The Sun. — London, England, 1842-08-20 00:00:00

J l lit published, in 6 'Vols. small Bw., price lba t in boards. R `i XERCISES, POLITICAfriindIOTHERS. A By Lieutenant-Colonel T. PERRONET THOMPSON. Consisting of matter previously published with and without the Author's name, and of some not published before. London . Effingham Wilson, 18, Bishopsgate-street. HAMBURGH, 12TH AUGUST, 1842. HIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR o. AUSTRIA AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Having AUTHORISEDand GUARANTEED several DIS TRII:4,7'IIOM o 7 MONEY DIVIDENDS, by which. though they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained. HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, are Seilinq GENUINE and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DisTraßd fION S. Persons de;lroUg - t:;rel;;;; mzv receive, PREVIOUS n giving any order, the PROSPECTUS with fall PARTI CUL ARS, upon addressitrt, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, a'.; HAILIBURGH. P. S.—NEXT PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION on 15th OCTOBER, 1843. NEXT POLISH DISTRIBUTION on 15th MARCH. 1843. NEXT AUSTRIAN:DISTRIBUTION on Ist of NEXT . MONTH. SELECTION for the PRUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION on Ist JULY next. SELECTION for the POLISH DISTRIBUTION on Ist MARCH next. Tho SELECTION for the AUSTRIAN DISTRIBU TION has already taken place, namely, on Ist ofJUNE, THE DISTRIBUTION TAKING PLACE ON THE FIRST OF NEXT MONTH. ripIIEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S WELLS _a_ UNDER 'I HE PATRONAGE OF HER MAJESTY. For the BENEFIT of Mr. W. D. BROADFOOT. ON MONDAY NEXT, AUGUST 22, 1842, DUCRONV'S UNEQUALLEIi SCENES of the CIRCLE, and beautiful Trained Horses, with the Wonders of Signor Hillier, Mr. Hicken, Mr. Stickney, Le Petit Ducrow, a; .d the whole of the Equestrian Corps. After which, 'THE WATERMAN.—Characters by Miss Agnes Taylor and Mr. J. W. Collier. 'To be followed by the Magnificent Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacle of ST. GEORGE AND THE GREEN DRA- Gt OF EGYPT. To conclude with a New Melodramatic Afterpiece, entitled THE DUMB NORWEGIAN AND HIS PONY OF ICE LAND, in which Le Petit Ducrow, the Wonder of the Age, will give his graceful Pantomimic Delineations. THEATRE-ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 20. Will b^ presented the Musical Farce of LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS —Captain Beldare Mr J. Vining; Risk, Mr. Har ley ; Solomon Lob, Mr. Oxberry ; Lydia, Miss Stanley. '1 o be followed by the New Burlesque • allet, called G itIZELLE!— Cher,etets by Signor Oxberrini and Madile. Louisotta Fairbro. ti.ei niter wlich, LOVE, LAW, AND PHYSlC.—Flexible, Mr. J. 'tieing; Lubin Log, Mr Harley; Andrew, Mr. Oxberry. To which will be added, BLUE BEARD.—BIue Beard, Mr. J. Bland ; Snackoblack, Mr. Oxberry ; Selina, Mr. Leign Smith; Fa tiim, Miss Crisp. To conclude with the New Drama called THE BROKEN HOME. Characters by Messrs. Oxberry, Diddear, Granby, W. H. Bland, "%ine, Green, Mi.,s Tyrrell, Miss Stanley, and Miss kaucit. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 28. Gallery, ls. Doors open at Half-past Six ; cennue..ce at Seven; Half-price, a Quarter before Nine. Prtva , e Boxes to be had of Mr. Grogan, at the Private Box-office ; and oMessrs. Andrews, Mitchell, Sams, and Baily, at their Libraries. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, AUGUST 20. Will be presented an entirely Nev; Fairy Opera, entitled LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.—The Overture, and the whole of the Mu sic, composed by Mrs. G. a'Becket, and executed by Miss Romer. Mrs Serie, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Leffler, an increased Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. 0. Stansbury. After which, the Comie Extravaganza entitled ANGELS AND LUClFERS.—Benjamin Brimstone, Mr. G. Wild; Sally Gingham, Miss Torrey. 'lO cancluc; 4 o with the peculiarly eceentric New Drama, entitled THE MEMOIRS OF THE DEVIL, supported by the entire Com pany. Piaces and Private 3oxes may be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box Office, from Eleven till Four daily. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDE.NS. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are resimetflilly Informed that ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS, 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. trodilcttons,Fhich render them more generally attractive. The MENAGERIE has been enriched by - many valuable and im portant acquisitions in the classes of both Quadrupeds and Birds...- Feeding Time Five o'clock. The Colossal VIEW OF ROME has been repainted, and in some instances remodelled, with a Mechanical Tableau d'action ' repre senting the Procession of the Papal Troops, Guards, and Roman Nobles, to the Castle of St. Angelo. The BAN D includ e s some of the most eminent Performers, con ducted by Mr. Godfrey, and the Programme of the PROMENADES A sICA LES selected from the noblest works of the great Masters. The IL LC MINATIONof ST. PETER'S, the CROSS of FIRE, and the GIRA NCO OLA of ST. ANGELO, with all the gorgenuti Spectacles and magnificent introductions that have called forth ac clam mations of delight and admiration on each evening of their ex. hibitiun, terminating with the triumph of pyrotechnic splendour, the CA SC ADE sf BRILLIANT FIRE, SIX l'Y FEET in height. The Gardens arc open Daily from Ten' till Dusk. The Evening ttcs,with the Promenades Musicales, Illumination of St. Peter's, Giraildola of St. Angelo, &c., will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, .tat ►I, tirsdays. Admission One Shilling. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Nicrning ...... minutes after 1 R Evening 53 minutes after 1. LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1842. Some of our Contemporaries, (we speak of the Times and the Post,) are endeavouring to make the public believe that the variations in the demand for the productions of Manchester are the necessary consequences of what they call the fluctuations of trade. According to them, trade fluctuates ne cessarily and frequently. We have certainly, in our time, seen great vicissitudes in the condi tion of our community, but they have existed in con:unction with a number of laws regulating, or pretending to regulate, and certainly restricting, cir cumscribing, and impeding trade. What proportion of those vicissitudes has been caused by the laws, and what proportion was necessarily inherent in trade, is one of the nicest questions of political science, and is not to be settled by the hasty and crude assertions of our Contemporaries. It requires, indeed, we are well convinced, a long and searching analysis to distinguish between the effects of laws and the effects of trade itself ; and all that we can now even attempt, in order to throw some light on this impor tant question, and not allow trade to bear the blame hich belongs to bad laws, is to indicate some of the principles which would seem to show that all trade, inc:uding the trade of Manchester, must naturally and necessarily, but for restrictive laws, be as steady and progressive as the wants of human beings. In all accounts which have ever fallen under our notice of men living in an uncivilised condition, like tha Red Indians for example, they are represented as exp.?riencing, as the seasons change, the extremes of abundance and famine. In the summer season, wLel game and fish are accessible, they are toler ably well fed ; in winter, they die in considerable numbers Lom actual famine. Fluctuations in the condition of society are natural and excessive in its early stages. .The natural causes of such fluctuations seem not to abate as society advances. The seasons, making the earth teem with abundance at one part of the year, and locking it up in sterility with ice and snow at another, are the same for the European children of the United States as for the Red men ; but they never ex perience such terrible vicissitudes as afflict the Indians. The seasons also now vary, probably, from year to year as much as ever they did ; and the earth in one summer and in one place, as last year in parts of England, almost mocks the husbandman's toil, and ;n another summer, as at present, yields to all his labours a rich abundance. But while the produce of man's labour when applied to the earth or to the sea, in catching fish, varies much from year to year and place to place, his wants of food, of lodging, and of clothing, are nearly constant, or subject only to a progressive increase as population increases. It is therefore a dispensation of Provi dence, which appears to pervade all time and every stage of society, that great fluctuations in the supplims of food should prevail from year to year, from place to place, and from summer to winter. The wants of man remaining about the same at all times, it is a natural and necessary consequence of this dis.. pensa ion, that society, unless man learn the art to provide against the evil, should be exposed to great fluetuat'ons. So^iet v, in the United States, however, seems rather to aivance steadily, than to fluctuate, and none of the communities of Europe experience, it is believed, the dreadful vicissitudes to which savages are ex '. A very lure proportion of our ONV commu oll tla‘ opulent and easy classes, know nothing .iaxver of dread,ul vicissitudes between famine and plenty, though the seasons continue to fluctuate. It is pretty well ascertained, also, that great r. s have been the vicissitudes of our commu since the commencement of this cen they bear no comparison to its vicissi in former times ; and great as have the vet-mho:l3 of the prices of corn under the siieing-scale, they be r only a small proportion to the _ cions of that price in the 12th, 13th, and 14'6h ce. - -:,uries. Thus, as society has advanced, man has found the means of guerding against those fluctuations in its condition, which, but for his skill, would he at P - 1 times the natural and necessary consequence of ore season being less 'A cui;...al than another. ')~ ;ELI turf tli.G~9 h c I'Bt ;~+ What are these means? They are expressed by one word---TRADE. Trade, though it must partie7- pate in the natural fluctuations of the seasons, is the means of equalizing them to men's wants. and saving society abm those terrible vicissitudes which it expe -1 iences where trade is unknown. What is the guiding . principle of trade ? To buy when end where com modities are cheap, and to sell when and where com modities are dear. It blys the corn wben it is 's gathered in abundance •om the field, and it sells it in winter when the field is as barren as the stones in the street. It buys—or would buy, but the law NA :11 not allow man to equalise the effects of seasons in different political communities as in the same com munity, and in different periods of the year—it buys the corn which is cheap in. the United States or in Rus sia, and sells it in England where it is dear, or wanted by hungry men. The necessary effect of trade, there fore, which our Contemporaries describe as fluctuating and as causing fluctuations in the condition of society, iF to prevent fluctuations, and to equalise the produc tions of fluctuating seasons to the steady and perma nent wants of men. Now, the practical question which our Contempo raries decide off-hand against trade, and to which these principles may serve to give a different aspect, is, Have the fluctuations in the condition of the populatio.i o' Manchester, and other manufacturing towns, been caused by manufacturing, by buying and selling, or by the laws which have interfered to prevent or im pede, under the pretence of regulating, buying and selling ? Without saying that no trader may have miscalculated the wants of his customers, we have no hestitation in asserting that the fluctuations are chiefly the consequences of the "wisdom of Parliament." The bulk of the manufactures of Manchester are intended to supply almost universal wants. Fustians, calicoes. ginghams, muslins, are every where worn ; the per sons who wear' them, too, are almost everywhere in creasing. The customers of Manchester, in England, in the United States, in North America, in our colo r:es, are rapidly multiplying. In that increase of population, we see a reason why the manufactures of Manchester should go on steadily increasing, none why they should fluctuate. But the law interferes, and will not allow the Man chester man to supply the wants of those people. It says to the Manchester manufactUrers, " you shall not buy corn in America and sugar in the Brazils," ard, o 'course, you shall not sell—for where there is mg there is no buying—when you like, or as you is x.e, for the purpose of equalizing the produce of different countries and seasons with the wants of man ; bre.; when some other purpose, which the law has in is to be answered—namely, keeping land in :vz:,on, as is said, in England. Here the law lays down a m ale for the conduct of a trader, and enforces its observance, totally different from the natural rule of buying when and where commodities are cheap, and selling them when and where they are dear. It introduces confusion into the whole course of trade, and disturbs all its operations. It is plainly at va riance with the natural principle of trade, and is, we telieve, the sole cause of those fluctuations which our Contemporaries believe to be inherent in trade itself. It may be supposed that when the law has substi stituted this artificial rule for the natural rule of trade, that men adapt themselves to it. So they do, to a considerable extent, and the sagacity of individuals prevents much of the mischief which en forcing this false rule is calculated to cause. But the law may, and is changed. Then men must learn new rules. And not only the law immediately affect ing corn and sugar, but affecting other things may be changed ; as, for example, reduction or increase of taxation, which alters the relative value of foreign and home-grown corn, or of foreign and colonial sugar; and, again, the law compels the trader to change his conduct. Moreover, the trader hopes, or supposes, the law may be altered ; many manufacturers, for example, may have hoped for the abolition of the Corn-law, and have guided their conduct by their hopes, instead of the facts. That is consistent with human nature. It is the uncertainty introduced into trade by the law, substituting the caprice of the self. interested law-maker; for the natural rule of buying when and where commodities are cheap, and selling them when and where they are dear, which is the cause of most of the miscalculations of the manufac turers and the traders, and of fluctuations in trade. We hope that our Contemporaries will take these matters into consideration before they again dogmatize about fluctuations in trade. ro We published in The Sun of yesterday the letter in which the Messrs. BAYLEY, of Staley-bridge ex plaln their shore in causing the present outbreak. They are completely exonerated of having contri buted to it in any manner whatever, except by pro -posing to reduce the wages paid by them to the level of the wages paid by other manufacturers. Our readers may not know, and, therefore, we must inform thorn, that on the conduct, as it now appears falsely, ascribed to those gentlemen, and on the supposition that they are members of the Anti-Corn-law League, the monopolist journals have raised a huge super structure of false charges against the League. They all amount to this, that the League caused and en couraged the outbreak. We admit that the League predicted mischief, as Mr. COBDEN said ; that it warned the Ministers and politicians of all parties against such consequences, as likely to arise from the continuance of the Corn and Provision-laws, and like other prophets, it has been accused of causing the mischief which it had the sagacity to predict. Its fate is a great reproach to those who, from distorted and selfish views, have made its high merit a subject of blame. Another foundation for the censure of the League was some expressions supposed to have been used by Mr. FINCH, of Livei pool, of which that gentleman has given this exp'.anation : In the report of the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law Conference of the 29th of July, appears a letter which I read to the Conference : it is thus reported " Mr. Finch, of Liverpool, communicated the follow ing letter from a party engaged in the iron trade of verpool : Mr. Bills, of Darlaston, called upon me this morning (23th July), and says that an attempt is making to re duce the thick coal-getters from 4s. to 3s. 6d. per day ; and it is exnec;;ed that the consequence will be a general turn-out of all the colliers. A very erroneous impression 0; the wages of colliers was given by Sir Roben Peel in the House o'f' Commons lasi - , week, when he stated that the dispute was between 4 . 5. and 3s. 6d. per day. It is true that is the universal wages given for the thick coal- getters, but the thin coal getters and the ironstone geaers are reduced to 2s. 9d. per day ; and none of the colliers scarcely are, doing more than two or three days' o -lc per week. " The League and Anti-Monopoly Associations, with the assistance of the colliers, have the power of com pelling the aristocracy, in less than one month, to abo lish the Corn-laws altogether, and compel them also to grant the People's Charter. Let the colliers in all parts of the kingdom cease working for one month, and the thing is done ; they have only to insist on these mea sures before they go to work again. This is the most simple and efficient measure that could be adopted to get all. we want, without spilling a drop of blood, or causing any commotion of any kind. The city of London would be withouz fuel, and all other conceras must come to a siand till it was seined" The Chai. man said this would not be understood as a recommendation of the Conference, but it was a proof of the great feeling that was abroad against thes e l aws . On that occasion I stated that I introduced it for the purpose of correcting a misapprehension as to the wages of co'liers in the S affo-dshire district, and to show the strong feeling tl-nt existed against the present Corn laws, and withon iden:Tying mys.lf with the opinions or the writer as lo the mode 07 effecting their repeal. The Morn:Pg Herald and some of the Conservative provincial pepers, I observe, have remarked on the latter pert of this letter wii,h great severity as being expressive of my own op . mons, an sanctioned by the epproval of the League. Attempts are thus made, by quotations and garbled e:Ltracis, to conneci; the Anti-Corn-law League with the present; disturbances. That dissipates another basis for the lying super structure of the monopolist journals. We happen to know also that it was impossible for any set of men to take more pains than dkl the members of the League to convince the Members of the Legislature t'ort the iefusal to do justice to the people would lead to serious consequences. For weeks and months they dwelt with no simulated alarm on the probability tlyz, some outbreak would place all their property at the mercy of a mob. We know, from no second-hand authority, from no hearsay or doubtful evidence, but positively and certainly, that the members of the League, particularly Mr. HAMER STANSFELD of Leeds, M”. BRIGHT of Rochdale, and Mr. RAWSON. went, as it were, from door to door of Members of both Houses and of all parties, begging and imploring them, on account of apprehended danger, to repeal the Corn-laws and to enable the manuacturer to give PIO e employment and higher wages to the workmen. They expressly appealed to those Members of the House who assume to be more godly Jon their compeers, and almost besieged Si r ROBERT INGLIS, Mr. MACKINNON, Sir THOMAS ACLAND, Lord ASHLEY, and men of that staltn, urging on all those to whom they obtained access, the great distress and discontent of the people, in or der to induce them to take an active part in repeal ing the law which limits the supply of food. The members of the League haunted the lobbies and re + eshment-rooms of the Houses of Parliament, and lost no opportunity of entreating Members of the Le gislature, and particularly the Tory Members, not to separate w ithout passing some comprehensive measure to relieve the distress o: the manufacturing classes. To all these representations the Tory Members turned a deaf ear; and now that some taste of the danger against which the League warned them has actually come, the Tory journals (we think the Tory Members will hardly venture on so barefaced a scheme) most unscrupulously and most unjustly accuse the League of having caused the mischief. But this plan will not succeed. The Tories and monopolists are the authors and patrons of that social vs's:ern against which the people rise in insurrection. They impoverish and degrade the masses by their restrictions and burdens, and they must bear the blame of the outrages which ensue. The present outbreak, though the greatest, is not the only one. Our domestic history is a succession of distresses suffered by the people, and of outrages following therefrom. By them, and by similar facts, will the policy of the monopolists be tested, not by their theory that plenty, wealth, peace, and prosperity are caused by restrictive laws. Against their policy, so eminently triumphant in Parliament, the continued distress of the people, their discontent and turbulence, speak trumpet tongued. Systems of policy are tried by their effects. The Corn-law has not been overthrown—it exists in all its rigour. The monopolists have not yet been defeated; they are the masters of the Legislature. In conjunction with their success, and the prevalence of their system, the community is thrown into great disorder; there is a suspension of labour, and general alarm. They, not the Corn-law League, have had the power of regulating society ; and, if we are to judge of a tree by its fruits, the present condition of England is an everlasting condemnation of tie monopolists. We have heard a rumour that it is the intention of Ministers to re-assemble Parliament in a short time in order to pass a Coercion Act for the manufacturing districts. We notice the rumour to express our entire and complete disbelief in it. Though the manufacturing population have ceased to labour, and in many cases have forced others to cease from labour, the actual outrages committed by them, taking all circumstances into consideration, have not been of an aggravated character. With the exception of their conflict with the police at Manchester,they have caused no deaths, and have inflicted no wounds. They have broken windows, and in the Potteries have burned down houses ; but for these offences particularly the latter, which is a heinous crime, the law already pro vides. Additional penal laws, or a Coercion Act, might exasperate the people, but could not prevent offences, and would injure trade. It would go far to reduce the manufacturing districts to the condition of Ire land. Such a policy would be indeed fatal, and we give the rumour that Sir R. PEEL intends to adopt it an emphatic denial.] Although the Turn-outs have used the customary phrase of "Peace, law, and order," it requires no evidence to prove, however much they may admire order and desire peace, they do not respect the law. They complain of the law—they condemn the Corn law—they censure the law of primogeniture—they are decidedly opposed to the law which excludes them from Parliament, and of many other laws they em phatically complain. If they respected the law they would not have violated it. The great object which the Legislature and the Government should keep in view, is, we think, to re-inspire them with respect for the law. Terror will not accomplish that. A Coercion Act would: only make them hate the law the more, and would convert them all into outlaws. The only sure way to restore the law to its wonted dominion over their hearts is to make it just. A Coercion Act would ultimately pro voke a still more extended revolt. We would have •statesmen be very cautious how they deal with this great malady, and not be influ enced by rabid priests, or guided by acrid routine politicians. Strange thoughts are engendered in men, by comparing the professions of Governments with their performances—the theory of their formation with their actual practices. The celebrated Dr. OHANNING, for example, has recently published a second part of his Duty of Free States, which opens with this passage : My great aim, in what I have written, and now write, on matters of public interest, is to re-unite politics and morality ; to bring into harmony the law of the land and the law of God. Among the chief causes of the miseries of nations, is the divorce which has taken place between politics and morality ; nor can we hope for a better day, till this breach be healed. Men, entrusted with govern ment, have always been disposed to regard themselves as absolved from the laws of justice and humanity. False hoods and frauds are allowed them for their country or their party. To maintain themselves against their oppo nents, they may even involve nations in war ; and the murders and robberies which follow this crime are not visited on their heads by human justice. In all times, government has been the grand robber, the grand murderer, and has yet escaped the deep reprobation which breaks forth against private guilt. Such profligacy pervades the sphere of political action, that the confidence of the people is well nigh withdrawn from public men ; and a virtuous statesman is involved in the suspicions which his unprin cipled associates hive drawn upon his vocation. Public life is thought to release men not only from the obliga tions ofjustice, but from the restraints of good manners ; and, acconlingly, the debates of Congress [Parliament] are too often polluted by vulgar abuse, threats, and brawls. So this is the standard of political life, that a man is smiled at for his simplicity who talks of introthicing re ligion into the conduct of public affairs. Religion, it is thought, belongs to Sabbals and churches, and would be as much out of place in cabinets or halls of legislation, as a delicate lady on a field of battle. A stranger might be tempted to think, ;hat the Sergeant-at-Arms was sta tioned at the doors of legislative chambers, to forbid en trance to the everlasting law of God, and that nothing but man's impotence prevents the exclusion of Him whose holy presence fills the universe. When men give such a character to Government, and to the principles of politiCians, it behoves the latter to be much on their guard. Higher principles than either the rate of wages or the Charter would seem, by such passages, to be involved in the present struggle between subjects and rulers ; and Govern ments should be especially careful not to precipitate it, and, above all, not to place themselves in the wrong, by devising new schemes of oppression, to be accom plished by the instrumentality of law. ita bsi ), si - 00 . au, Mq eo ° -0 •*-- N ii ' . m 0 Ztt COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert and the Duke of Scrxe Coburg Gotha, walked this morning to Adelaide Cottage, through the Slopes, and returned to the Castle, through the Little Park, in a cari:age. The Prince of 'Wales and the Princess Royal have enjoyed their usual airings, accompanied by the Do wager Lady Lyttelton. This afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Duke of Saxe Coburg, rode out in a pony car riage and four, followed by Madame Van de Weyer, the Duchess of Norfolk, and the two Maids of Honour, in another carliage and four, and attended by Colonel Buckley, Colonel Wylde, Captain Meynell, and Ba ron Gruben on horseback. The Royal pal ty took tile direction of the Great Park The Earl of Aberdeen arrived this afternoon from town, and Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Mi nister, left for the metropolis. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom panied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leinin gen, and attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas and Sir George Couper, Bart., will dine with her Ma jesty at the Castle this evening. Yesterday the Attorney-General and the Solicitor- General were in attendance some hours on Sir James Graham at the Home-office. The Lord Mayor arrived at the Home-o.Tice om the City in the afternoon. Mr. Sheriff Rogers arrived soon after wards. The Lord Mayor iemained until near five o'clock. The Right Hon. J Nichol], Judge Advocate- Germal, attended at the Home-office yesterday after noon. Lord Fitzroy Somerset visited Sir James Graham yesterday afternoon. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, r transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches from the Governor of South Australia, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, attended by Colonel Wykle and Baron de Gruber, arrived in tow a at half-pr - '; el:31/.2n o'clock yesterday morning, by the Great Western Railway, c:om Wirdsor Castle. On aiTiving at the terminus at Paddington, his Serene Highness er:;e - .al one of the Royal caulages and paid a li;s 3 l, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sus..ex at Kensington Palace. Ifs Serene Highne,;s arrived at Buckingham Palace ?on 4 ter two o'clock, and partook of a dejeune with his suite. Shortly belbre three o'clock, the Duke left Buckingham Palace, attended by Colonel Wylde and Baron de Graben, on his return to Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge vr. rived in town yesterday ,rom his residence at Kew, and attended at the Horse Guards. His Royal Highness returned to Kew inthe ternoon. Sir James Graham remaind at the Home-office up to a late hour on Thursday Sir Robert Peel - 'sited the Home Secretary. The Commir,sioners of Police attended at the office eu, ing the night. Lord Fitzroy Somerae;:, ' the Mi]itar7 Secretary to the Com mander-in-Chief, had also an nterview with the Right Hon. Baronet. FINE ALTS. We were favoured yesterday with a private view of a full-length portrait of Lord Brougham, which, we understand, has been pain t'N.I for the Mechanics' In stitute at Newpoi t, South Wabs. The portrait is by a young artist named Evans, and does great credit to his skill and judgment. No cne, for an instant, can mistake the likeness, for it gives, not merely the fea tures, but the general expression of his Lordship's countenance. He is represented standing near a co lumn, in an easy, graceful attitude, absorbed appa rently in thought ; in the back ground we catch a glimpse of the London University, of which Lord Brougham, as is well known, was the projector, and of which he has long been the firm and energetic supporter. As a piece of coloitring—to say nothing of its merits as a likeness—the portrait exhibits much promise, and is indeed one of the best we have lately met with, of his Lordship. NOCTURNAL MEETINGS OF CHARTISTS. The following placard was published last night :- " CAUTION. " Whereas information has been received that last night, and on several previous occasions, meetings have been held of large numbers of persons, who have proceeded from place to place at unseasonable hours, and that violent and seditious language has been ad dressed to such meetings, and it has been represented that such a meeting is intended to be held this even ing at Clerkenwell-green, and that the peaceable sub jects are likely to be alarmed, and the public peace to be endangered thereby, notice is hereby given that no such meeting will be permitted to assemble ; and caution is given to all wel4,disposed persons not to attend or join, or be present at, any such meeting. And notice is further given, that all necessary mea sures will be adopted to prevent the assembling of any such meeting, and effectually to protect the public peace, and to suppress any attempt at the disturb ance thereof. (Signed) " THOMAS. J. HALL. " Chief Magistrate of the Metropolitan Police District." SUICIDE BY LEAPING FROM THE MON UMEN T. FURTHER PARTICULARS. The unfortunate female appears to be 18 or 19, and was dressed as follows :—Lavender-striped printed muslin gown; drab-coloured bordered shawl ; commo white straw bonnet, trimmed with purple-coloured ribbons. Her shift is marked in the breast with the letters J x C ; two petticoats—one white calico, the other flannel ; prunella lace boots, a little the worse for wear. The lamentable occurrence has excited an unusual sensation in the neighbourhood; the more so, in con sequence of its being generally known that subsequent to the equally distressing suicides of Miss Moyes and a boy, a messenger had been appointed to attend at the top of the Monument to prevent the possibility of like occurrences. She paid her sixpence, and was told to lay hold of the bannister, as the ascent was dark. She replied, " Oh, I know the way." When at the top she remained there ten minutes, appearing to be delighted with the surrounding scenery. She was there attended by Nathaniel Fletcher, the man appointed for that pur pose by the City Lands Committee, in pursuance of the recommendation of the Jury which was held two years since. She inquired the position of the diffe rent edifices and churches in view, which were pointed out by the man, and she exhibited no incoherence in her manner. Fletcher thought she was about to de scend, and went down the steps before her, when she effected her dreadful purpose. The dress of the unhappy girl appears to be that of a respectable servant, but it is evident from the soft ness and whiteness of the hands that she has not been accustomed to any kind of hard work. The fore finger of the left hand bears marks of the needle, but even those are rather slight. Several persons who were passing or standing on Fish-street-hill saw the body of the unfortunate de ceased descend from the gallery, strike against the dragon on the north-west corner of the base of the edifice, and rebound out into the middle of the road on Fish-street-hill. A man connected with one of the steam-packet companies was standing almost close to the spot where she fell, and was the first who raised her from the ground. A young woman dressed in a manner similar to the deceased was seen at London-bridgd Wharf last night, inquiring with anxiety for the arrival of a Margate steam-boat, by which she said she expected , a young man to arrive ; and the man who first picked up the deceased thinks she is the same person. It is suspected that the deceased was enciente, but the fact will not be satisfactorily ascertained until the post mortem examination takes place. IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODY. A singular occurrence took place during the after noon relative to her identity, the circumstances of which may be briefly described as follows :—A young female named Croombridge, living in the service of Mr. Arnold, toy-manufacturer, King William-street, London-bridge, had a presentiment that the deceased was her sister, and requested permission to view the body. Mr. Arnold's nurse accompanied her to the church, and on the features of the deceased being exposed to view, the young woman, Croombridge, screamed out that it was her sister, and that she had destroyed herself through the cruelty of a young man with whom she had been acquainted for some time past. Her state of excitement was such that some person present imagined her impression to be correct, except the nurse, an intelligent woman, who had once or twice seen the sister of Croombridge, and could not trace all the features in the deceased. Another sister, living with a person named Webb, in Leadenhall-market, was then sent for, to set the matter at rest, and on arriving at the church, after viewing the body, she at once declared that deceased was not her sister. The other, however, persisted in her belief that it was, and stated in corroboration that when she last saw her on Sunday week, deceased bid her " good-by," and said, " You will never see me again alive." The two sis ters were certainly very much alike, and not at all unlike the corpse : but the nurse before alluded to stated that the sister was much freckled about the face, while the corpse was very fair. All doubt was, however, set at rest, about half-past seven o'clock last evening, by her recognition as the servant of Mr. Rowbotham, residing a t No. 9, Buttersland street, Hoxton. ler name is Jane Cooper, and she had been missing from her situation since Thurs day morning, and Mr. Rowbotham having heard of the accident, came down to view the body, and immediately recognised her. An examination was made last evening by Dr. Thomas Elliotson and Mr. Croft, in the presence of several other gentlemen, by direction of the Coroner, when it appeared that both legs had sustained a compound fracture—and the feet were also much dislocated—the left shoulder was al most torn from the body, and the back of the skull presented a frightful fracture. The features were in no way mutilated, and the deceased was a well-look ing young woman, somewhat inclined to corpulency. She was about five feet high, and habited in the cus tomary manner of domestic servants . It is the opinion of Dr. Elliotson and several other medical men, that she is not pregnant, though a difference on this point exists, which will doubtless be cleared up before the inquest is held. No cause is yet assigned for the rash act. It is a melancholy reflection, that this is the third time life has been sacrificed in the same dreadful manner within three years. The utter uselessness of appointing a sentinel in the gallery must now be ap parent to every person ; and if the Monument be not altogether closed against the public, some better means of prevention must be adopted than at present exist. Amongst the most useful appears to be that of allow ing no person to ascend, unless accompanied by some friend ; but the matter will doubtless be carefully dis cussed by the Committee, after the excitement of this catastrophe has passed away. Mr. Bleaden, Chairman of the Commercial Steam packet Company, who is the present responsible lessee of the Monument, states that Fletcher is a man in whom he had great confidence, and his omission to watch narrowly the movements of the deceased, creates much surprise in the minds of all who knew him. On Thursday at one o'cloek, a 8. -eat meeting of Chartists was held in the Market-place, over which Mr. J. Barber presided. Messrs. Sweet, Meads, Clarke (of Stockport), Roberts, and Smith (of Mansfield), were the speakers. and the following resolution was passed : " That we shall look upon any iud i lklual WllO shall be found committing an illegal act as an enemy to our holy cause, and as Such shall baud such offending parties over to the authorities." The meeting was then adjourned to seven o'clock.--Nottiryhum Rerew. At Calver.on, on Tuesday last, a meeting of irame work-knitters was convened, to take into consideration, 'he best means to be adop.ad, to put a stop to an in fl:ngement, which several of the hosiers are practising upon them, by shiaing stitc!ies instead of three, in the narrowings of the heels and toe-ends, without any remuneration, when a - 2esolu; . ion was proposed, and car ried uncniinously, lha:; sooner than suror themselves to be impos2d upon any longer by their masters. they world '':e, and never return to work agrn vniil the Charter becomes the law of the land.—No .i.rgLam Ilev;ew. WATSON'S GENERAL TELEGRAPH OFFICE, 83, CORNHILT LOND)N, AUG. 19, 181-2.—Passed through the Downs this morning her Majesty's yacht Royal George. from Portsmouth, bound to Woolwich. Wind at the Downs S.W., very light. maW - Aw- Wan SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. Some uneasiness was occasioned yesterday in town by a report that a party of rioters had attacked Drayton Manor, but the latest accounts received from thence, and dated Friday evening, show that the report was utterly without foundation. Not the slightest symptoms of an attack had been manifested; indeed, all was quiet in the neighbourhood, and con tinued so up to the period when the last ac counts came away. From other quarters the intelligence is nearly equally encouraging. The Potteries, where some of the most serious disturbances took place, ex hibit everywhere indications of returning order, and, indeed, generally throughout the disturbed districts, matters are wearing a more cheering aspect than they have worn for the last ten days or a fortnight. To be sure, attempts were made on Thursday, at Leicester, to get up a riot, and in the dusk of the evening a large mob assembled in the market-place, where they were addressed, in most inflammatory language, by one of their chosen orators ; but the activity of the civil au thorities soon dispersed them, and since then the town has remained perfectly quiet. At Nottingham, a similar attempt at disturbance was made yesterday by a Chartist lecturer from Stockport, who addressed the mob in the most valiant terms, observing that he would fearlessly do his duty, even "if a dungeon was the result," and would " exercise his right while he had a tongue to speak and an arm to raise." Un luckily, while the orator was thus boasting of his perfect readiness to become a martyr in the cause of patriotism, a body of police made their appearance, which occasioned a total and instanta neous eclipse of his courage ; and he disappeared from the meeting with a speed that must have greatly pe7- plexed and disconcerted all those whc, but the moment before, had been applauding the boldness and disin terestedness of his sentiments. With these two ex ceptions, there have been no fresh outbreaks, or attempts at outbreak, in any of the mining or manufacturing districts. The good sense of the Turn-outs seems at length to have convinced them that nothing is to be got by setting order and decorum at defiance, and that their sole chance of bettering their condition consists in their keeping strictly within the limits of the law. Meantime the late serious disturbances—for nothing can well be more serious than the aspect they assumed about a week since—will not be without a beneficial effect, if they shall serve to impress upon Government the necessity of legislating henceforth for the interests of the many, in stead of the privileged few. Sir R. PEEL must now, we should conceive, be persuaded that he can no longer with safety consult the feelings and prejudices of party, but must be guided in all his remedial schemes by a consideration of what is due to, and what is wanted by, the community at large. It is not by making one timid, hesitating step, in the right direction—as in the instances of the Corn-law Bill and the Tariff—that he can hope to restore peace and prosperity to the country; he must advance boldly and promptly forward, careless whether the Monopolists walk side by side with him or not. We look upon the late outbreaks in the North, as ominous signs of the times, which no Mi nister—no matter how overwhelming be the majority that he can command in the House of Commons— can neglect, without endangering the very fabric of society. The Paris Papers of Thursday have arrived. They are altogether destitute of political news, except - that the debate on the Regency Bill had been opened in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, when the fol lowing took place : M. Ledru Rollin began the debate, who opposed it on the principle of its being necessary, in his opinion, that the nation should sanction it through the medium of a constituent assembly. M. Hello, who succeeded M. Ledru Rollin, said, that he should not follow him in his subtle theories about the alleged rights - of the nation, but maintained that the present Legislature had full power to p ass suc h a law. M. de la Ruchejacquelin, who spoke next, began by entering into a sort of protest against the legitimacy of the reigning dynasty, which, he said, had been seated on the Throne by a victorious popular insurrection, and a Chamber only consisting of 219 Members. This declaration excited loud murmurs in the Assemby, and M. Larochejacquelin, refusing to retract the offensive expressions, was twice called to order by the President, and ultimately compelled to quit the tribune, without being able to conclude his speech. Afier the uproar occasioned by M. Larochejaquelin's words had subsided, M. Schuzenberger read a manu script discourse in favour of the Bill, and was succeeded by M. Lamartine, who advocated the right of the Duchess of Orleans to be the Regent of the Count de Paris, and was still speaking when the despatch left. Sub:oined are extracts : The Council of Admiralty has just adopted, with some modifications, the plans of M. Bernard for the works of defence and improvement of the port of Algiers, as recommended by the mixed Commission which had been appointed on that subject.—Galignani's Messenger, Aug. 18. The Courrier Francais observes on this subject—" It is difficult to comprehend the conduct of the Ministry. A month ago it thought M. Bernard's plan impracti cable, as in fact it is, without incurring an expense out of all proportion to the result that may be expected from it. Marshal Soult even sent to Algiers M. Parrel, the engineer, with instructions to execute the plan which he had proposed, which is an efficacious and not expensive plan. Is this decision revoked ? Is M. Parrel, after being preferred to M. Bernard, to be abandoned in his turn ? Is spending time in giving orders and counter orders the way to carry on the Administration ?"—Le Commerce, Au g . 18. The Madrid' Journals publish the text of a law pro mulgated at the Carraccas, in virtue of which the mortal remains of Simon Bolivar, the Chief of the Independence of South America, are to be removed from Santa Maria, where they lie at present, to the metropolitan church of Carraccas. The anniversary of the funeral is to be henceforward a day of public mourning, and the statue of Bolivar is to occupy an honourable place in the Parliament House. The Prince of Leiningen arrived at Cologne on the 12th, on board one of the Cologne Company's steamers. He continued his journey . the next day for London, where he is going on a visit to his august mother, the Duchess of Kent. BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, AuG. 18. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 119 60... 119 60... 119 50... 119 60 3 per Cents 78 60... 78 65... 78 60... 78 60 Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5047 50-5047 50...5047 50...5047 50 Belgian Bank 775 ... 775 ... 775 775 Belgian Fives 1840 lO3 ... 103* ... 103 ... 1031 Spanish Active 214 ... 221 ... 21i 21i Roman RAILWAY SHARES . St. Germain B4O • ... 840 ... 840 ... 840 Versailles, R.B 290 ... 290 ... 290 ... 290 L.B 9l 25... 91 25... 90 .. 91 25 Rouen Orleans. 560 ... 560 ... 560 ... 560 Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 25... 201 25... 200 ... 200 BELGIAN FUNDS.-BRUSSELS, Aug. 17. . . Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , 524 Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 9l Three per Cent.— ---.Thlrty.seven Milli, ns, ditto 70% ( 1 840) lOl% Loan of City, 1832, Four p?r Cent 92 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 80 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 77 National Society . ...... Exchange on London (short) ,„ — —Brussels Papers, Aug. 17. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Am 8, • Five per Cents. Metalliques- -. 119 Pour per Cents. lOl% Three per Cents. 7 6 1 /4% Bank Shares •••• • 00000000000 00..1w ...... " ••••••••••• ...... 16S0 Allgetneine . leitung, August 13. EIAMBURGH BORSEN HALLS, Atm. 16. Austrian 5 per Cents. 110 169 X Bank Shares 1655 1650 Anglo-Russian Loan l, 9%4 160 1 4 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificzte lo3li RS% Inscription, Ist series IC3 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series 69 97 l Ditto in Certificates OB 9 7 !‘ New 4 per Cent. (1840) 69% 59 i 4. Dutch Actual Debt, IA per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. _ Polish Bonds New Tickets l6B 80 Anglo-Dan.sli Loan, 3 per Cent. 18 Stku:ish, New 5 p,r Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDOI , '. Auo. 111-13 UM, Two months 13 Acu. P.—Seventy-five days, 12 14. ViEr:NA. A UC. 9.—Three moaths. 9.42. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-BERLIN, AVG. 13. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Pru., , ian English Bond 0830, 1 per cent. I 2% Exchange on London --- 22% Prussian State Gazette, Aug. 14. EMIGRATION rrom THE CLYDE. --The number of • emigrants w ho bare sailed from the ports of .Glesgow, Gree•7oelc, 'lnd Port Glasgow, d ur i ng t h e first six months the present year, amounts to 7,707. A vast number of the above belonged to die very poorest class of ope ratives, who have been assisted to emigrate either by the public bounty, or b y t h e charitable aid afrorded by those socie.i?s inio which they bad asscciatal themselves. ch.on.'elr. The Duke o 1 Richmond, accompanied by the Earl of Alrrcli and a p r.y of 'friends, has, during the week, been at Cln 1:1(13ich. end some hundred heed of game have !:ill -d. The Duchess and family had reached rlordoa Ccs ell in excellent health when the last letters were received 11:oni tile north. Li M VI S AND Vtat tic aptuton. " Who runs .nay read.' ronziGig. The riotous proceedings of the working classes in England are noticed at considerable length by most of the Paris journals. Some of them take a very gloomy view of the subject, and seem to anticipate a deter mined and well-organised resistance to the Govern ment ; whilst others, judging from the past, and ap preciating the powerful means of repression in the hands of the Government,, imagine that whatever may be the ultimate consequences of the present lamentable state of society in England—with luxury carried to the utmost limits of refinement on the one hand, and a mass of human misery on the other— the struggle against law will be of short ddration. - The Courrier Francais, after reviewing the causes alleged by the English papers for the breaking out of the present riots, concludes thus :—" We have no doubt that the public force will triumph over the agi tations which the English journals relate in such frightful colours ; but the disorders, though put down in one point, will break out in another. England is entering on a period of domestic troubles, which is pregnant with embarrassments and perils ; and ere long she will be in a state not to express pity for na tions living in a state of social commotion. This na tion, which used to be represented under the figure of a ship at anchor, is henceforward delivered up to storms, and tossed up and down in the midst of the deepest seas." The proclamation of the Queen, offering a pecu niary reward to informers, is noticed by the Presse almost with an expression of contempt. It observes that everything is done with money in England, even to the means of enforcing the law. The Courrier says that in France such an act as putting a price upon the head of an enemy, and rewarding the betrayer, would be regarded as immoral and odious. A private letter, received in Paris from Madrid, un der date the 11th inst., contained the following pas sages :—" The days of the present Ministry are numbered. The Conde Almodovar in a private con rersation lately declined to enter into a money matter left unfinished by Surra and Gonzales, candidly de claring, that he was old, in poor health, and begged to be left at peace for the few weeks that he yet must remain in possession of his office." Two doubles (as you call them at the opera) are, however, said to be already placed in private nomination, with the good will of those chiefly concerned. A Paris letter just received dwells, at considerable length, on the alarm which the increasing heat of the weather was beginning to occasion. At four o'clock on Thursday the thermometer (Fahrenheit) marked 94 in the shade. Our Madrid accounts are of the 11th inst. The Gazette contains a circular of the Minister of Finance, relative to the application of several holders of the floating debt. The Regent had consented to extend by one month (to the 7th of September next) the period fixed for the centralisation of their claims. The Patriota states that it was agreed, at a recent Cabinet Council, to reject all the financial propositions submitted to the Junta, and that, considering the urgent wants of the Treasury, the Government should dispose ofthe Treasury Bonds as it should think proper. From Madrid we learn that the heat was much greater than at Paris, and at Seville still more intense. The thermometer (Reaumui) stood at Madrid at 32 degrees (104 Fahrenheit), and at Seville at 38, or 1174 of Fahrenheit. According to a return published in the Madrid Gazette, 52,619 lots of national property had been sold down to the 20th of June last, and their pro ceeds amounted to 1,960,740,133 reals (nearly 20,000,0001. sterling). MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE. The rope-makers of the Navy, in consequence of the hard labour they have recently experienced, have been ordered by the Admiralty to have their super annuation pensions in future from 201. to 241., accord ing to their services. The cabinet trade at Liverpool, now that the woods for home consumption are admitted at reduced duties, is said to be likely to revive greatly, and if spiritedly taken advantage of will soon largely interfere with the import of foreign furniture into this country. NAVAL AND IVIXIaTAILY. The keel of the Royal Albert, first-rate ship of war of 120 guns, will be laid on Friday next, the occasion being the commemoration of the birthday of the Prince. LAW AND POLICE. An action was tried at the Devizes Assizes on Fri day last, in, which Miss Rooke, the daughter of a tradesman in Salisbury, aged 28, sought to recover compensation in damages of Mr. Conway, a consider able merchant at Poole, aged 67, for a breach of pro mise of marriage. The defendant was a first-cousin of the plaintiff, and a widower with a grown-up family. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff —damages one farthing. Anne Baker, a respectable young woman, was charged with having thrown a quantity of vitriol on the dresses of two young females, by which their shawls and silk dresses were quite damaged. The de fendant was ordered to pay 4/. 10s., the amount of damage done, or •in default to be imprisoned two months. PINE ARTS. Landseer, the artist, is at Windsor Castle, painting a portrait of the Princess Royal, with a favourite dog and the diminutive horse recently presented to the Queen. A German artist is also taking full-lengths of her Majesty and the Prince. Eilin,"2" AND SCIENTIFIC. The Cambridge ode, recited on the late installation of the Duke of Northumberland, by its author, the Rev. T. Whitehead, Fellow of St. John's, has been set to music by Professor Walmesly, and is spoken of as a fine composition. The beauty of the scene, in the account given by Captain Currie of his balloon ascent with Mr. Green, from Dorset, on Friday, is said by him to have been indescribable. The clouds below had the appearance of an interminable ocean of snow. The balloon was shadowed by reflection on the clouds, and both the aeronauts were astonished to find it also surrounded by a double halo, with all the prismatic colours of two rainbows clearly defined. THEATRICAL. The Opera closes to-night with the first act of Mozart's Cosi fan Tufts, an act from the Sonnambula, and the last scene of Ii Pirata. Divertissements and the ballet follow. SPORTING. Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., is on a visit to the Marquis of Abercorn at Ardverykie, the Noble Mar quis's shooting-box in the Highlands. Lord Vane Powlett has joined the party assembled in the Highlands, for the purpose of grouse-shooting. COURT-PAS:I ZOl.l LI .711. E. The Duke and Duchess of Northmnberland are expected to be present • at the marriage of Lord Prudhoe to Lady Eleanor Grosvenor. They leave Sion House the following day for Alnwick Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort return to Beaufort House early in the ensuing week from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Listowel left Belgrave square on Monday for Cowes, Isle of Wight. The Marquis of Hertford is daily expected at Dor chester House from Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster re turned to Grosvenor House on Thursday last. The Earl and Countess Grosvenor had a dinner party yesterday in Grosvenor-squa re . The Earl and Countess Powis are expected daily from Powis Castle. The Earl of Lonsdale still remains in town in good health. Lord Eliot and Lady Jemima Eliot leave town in a day or two for Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Glengall have left town for Caher Castle, Ireland. Lord and Lady Beauvale left town yesterday for Brocket Hall, Herts. , MISCELLANEOUS. A large wrolite, or meteoric stone, fell at Harrow gate, Belfast, a few days since. It hissed through the air during the storm, and was seen to fall like a dark object. It was warm to the touch when taken up, and weighs about half a ton. Dr. Magill, who ex amined it, says it is composed of basalt, with small particles of flint, and album Greecum. The Duke of Cambridge has accepted the invita tion of the inhabitants of Sunderland to a banquet fixed for the 24th iqstant. His Grace also honours the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry with his presence at Windsor Park, on the occasion of the festivities of Lord Seaham's coming of age. F-- - IRE ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Wednesday afternoon the luggage in a van, which was placed next to the tender of the engine affixed to the five o'clock train, from Paddington, caught fire, in conse quence of a lighted cinder flying from the furnace when about two miles on the London side of West Drayton. Several of the packages were immediately ignited. The necessary assistance being near, the packages were promptly removed, and a good supply of water prevented further destruction. BRUSSELS, AUG. 17.—The average price of wheat last week was 22f. 14c., and that of rye 12f. 13e.—The King came from Ostend to Lacher) the day before yes tesd.ay.—Prince and Princess Ernest of Saxe Coburg, who have been for some time in England, are expected at Ostend this evening. —The Belgian Government has received the new English tariff. The Mo;);tear publishes a list of the articles in the tariff, the duties of w.:ich are considerably reduc?d, and the exportation of which from BeNium tray, therefore become more important. The Lancashire mob sent word the other day to Leeds [het they meant to sleep on Wednesday night in the parish church of Leeds. It is said that the Vicar of Leeds sent n.n answer to the effect that if they did come to V'e chtnah he should be in the pipit, and should preach to them alt night, LA W INTELLIGENC INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY - , IN RE JOHN PEIRCE. The insolvent in this case, which had been partlf heard on Monday last, came up again to-day. Be was opposed by Mr. Cooke, and supported 1)1 Mr. Creswell. The facts of the case have been already made public , The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER, after the e% - amination of the insolvent and his attorney, said the insolvent's evidence seemed to be given with candour , but still there was strong suspicion of a fraudulent disposition of property. For the reasons already assigned he should order the case to stand over until Mr. 13uchanan's costs were taxed. POLICE INTELLIGENcE.. MANSION-HOUSE.—(THIS DAY.) HOUSEBREAKING.—John ,Flora was placed at the bar, before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, this morning, , charged with breaking into the house of Mr. Ibbison, of Nicholas-lane. Adam Gozard, police-Qfficer 476, deposed that he was on duty at one o'clock this morning in Nicholas lane, and he saw a light in the bar of the house oc cupied by Mr. Ibbison. He listened at the door and , heard a noise as of a person breaking open a drawer. On proceeding to a back-door he found it open. Ile went into the bar and the light was immediately put out. Witness then, with another policem a n, took him into custody. A box containing tobacco was found upon him, and a silk handkerchief. Mrs. Ibbison swore to the articles found on the prisoner. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and he was committed for trial. GUILDHALL—(THIS DAY.) TEARING DOWN PROCLAMATIONS.--Charles Wil son was put forward charged with going about las night for the purpose of tearing down from the wall 4 the proclamations issued in the City by the Lorc 1 Mayor. . A City policeman deposed that he was passiriS along the Old Bailey, when he saw the defendant come out of a public-house, and deliberately text down the proclamation whi c h had just been posted against the wall. As soon as he had accomplised thi9r he threw up his hat, and cried out, " Hurrah for liberty I" and witness took him into custody. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was very sorry and would not offend again.—He! was discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) VENDING INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS. — Thomas Welch, a powerful young . Irishman, with scarcely a bit of a clothing on him, was placed at the bar charged under the following circumstances. William Drane, Police-sergeant No. 141 of the division, stated that about half-past eleven last nigh t ' as he was proceeding on duty along Moore-stree t, Soho, he saw a large crowd of persons, about 100 or more, assembled at the angles of the Dials, whi ch he found was caused by the defendant bawling out at the top of his voice, that the "placl irci i, bills " he had to s e ll, con t a i ne d " an accouo,, of the dreadful riots and military murders , amongst the starving working classes. They we re readily bought up by the crowd. Some of the re spectable housekeepers expressed their alarm for th e security of their property ; and in consequence, Wit' ness requested the defendant to move on, but he re fused to do so ; and, on witness putting his hog' gently on his shoulder to enfo rce hi s request, the de'' fendant struck him on the bre as t, an d en d ea voured t e ' excite the crowd to his rescue. Several of them terfered in a violent manner, and witness received,' severe kick on the thigh, an d was otherwise violen t T assaulted. Mr. MALTBY said he should merely consider the defendant's case as an assault upon a police constab le in the execution of his duty, and should impose the penalty of 7s. upon him, or seven days' imprisonment Thomas Marton, an ironmonger's porter, and Jahn Howard, no trade, were fined 10s. each for resisting the police in the capture of the above named defend" ant.—These fines were immediately paid. UNION HALL.—(THIS DAY•) CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—E van Davis, a tra veller in the employ of Mr. Daley, a printer, in th e Borough, was charged with the following : The complainant stated that he intrusted the Pri soner with printed bills and other papers to dispose of amongst the customers on commission. The ply soner absconded after having sold the whole of the property, and converted the proceeds to his own use• lie was remanded. _ - - OUTRAGEOUS ---- ASSAULT.—A man named PhilliPs was charged with breaking the leg of James Bush nell, a wheelwright, in an encounter at a public-hous e. The complainant's leg received a compound fracture, and he is at present not considered out of dan ger. The prisoner said that he was intoxicated, and regretted the accident. He was held to bail. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The money market has been very quiet, with but little doing. Prices, however, are firm, Consols being 91Z- 92, for Money and for the :Account. Three per Cents. Reduced, 922 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 101; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 ; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; India Bonds, 34 ; Ex chequer Bills Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51, premium. Foreign Securities are without business beyond a purchase in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., at 52. No,transaction in Mexican has been officially noticed. Shares are firmly held ; London and Birmingham at 182 ; South Western, 624 ; Great Western, 88 ; and Cheltenham and Great Western, 24. Spanish Three per Cents. are the only bonds in which time bargains have been made. The opening quotation was 205, and it has since fallen to 20k. The private letters from the disturbed districts ar 6 but few to-day, but their contents are, satisfactory' and warrant sanguine expectations that tranquillity is about to be permanently restored. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Cheltenham and Great Western. 80 Great Western - London and Birmingham......... 90 lB2 . ..... to London and South Western ..... 4135 Scuth Eastern and D0ver......... 50 ...... - Ditto Scrip ...... to JOINT STOCK BANKS. _ British North American ... 4 or MANCHESTER STOCK E XCHANGE , A UG . 1 9 . --a , market is exceedingly depr esse d ; i n d ee d, the day jA3 passed over without a single transaction. LLO'YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DA V I ' ) LONDON, AUG. 20.—Wind, this day at noon, WeSteriYir'' DEAL, AUG. 19.--Wind E. to S.W.—Sld. Essex, N e Zealand; Ellen, Santa Martha. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind S.S.llr.—Arrd. LotO'. Valk, Brazil, f u r C o p en h agen; J ane , Francis, Lon cl° ll ' for Hobart Town. DARTMOUTH, AUG. 19.—The Friends, from Y" , '- rhe i has put in here leaky, and has been laid ashore. re Superior, of Liverpool, for L on d on , h as a lso put in Pe leaky, and has been laid on the Hard. • ' mod ' PLYMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind vari a bl e .—Sld. -Du c ' Quebec. FALMOUTII,:AUG. 18.—Wind E. to E.S.E.-11 30101' S.W. fresh.—Arrd. Num a (t rans p ort ) , May, Barb ado left 15th tilt- ; Anders on , N ewcast l e fb r F a yal. -A- rr off—Vanguard, Sabesto n , Si erra L eone, sa iled Ma). 27, and proceeded for Pembr o k e . PENZANCE, AUG. 18.—S1d. I n d ustry, Q ue bec. A r d, LivEurcoL, AUG. 19.—Wi n d S. to S.S.E .--r se Prince of Waterloo, Willi ams , C a l cutta ; Lidi Elly % regal ; James Daul o Kilmarnock, Havanna!' ; 1 1 7 , Louisa, Kiel, Africa, left the River Danger, Jo, ne „. n g• Ski. England's Queen, Chi na ; B r i tann i a, B a hia ; Sun, Mexico ; Hect or , Ch ar l eston ; J o h n C a nning , • vatmah ; Stephen, St. Steph en ' s, N . B . ; C a leder eS: (steamer), Halifax ; Mersey, M ontrea l . Alrtl• ° Tarantula, or Ina. SOUTHWOLD, AUG: 18.—The Robert Harret, nk from Caernarvon to Hamburgh, sprung a leak and su o, yesterday, during the ni g ht, 2 0 m il es south of Lowest() crew saved. DUBLIN, AUG. 17.—Arrd. Henry Hood, Scott, St' John's, N . B. -SEIIELDS, AUG. I'B.—Sid. Antelope and Gulic hne SUNDERLAND, AUG. 18.—Arrd. Robert Taylor, Quebec' SPURTING INTELLIGENCE (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) DEVON AND EXETER RACES--THuRsDA Y. The Home Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 Sovs. each. Heats. Two miles and a dis. , Gen. Gilbert's Pulwaun, 4 yrs, ......... (Owner) 3 1 Mr. Downe's Cracksman, 6 yrs 0 3 Mr. T. Bray's Maid of the Vale, .6 yrs 0 2 " The City Members' Plate of 501 . Heats, one mile. Sir S. Spry's Grateful, 3 yrs (Moon) 2 2 1 Mr. Legg's Stickler, aged. 3 2 Lord G. Bentinek's St. Jean d'Acre, 3 yrs 1 2 3dr Sweepstakes of 3 Sovs. each, and 40 added. Mile and three-quarters. Gen. Gilbert's Northenden, aged (Cowan) 1 2 Mr. Roe's Cerito, 5 yrs 3; Sir S. Spry's The Jewess, 5 yrs A Forced Handicap of 2 Sovs. each, with 25 adde& was won in three heats by Lady Georgiana ; and the Hurdle Race by Selim. ABERYSTWITH RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Johnny Raw Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft., with 20 added. Two miles. Mr. I3oultbee na The Borderer, 3 yrs (Crickinere) 1 Mr. P. Pryse's Romance, 3 yrs Three others also ran. The Cardiganshire Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h. ft., a 5 ft. only if declared TWO miles. Mr. Gough's Faugta, 4 yrs (Dotlgson) 1 Mr. Pryse's Australia, 4 yrs • The Hurdle Stakes were walked over for by Mr. Lewis's York, and the Town Iclate was won by Mr. Gough's Greenfinch, beating Australia. THURSDAY. The Gogerddam Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, and, SO added. One mile. 11- 1 4, 4 4. Walker's The llunte. I l r..llcrberC 4 r. Lewis' Y The . Mei 4 „ 4 . Gough's Pry ae 's . The Handl 1 4 tw o heats, Other. BETTI ST. LEGED gor se (taken; ' l st Priscilla tejt)eor4oAtSTti THE 1 NE More busi 'Lying beco' 4114 Prices a: 0 - t „ s • Bd. to 3s 4d.; P d° lief sale "°( 1 dem a n , ati —4l at extra The little "fhol evome t f !Pili killed Z3s, lod R, " 4d. - PO ji. , er: 21. ` 4II Y, 31 to The ha a `lXl , has be ii , 4 uh! that 11 "'er efore, te. r;lere /rade w d ‘ t:.0 )11. of 1 Gd. for le mar' ` ) 1 1 ? trance 1 7 1 ; 0 01. oi rtgzne eaxtrhe, O'ur u th 4 to„ e as lact ! 4 e south the ma 14 (1 it is exl Wueat, lie ........_—. NV .....—..... Fc Barley, NcY Lit y o go Beans, Nc ----- 01, 'Oats, Pota Pola vrin lvea Ma1t........ Rapeseed QONS: In the Bpc •ndent ti tti a y Sat on (iecasi "terobu: 4 1 - ? not tl lit found( k;•ent an cif inforn twined or ble that 1 t° the iv( For tieta the e ma Feat di Powerful barrativ( I s, is to' records the sem, With gr eke so All annouric source N the nui proved Divine (Ally by of Pru the Atulgat of slave &ies b€ pitch and wi( very fi: itself. tad be( temper 'that 'that th :at the (fixed Project for th togeth Fonds. vate ii tiered Instan Were ancreo 0 rur *ft - , s.