul m j, a nt. ad On the Kynner - sley, Sah - p, Thomas Tostnge ird E,q., of Hilltrorton Hall, Warwickshire, to Chri:tiani., daughter of the late Major-General Andrew Burn, R. hi. On the 30th ult., John Allen Gillham, Esq..* of Rust place, Fitzroy-square. T. on the 31ht ult., at East Dulwich, Elizabeth, relict of ' Bailey, Esq., aged 85., . . . On the 31st ult., Mr. Ge org e Fit c h, o f Bi s h opsga t e within 0 , On the 31st ult., at Cambridge -terrace, Camden-tow Elizabeth, relict of the late Licuteuant-Colonel Cleve, of tl Royal Artillery, aged'so. London; Printed-and, Published by-MURDO YOUNCI„ No. 112, Strand, at Th e S un Office, No. H 2, Strark jai G the County of Aliddiesex, Thursday, August 4,1642 ~~ ~-`- E[..k~; ,:. tet 49, it th, 71 rie fer