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13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE of MASSANIELLO. Edited by HORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Brarribletye House," will be ready at all the i Libraritis on Wednesday, July 27. •„'' Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HAMBURG'', JULY, 1842. MAJESATITSTRthIeA, EMPEROR of /AND HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, 'having A UTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, by wkich LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINE BRO THERS, at HAMBURG are now`telling Genuine and W , IRRANTED SELECTED LONDON : MONDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1842. Mr. H twEs is, undoubtedly, a very rising mar, but we believe he has not yet been in the Cabinet. The House of Commons was somewhat surprised, therefore, on Friday night, to see him rise after Sir ROBERT PEEL had appealed to her MAJESTY'S late Ministers, to express their disapprobation of motions of adjournment, and hear him do as Sir R. PEEL wished, and oppose, with as much vehemence as if he were a proximate Prime Minister, the motion to adjourn the House. lie was quite shocked at his Hon. Friend think ing of resisting the will of a majority, which, accord ing to Mr. Hawes, struck at the root of a representative Government—the guarantee of all our liberties. We feel Ourselves compelled to differ from Mr. H AWES, and . feel ourselves bound to assert, .that when a House o; • Commons has been cohected as the present House of Commons has been, by , notorious bribery and eor ruptlonL-when it is not a just representation of the p.ople—when it is engaged in measures pregnant with mischief to the public—when it is intent only on • voting away the public money, and refuses to redress the public grievances, the 811110. rity of the Howe of Commons will not do its • duty if it do not obstruct such a Go . 1 - eminent to the extent of its means. As to a repre sentative Government being the guarantee of our liberties; when we cease to guarantee them ourselves by our own'.opinions - and our own deeds, if necessary, we need not Took to the House of Commons to secure them. We are well aware that all those gentlemen who expect to form part of an administration at any time, areas.lealous of the authority of the Government when . .they are in opposition as when they are in office. They regard that authority as a joint property, of wbich they may by and by have the use ; and however . heavily or disastrously it may weigh on the people, they defend it in hope of soon being called on to wield it. In truth Mr. IliwEs spoke as if he expected soon to be sent for to form a Cabinet, not to be one of its subordinate members. Does he aspire to cut out Lord Jows RussELl., who has tied from the Parliamentary battle, and catch the Treasury ststYwhen Sir ROBERT PEEL casts it away ? What party 'Mr. IlAwns i to lead we are not aware, but certainly the Liberal party is not likely, after his exhibitiol on Friday evening, to place itself under his guidance. Mr. COBDEN alluded, on Friday night, to the veto lately pronounced by Mr. President TYLER, to the ordinance recently issued in France, relative to the duties on linen-yarn, and to the convention which that country has formed with Belgium, as good reasons why the House of Commons should now inquire into the distress of the country, and the means of relieving it. On all hands the distress is admitted to be great on all hands it must be agreed, as we have an abun dance of manufacturing power, that the distress arises from the want of markets ; and by no person can it be denied, that our protective system, by the example it h.is set, and by the immediate elects it had on the United States, Prussia, and France, has limited and curtailed our markets. By now inquiring into the effects of our laws, in excluding us from foreign markets, we should probably arrive at the conclusion, that to open our ports to . the raw produce of the United States, would be the certain means of securing that market for our manu factures. All the Western States, which have a pre ponderating influence in Congress, would be favour-• able to a low tariff on manufactures, were their agri cultural produce admittedfreely into England. That is a fact which is susceptible of proo ; and as Mr. TYLER'S veto leaves the whole question open, it would be only prudent in England now to make such alterations in. her laws as would insure arevision of the United States tariff favourable to the trade with this country. We hope that Mr. COBDEN, who has started this topic, will not lose sight of it, -but will take other means and opportunities of bringing it before the House of Com mons. The Parliament of England has yet a noble opportunity by doing justice, to our own peopl e , o f promoting the prosperity and civilization of the western glory of Britain. world, as well as the happiness and Tke Report of Mr. lloEnum's Bribery and Cor ruption Committee, laid some days ago upon the table of the house of Commons, has been printed and circulated. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman has well redetned tlw pledges which he made to the House when ur,,v.ing for that Committee ; and the temperate and di-pe.. , ienate tone in which the Report, is drawn up, proves that its management Could not have been entrusted • .to any gentleman less capable of a great principle to personal, factious, or purpe.:es,. qtt42ent i 3 made ill the Re- F•.. 7 t to 'prejudice the lleut-e or the country, aganiA indiviluals, however deeply involved in corrupt prac::ces. . Ali that is sOught is to expose a system of corroption which is to rspreading the country, and hich, 130. ss checked, must terminate in the destruction of allpublie virtue. ThePressihowever, is not called upon to be equally tolerant with . Mr. ROEBUCK of the crimes of men, ()um p i red with whom the miserable.receivers of bribes are the most venial of offenders, • The Commit tee commenced its inquiries with Harwich, for which Mr. J. Arrwoov and Major BFRESFORD were the 'returned Monbers, anti, •!Nlt, . 1 7!Aos,1•A`k- Dstos LE Maitc.tilis4' diereittt r o teati ' ilda " -z- There titurc: bt d Wen a. Oorrupt, .k•QAPP439. at a risk to Mr. ATTWOOD of 2,5001 Independently of this sum, Mr. ATTWOOD and Major BERESFORD expended the enor mous sum of 6,8001. at the election ; the greater part of which was distributed in bribes. No less than 3,0001. was divided among 33 voters directly in bribes. Sir DENIS LE MARCIIANT spent 1,500/. in bribery, and Mr. BAGSRAW 500/. Thus no less a sum than 9,300/. was spent in bribery by the Tory Members for Harwich. The Committee, having investigated the extent of bribery at Harwich, proceeded to Nottingham. Here the successful candidates were the Whig-Radical Sir J. C. HORHOUSE, once a branch in Westminster's golden candlestick with " Old Glory," and Sir G. LARPENT. The return having been petitioned against, a corrupt compromise was entered into with Mr. WALTER, one of the rejected candidates, at an expense to HuntrousE of 1,0001., and a risk of 4,0001. provided the conditions of it were violated. The returned Members, HonnotrsE and LARPENT, expended 12,0001. in bribery and other cor rupt practices, and WALTER and CHARLTON, who op posed them, from 4,000/. to 5,0001. The Committee ac count for the smallness of the amount spent in bribery on the part of the Conservative candidates, by stating that the poll was not taken. In the case of Lewes, for which Mr. HattFonD and Mr. ELPHINSTONE were returned, the Committee found, that they being petitioned against, a corrupt compro mise was entered into. That on their part, and that of - the rejected candidates, Mr. FITZROY and Lord CAN TALUPE, there had been gross and corrupt bribery; there having been spent, in a constituency of 850, on the part of Mr. ELPHINSTONE and Mr. HARFORD 5001., and on that of Mr. FITZROY and Lord CANTALUPE '2,000/. In the case of Reading a corrupt compromise was ad mitted by Mr. RUSSELL and Lord CHELSEA, at a risk to them of 2,000/. The constituency of Reading is only 1,050, and notwithstanding the unwillingness of the witnesses to afford any information, the Committee found that nearly 8,0001. had been spent in corrupt practices at the last election. As regards the borough of Penryn and Falmouth, a corrupt com promise, bribery, and , . other corrupt practices, were proved against all the candidates, with tke exception of Captain PLUMBIDGE. The whole sums so expended were 4,0001. a=side, making 8,000/. for that inconsiderable constituency. The refusal of Mr. COCHRANE arid his agents to give any information as to the system of bribery carried on by them at Bridport, leaves the evidence necessarily imperfect relative to that borough. Nevertheless the Committee expresses a con viction that he was guilty of bribery to an extent fully equal to that of the other candidates. We go farther We are persuaded that he spent more in bribery than Mr. WARBURTON and Mr. MITCHELL both together. Mr. WARBURTON spent 2,166/. and Mr. MITCHELL 3,300/. at the last election. Such is the substance of a Report which has at tracted more attention, and encountered more opposition, than any appointed by the Legislature since the passing of the Reform Bill. We have not yet had time to do more than glance at the evidence ; but from the little which we have read, we have been struck with the great discretion and ability with which Mr. RoHnucx per formed a task as delicate as it was difficult. He seems to have fully appreciated the responsibility which devolved upon him, and to have suffered neither taunts nor menaces to divert him for an instant from the even tenour of his passionless course. Of the corrupt prac tices thus laid bare we shall take an early opportunity of speaking in terms more commensurate with our im pression of their atrocity. The only news of any importance in the French and Spanish Journals, will be found in our Foreign Sum mary. We subjoin a few additional items : The Spanish Senate, in its last sitting on the 14th, voted the Budget. The Marquis de Julies proposed in the same sit ting to restore the dotation of the Queen.mother, Maria Chris tina, which was susyended in consequence of the events in October. This motion was rejected by a majority of 41) to 17. 'f he Captain-General, and the political chief of Madrid, left the capital on the 15th, to go to Guadalaxara, to meet the eldest son of the infant Don Francisco. The journals of Barcelona are of the 15th. General Zurbano had left that city arid gone to Gerona. TURIN, JULY 16.—( From a Letter.)—" The King and the whole Court returning from Genoa are gone to the Royal Palace :of Rumigni for the summer. It was hoped that on this occasion, Charles Albert would have extended the amnesty, granted to the persons impli cated in the revolution of 1821, to all the individuals con demned for political offences in 1833.4; but hitherto partial favours only have been granted to some Genose condemned in these latter years. Among othets are the Alarquis de Ravesedo, who has obtained complete amnesty and liberty to return to his native country. Doctor Orsini. who was confined in the Fort of Fenestrelles, and has just been set at liberty ; Marquis Cattaneo, who has obtained permission to return to Genoa for two months, it is hoped that he will be permitted to stay there permanently; and M. Noti, wht has obtained permission to finish, at Genoa, the five y ears ' confinement which he had still to pass at Fenestrelles. Heaven grant that these measures may tie extended to all other persons condemned for political offences who are still in exile or in the public prisons." A letter from Nantes of the 16th July, addressed to the Journal La France, says;—" Our city continues to feel The consequence of the treaty in the right of search. The English ships take freight on lower terms, and with more secu rity in our port than the ships belonging to the town. Accord ingly several merchants prefer shipping their goods under the English flag. Such a state of things deserves the most serious attention of the new Chamber, especially as it affects the most valuable interest of our citizens.— Commerce. BOURSE—PARTS, TUURSDAY, JULY 21. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 117 ... 117 ... 116 90... 117 4 per Cents 101 30... 101 30... 101 30... 101 3 per Cents 77 10... 77 20... 77 ... 77 10 Bank of France 3175 ...3175 ...3175 .. 3175 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5035 —.5035 _5035 _5035 Belgian Bank 772 50... 7 7 2 50... 772 50... 772 50 Belgian Fives lO3 ... 103 ... 1024 ... 1024 1840 1034 ... 1034 ... 1034 ... 1034 Spanish Active 22i ... 22i ... 22 ... 22 Portuguese Fives Neapolitan . Roman , ..„ .. ' -,,,ter• *- '4, • 4 ,., . - , ~,,I . •; , , 4, . ~ l 4' , 4 , , . ut (A).> .-, • _ oett, '- ':24 . 4,..„,„,,,:"..: . Akio:- ~.,,,!..:: ~ ~ ~.• --, -' ' ..,,,,,,,,:,, • - ' nt :z,AtAL BONDS itn• the said DINTaltiU Per , onTdesirous to purchase mA‘ revive. PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PRO i!'EC i f US with full PAR 1 . 1- CULARS, urn° addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. M we • ece've frevent'l a: plicati ns fix CERTIFICATES, we must bet; t observe, that a CERTIFICATE , a QUITE DIFFERENT from a BOND, and teat there is a great di'- ference aga i n between BONDS and SELECTED Bi )N DS —tbe SELECTED BONDS ONLY TAKING PART IN THE DISTRIBUTION WHICH FOLLOWS THE SE LECTION, and which should never be overlooked, Icing of tbe greatest importance. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, JULY 25. Will be p•es nted, the New Drama called THE LONE HUT.— Principal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith. Diddea W. H. Bl.ii;el, and Harley, nas Murray, Miss Crisp, and Miss Faucit. To which will be added, the Farce of DEA} AS A POST.— Tristram Sappy, Mr Marley; Sally Magga, Miss Murray. liter which, the New Burlesque •allet, called G.l IZ ELLE Characters by Signor Oxberrini and Madlle. Louisotta Fairbro. therini. Ta conclude with the DREAM AT SEA.—Characters by Messrs Oxberry, W. H. Bland, and 0 Smith_ ; Misses Pincott and Faucit.• Boxes, 4s. Pit, Is.. Gallery, Is. Doors o‘-en at i.alf-past Six commence at Sere.; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. ?ma e Raes to be had of Mr. Groga 4 the Private Box-office ; and of Messis. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Bally, at their Libraries. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, JULY 25. Will be repro-en ed Donizettl'e s Opera of THE LOVE SPELL, supported by the Fast Vocali,ts ot the Day—Mm Romer, Mr, W. Harrison, Mr. Leffler, Mr. J. Webster, Mrs. Serie, and Miss E. Terre)? Conductor, Mr. G. Stansbury. After which, Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH; v'ith all Locke's splendid Music, sung by the entire Opera Company, Pisces and Private foxes may be • ad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Ottice, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. GRAND FLORAL FETE TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, JULY '26, The ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SO CIETY will hold their SECOND SUMMER riliOW for 18. '1.4 in the at .3ve admirably adapted Grounds, on the same scale of splendour that has always distinguished these popular Fetes. tf.VENTI PRIZES of SILVER CUPS, GOLD and SILVER MEDALS, and the LINNEAN MEDAL, Will be awarded to the succes fui Exhibitors. Besides the Exhibition of Floral and Horticultural products, which from the fineness of the season and other favourable circumstances, is confidently expected to be unusually rich, varied, and extensive, the whole of the popular Entertainments for which this Establish. :next is so widely celebrated, will be given on a scale of grandeur eclipsing all previous efforts. Admission One Shilling. Gates open at One t oncert at six. Fireworks at half-past Nine. The Evening Fetes, with all the usual attractions, every Monday, Tue.<llv, and Thursday. Open from Ten in the Morning. Feeding Hour Ave o'clock. TELE WEATH.EIt—Noox, JULY 23. uovm. GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET T;:errnometer 63 I Highest 66 I Lowest 30 Barometer 30.42.—Wind N. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mlrning 'l5 minutes after ?t I Evening .... 49 minutes after 3. All Advertisements of a Disgusting Character, or Immoral Tendency, are excluded from the Columns of "The Sun." RAILWAY SHARES St. Germain BO5 ... tO5 ... 805 ... 805 Versailles, R.B 295 ... 295 ... 292 50... 292 50 L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 9b Rouen ... .... Strasburg to Bale 2OO ... 200 ... 198 75... 200 THE PARSONS VERSUS THE PEOPLE.—In his speech on• Friday in the House of Commons, on the subject of the present distresses, Mr. Gibson took occasion to ob serve that—" some upheld. the Corn-laws, on purpose that the manufactures of the country should not advai.ee beyond a particular point ; the fact was so ; and even ate clergy, from whom better things were to be expected, inculcated that doctrine from their pulpits, which was no other than that the People should be kept at the starving point !"—Truly this is precious doctrine for Christian pastors to inculcate, and cannot fail to put their famishing flacks into a .high state of comfort and satisfaction ! Mark, too, its comprehensive philanthropy, so every way worthy of Him, who deemed .it one of his irst and most sacred duties to feed the hungry multitude in the wilderness ! But though the parsons are so %%it '. dng that " the People should be kept at the starving point," we doubt much whether the experiment would rind favour in their eyes, if it were first to be tried on themselves. A protracted Lent, would, we !sr,, be submitted to by them with the same reluctance. with which Exeter's pet bishop submitted to the loss of his rioh rectory of Stanhope. Imagine the horror of . e'antuar, at being compelled to " find himself" on nothing a day ! Conceive' the stomachic suf ferings of plump London, after being kept for a week at the " starving point." Would not the . gol den Prebendaries of Durham shake in their stalls at the idea of being sulijected—though but for twelve hours— S to such an atheistical experiment ? Would not aatits and Chapters heap sackcloth and ashes on their wigs ; and de whipped Archdeacons, and triple-chinned Pluralis!s cry out " the Church in danger !" the very instant that the " starving" system was brought to bear upon their ghostly rotundities ? It is one thing to starve meself ; and another, to recommend starvation to one's friends. It is exceedingly right and proper that the People should starve, for we have scriptural warrant for it, in the ease of Lazarus, who is their apt representative; but what respectable person can endure to think of Dives —the true parsonic type—being subjected to the same plebeian and ungentlemaulike process ? MR. GOULBURN A THIRD TIME.—The strange blunder ,n the Tobacco Bill, which if all6wed to remain would :lave ruined one-half of the small shopkeepers, has been expunged. A communication on the subject has just been addressed from the Excise-office to Mr. Younger, of Tower-street,.who had written to complain of the pro posed regulation. " I am directed," says the writer, "to acquaint you that the sth and 7th clauses of the said 13111 have been altered by the omission of the words dealers and retailers.' " Many Will be astonished how the words ever got there, but the fact is the great majo rity of our rulers are as ignorant of the habits and mode of living of the lower classes as they are of the doings in the moon, and are therefore totally. unfit. to legislate for them. There could not be a better proof ofthis fact than the present instance, except, perhaps, some of the obnoxious clauses in the Metropolitan Police Act respecting Sunday observance, which have only these effects—they harass licensed victuallers and the public, excite hatred against the Legislature, and prevent persons who might be in clined to attend Divine Service from entering a church, because they will not be religious by compulsion. If the Treasury would engage a number of shopkeepers, opera tives, and Chartists, as occasional advisers, they would . find theca the cheapest and i .most useful of all public servants. The income of one Bishop would suffice for the maintenance of the whole. Her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort, accompanied by their relatives the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg, left town on Saturday afternoon for Wind sor Castle, attended by the Royal suite. The Royal party left Buckingham Palace at three o'clock, her Majesty and the Royal circle travelling by the Great Western Railway to Slough. The Court is expected to return to town for closing the session of Parliament next month. ft is rumoured that the resolutions to be proposed by . Mr. 1166126 k on Thursday will not affect the seats of Sir John Hobhouse; . Mr. C. Russell, Major Beresford, Mr. Attwood, Mr. B. Cochrane, &c. but certainly; if ever men . deserved to be expelled House Of Commons, they. deserve - it. They have &tie' all theyr'could to make representation a me - faree, 'They have hartdeed: uWay the—righte of .the-- people. We are afraid, however, that lar• limebuck SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, THE will not go the length of trying to make an example of them, but will content himself, as we hear is to be the case, with bringing forward next session a Bill to reform the representation, grounded on the cases of gross bribery which the llon. and Learned Gentleman has most distinctly brought before the public. Mr. Vincent is still going about, we see, promoting the cause of popular representation. "On Tuesday evening," says the Derby Reporter,:"the Lecture Ball, Derby, was crowded by the middle and working classes, who were anxious to hear Mr. Vincent, one of the champions of the Complete Suffrage movement set a going by Mr. Sturge, and other middle-class pro perty men. On and about the platform we noticed many middle-class men, who joined heartily in the applause which many of Mr. Vincent's arguments elicited. The meeting seemed to excite greatinterest." Meetings of the distressed shopkeepers continue to be held throughout the manufacturing districts. At such a meeting, held at Burnley-, on this day week, when the suffering shopkeepers, who have, heretofore stood aloof from the suffrage question, came to a reso lution to exertthemselves to procure for their unrepre sented fellow countrymen an organic change in the representative system. So out of distress will grow some great measure of Parliamentary Reform, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The prices of the Funds towards the close of business evinced a tendency to improve still further, and the last price of Consuls was 904 90,1- for Money, and 90i 91 for the AccDunt ; !Bank Stock, 1651 1661 ; India Stock, 249 250 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48 ; New, 44 46 prem. The nominal prices of Foreign Securities, for no real business was done, were—Belgian, 1011 1021 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51 511; the Five per Centii., 101 101% ; Danish, 82 83 ; and Brazilian, 63 65. The quotation for Mexican remained at 36k 361. • Scarcely any transactions were entered intt;in ghures; London and Birmingham were 178 180 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 48 50 ; Great Western, 861 87 ; the Half Shares, 61 ; South Western, 61i- 62i ; Nortit Midland,s9 60 ; the New Shares, 29 30 ; South Eastern and Dover, 22-i 23 ; the New Shares, 2i 3 ; Eastern Counties, St 91; Northern and Eastern, 40} 41i Black wall, 9 9} ; and Brighton, 33i 33E1 per share. The usual return of the average assets and liabilities of the Bank of England, for the twelve weeks ending the 16th instant, was published in the Gazette of last night. The circulation, by comparison with the former return, has increased 484,000/., the difference between 18,279,000/. and 17,795,0001. ; the. deposits are greater by 554,000 L, the difference between 8,565,000/. and 8,011,000/. ; the securities in deposit are more by 532,000/., the difference beta een 21,713,000/. and 21,181,000/. ; and the stock of bullion is larger by 498,0001., the difference between 7,818,0001. and 7,320,0001.. There is a trifling decrease in the rest, the balance between the liabilities and the assets last time being 2,695.0001. and now 2,687,0001. In ordinary months this increase in the circulation might be viewed as indicative of an improvement in commercial prosperity ; it must, however, be remem bered that in the present return the amount necessary for the payment of the dividends has to be calculated. lt has to be admitted that the enlargement is not wholly owing to that circumstance, but that the demand for money, for commercial purposes, has decidedly im proved on the month, of which the present accounts • embrace a part. The payments, on account of duties, and the impetus which the tariff has given to trade, have caused a larger amount of hills to be thrown into circulation, and so far the figures may be viewed as fa vourable, but no decided opinion can be given until the returns of the general circulation of the kingdom be. published, from which the state of trade throughout the country at large may be deduced. The stock of Bullion, taken in connexion with the ac counts of the harvest, is doubtless favourable. It is at this season of the year, that the necessity fur gold first shows itself, should there be any undue demand for but the amount of metal in store shows a steady increase, thereby proving, in conjunction with the rates of Ex change, that the inquiry for exportation has not her]) large. It was expected, that the quantity of light coin paid into the Bank would have given a large supposi tious increase in the present return, but it has been asccrtanu.d that almost the a hole receive, had been 1.1,-fivered to be revoined, as well us a am' Ulit of diver in addition, so that the ricomnts n 0.% presented may fairly he considerei as repres:enting au approximation to the truth, The letters from Rio Janeiro, the latest of which are dated the 254,h of May, state business t'a be still ex cessively dull, and without any new feature. Hopes, however, are held out that an improved demand will arise tar our nrinufactures, but consequent only on a diminu tion of the stocks. Political ati:iirs remained touch in the same state, no thing decisive was known as to the insurrection in St. Paul, but it was supposed that the prompt measures of the Government wouid easily put it clown. Exchange, 27 F ; Local Stock, 721. (From The Sun of Saturday.) The amount of business transacted in the Funds to-day has been smaller than is usual on a Saturday. Prices, however, are improving, Consols being 904 90j for Money. and 901 91 for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced, 90; ; Three arni.a. Half per Cents. Reduced, 1004 lotfa ; New Three and-a-Ealt per Cents., 100; Bank slocl , , 166 167 ; India Stock, 249 250; Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48; New 44 46 premium. A purchase in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at blk, comprises all the busi: ess in Foreign 'Securities. The quotation of Mexican is 36i. In Shares nothing of moment has been done. The Honda, quoted to-day, are Colombian, 211; and Spa nish Fire per Cents., 21i. The only arrival with any late news is the l'eterel, from rvio de Janeiro, dates May 26, but nothing later respecting toe insurrection at San Paulo.—Exchange, 27/d. The French-Belgian Meaty and the Stade duties have re called attention to a matter which has long injured our com merce, and, if net shortly adjusted, threatens to annihilate one branch of it. altogether—namely, the subject of Dutch aggres sions in the Indian Archipelago. Holland being in possession of Java, has for years been endeavouring to obtain a monopoly of trade in that part of the world, to the exclusion of every other nation ; and although a treaty was made long since, by ' which it was agreed that neither that country nor this should use means for fettering the commerce of the other, yet every means have been used quietly to form agreements with the native chiefs extremely favourable for Dutch, and highly detrimental to British interests. No op portunity occurred of striking a great blow until the separation of Belgium, when, upon the pretext of excluding the manufactures of that country, most vexatious Custom-house regulations were formed, and strictly enforced, by which our trade with Sumatra, and numerous other iude pendent islands, is almost,. it not wholly, put a stop to. Con ventions were entered into with the several native provinces, by which they were bound to carry out the above-named rule,; among which, and that most loudly complained of, is, that no goods shall be allowed to be landed in their territories unless accompanied by certificate of having passed she ordeal of one of four Javanese Custom-houses, at which a duty is levied far above what had been stipulated to be paid under the treaty before alluded to. Instances have occurred in which goods bonded in defiance of these orders hive been confiscated, and the owners had a narrow escape of life, and all in direct contra vention of the understanding between the two Governments., The effect is to shut out our manufactures from all ports except those in Java, at which the duty there charged amounts almost to a prohibition ; and even were it not so, it is contended that the English have no right to be obliged to enter a port of another nation before proceeding to dispose of its mercharidize in free countries. Memorials have been presented, and a correspond ence carried on between our Ambassador and the authorities at the Hague; but having been conducted in a very shuffling , manner by the latter, no result but an evident desire to procras tinate redress has yet been produced. Some time has now elapsed since the correspondence was printed by order of the House of Commons, and the public are completely ignorant of w iiat may have transpired subsequently but this much is known, that no relief has been given, and that our export trade has fallen off in consequence. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. t3ank Stuck 3 per Cent. Red. .. 9li I Ditto' Bonds ....... ..... —pm 3 per Cent. C0n5.... 3i per Cent. Red... 1001 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent... lOO Ex. Bills, 1;0001. ...21 48 pm N.tw 5 per Cer,. — Ditto 500/...... 49 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 46 pm Jan. 1860 .... ..... 12 9.16 Bank .Stock for Acct — Oct. 1859 — India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860 — Consols for Acct....:.. 91 ' • FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... —. . Portuguese, 5 per cent. -- Belgian, 5 per cent — ' Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds... ' . Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent. .... 114/ Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, A letallic .. . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, S per cent...... 21A Ditto, 1824 — Ditto Deferred.... . -- Danish, 3 per cent. — Fren ch, 5 per cent. --f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 36A French, 3 per cent. —f. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. — Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. .... SHARES. Great Western Railway '(65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6I. London and Brighton (50 paid) itto Loan Notes (10 paid) . North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) - 19i. South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) — Ditto Scrip. (10 paid) . . LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY Thesa lesfor the vseek up to last night were 37,990 bales, at steady prices, and on the whole the dealers are of opinion that the demand is im proving, as affairs look better at Manchester, and there have been a few parcels taken on speculation. The stock is still rather above what it was at this time last year, being 660,500 bales. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 22.—The market is much the same as yesterdiy, with more inquiry for Man. cheater and l4irmingham. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 3k,; Manchester and Leeds, 7.5 76; London and Birmingham, 176 179; Ditto, ditto, Quarters, 46 1 47. PHOTOGRAPHY.—This art is daily improving, and it furnishes, probably, the best means of procuring a memento of those whose features are worthy of remem brance. Mr. Beard has lately been making portraits of such diminutive size that they may be set in bracelets, lockets, and even in signet rings. However indistinct these may appcar to the naked eye, they all possess the advantages of being absolutely correct as copies, so that any degree of distinctness may be developed in propor tion to the magnifying power employed whenever we choose to resort to the aid of a lens. _ _ The rate-payers 'of Lambeth have just received a notice from the collector, requiring payment of a poor rate of Is. fid, in the pound—the second of that amount this year ; a highway rate of 4id. in the pound ; a church-building rate of 4d., and sburial-ground rate of Id. On an aisessment of 40/. this amount to 4/. Its. Bd.; and when collected will produce 50,000/. The poor-rate includes the police (5,0001.) for the half .Sear,-the, eounty (3,724 L) for the same period, and in ,tArßst and pr t .o gpr . inopa "-ol.money borrowexl.for,ißY proving-the workhotbe, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 113tiblit eptitton. " Who runs may read." The Regency question still occupies the attention of the Paris journals, nearly to the exclusion of every other topic. The National, whilst it accuses the Ministers of taking advan tage of the late disaster to strengthen their position. declares that it should be most unwilling to see their place taken at the present moment by the opposition party, as the latter would thus arrive at power under such strong advantages, that no hopes could be entertained of obtaining such reforms as the party which the Nutiunal represents deems indispensable. The Debats, the I onstitutionnel, and the Presse, have arti cles of a very opposite tendency on a phase of the Regency question, which it was to have been expected would lead to warm discussion. The point of controversy examined by our Contemporaries is—whether the Regency Lill ought to be spe cial or general—whether drawn up to suit the present position 01 affairs in France, or to be made applicable to all circum stances and all t►mes. The Courrier Francais calls on the Ministry to resign at once, and to desist from placinr , their personal aggrandisement in the balance with the repose of the country. M. Guizot, the Courrier Francais remarks, may, by staying in power, bring 160 or 180 votes to the Regency question, but by resigning he would disarm the whole opposition. "In periods of national calm," our Contemporary says, " the obstinacy of an unpopu lar Ministry may be tolerated, but at a period I.ke the present, when the question under consideration is to strengthen the Monarchy, by means of a Regency Bill, it is absolutely ne cessary that the Ministry which is about to preside over this difficult work should be in harmony with the wishes of the nation." The King and Queen of the French left the Palace at Neuilly at eleven o'clock on Thursday, but avoided the fatal Chemin de la Revolte, and took the oAI Neuilly road. Princess Adelaide and Princess Clementine were in the Royal carriage, and the Dukes of Nemours, d'Atimale, and Montpensier to another carriage. The Queen was dreadfully affected on seeing the Pavilion Marsan, where the Duke of Orleans had resided. The Ministers and Marshals of France received the King its the Royal salon. At noon the King took his seat on the throne. Baron Pasquier was in his dress of Chancellor. Tillers, Bar ret, Guizot, Mole, some of ail parties were present. The officers of the National Guards were very numerous, as also the clergy. - A letter from Darmstadt represents all classes of the popu.• lation of that town as being greatly affected by the news of the death of the Duke of Orleans, who, during his visit to Luzern burgh, had gained all hearts by his high acquirements, his fine tact and great affability, particularly by uniformly speaking German when in company with persons of those States. They all sympathise in the grief of the King, Queen, and the rest ut the Royal Family of France, as if the deceased Prince had been a German. . . . . The King and Queen of Naples quitted their capital on the 7th inst. for Palermo. Previously to the departure of their Majesties, the King paid a visit to the Prince de Joinville on board the Belle Poule, and took leave of him. His Royal High ness cannot, therefore, have gone to Palermo as has been stated by some of the journals. The Madrid Gazette of the 14th inst. contains the decree naming General Alcala Inspector of Cavalryvice General Rodil, now President of the council and Minister of War, as also the nomination of Count-Marshal Evansto San Miguel to be Captain-General of the 12th Military District, vice Alcala. 'I he Madrid periodical press on the 14th continued in the same state from the effect of the printers' strike. The Go vernment has not interfered in the dispute, and it has acted wisely. Senor Marliani has challenged Senor Gonzalez, the ex- Minister for Foreign Affairs, because to the lie circumstantial of the former he gave the lie direct. General Seoane is to act as second to Gonzales. tYLOICEY—TRADIE- - CONLIVIER.CE. The failure of the seal fishery was alluded to in our columns last week : the same ships, to the number of 12, have only bi ought home 5 whales, while the foreign vessels at dm fishery have not captured any. As regards Peterhead, the Greenlar.d fishery will not be prosecuted after this year. At a meeting held at the Three Crowns, Dowgate-hill, on Friday, it was resolved that a society, to be called " The Lightermen's Protection Society," should be immediately funned, in order to protect that body from the encroachments of others. Alr. Miller was, on Tuesday, unanimuusly.elected to the chair of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, in the room of the late Sir Charles sell. 1L5.A.17.7 AYIiD PO /AXIOM, At the Carlisle Assizes on the 21st, Mary Christopherson, her daughter, an intiresting little girl, iiged 14, and tary illacklock, the servant, were arraigned for the crime of arson. The mother and servant pleaded guilty, when the toimcr was sentenced to be transported for life, and the servant, under consideration that she , acted undt r the influence of tier mistress. was committed ior le months. The little girl was acquitted. The case excited great interest in consequence of the former iespectability of the principal offender. At the same Assizes Matthew Russell was convicted of shoot ing William Irving, with intent to murder him. The prose. tutor and prisoner were well known to each other, and as the former, with about 701. in his possession, was proceeding to his employers to pay the workmen their wages, he was followed by the prisoner into a lonely part of the road, and shot in the back Kith a p,stol loaded with slugs. A struggle took ',lace, when the prosecutor succeeded in obtaining the pistol, but the pri soner escaped, and was afterwards wrested in Scotland. He was scntencvd to be transported for life. Alr. Sergeant Adams was on Friday cl.osen Chairman of the ensuing sessions, at a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, by a majority of 16 over his competitor, Mr. Witham. R. B. Thomson, warehouseman in Wood- street, who had been for' some time partner w h Williams, Mottram, and Co., and-had subsequently carried on business in the silk trade at Coventry, appeared before the Court of Bankruptcy on Friday 011 his final examination. The claim of the Union Bank for 1,7001. was contested, but finally admitted, and further exam nation of the bankrupt was fixed for the '23d of August next, the bankrupt nut being in a condition to pass, tia prepared with certain cash accounts. Wm. Henry Franks, charged with embezzling money to a considerable amount belonging to the East London Burial Society, of which he was treasurer, was ultimately remanded at Lambeth-street on Friday for another week. Martha Robinson, aged 19, was committed for trial at Union Hall on Friday for the murder of her illegitimate child, and her fattier as an accessory to the fact. rxra 3 A.I2.TS. The statue of Gretry, the composer, was inaugurated at Liege, his native tow n,on the 19,h inst., with great ceremony. l A lT)i.at.ll.l4.)t 15.1413 IG. A further discovery of silver coin was made a few days ago in the demesne of Lismaene, county Tipperary, consisting of 21 large pieces of the reign of Philip IV. of Spam, 1662; David VI. of Scotland; Elizabeth, Charles 11., and James 11. COIYA:I.T-1"21.Sli1014/1.1SI.E. The Earl and Countess Craven left Charles-street, Berkeley square, on Saturday, on a visit to Lord and Lady Folkestone at Brighton. Earl Cadogan has gone to Sutherlandskire, in order to have a few weeks' salmon-fishing in the Iver. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro will leave Belgrave street ' for Widmer Castle, the d a y after the prorogation. Lord and Lady Lovat have reached Beaufort Castle, Inver ness.shire, from town. The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained a distinguished circle at dinner on Friday in Berkeley-square. Lord and Lady John Russell are expected to pegs the whole autumn at the seat of the Earl of Minto, in Roxburghshire. Preparations have already eemmenced for the reception of the Queen and Prince Albert at Belvoir Castle. The Dowager Queen's visit to Btuleigh House is expected to take place very shortly. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford lease town to-day for Goodwood, the seat of the Duke of Richmond. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are expected to remain at Sion House until the second or third week k September. The Marchioness of Hastings gave birth to a son on Friday morning in Casendi4h-square. Naser.zsamEous. At Raton and Liverpool, as also in the neighbouring manufac turing districts, extensive union has been effected between the middle and working classes, and large bodies are beginning to be organised for political objects. Upwards of 20,0001. had been insert d upon the life of Dr. Dickenson, the late Bishop of Meath, a few weeks before his death. On Friday last two men, employed in the lead mires of the London Company, at Murton, near Appleby, Westmorland, were shut up in them, owing to the falling of a large portion of the works. They were not released till Monday, when one of the mean was found to have eaten three candles, and the other in a state, of great exhaustion from want of food. Bernard Cavanagh, the fasting man, has at length returned to his father's house, near Swinford, Mayo, and on Sunday lust made his appearance in the chapel of the town. PORI UGAL EXPRESS FROM SOUTHAMPTON. We have udvices from Lisbon to the 18th instant. The re-construction of the Cabinet was suspended until the Duke of Palmella should make known his final de , cision ; that this would be to accept office there was no doubt . . The Ministers of Marine and Justice would certainly be superseded, and the latter was to be elected to the Presidency , of the Chamber of Deputies. From want of cordial co-operatiod with reference to the tariff reductions, to be considered in the supplemental article of the treaty, a correspondent announces posi tively his conviction that the Convention would not be concluded for months to come, and that the mercantile community would not derive any practical benefit from the treaty during the year 1842. We have been fur nished with a resume of the Portuguese Commissioners' labours, from which it would appear that no progress whatever had been made towards a settlement-; the Re.: port of the Commissioners had been referred by the Go vernment to Baron Tojal for hiS judgment upon its recommendation. The Baron returned it with a • favourable answer to the Government ; and a conference with the Porttignese Pleniponten tiary would immediately follow, , fortified by which he would make a proposition to the British Envoy. But this would not further matters very much, and the initia tion of liberality would probably, have to be eventually taken by our own Government. The exchange of the ra tifications of. the commercial and slave trade treaties would probably take place in about six weeks' time. Both Legislative Chambers were as yet occupied with prepara tory labcurs. The elections, however, with very rare ex ceptions, had been pronounced valid. The Portuguese army was to be immediately increased by 4,295 men. A deciee had appeared for the immediate. and eff. , ctual en forcement of a tax of 10 per cent. Upon every description of propel SUICIDE.—On Saturday night, a most determined act of self-destruction was committed by Wm. Fernley, butler to Mrs. Lane Fox, at her residence, 36, Ciirzhn street, May-fair. It appears that about t:n o'clock the female domestics, hearing the report of . fire-arms, became alarmed, and, on going into the butler's room, discovered the deceased sitting upright in an arm chair, his left cheek and the roof of his scull completely blov, 71 off; i n his right hand w as firmly clenched a double-barrelled pistol, both barrels of which appeared, to have been re cently discharged. Tho deceased;.-who had been • indis posed for two or three dap, previooy; was betiveen sixty and seventy years of age. The King of Bavaria, says a letter from Cologne, will visit that city in .the autumn. for the purpose of meeting . the King of Prussia,,:_The.letter adds that the Bavariu. go, ..r.g.rnfant ppF treats with that of Austria for tlpgreform of the poit3l - commtiniCatioustietrimitlie rivolbliurries, 11.41 t 25, 1542. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Ken, visited :ht Queen and Princ , .3 Albert. and the Hereditary Prince an , Princess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, on Saturday morning, at Buckingham Palace. - Her Majesty and his Royat Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, left Buck ;,ham Pa!ace, at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. in an open carriage and four, escorted by a party of Hussars, for the terminus of the Great Western Rail way at Paddington. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were in the next carriage, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on the Prince, followed in another carriage. The Queen and Prince Albert were conducted to the Grand Hall by the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole to the Prince, the Vice Cham• herlain, and Lord Colville and Captain Francis Sey mour, the Lord and Groom in Waiting on his Royal Highness, and were banded to their carriage by the Master of the IJorse. Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss Devereur, the Maids of Honour in Waiting, Viscount Sydney, Lord in Waiting, Captain Hood, Groom in•Waitintr, and the Baron de Brandenstein, Aide-de-Camp to the Prince of Saxe Cobourg, preceded nee Majesty to the Railway terminus. The Royal party left by a special train for the Slough station. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint Mr. Partridge her Portrait Painter Extraordinary. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has conferred on him a similar honour. Her Royal Highness_ the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service yesterday morning, in the chapel at Kee sington Palace. Lady Charlotte Dundas was in wait ing on her Royal Highness. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridtre paid a visit to the Duehess of Gloucester, at her residence in Bagshot Park. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharnclire, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen. Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and the Earl of Ripon. The Council • sat two hours and a half. A Deputation from the , merchants, planters, and -others, and from the Colonial Society, had an interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel, at his official residence in Downing-street, on the subject of Cinnamon Duties. The Deputation consisted of the Right Hon. Lord Beaumont; Sir G. de H. Larpent, Bart., Chairman of the East India and China Association ; Mr. Samuel Greg son, Deputy Chairman ; Mr. John Scott, of the firm of Messrs. Scott, Bell. and Co. ; Mr. William H. Thomas. of Messrs. Boyd and Thomas ; Mr. James Cook, of Messrs. Trueman and Cook , Mr. John G. Frith, of Messrs. Elliott. Frith, and Co. ; and Mr. Charles E. Layard, of Ceylon. Despatches were receired at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, and the Royal suite, ar rived at the Castle a few minutes after four o'clock yes terday afternoon, from the Slough station, escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. The illustrious party afterwards went out in pony phaetons and on horse hack into the Great Park. This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg, and the Royal suite, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. George's. The Rev. Mr. Knyvett took the first part of the service, and the Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean and the Rev. Mr. Canning officiated at the altar. The Dean preached an excellent sermon from the 60th verse of the 119th Psalm, " I made haste, and prolonged not the time to keep Thy commandments." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIDGNORTH RACES—TnuftsnAy. The Cold Cup Stakes of 10 soya. each, twice round and a dis. Mr. Kellick's Henley, 5 yrs (Marlow) I Mr. Fanioff's Wings, 6 yrs Mr. Raworth's Cattonian, 4 yrs The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 10 added. Heats, twice round and a dis. Mr. Ongley's Humility. 4 yrs (Cal;oway ) 1 3 I Air. Carter's Litmses, 3 vrs Mr. Wheeklon's bcby Gi ivanui Cracksman's d 2 0 3 Mr Robinson's Finality, aged The 3lembets' Plate of 501. Heats, twit:- round and a dis. Mr. Hewitt's Rebecca, 4 yrs ... (Marlow) 1 0 1 Mr. Wal!er's Miss Winney, 4 yrs.. 0 1 2 Mr. Charlton's Nix-my-Dolly, 3 yrs Mr. Tht,mpson's c by arigley, Fenella, 3 yrs 3 4 4 Mr. Bates' Country Lass, 4 yrs 4 2 dr Sir. Tallentire's Sprite, 3 yrs 0 3 dr IPSWICH RACES—TuEsnAv. Her Majesty's Plate of 1' 0 guineas Heats, two miles. Mr. Bignotti's cby Emilius, out of Memina, 3 yrs ( Pegg) I I Mr. Combe's 'I he Nob, 4 yrs The County Memberte Plato of 501. Heats, two miles. Mr. Rogers' Sir Hans, 4 yrs ( Rogers) 1 1 Mr. Peiiit's EsparterO, 3 yrs Air. Boyce's cby Hymen. ism by Perchance, 3 yrs 2 3 WEDNESDAY. The Town Members' Plate cf 501. Heats, &c. Mr. Rogers' Prosody, 3 yrs (Bartholomew) I 1 Mr. Pettit's Espartero. 3 yrs The Town Purse of ss•l. Heats, &c., as above Mr. Rogers' Prosody, 3 yrs Mr. Bradford's Silver to Confusionee, 3 yrs ... ...... 2 2 The Free Handicap was won by Mr. Skitsgsle) The South Shrop,hire Hurdle Stakes of 3 soya. each. wish 20 added. Heats . , once round and a dis. over three hut dies. Mr. W. Pugh's Habbertey, 12st k Air. Pugh) 4 1 I Mr. Minton's Kitty, 12st, Mr. Giles's Masterman, 12st Mr. No k's Lancet, I 2st BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAY. Goonwoon STAKES.-4 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle (taken freely)-10 to I agst Helpmate-10 to 1 agst. St. Law rence-11 to 1 agat Rbodanthe-13 to I apt Tupsley-15 to 1 asst The Corsair-15 to 1 agst Daddy Long-legs-15 to I agat Arnagill-15 to l agst Studley Royal (t)-20 to 1 agst Arcanus, and 20 to 1 agst Retriever. Goonwoon Cur.-4 to 1 agat The Squire (t)—M to 1 agst Monceda-10 to 1 agst St. Lawrtnce —lO to I agst Charles the Taelfth-12 to 1 agst Itlidilleln,m-12 to I ag-t Marshal 'oult —l2 to 1 agst Priam-12 to 1 agst Sleight-Qt.-Hand-15 to 1 agat Belcosur, and 16 to I apt Fireaway. DRAWING-ROOM STAKES.-6 to 4 on Attila End Meteor, and 5 to 1 agst Envoy. DERBY, 1t•43.-2.5 to 1 agat Philip-27 to 1 agst Napier -30 to 1 apt Cotherstone.-30 to 1 agst Progress colt-4o to 1 agat A rtstntes-40 to 1 agst What, and IA 0 to 20 agst Everton. LANCAS I ER PACES.* WEDNESDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, and five only if declared, with 701. added. Two miles. (Seven Subs ) Mr. 'bakes' Ermengardis, 4 yrs. 7st 91b Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie, aged, 9st 2 Mr. Smith's Canditie, 3 yrs. tilt 21b Won by hall a neck. The Maiden Plate of 50/. Two mile heats. Mr. King's br fby Muley Much, out of Lillah, 3 yrs I I Mr. John , tone's tby Voltaire, out of Wagtail 4 2 Mr. Hayes' Nicholas Nickleby, aged Mr. J. Smith's Candide, 3 yrs First heat ; won by a head ; the second. by half a length TH U KS PA Y. he Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., with 30 added. Two • ' • • ' miles and a distance. Lord Stanley's Pagan, 4 yrs walked over. Her Majesty's Plate of IPO guineas. Two mile heats. Mr. Kitchen's Priscilla Tomboy, 3 ) rs, 7st 51b ... 1 1 Mr. Tiles' Ermengardis 4 yrs, Pst Ilb ... ... 2 2 Mr. Alkiklam's bc by Physician—solace, 3 yrs, 7st blb 3 3 Won easy. Handicap of 5 soya. each, with 20 added, for the beaten horses. Heats, one mile and a distance. Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie, aged. ( Timpleman) 1. 1 Mr. Hutchinsou's Maria Monk, 5 yrs W'on by a neck. GOODWOOD RACES. The following are the names of the horses arrived, or on their road to Goodw.,on :—All Fours, Knight of the Whistle, Mar shal Sault, Mehemet Ali, Dilbar, Y. Petuaria filly, Peter the Hermit, Attila, Armitage, Elopement, Meteor, The Ladye of Silverkeld Well, The Castor, Envoy, Mowed , colt out of Miss Craven's dam, Tyrolian, Dr. Caius, Pharold, Aristides, Johnny, Welfare, Gunter, c by Elis, out of Partiality, Vulcan, Tupsley. Retrie-er, Robert de Gorham. f by Actreon, out of Corumba, Fireaway, Rover, bro. to Plenipo, oh g by Plenipo, out of Bangtail, Aspatria, c by Velocipede, out ot Guerdon, Snowdrop, Arida filly, Trampoline filly, 1 , ark Susan, Hydaspes, Rory O'More, Ningrelia, Pickwick, Fitzroy, Har rier, Defier, Hasidic, .larmercus, Una, Auckland, Candahar, Sleight-of-hand, Evening Star, Van Amburgh, l'us, Tri dent, Little Wonder, Clementine, Hopeful, Mary, Knights bridge, the Golden Rule, Policy, Lucy Banks, Vibration, Paul Potter, c by Augustus, Gientiry, Pocohont.:l, Belgrade, Daddy Longlegs, Curry omke, r rcanus, Mid dlehant, Charles 12th, Ainagill, Studley, Royal Prium, Vakeel, Cecil, Came;eori, Cornuto, Remnant indsor, Ni cholas, Helpmate Glance, Discord, Passion, Thi Vi stle, Whipper, c by Sultan out of Victoria, c by Bay Midaleton out of Mar gelina, Warden, Waheb, Wiseacre, Mr. John Day's St. Lau rence, Jack-in-the-Green, Sultana, The Squire, Man Friday, Arctic, Messes, Garry Owen, seahorse, Murat, The Tiger, Sis. to Ferneley, Delusion, Eosphorus, A bydos. Celia, c by Beiram dam by Emilius, The Corsair, 13olissima, &c. &c Handicap for the Chesterfield Cup—Hyllus, 6 yrs, lOst— Sleight. of Hand, 6 yrs, 9st 101b—Little Wonder, ti yrs, 9st 91b—Van Amburgh, 4 yrs, Bst 121b—Dr. Caius. 5 yrs, Bst 121b—Mus, aged, Bst 101b—Priam, 6 yrs, Bst 71b—Bellona, aged, Bst 71b —Garry Owen, 5 yrs, Sst 41b—Fitzroy, 5 yrs, eat 41b—Johnny, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Belgrade, 4 yrs Sat Olb—R e tr iev er, 6 yrs, 7st ' b—Zelmira. 5 yrs, 7st 91b (paid I—Mark Beck, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Prince Caradoc, 4 yrs. 7st 91b—M. Soult, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Rory O'More, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—Mustapha, 4 yrs. 7st 21b—Envoy, 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Pharold, 3 yrs, 7st 21b-- Thu. 4 yrs, 7st Zia—Policy. 3 yrs, 7st 21b—Adela (filly ) :3 yrs, 6st 141b—Celia, 3 yrs, Est 131b—Lucy Banks, 3 yrs, 6st 131 h - aged, 6st 121b—Baleine (filly) 3 yrs, Est 101b—Cle• mentina, 4 yrs, Est 12Ib—Cerito . , 4 yrs, 6st 101b—Vak ee l, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Seahorse, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Elopement, 3 yrs, 6st 81b— Rover,3 yrs, 6st 71b—St. Jean D' Acre, 3 yrs, Est Olb —Saros. 3 yrs, sst 101b—Norma, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Rhodanthe, 5 yrs (paid) LATEST BETTING AT ST. JAMES'S. THE Goonwoon xts.-5 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle (t); 9 to 1 agst Helpmate (t); 9 to 1 agst St. Law rence; 11 to 1 apt Welfare (t); 14 to 1 agst Tupsley ; and 14 to 1 agst The Corsair (t), TH Goonwoon CUP.-4 to 1 agst the Squire (t); 9to 1 apt Marshal Souk (t) ; 9 to 1 ag-t Charles the Twelfth (I); 12 to 1 agst Middleham ( t); 12 to 1 agst St. Lawrenc, (t); 13 to 1 agst Belcccur t); 13 to 1 agst Fireaway (t); 15 to 1 agst Policy (t) ; 200 even on Marshal Soult agst Charles the Twelfth (t); 15 to I agst. Charles the Twelfth winning this and his match. The grand assemblage of troops that was to have taken place at the beginning of September, under the title of the Camp d'operations de la Marne, is stated by the Moniteur Parisien to be countermanded, but the Camps of Luneville, Saint Omer, and Chalons, will be continued separately. The draperies which are to adorn the catafalque on which the body of the Prince Royal is to be placed in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and those to cover the car in which it it, to be borne in the recession, will be upwards of twelve yards wide. The l'oulonnais states from Algiers, July 10, that in the night of the Bth, Ben t•alem fell upon a tribe which had made its submission to the French, and cut off the heads of the men,-• and conveyed the women and children to the mountains. This account, however, does not.d.ppear to come ATM An authen tic source. ROYAL POLYTECHN'C TUTION. Iu re A monlst the many inventions of m , :, s,z . enius, are few, perhaps, which claim more cLm rvediy the tviAm don of the public generally, from the extreint; simplicity of its manipulation and its general utility, than that branch of the photographic art culled " calor) pe." This branch, which was dis .vexed by Mr. Fox Talbot, in Lng mud, synchronous with the daguerreotype prOce,s, in vented by the French chemists Messrs. Niepse and l)aguerre, in France, differs only from the latter in this, that the calotype delineates upon paper made sensitive, whilst the daguerreotype delineates upon metal rendered sensitive. _ We attended a lecture upon this subject, delivered by Dr. Ryan, at the Polytechnic Institution, a few day ago, and, as the calotype process is at once simple and interesting. we make no apology f presenting. our readers with a brief outline of the learned Doctor's lecture. The lecturer commenced by directing the attention of his audience, first, to the chemical action of light upon the colours of plants and anitirds, contrasting especially the dingy whiteness of the animals and birds of the polar regions, with the gay and luxuriant plumage of the " minions of . the south ; ' and, secondly, to the action of the sun's rays upon certain chemical compounds. He then proceeded to trace the history of the art of " pencilling by means 'of light," from its tirst dtwn among the alchynnsts, through its various grads tions—enumenting the experiments of Wedgewood and of Davy, resultingmfailure,from their inability to fix the picture—the more successful attempts of M. Niepse and M. Daguerre—and finally, the discoveries of our coun tryman Fox Talbot. After contrasting the calotype with the other photo graphic processes, and esp..cially pointing . out its appli cation to the arts and sciences, and its use to the botanist, the meteorologist, the traveller, and the anti quarian. Dr. Ryan proceeded to prepare the " se-Nnsitive paper," which vas dune in the following manner. having chosen good post paper, of an even texture, he brushed one side of it carefully over with a solution consisting of 100 grains of crystallized nitrate of silver in six ounces of distilea water. The paper was then carefully dried between blotting paper. It was next dipped into a solu tion of 500 grains of iodide of potassium in one pint of distilled water. Upon taking it out it was washed well /in distilled water, and again dried. In this state it is called "iodized paper," and may be kept any length of time, as it is not yet very sensitive. To prepare it for the reception of images, the " iodized paper" must be brushed over in the dark, with a mixture of the following solu tions, A and B :—Solution A consists of .100 grains of nitrate of silver, dissolved in two ounces of distilled water, to which is added one sixth its volume of pure arctic acid. SOlutiun B is a saturated solution of oxalic acid in distilled water. Equal volumes of the two mixtures are put into a 1 4 -iass, and 'applied by means of a brush to the paper, which is afterwards washed with distilled water and drie , t. In this state it is ready to receive.. impres-ions obj, cts, and is so sensitive, that if held to the light it inane diately becomes black. After exposing it to t e action ..: light, with the image either reflected upon it, or placed in contact with it, for a few seconds, it is removed, and it examined will present no trace w hatcver. It is now again brushed over in the dark wilh the mixed solutions L 1 and B, and then placed upon a tin vess: I containing Imt water, when the picture begin, to develope itself. When it is sufficiently (let eloped— s it will be in the ciiurse of a few seconds—the further action of light is arrested by brushing he paper with a solution of 100 grains of bromide of potassium in eight ounces oi dis tilled water, and afterwards washing and drying. In conclusion, Dr Ryan point, d out the difference between " negative" and " positive" pictures, and stated, that, although the first'taken in a camera was la:gal:ye, having its lights and shadows reversed,yet by placing t b picture so taken in contact with , -ensitive paper pre pared by i the old " photogeni'l" method, or, as recom mended n the calotxpe process, and expo,ing it to light, a positive copy could readily be obtained fr m the, nega tree We cannot conclude, without remarking on the very manner in which .tlielioctor mad, his lecture coin prehensible to the meanest intellect. Avoiding all fami liarity, he was free with his audience ; his object ap peared to be to make himself understood by every one. The process is a very beautiful one, and by it the most delicate 'tracery of artificial productions,- and the most i,xquisite shades, and lights, and tissues of natural ob jects can be copied with unrivalled' accuracy. The INorks of the calotype process may, in fact, he termed natural copies, and they are so far superior to those produced by .he pencil and the brush that a mag nifying power applied to them, instead of exposing de fects and blemishes, serves only to heighten their beau ties, and to detect new and more charming resemblances of the original. TIE QUEEN'S-THEATRE. We are happy to say that this very agreeable little theatre improves daily in the character of its representa tions, and after a long absence we must express our sur prise and gratification at the performances .which we wit nessed there on Saturday. In addition to the usual com pany, with Mr. J. Parry at its head. Mrs. Honey, and Mr. Collins, are engaged for a short time. '1 he lady is too well known to need any comment front us, save that she is dashing, gay, lively, and as hand.olue are, tr. Mr. Collins is an importation from th, Ems ral Isle, and is most admirable in Irish characters, in whi,-11 poor Power_ was so inimitable. We were very much pleased • 'Aid' his impersonation of the character of Sir PIA rick OTle nipo in • the Irish Ambassador. In addition to the Irish ambassador. the performances consisted of to o pieces, called Kate Careless and Juan in Luce, in both of which Mrs. Hone y appeared. We eann , it d time or space to icier at length to the rest of the. company we wish, however, to offer our mead of praise to Mr. J. Parry. Mr. Moss, Mr. Matiders, Mis Rogers, and Miss Wrighten, who were all exceedingly good ita tiieir respec tive parts. The house is a comlitrtable one, and a. great deal of new and excellent set eery and Ovorations i - qtre been added. POOILL AWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. !--ta,—llaving seen an obs rvatiou in v- ur pap..a. (at tribno.d to Mr. Ward, M.P.) to the following effect, that the N• ,- v Poor-la w ontletl to raise wit:v's, because "if he farmer olf. red th-. labourer only 7s. a tveek, whlch was iniuthci-nt to hi maintenatice, h 4, the labourer, ottld o v t in.tee by threatening to throw himself on the pith.' I bi-g leave v• inform Mr. 1-Vard that this is not pi:vs:- tically the ea: e. in the first OAT, the labourer that, if he does n•it accept of the low wages .ff.red (in the present suporabundant supply of labour) there are others wt-o will. But further, the far,t,er hit.ing offered him work, though at the itni price of 7s. a the Guar dians and Overseers will oonsidt•r.hito as unwitting to work, though able to , ttstaiit it. and will refuse him rail and if a farmer, or a host or farmers, a wh le rounty of them, offer 1,000 labourers 7s. a week (though not - lug wore than 800) the labouriTs intisr: accept it. It is the interest of the farmer to give the 1,000 7s. a week, rather than give the 800 he actually wants Ss. Gd , th ugh each labourer should do only three quartei.s of a day's work ; and the surplus 200 labour. rs Lave . not the .option of going to the parish, that (Jo- 800 may ()lo ath% the Bs. 6d. wages. because the parish will 71(d Tic ire them : so than the New Poor law does not, in.etrect, enable the labourer to obtain a fair, or in any way a better rate of wages, tha he otherwise could.—Your constant reader, Eulham, July 23, 1842. A. A. DR. RFID ON THE ADAPTATION oF BUILDINtiS TO SOUND. The • intimate connexion between respiration in the form of speech, ventilation, and the com munication of sound, as they relate to the archi tectural modifications of buildings, occupied Dr. Reid's attention, on Wedneiday evening, at Exeter Hall. He proceeded to show that, owing to the con struction of some rooms in which an aggregate of one thousand persons might be present, the speaker's respiration, instead of being overcome, was aided, while in others, of large dimensions, he was compelled to draw in so copious a volume of air, that his breath was often gone by the utterance of a few syllables. This was entirely dependent upon architecttal strut= ture and organization, which was in some cases so de fective. and opposed to the laws of sound,'that public men were sometimes entirely exhausted by speaking in some of these buildings, and were only recovered by wine. Nothing so reduced the strength of an in tellectual orator as the compulsory modulation of the breath, from these circumstances. In a still atmos phere, remarked the lecturer, the voice could be heard at a distance of two and three miles, sometimes even ten. The latter fact had been proved in towns where the watchmen have bees heard to call the hour. The shrill call of the fisherman has travelled to the ear over waters. distance of five miles, namely at Edin burgh, from the neighbouring island of Inchkeith, which is situated at that distance from the city, and the roll-call from thence has been heard at a distance of twenty miles. On the authority of Admintl Stod hart, cannon were stated by Dr. Reid to convey their sound one, two, and three hundred miles " Music on the water," had long been remarked upon by the poet and sentimentalist for the beautiful sense with which it came upon the mind of the hearer, but this pleasurable feeling arose, not from associa tion, but from a physical reason, which was this, that the pure flow or vibration of sound was not broken by any sinister expression or reverberation, as in the case of an echo, which mars the sound. Purity and beauty of sound was not to be found in the grand crash of the orchestra, but in those specific kinds of intonation, where the air was correct and the sound precise. Purity of sound differed from mass of sound. Dr. Reid next divided rooms, as the recipients of tone, into the silent and sonorous. The former were those which probably had trellis-work or other openings, by which the sounds escaped or were diffused. In the sonorous rooms, a sound developed very frequently lasted for five seconds : this first sound would be clearly defined, but the second would lack clearness, being accompanied with the echo of the first, and the third and succeeding, multiplying on themselves these reverberative tones, finally caused the speaker's voice to grow more and more unintelligible. These facts, thus 'noticed, lead to the economy of constructing rooms, as also the economy of ventilation. Various diagrams of buildings, constructed on Dr. Reid's principles, so as to allow of the amplest ventilation, and at the same time to be preservative from their configuration of the finest sounds, were finally exid j)ited ,imd qtisfactorily dilated on by the skilful lecturer. . ~.• • FL Oi* i:RS AND I:tifsla opokl, w,. : quit Neu:,,., wh:-•••e b" L e r Alija- the Q, ii, and re-wit to .11eu.4sel,: •11.1; religious ceremoni e s for the inauguration 0 1. •the were pert', irmed to-dgy at Brassehi,• At noon a Te Drum was chanted in the Church of St. It was the fine Fe Drum of Reinhur.... The church splehdialy 'decorated. The diploma , io body, the ters, and the officers of the King's househould, S‘e.; • present. The last train from Liege to Brussels, on Cup was stopped for about an hoar, at a short distanee ftct the twine) of Contich, by a mass of earth which the late storm had lowered from •the sloping banks on the si•ie ef . .; the railiv,Ly. A wheel of the engin,- got off the no other accident took place. The average price of Wheat list week was 23r . . 21 0 .0 and that of Rye 95e. p, r hcet litre. therefore, still exempt from import ( 1 0 0 while Rye is subject to a duty of 21f. 50c. per 1,04 kilogrammes. he Moniteur publishes the letter addressed 1 0 th 6 Governors of the provinces respecting the cenventien with France. The substance is the same as already pub' fished, only after stating the reductions made I ,T Belgium on 'French wines, it says , • Belgiu m is ,t`t. liberty to grant them to other countries, if it should Ili for its advantage so to do. BRUSSELSS, July 22.—The Duchess of Kent ig''VE pected very shortly at Brussels, where she will stal'P 4 , some days. ME HAGUE, JULY Majesty King Il 7 .i; l9ocfl'' Frederick Count of Nassau left the Hague this wornl*, to return to the Loo. The Chamberlain Master of the Ceremonies hasPr notice that the Court goes into mourning to - d a y for ilp weeks, on account of the death of his Royal IlighnOs Duke of Orleans. ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY 11.—Yesterday event t i salute of artillery announced to the inhabitants 0150,4 city the arrival of the Imperial family, and of his Idilitwo„ the King of Prussia, at the Palace of Islagen. BELGIAN u n ws—Bauhasi.s, JULY Actual pet Cent. 11.4h:child's 5 per Cent.... ........ . jot , d L,,an of Thin) %lillions, 4 per Cent. 99' , --------- 3 per Ccnt..„ - 'tt, ---- -Thtrty.svven----- • -....:... —0 .vty. 1.,,dn c , City, , '.3....!, i 1., Cent ,4i7i ..• • iocteLyo....! Cornrowrce, ....per Cent__ . Sol iauk 01 ticlgitan.b per I ent..-......:• 7/ .. , 4 slatie:;,•; .:-.ciet) . —cc , :4•:g. , "T. Vtiliti.o. short) ......... ...... :, -- ..6 ~..,,, , itigeli, Papers. July 22 • . %' , s I al A N hlll , Db.—VIENNA. JuLT 14 cr oats Metalhquet a•• .ri '. rri.b 17 1 4 . . I l'-‘ • .—MIISTERCIAM. JULY -2 r . 1 1 . k • t . . M 51 .•. , ~t ...,.., „.. io +t• t•• per car 5..... . ............. 7 ,1 4 78/0 .1311.1.-rt,t 1 re: •44 ‘4 14 4.0 , , 0 13 S .51.3 1- 17) prr Lent • r-: :74)11 ...... 8 4 A, 9 :13 ; . .1e:, .. , n.tiMil?..•••••••••• • I burgh, Two menths 8:1 s') , ch Papers, July 23 • r 144 • COMMERCIAL BANK OF ON 1) 4, „, The general meeting of the Proprietery of ,fro, " Commercial Bank of London," took plac e a leo days since at the banking-house of the Companci I\loorgate-street. The Report read, being the se e° ' since the establishment of this banking inst itutiot4 exhibited a favourable view of the Company's np e r; tions. A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. was " dared, leaving a balance to be carried to the g,,t rantee-fund of 2,3921., and for "rebate on ,corr Lets, bills." After writing off all bad and doubtful dev,te the profits were stated at 7,203/., of which i 5 dividend would absorb 4,0001. The business of t:ij, Company appears to be carried on upon a sobegbje therefore, in the long run, upon the most pro" rO , principle. The more remarkable part of the p i pe ceedings consisted, however, in an observation nt oo Chairman, in reply to one of the Sbareholders , inquired whether it was not proposed - to increase `ts capital of the Bank by calling up more instAira,eh'st upon the Shares. The answer was substantiall.r..os no more capital would be called up at present, looisloo at the depressed state of trading affairs, an d ri d difficulty of employing capital at once s afelY profitably. But, remarked the Chairman empliati, ° „; he had learned from experience the complicate" barrassments, arising from a redundancy of capit - t i , banking concerns, beyond the requirements of l el6 itli mate banking business. The Manchester Banks;:tre which he had some practical experience , 01 a. case in point. Large paid-up capitals (1,4 been accumulated in those establishments 1) to the mistaken calculation that, whilst addi 11ng0 their security and extending their credit, they %` .to serve to increase business indefinitely and so 1 0 40 , the return of larger dividends to the Share% k re' In the result, however, both Directors an d th e holders were most miserably disappointed. former found themselves with hundreds of thou s 7„iftte capital beyond the wants of any secure and ieg be l c attle banking operations, and, therefore, 6'o: tend tempted, and yielded to the temptation. to 1' c nn credits and increase their transactions beyoD,'"l' safe control, in order, at whatever risks, to be meet their Shareholders with a flourishing account of profits and dividends. They were only too rea d y'" make advances and squander discounts 'l i e men notoriously of straw, upon the sole the commendation of their being shareholders bank. All this arose from being so flu „e money as to he unable to find safe investment Ow for it in the regular way of business, w hist Al i:: it same time it was felt that for the credit of th e han was necessary to keep up a large rate of dividend nPro. a capital much too large for the limited range 14.1 ,1, to dent employment. The shareholders who loolievio the splendour of a large paid-up capital as a - ne r + i je t, source of credit and pm oht, and looked no fr', t be were gratified in the commencement rge payment of large dividends and the show of profits, only to be awakened at last to the miser'-the reality of shoals of bankrupt bills and customer s ' o f discontinuance of dividends and finally a wind 111) of . the bank, with not always a perfect li q uidatio n e l, accounts. As the Chairman properly reott.rato? the "Commercial Bank" enjoyed as much ,pro capital as • for the time served all th e 1 . • poses of profitable management and rettirToe when times were more propitious, and as the c irel action mild be more extended benifieially and e t he tiously, then would arrive the occasion when, it, 1 , 3 , to interest of the Bank, it would be found adv sib enlarge capital to meet the growing greatness ',el, operations. Such management, it may be obs er t l o n. is the part of' sound judgment and wise discrimil•B',d As it is, the 'Bank enjoys no inconsiderable co in° of means. Although its paid-up cap it a l am ounts °, l O , tc 80,0001. upon a capital stock liable to be cape", to to 1,000,000/., yet under the head of " balance ore customers," that is deposits, temporary and of a U, pettnanent nature, the large sum of nearly .247/vysio maybe found, and a large proportion of these der t iis' is 01 course available as so much capital stock fur o r counts, advances on securities, and other business c rying profit. it )1 ,- li WooLwICH, JULY 22.--ROYAL ARSENAL. -- t ,A , . o'clock (noon) the large 450 pounder gun for Aleheol ( „ e 0 1 , was proved at the butt, and found perfect The chare,bd powder with which it was first fired was 651 b , and tb e f „ r il ,/ 3301 b. weight. The second charge of powder was 451 b. ': e gt l , ° solid ball of 4551 b. weight. The report from this iroule%gto' was not so loud as might have been anticipated from its 1 %,.. t ry tude, but the effect of the shell and ball was tremendon 1 .0 1 : tering a great body of the earth of the butt to a cool' e f ,,rce - , height, and showing on examination that the proprlhd ot 0 , hat entered the butt to the extent of about 40 feet, a , re ll fte r i about two inches on the top, where the earth had fallen ',P o tts' the concussion, distinctly marking that it had been Per2„ ° o 0t ; to that extent. Experiments were carried on at the y v", n Thursday, with a 32-pounder gun of the usual ditnenffnti.e& ships of war, but loaded at the breech, on a principle bt"::c4 0 : by a Swedish officer. The invention appears to , ptin e _r a bt ' d merit, but one or two experienced efficers expressed a " c ! ii rio' to its being an advantage, as loading from the breech ~`'' r tair l the heaving of a vessel, or the inclination of the gun 0 ';, 0 ,15 1. times from the same cause, might allow the shot tei . e f 'o ll ' 4 forward, leaving too great a space betwixt the pnwder F a Or which cannot occur when the charge is rammed horri !i te : l i i . mouth of the gun. It is intended to make further'illnites ' l ' wish this gun to give it a fair trial under eyery circuinsfi4,oo; which its services might be required. ' Colonel 'Clr7i,foll e , Colonel Lacy, Lieut.-Colonel Dansey, C.B.'; Lieist:,:-.„7.00 Dundas, C.B. ; Lieut.LColonel Chalmer, Captain 6 ,1.5101 Captain Palliser, of the Royal Artillery ;- and Brigedi'.l -- e rt° Sandham, of the Royal Engineers , and a number of ClD ; t , Ait . the service were present to witness the proof of 14/ebeol enormous gun. ' • - PI VI & MIS-STATEMENT OF PROSPERITY.—As Ave ; id illits last week that statement of the Manchester Go(oiry: relative to the increasing pri •sperity of the , c or e a hieb was afterwards quoted in the House 0 1 l'i l iiii., t ie , ol it by Sir Robert Pe. I, we have now to notice th.'t"Al,At Guardian has r-trae!ed it to a considerable ex tetiff etu Journal of Saturd„) said :—" V% e terl it (fu e . , it 0 1 / readers and ourselves to admit, hat on one p°, o or were undoubtedly in error. We never to.derst'Ltorit $ Meant to Sti, that the orders from the United ._. t he here considerabie, but that orders considerabh: 1 t " 10r aggregate lmd been received, some from the ‘ti'l,ifeci dies, some from Canada, and some from the ilwhich States, placing those countries in the sequenc e of the we turder,tooti to indicate the r. lative importance,. ow ~„ii• orders received. So far us the United S tatus fir certied, howevi-r, we told that we laboured and 0 '"' . and c, inception of the meaning of what wa s said to 7'freill that the orderr , whith have been recently re eei vc that quarter are of a t he iv cliaracter.' ,ailsea! The receipts upon Great Western 1-1 006 27/ , during last week amounted to the enormous sum of ` i ?h o. chased of course by the agricultural rneeting at of ` i• is the larges t amount ever takeii upon e a t ralw.Y is 0 t oucht - Last rummer the receipts on the Btriringhim hoe ig the a re" 20,0 .0/., a larger return ter mile than 'hi` °" ) 40 101 ' Western—ihe Birmingham , with its branch to 4%__ r"„h it being LO miles i n l e n g th. and the Great Wester's, tributaries, 18L-Railway Times. CRITICISM.--A rustic being asked his - I: aid, " Threi picture of three pigs feeding, painted by Mort: :, 1 : 1 : t i 6 , 1 1 e r ° e f l' e4 they be pure.loike , surely," scratching his head ;. . ,_ ,be v ont, fault still." When as ked w hat t he fault might wi S ou t o ne plied, " Why,.whO ever seed three o f , = feeding , • on 'em having his foot in the trough?' ,riseicle nt wh A ich il h e at i: p li e i n i ed le t t o te th r e gives au to St Petersbuigh. At one of the first stages w.totht . the _4l tbeah bu t territory, the horses ran away. His servant yr to , Iw o 1 Royal i 1 . 1 ) ai account of p o s s O ii of c.. . ut ,:' i s e n i t in doing so teil anti broke his leg. and 5itta0 11 r11 4 ,......- a asighbaurisig village. ~+-.~ F th e P e G e ItQ Vir, 4 0 : t% e t , ) 4 , 1, 4) 101" to, 41/4, 6 Rc'e~ Q~ ~t~ `~ !O =~ r~ IL. _ 4c l 'ion .~ h 'b~ 4 %47 ,1 1) 1 41 141,44